Thomas Godden

The San Diego Trolley is actually pretty great.

"McDonalds Trolley Station" sign

Ah yes, America

Pulled my suitcase out to pack and had somewhat forgotten about this sticker.

I need someone to make a cargo hoodie with a billion pockets for random screws and connectors and stuff.

In what really shouldn't come as a surprise to me hair ties actually work great on cables.

If I don't screw up the routing on this board, I too, will get to deal with The Pain

Once again the scope creep from "let's make it do one thing very well" to "let's make it do all of the things, but mediocre" is taking over another one of my personal projects.

A blue tote with a jackery power supply, a power strip, a unifi gateway, a WiFi AP and a 5G router all taped inside.

Making suspicious looking items at work is one of my specialties

(unfortunately this did fix my problem with these gearboxes sounding like they were grinding rocks)

Gearbox not sounding right? Stuff slightly out of tolerance? Some steel chips left over in there? Just add half a tube of lithium grease, you will certainly not regret adding half a tube of lithium grease.

Pretending to be all grown up at work carrying around a coffee mug but it is in fact hot spiced apple cider.

Bring me back to the days of uncut 720p GoPro footage of the thing working for the first time and the engineers getting really excited.

One of my biggest annoyances with robotics coming into the VC limelight is that cool little demos now must be produced and marketed as large breakthroughs, or else they aren't publicly shared.

A rare instance of Hackaday doing some actual journalism. I was sad to see Prusa has really given up on Open Source Hardware after this announcement. I may have more thoughts to share soon, but honestly it just sucks.

In this day and age you'll trip your breaker (and/or a fuse in one of the strips) before causing any real issues. All the fun fire risks have been regulated away.

Hm I wonder if my safety checks are disabled

Followed instantly by immense suspicion that it's going to instantly break

Nothing quite like the feeling of something working first try

Great book by the way, honestly the most fun I've had reading a textbook in a while. Full pdf is available online as well: pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

Started reading a book on operating systems and it's one of these things that on first-pass makes some sense, but you dive a little deeper and you quickly become convinced there's no way these things actually work.

Waiting for the next set at a jazz bar and am going down a magnetometer rabbit hole; Apparently earth's field strength varies on the surface by almost 3x and means the accuracy of digital compasses is dependent on location, due to their noise floor.

Bliss is chicken alfredo on the balcony with a star trek movie.

I used to run DOOM on some of our stuff as a joke but now it's becoming part of my bring-up process to check video / input etc.

I love coming into work and discovering what horrors my machines have cooked up for me just sitting idle overnight.

Separate from that fact that most people here are real and nice, the app experience is just actually better.

Wait the following tab is genuinely chronological? What is this insane technology

Manufacturers have decipherable part naming/numbering schemes challenge (completely and utterly impossible)

also cable routing off that main board is... yes

The Stuff Made Here form 4 teardown is pretty good. Interesting to see it's running a CM4 (which I think actually runs the display out for the LCD?), there's more of those out in the wild than you would think I guess.

Operating systems are cool and fun until they stop working and suddenly they become the worst thing ever. What do you mean the ethernet interface causes USB writes to fail