Blenster @Blenster@qoto.org

If @sprite_tm gets a @hackaday #SuoerCon badge, he WILL get DOOM running on it!

At #supercon I was checking continuity while soldering, but couldn't hear the beeps well. @maketvee found it quite amusing that I held the multimeter to my ear with my shoulder. His image and captions *are* pretty funny, but he may also have inadvertently launched my new career as an LED hotline operator!

Making progress with my @hackaday #SuperCon badge hack. Of course you know what I had to do. 😁
This is all just drawn manually. I hope in the future to do all of this with the signal generator and actual VectorScope.

Four years ago, we taught our first in school program. The kids soldered together a circuit board and it played music!

circuits zest: capacitors. 🌟

Just a little late-night day-before-Supercon making. Coasters, because I think some people could use a daily reminder of this on their desk, and because you and your presence in tech matters to me. At Alpenglow Industries, we give the very classiest of fucks.

#hackaday #supercon #supercon2023

Back on my old BS again. I'll have a few hours to kill on a flight, might as well route a PCB with 512 six pin 2mm SK9822 HDR RGB LEDs! 😅

This morning a friend told me that @hackaday put an article up on their blog about my talk at last year's Supercon. This may shock you, but I have some feelings about this, starting with the last sentence "If you want to see more awesome talks like this..." implying that Supercon is the place to go for them. Well my friends, with half the number of women speakers this year as last year, and even worse diversity, I have to heartily disagree. A thread. 1/
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/31/supercon-2022-carrie-sundra-discusses-manufacturing-on-a-shoestring-budget/

I'm excited to finally meet in person many people that I admire, but the lack of diversity at my first @hackaday #SuperCon speakers is so disappointing. It's an issue that has been brought up with leadership, but they seem to not care or want to actively address.
https://mstdn.social/@alpenglow/111336992627871700

Full set of eChallengeCoins from @bradanlane, with a Black Hat coin for scale.
I won't have time to dig in to the challenges until after Supercon, but I had to get them all out of their cases and admire them. Beautiful work, Bradán!
Get yours here, they're on sale! https://www.tindie.com/stores/bradanlane

Today's exciting mail delivery is Vol. 87 of @makemagazine with my geometric Illuminated tote bag on the cover!

Okay, so, #Supercon. Inclusion. First I want to say this thread is NOT meant to detract from the respect I have for the folks presenting. But pixels have been lit about the general white/maleness of the speaker lineup, and it's worth unpacking. In over two dozen talks, there are only three women, and no Black presenters. It's frustrating because it doesn't reflect the diversity I see in my community. And yet I also recognize where I've failed on this account myself. We have work to do; a THREAD:

Just wrote this in a Discord group in support of someone who simplified a project, and thought it’s worth repeating here:

The ability to properly scope a project according to the resources available and required deadline is a vastly underrated skill.

Looking for contact: Arthur ‘Art’ Fury worked for the company Signetics in Santa Clara, Ca in the years 1970-1972. Likely longer. In 1972, he left Signetics and went to National Semiconductor.

Specialized in analog integrated circuits and worked in marketing/ advertising.

Art Fury worked with Hans Camenzind with InterDesign on the 555 timer.

Do you know somebody that might have known Art Fury in the late 1960s to the mid 1970s? Thank you for your help. Please Reblog for reach.