@dswersky Yeah. Given that it's Arduino, I assume they've tested it enough to be confident it properly protects the electronics.

@axwax @arduino looks like it's got a speaker. I'll have a proper look through everything tomorrow.

Not seen this before -- most of the components are in paper bags. Anti-static is reserved for the microcontroller and serial->usb

New package direct from Italy (is there an Arduino account to tag?)

So @Raspberry_Pi just spun up a @Mastodon instance. I talk about why we're doing it, and (the fun bit) how we did it. Because it's running on a Pi in the Sky☁️ on a #RaspberryPi 4 with #IPv6 only networking hosted at @beasts. #RaspberryPi is now part of the #TwitterMigration. raspberrypi.com/news/an-escape

I’ve managed to get the app working. We’re off guys. This is going to be amazing. I have no idea what to do

So given we've spent most of the last couple of days spinning a new @raspberry_pi instance, I guess it's #Introduction time.

I'm Liz. I'm a founder of #RaspberryPi, and I'm Chief Marketing and Communications officer here: if you see our company producing anything with words, pictures or video in it, my sticky fingers have had some involvement. I'm a former award-winning journalist and editor. I make things, I usually have paint stains somewhere, and I have a pointed dislike of rules.

@jimmo Great question. I don't think I'll ever find out because i'd only notice if that happened while I was powering on and plugged into USB, and that would just get tangled (I have a waterproof USB connection). When it's spinning, it should be running on battery power.

@jimmo Good call on using tp6. Someone on the bird site suggested using a reed switch and a magnet, so I think I'll go with that.

@heinoscott There's not space -- I want to mount this inside the spokes of a bike wheel.

@heinoscott I need some wires to poke out, so I'm not sure I'll get a great seal with a bag / vacuum seal.

I need to waterproof a
Raspberry Pi Pico, so I'm planning on pot-ing it in silicone. However, I still need access to the bootsel button. Is this likely to still work underneath silicon? Should I replace the button with something more waterproof and expose it? Should I glue a stick to the button that poke through the silicone?

Any ideas?

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

In my opinion, criticisms of mastodon being unusable by the general public are over blown.

Hey everyone. Just making sure everyone knows that direct messages on here are not end-to-end encrypted. They work more like a post, with visibility set to the person/people you tag.

This means an admin (like me), can read these by looking at the database/in backups.

I promise never to do this.

If that's not good enough (which is fine, obviously), please use something like signal for DMs

p.s. Twitter DMs are also not encrypted and anyone there can read them too.

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