River MacLeod

Paterson’s Land, Room M2 - COL, Mezzanine Lightning talks.

“Open Circuit Edinburgh where Scotland’s embedded community come together to explore the latest technologies, tools and best practice.”

My last post was delayed by the long desired improvement of the image handling facilities of this website.

I’ve moved my homepage and identity to river.cat.

I link one of my favourite oh no comics, because it always takes me ages to find it again when I need to show it to someone.

I’m having a look at TimescaleDB.

The Temple of the Purification of the Dishes

I made up a thinkpad backup battery with the spot welder that appeared at the lab.

I replaced the USB-C socket on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th.

Original USB-C connector.

The part on the left seems to be a custom component with proprietary ethernet connector and USB-C, for a docking station.

I successfully replaced the USB-C port on my Thinkpad without breaking anything, and think I levelled up a bit in soldering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Day

Also a rubber stamp I made by laser etching rubber and a plywood handle. :)

Putting in a new patch panel and cable.

I modded my multimeter, roughly following this guide: https://www.jackenhack.com/aneng-an8008-modify-for-better-accuracy-faster-readings/ I used the parts I had, which for the 3V rail were 100nF and 10uF ceramics, and a 470uF Rubycon.

A burgee for the Edinburgh Hacklab Yacht Club.

JLCPCB sent me a cat!

How does LCSC know I am a cat?

Frack hackerspace in Leeuwarden built a hacksaw :D

A cappuccino with cat face in cocoa powder.

Picture of two stencils laser cut from acrylic.

Stretching cat print on a Prusa 3D printer.

A model of a stretching cat in the Prusa 3D printer Slic3r software.

This is what happens when you leave me alone with a coffee machine.

This consular unicorn from Aberdeen made it all the way to FRACK in Leeuwarden!

Yerba mate brewed in an espresso machine seems to give good crema, and actually tastes pretty good!

Cheapest LoRa things I could find on Aliexpress.

The Vaisala WXT510 horse detector seems to be working.

Famous for the soft dog error of the Hacklab’s laser cutter.

The loafs in this park may be grumpy because they have burst eardrums from the explosion the previous night.

A black cat sits in front of a damaged building, where a bomb exploded the previous night.

Using a pi to program the SPI flash chips in a Thinkpad x230.