Post B1rMSahS9L9k3ib2FU by copiesofcopies@social.coop
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(DIR) Post #AXqByyueVjRLZZjV1U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2023-07-19T00:20:06Z
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Listen friends I need your help. I'm deeply attracted to these various kinds of enclosures and have a deep need to buy them and instal LCD screens and big click-y knobs and such in them... but I don't know what the heck I want to build. I'm in danger of just getting one and "figuring it out later" this is madness. I gotta find the right project! Maybe some kind of obscure calculator? #electronics , #projects , #help , #enclosures
(DIR) Post #AXqByzY09QupXc8vM8 by pixouls@post.lurk.org
2023-07-19T00:28:58Z
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@futurebird oscilloscope or cyberdeck
(DIR) Post #AXqBz0PWwPjYDdBfn6 by lucifargundam@qoto.org
2023-07-19T04:21:20Z
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@pixouls @futurebird This
(DIR) Post #B1rEVwfw6PETRyyXJY by FeloniousPunk@beige.party
2026-01-02T00:27:20Z
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@futurebird I mean, with that blue, what else can you do?
(DIR) Post #B1rHJYhXiAIXU2VoEi by otte_homan@theblower.au
2026-01-02T00:58:42Z
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@futurebird ... 1. An analogue clock on a TFT display2. A digital flip-card clock on a CRT display3. A HP11 scientific calc (none of that financial/business bollocks, E world needs exp(x) and log(X)) on a touch screen4. Current weather forecast from openweathermap5. Video Livestream from a raspberry pi6. Windows update display stuck on 30% complete...
(DIR) Post #B1rICAH2EYzpeM9S0u by copiesofcopies@social.coop
2026-01-02T01:08:36Z
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@futurebird may I suggest a movie-style “bomb” with a countdown and buttons and wires sticking out of it, and it’s a game where you have to disarm it with inadequate information about its design and operation?
(DIR) Post #B1rLjpU2L0ZGsVydZQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T01:48:22Z
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@copiesofcopies Listen. I made a perfectly innocent transit tracking device and it looked a bit like that and I kept getting stopped and searched because no one knew what it was and it didn't help when I explained that "I made it myself" ... so... yeah. Bitter memories.
(DIR) Post #B1rMSahS9L9k3ib2FU by copiesofcopies@social.coop
2026-01-02T01:56:24Z
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@futurebird 😂 my apologies
(DIR) Post #B1rMdL1glR4IdLBbFo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T01:58:23Z
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@copiesofcopies I learned that if someone says "Well we've stopped you because someone said it looks like a bomb" responding with "How could it be a bomb it doesn't even have a payload?" indignantly is NOT what you should do. It's better to say "Oh wow I didn't think of that. It's really just a timer with old style of display. Let me turn it off."
(DIR) Post #B1rNH87KBAQOBDnR2m by copiesofcopies@social.coop
2026-01-02T02:05:32Z
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@futurebird that’s good advice. Were you carrying it on the subway?
(DIR) Post #B1rNLBDiaFg8xjiaMC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T02:06:19Z
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@copiesofcopies Yeah. I didn't think things through much in my 20s I guess.
(DIR) Post #B1rNbamHKUbirQi2vA by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-02T02:09:15Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies 🤣Nobody does, but I love this story!
(DIR) Post #B1rNk9i3KzjpW5ofYW by stevegis_ssg@mas.to
2026-01-02T02:10:41Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies Laurie Anderson, in one of her recorded pieces, talks about going through airports with huge amounts of complicated, sometimes jury-rigged electronic equipment, and being asked to explain and even demonstrate them, concluding with, "So I've given a lot of these impromptu, improvised new music performances for small audiences of airport security personnel."
(DIR) Post #B1rQKwkChlrdvcUeS8 by Moss@beige.party
2026-01-02T02:39:51Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies As a teenage artist in the 80s I once made a head-worn piece out of broken vinyl records and clear surgical tubing. Inside the coil of tubing I put water with green food coloring, so it would slosh around the tubes as I walked wearing the “hat”. I couldn’t think of how to pack it in my luggage, so I wore it to the airport and through security… to a point. An officer did stop me and asked what it was, and started to fret out loud about how to test it for drugs or explosives. As he reached for his walkie, I said “don’t worry” and I popped the seal and drank all the fluid. He got flustered and shooed me on through to my flight.
(DIR) Post #B1rQgAUmlzTWetOv7w by diekehrseite@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T02:43:41Z
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@futurebird … what about a portable pizzaoven? Or some kind of eggboiler? Or … in a satirical way … a portable KI Machine, ready to store a presidential brain or alternatively 2 MB of any kind of data? (Build with beautiful largest memory chips ever made, golden ofc?)
(DIR) Post #B1rUqWUcF4xFauVxia by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T03:30:23Z
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@futurebird Glad I'm not the only one attracted to retro-industrial housings that I could build into SOMETHING.
(DIR) Post #B1rV9lEZetyyodBUqO by pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com
2026-01-02T03:33:46Z
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@futurebird ohhh what about something that makes noise or modifies sound? I know modular synths can get very gnarly looking and that lets you also run patch cables all over it
(DIR) Post #B1rVA3ogZNZ0RqDad6 by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T03:33:48Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies Vaguely recalling a story from years ago when a (AIR) female artist/maker was pulled from a flight and interrogated because she was wearing a decorative pin made from a solderless-breadboard, a few discrete components, a battery, and a blinking LED. Anything these simple-minded buffoons don't recognize MUST be a weapon of mass destruction.
(DIR) Post #B1rVXDywwN1IdW43zk by Gustodon@mas.to
2026-01-02T03:38:06Z
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@futurebird You should make an LCD etch a sketch with chunky knobs for the X and Y plots.
(DIR) Post #B1rk3bNurd2ZqM4jaK by fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-02T06:20:48Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies which is hilarious, if it worked to shut them up. because why would that mean anything?
(DIR) Post #B1s36nklEVfwCY03cW by marymessall@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-02T09:54:13Z
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@futurebird I've had lots of enclosures like that! For power supplies and high voltage ampliers (to drive a piezo-electric actuator) or analog voltage adders and mixers... I work with lasers, and have needed to build little servo systems to control them, or to control the interferomers or optical resonators I use them with. You could buy some cheap lasers like these...https://www.ebay.com/itm/134987089639... and try to build your own current and temperature controllers for them...Then you could also use them for experiments like spectroscopy (on little sealed tubes of iodine vapor) or measuring the refractive index of water, or interferometry... And you'd need some analog control electronics for that stuff.Sometimes we build "noise eater" circuits in boxes like that - negative feedback loops to cancel out laser intensity variations. I suppose you could also build your own noise-canceling circuits for headphones. They work the same way.
(DIR) Post #B1sUxPZSZPs9JO1bGq by Laberpferd@sueden.social
2026-01-02T15:06:19Z
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@futurebird i am curious where to get one of these with handles https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/110/737/877/758/304/023/original/9e683141dff0d960.png (from german shops)Would stuff them with CRT and build things like signal analyzers, Feldhell mode display and other stuff definitely without microcontroller
(DIR) Post #B1sVLYmJzMeSomYVea by ericsedge@bitbang.social
2026-01-02T15:10:41Z
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@futurebird throw a small CRT, with the keyboard and guts of a C64.
(DIR) Post #B1sW1fbyyOnAAoncXI by jepyang@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T15:18:19Z
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@futurebird that last one is begging to be a synthesizer