What're you up to this weekend?

I'm going to tinker with different soundcards I have, USB and PCI to see which is better at storing and playing audio from old vinyl records that I have.

What do/don't you have planned?

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dang74 2 months ago +9

Went to Ham-Fest and bought some historic electronic devices....
DAB 2 months ago +7

I will be building timelapse videos from my timelapse still images. This week generated some great sunset images with lots of color.
Jan Cumps 2 months ago +6

Raspberry Pico and FreeRTOS tests. The RTOS can schedule and run tasks on both cores of a RP2040. I'm checking if this works well with the new Pico C/C++ SDK 2.0

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Andrew J 2 months ago

Attending an artisan Japanese sword making craftsman somewhere near Tokyo. Probably not quite the intention of the original question, but there you go!
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Andrew J 2 months ago

Attending an artisan Japanese sword making craftsman somewhere near Tokyo. Probably not quite the intention of the original question, but there you go!
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Jan Cumps 2 months ago in reply to Andrew J

The guy from Kill Bill?
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beacon_dave 2 months ago in reply to Andrew J

I guess we could classify that one under the heading of 'hand tools' ?

Large bladed items are starting to prove popular on here:

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Andrew J 2 months ago in reply to Jan Cumps

Probably not, he was a nice chap. Been making swords for 45 years now; it was absolutely fascinating. He collects his own rocks to grind out the iron sand, then turns that into clumps of rough metal which he then chips off bits to heat up to turn into an ever expanding block, which he is able to fold over itself. Really skilled stuff. Legally, he can only make 2 a month so he supplements with knives and other edged implements like branch cutters. Sharp doesn’t cover it!

And yes, hand tools works! He made something akin to the cutlass in the link but more cleaver-like: made mincemeat out of a wooden block. He gifted my wife and I a knife each which I think I’ll treasure rather than use. Amazing bloke.
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