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A photo of the MadCatz Rock Band MIDI adapter controller, used for plugging my drum kit into the Xbox 360 for use with Guitar Hero.

Aww yisssss! (Now hopefully it works with Guitar Hero... I've seen anecdotal reports that it does, but nothing official from the manufacturer). Also this controller is over ten years old now and the plastic is doing that weird thing where it gets sticky, so I'll need to clean it up.

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Posted on 9 August 2021, 13:39

A photo of two cardboard boxes and a pair of drum sticks.

Oh hell yeah, in continuing with the "Stuff arriving earlier than expected" theme, my drum stool, kick pedal, and drum sticks were just delivered!

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Posted on 2 August 2021, 11:16

A photo of a white floating shelf with a bunch of boxes of Games Workshop miniatures in boxes, some of their plastic terrain, plus three large X-wing Miniatures Game miniatures.

That was a good productive morning, I put up another shelf in the back room and did yet more tidying and rearranging.

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Posted on 1 August 2021, 12:57

A photo of an e-ink display with a blocky pixel font, showing the current outdoor and indoor temperature and humidity.

There we go, my ESP32/e-ink setup is done! This one is living in the office so we can see the current outdoor and indoor temperatures at a glance.

I chucked the code up on Codeberg because there was a bit of trial and error involved. This is using CircuitPython not MicroPython, and there're fewer resources available and fewer people using it, it seems.

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Posted on 31 July 2021, 23:35

A photo of two small microcontrollers and a 2.9" e-ink display.

A photo of one of the two microcontrollers attached to the back of the e-ink display. The soldering for the headers is a bit slapdash and definitely not any sort of uniform neatness.

My additional ESP32 bits arrived today as well! I had to solder the headers onto the ESP32-S2 myself, and while it's not an amazingly neat job, I think it should get the job done.

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Posted on 30 July 2021, 16:44

A photo of an assembled Roland electronic drum kit.

Good news! The drum kit is set up and works perfectly.

Bad news, the reason there was a delivery estimate of Wednesday and why I received the drum kit today is because the kit was shipped directly from Roland's warehouse in Dee Why, but the drum stool, kick pedal, and drumsticks are coming from the place I ordered them from in Newcastle, and those three things are what're arriving on Wednesday. 😛

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Posted on 30 July 2021, 14:20

A photo of two large cardboard boxes, one labelled "Roland TD-17KV V-Drums Pack" and the other "MDS-Compact Drum Stand".

Well uh, that arrived significantly faster than I was expecting (Australia Post said the ETA was Wednesday next week).

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Posted on 30 July 2021, 10:57

A photo of a Mac mini on a small shelf with a Raspberry Pi next to it. The power LED on the Pi is emitting a REALLY deep rich red. Under the shelf are two external hard disks with blue LEDs in them, and to the left of them is a dubious-looking ceramic chicken. There's no light at all apart from what's coming from the LEDs.

I saw the red light from the Raspberry Pi glowing in the dark and figured it might make a neat Night Mode shot.

I wasn't wrong! This was the maximum 10 second exposure.

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Posted on 29 July 2021, 23:39

A photo of a white man with short hair wearing a blue surgical mask.

It's yer man, me, with a shiny new Pfizer vaccination!

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Posted on 29 July 2021, 13:24

The official product shot of a Roland TD-17KV electronic drum kit. There's four drums, three cymbals, and a kick drum, all attached to a stand.

BOOM. Trigger pulled on the TD-17KV! 🥁🎉 I am EXTREMELY excited about this, I loved playing the drums in Guitar Hero World Tour but they were frustratingly poorly-made, and would frequently not register hits which would break my streaks. (And fun fact, with the right adapter these Roland drums can actually be hooked up to Guitar Hero which I am TOTALLY doing).

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Posted on 28 July 2021, 19:47