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A photo of a bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate topping, crushed peanuts, sprinkles, and it's all slightly brown because of the shot of Kahlúa I put over it all.

I've done fourteen thousand steps so far today, have hit 300% of my move goal, recorded some drums in Logic Pro earlier this afternoon for a song I've been noodling around with, and am currently making a double batch of lentil rice with bush curry seasoning to have with eggplant kasundi and Greek yoghurt for lunches during the week. So I decided to treat myself with some ice cream with Ice Magic, crushed peanuts, sprinkles, and a shot of Kahlúa on top. 😁

our house darkroom food portrait mode alcohol ice cream ice magic

Posted on 11 September 2022, 20:25

A photo of a tall plastic cup of iced mocha sitting on a benchtop.

It's 22˚C and 13% humidity and totally sunny outside, I've done all the laundry, mowed and whippersnipped and fertilised the front and back lawns, cleaned the shower, and now it's time for the first iced mocha of the season. 👌🏻

our house darkroom coffee drink mocha

Posted on 11 September 2022, 14:51

I haven't done anything with the actual ESP32/physical button thing yet, but I got the software side of my "remotely turn the Raspberry Pi displays on and off" project done!

The core is a very simple Node.js service that runs on the Pis directly and subscribes to an MQTT topic that contains messages indicating whether the display should be on or off, then writes directly to the GPIO pin to control the display brightness. I updated my Pi Home Dashboard to add an HTTP endpoint that'll send messages to that same topic the display-attached Pis are subscribed to, and the shortcuts in the video are simply calling that endpoint.

I'm using the "retain" MQTT flag for the messages sent to the display status topic so even if the Pis reboot for whatever reason, the last known state is what they'll start up with again when they come up. And finally, instead of a cronjob set on each individual Pi to automatically turn the displays off at midnight and back on at 8am, I've got one running on the main Raspberry Pi 4B that runs the MQTT broker that just sends the required message to the MQTT topic and the Pis with the display attached dutifully turn on or off as necessary.

raspberry pi diy video

Posted on 11 September 2022, 11:36

A photo of moussaka in a white ceramic dish with a slice of sourdough next to it.

A photo of galaktoboureko, which is a Greek dessert made of filo pastry and filled with semolina custard. There's a berry compote on it and some vanilla bean ice cream next to it.

Yassssss. Excellent as always.

darkroom food portrait mode castle hill moussaka galaktoboureko

Posted on 10 September 2022, 21:50

A perfectly symmetrical photo taken from a train station platform, looking back towards the escalators.

Aww yiss, we're on our way out for dinner with friends at our favourite Greek restaurant.

darkroom train station tallawong

Posted on 10 September 2022, 18:36

A photo of a DIY guitar pedalboard. It consists of two horizontal planks of wood screwed into two shallowly-angled pieces on either end. The two horizontal pieces have strips of velcro on them, and there's four pedals attached to it. The new pedal is black with four silver switches on it and a little LCD display in the middle.

So it turns out you can control the Boss RC-5 looper pedal via MIDI instead of needing to lean down awkwardly to adjust the built-in drum machine, so I bought an (Australian-designed) MIDI controller, the Pirate MIDI Bridge4! It's pretty slick, but unfortunately Boss' documentation on how specifically to configure external MIDI devices to control it is a little lacking, so there's a LOT of trial and error going on right now.

our house music darkroom new toys guitar pedalboard

Posted on 9 September 2022, 22:13

A photo of three ESP32 microcontrollers. They're teensy little circuit boards, roughly 5cm in length and 2cm in width, festooned with electronic components, and with two rows of pins coming out of them on one side for plugging things thing.

I'd wanted to order a handful more ESP32 microcontrollers from Adafruit a few months ago, but they were entirely out of stock so I put my email address in to be notified when they were available again. A couple of weeks ago I got an email saying "The Feather HUZZAH32 is back in stock! There are 2997 available."

I... think that might be enough, haha. I ordered three and they arrived today. One of the things I want to do is to rig up a physical button that will turn off the LCD displays that are attached to the Raspberry Pis in the lounge room which display the current temperature inside and out, as well as the time. Even though we run them at a significantly-lower-than-maximum brightness, they're still very bright when we turn all the lights off when we're going to sleep. They automatically turn off at midnight and come on at 8am, but sometimes I want to turn them off earlier, and also occasionally I'm up before 8 in the morning and instead of the temperature and time I'm greeted with black displays.

Should be a fun little project!

our house diy darkroom new toys esp32

Posted on 6 September 2022, 21:50

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. It's on a gaming board with a bunch of junkyard-looking terrain, and on my side of the board are six green Death Guard Space Marines looking all gross and mutated.

In news that will shock nobody, the only reason I was in the office today was for after-work Kill Team. 😛 Sadly didn't win this time, it was obvious how it was going to turn out by the end of the third round so we called it.

work darkroom gaming kill team games workshop death guard space marines octarius

Posted on 6 September 2022, 19:40

A photo looking out over Sydney CBD from the 30th floor of our office. Lots of tall buildings, and it's all cloudy and miserable-looking.

Meanwhile in the city, it's grey and dreary.

sydney work darkroom buildings

Posted on 6 September 2022, 11:23

A photo of a big open field of dirt with utes parked and earthworks equipment, with big unit blocks in the distance and more partially-completely ones in front of them.

They're really not fucking around with the speed at which the earthworks are happening for these unit blocks, christ.

schofields darkroom construction

Posted on 6 September 2022, 8:53