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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!

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.

our house darkroom tidying and rearranging

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.

our house diy darkroom esp32

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.

our house diy darkroom esp32

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. 😛

our house music darkroom new toys drums

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).

our house music darkroom new toys drums

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.

our house raspberry pi darkroom night mode

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!

selfie me darkroom blacktown hospital vaccination covid

Posted on 29 July 2021, 13:24

A photo of a smallish room, with stuff against all of the walls, and a spot at the back right that's been cleared out that's where the drum kit is going to go.

I spent this afternoon cleaning and tidying and rearranging the back room because I'm going to buy myself an electronic drum kit and learn to play drums! And we have absolutely nowhere else to put it, haha. I was originally looking at the Roland TD-07KV, but I'm leaning towards splurging for the TD-17KV instead...

our house music darkroom tidying and rearranging drums

Posted on 28 July 2021, 16:18

A photo of some distant sheep standing or lying in a very brown field of grass, in front of a long shed-looking structure that has a corrugated metal roof.

A photo of some less distant sheep standing in a field that's in front of two newly-constructed four-storey unit blocks.

A photo of something like six or seven unit blocks of either four or five storeys in the distance, with huge cranes over the top of them where there's clearly more blocks being constructed behind the visible ones.

I've got the week off work this week and we don't have our dog walker coming due to COVID, so I'm taking Beanie out for his daily walks. It's nice to see sheep still around in places, but man these unit blocks are springing up like weeds. At least they're right near the train station anyway.

schofields darkroom buildings sheep

Posted on 26 July 2021, 10:45