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A photo of all of the assembled grey plastic terrain from Kill Team: Into The Dark. It consists of a heap of interconnecting walls, all extremely detailed and steam punk-looking, with pipes and gothic-looking features and skulls. There's also extra bits like ammo boxes and little generators. The whole lot takes up almost the entire width of my painting table, which is 90cm wide.

IT IS DONE. (Miniature at the front for scale.) ::collapses in a heap::

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting into the dark

Posted on 17 September 2022, 21:20

A photo of my painting desk with a bunch of industrial-looking walls in grey plastic already assembled at the right, a sprue with more walls on it in the middle, and the assembly instruction booklet at the left. The desk is covered in the little bits of plastic I've chopped off the terrain to tidy it up.

Current status: Assembling the seemingly endless amounts of terrain from the new Kill Team box.

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting into the dark

Posted on 17 September 2022, 15:21

A photo of fifteen golden cut rounds, which look essentially like scones, sitting on a cooling rack.

It's been a while, I made some more cut rounds today!

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Posted on 17 September 2022, 13:09

A photo of a black metal box with four silver push switches and an LCD display in the middle. The display says "LOGIC PRO" in the middle with "Record", "Play", "Previous Scene" and "Next Scene" in the corners corresponding to each switch.

Yessss, got the Bridge4 configured to control Logic Pro now! So I can start and stop recording, play and pause the existing audio, and switch between and trigger live loops scenes all right from the pedalboard without needing to take my hands off the guitar. 😎

our house music darkroom logic pro pedalboard

Posted on 15 September 2022, 22:11

A photo of the box of a Google Nest Hub. It's a white device with a maybe 7"-ish display at an angle attached to a wide base.

So Kristina won a Google Nest Hub from her work today. While there is no fucking way I'm plugging it in and letting Google spy on us, there's a security researcher who hacked one of these to boot Ubuntu: https://fredericb.info/2022/06/breaking-secure-boot-on-google-nest-hub-2nd-gen-to-run-ubuntu.html He popped all the code up on GitHub (https://github.com/frederic/chipicopwn) so I reckon I'll give that a go!

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Posted on 14 September 2022, 20:06

A photo of the (ENORMOUS) box of the new edition of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The box art has a painting of a huge cathedral-like starship floating in the depths of space on the left-hand side, and on the right is a heavily armed and armoured guy in a chonky helmet holding what looks like a beefy shotgun. The tagline for this is "Intense boarding actions in the 41st millennium."

Who has two thumbs and now owns even more plastic? This guy!

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Posted on 12 September 2022, 12:45

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. 😁

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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

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.

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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!

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Posted on 6 September 2022, 21:50