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A photo of an Arduino connected to a breadboard that has a resistor and a red LED plugged into it. The LED is lit up.

I'm pretty sure this is the first circuit I've put together since I had one of those 100-in-1 electronic project kits when I was a kid! 😁

Posted on 25 June 2022, 10:51

A photo taken with the front-facing camera with me sitting at my desk and the camera aimed at me, with the head of a small scruffy blonde dog popping up from my lap and resting on my arm. His eyes are half-closed.

Current Beanie status.

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Posted on 24 June 2022, 16:40

A photo of the four elven miniatures that make up The Shadeborn warband from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. They're all in very dynamic poses, all lithe and mid-leap. The painting is a black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top angles of the miniature so it really gives a sense of depth as all of the lower surfaces are darker, as they would be if they were lit up directly from above.

The five Skaven from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. Skaven are sneaky, tricksy ratmen, and these ones are in very dynamic poses as well and look like they're about to attack. The bases are sculpted to look like they're lurking in a sewer, and the painting has been done in the same way as the Shadeborn: black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top so it looks like they're being lit from above.

Well, I'm not remotely confident enough to do actual painting with my airbrush, but I reckon I've got the hang of this zenithal highlighting thing.

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 21:58

A photo of the Pokit Pro box, showing the multimeter itself which looks like REALLY FAT pencil that tapers down and ends in a metal point. The body is dark grey and red. Next to it in clear plastic box is the Arduino starter which has a TON of components visible: resistors, LEDs, cables, a breadboard for connecting the components to, a couple of segmented LED displays, and more stuff visible under that that you can't make out.

Yaaaay, the "Pokit Pro" multimeter I backed back at the end of 2019 finally arrived! I got the one that comes with the Arduino starter kit and holy crap is there a lot more stuff in it than I was expecting. 😮

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 12:38

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog that has just one of his eyes visible and none of his body while he stares at me from around the entrance to our hallway.

Beanie is on two different types of anti-anxiety medicine, which thankfully he's very happy to have with a piece of cheese, no questions asked. He knows the sound of the pill box and cutter and the rustle of the plastic around the sliced cheese and normally he'll wander down from wherever he is and come and sit in the kitchen while I prepare it. Occasionally though, he decides he's going to be extremely creepy and will stare at me with just one eye from around the corner.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 19 June 2022, 20:33

A photo of two slices of rustic-looking bread lying open-faced on a plate, covered in slices of tomato with cooked mushrooms on top and little chunks of cheddar cheese on top of that.

A photo of two cooling racks with small-ish round golden-brown cookies on top.

What a delicious day that was. Mushrooms cooked in sage, rosemary, and garlic with cooked tomatoes on my home-made bread, with sharp cheddar cheese sprinkled on top for lunch, then I made miso chocolate chip cookies this afternoon.

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 17:05

A photo of four Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. They're all regular human troops with big armour and various guns, but the stock male heads have been replaced with third-party female ones from a company called Statuesque Miniatures. The skin colour is very dark but with really nice subtle shading, and the one I called out with the goggles has them pulled up on her forehead. The goggles have a really nice shade going from very dark green down to a lighter green so it looks like they're some sort of futuristic night vision or something.

It took far too long, but the first four Scions of my converted all-women Kill Team squad are done! Absolutely stoked with how well they came out, in particular the faces as well as the goggles on the one second from the left. There was absolutely no drybrushing on these at all, but given how much time drybrushing saves and the fact that I've got another nine of these to paint, I'm definitely going back to drybrushing for the larger areas because I want to actually get the rest of these finished some time in the next five years. 😛

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 16:13

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting up on his haunches staring directly at the side of someone sitting in an office chair at their desk.

Beanie REALLY wants some popcorn.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 15 June 2022, 16:09

A photo of the (very compact) box that the tripod came in. It's tall and thin, roughly 40cm long and a bit under 9cm wide.

The camera tripod we currently have is "Velbon" brand, I've had it for YEARS and tbh it's not great. It gets the job done but it's not what you'd call sturdy or hugely stable. It wasn't too much of an issue until we got a Peak Design camera strap that has a (quite standardised) plate on the bottom of it that the Velbon doesn't work with. To attach the camera to the tripod we had laboriously unscrew the base plate of the hand strap, screw the tripod attachment into the camera and put it on the tripod, then undo all of that when we were done. I'd had enough and decided to get the Peak Design Travel Tripod, and man it's impressive. It's WAY more compact than the Velbon, but far sturdier and can go both higher and lower than the Velbon as well, and it's attached by a single ball head so you can adjust it every which way and then just lock it in place and bam! You're good to go.

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Posted on 12 June 2022, 19:50

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread sitting on a cooling rack on a white countertop. The sun is streaming in the window and directly onto them.

A photo of nine individual tupperware containers that each have half rice and half red tomato-based chicken curry with green beans and carrots in it.

Man, today was the day of cooking. First these two round loafy bois, then NINE serves of curry for leftover lunches.

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread curry

Posted on 12 June 2022, 18:57