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A photo of a white front-loading washing machine with a very dark tinted plastic door on it. The front of it curves in as it goes up towards the top and with the control panel being black as well, it looks quite futuristic.

A wide-angle photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting down in the mulch and sticks in a shady area alongside a path. On the other side of the path is a playground, and past the playground are a bunch of trees.

Seventeen years after I moved out of my parents' place and bought a washing machine/dryer combo, we finally had to replace it. Got a very slick-looking Electrolux instead, given we bought one of their dryers a number of years back and it's been fantastic. I took Beanie down to the park while the delivery people were installing the new one and taking the old one away, and it was PROFOUNDLY glorious in the shade.

Posted on 15 April 2024, 15:10

A photo of a soft fabric dog house that's completely tipped on its side with a small scruffy blonde dog just visible inside it, lying on top of a pink blanket.

Beanie got, uh, slightly carried away in his house.

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Posted on 12 April 2024, 21:40

A photo of a plastic box with a "PiicoDev Starter Kit" sticker on the front showing several small blue circuit boards connected together with wires. It's got various sensors and cables in it that you can use to hook up to a MicroPython board and generally do little electronics projects with.

New toys! ...that need to get packed away now because they're a birthday present. #FirstWorldProblems

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Posted on 8 April 2024, 13:43

A photo of a small microcontroller board hanging from the side of my laptop, with four thin cables going from some of the pins on it into a single small connector that's connected to a very small square circuit board that is the temperature sensor. There's red heatshrink around where the cables are joined, and there's a second one of these connector-to-separate-cable, well, cables sitting unplugged on the desk as well.

Tonight I did a bit of soldering for the first time in a while! My shiny new BME280 temperature sensors have this very handy relatively standard four-pin connector on them for use with I2C, but ESP32 boards I'm using (the HUZZAH32 from Adafruit) don't have it and only have standard bare headers. So I took one of the cables with the new connector on both ends, chopped it in half, chopped four of the separate female "DuPont" connectors I already had in half as well, and soldered them together, and bam, easy connection!

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Posted on 4 April 2024, 21:45

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying mostly upside-down, except his head and shoulders are propped up on a green/blue blanket and the back of his head is resting against the pointy edge of a bookshelf. It looks decidedly NOT comfortable.

Beanie has made himself apparently (?) comfortable.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 4 April 2024, 11:19

A photo of a small blue circuit board that's hanging by its wires from a piece of wood that's attached to the side of our back room. Towards the end of the wood there's also a blue box with a little fan vent in it (a Plantower PMS5003 air quality sensor) and a small white plastic enclosure that houses the existing DHT22 temperature/humidity sensor. And at the VERY end is my extremely dodgy solution to avoiding getting the sensors wet: a plastic tupperware that I've screwed into the end of the wood so it shields the sensors.

And we're alive! That was quite straightforward, I found a MicroPython library for the BME280 (https://github.com/robert-hh/BME280) and updated my sensor code (https://github.com/VirtualWolf/esp32-sensor-reader-mqtt) so it can use either the DHT22 or the BME280. And as a fun additional point, the BME280 library also calculates the dew point based on the current temperature and relative humidity! I don't have it running "in production" yet, I've just got it hooked up to a spare ESP32 and it's sending its data to an MQTT broker running on our Mac mini so I can keep an eye on it for a while, but it's very interesting comparing the values between the two sensors... right now the DHT22 says it's 20.2˚C and 94% humidity outside, the BME280 says 19.9˚C but only 71% humidity. I also want to get a better enclosure for the whole setup as well, I'll think I'll ask a friend who has a 3D printer to print me out one of the multitude of Stevenson screens that seem to be out there.

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Posted on 3 April 2024, 20:02

A photo of three small dark blue printed circuit boards, two are BME280 temperature/humidity/atmospheric pressure sensors and one is a splitter with little connectors on all four sides, plus a selection of cables.

Yessss, new (small) project time!

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Posted on 2 April 2024, 15:03

A photo of Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads painted in a deep rich red, the Assault Intercessors all look like they're mid-stride and are wielding got pistols and chainswords, and one has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. The other three are holding big boltguns, two look like they're in the middle of firing and the third had hers held upright in one hand while she points commandingly with the other. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants. Their guns and chainswords are all black and they've got various brown leather pouches attached to their waists. The bases are done up to look like battlefield mud, it's all dark brown and wet-looking and splattered part-way up their shins, and there's some swampy-looking grasses and green goopy swamp water on the bases too.

And with that, the Intercession team is complete! So very happy with how these came out, but let me tell you, I am not doing this much edge highlighting ever again. 😂

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Posted on 28 March 2024, 21:22

A photo of just one of the Assault Intercessors, she's in a very dynamic pose and is in the middle of running forwards while aiming a chunky bolt pistol in one hand and in her other is a chainsword like she's about to swing it at whoever it is she's aiming at once she gets there. Her armour is a deep rich red colour and all the edges of the armour plates have a lighter red highlight around them. Her skin is black and her hair looks like it's been done in cornrows.

My converted Intercession team is now completely done bar the basing and decals! 🎉 The magnifying headset and the absurdly fine brush I bought were definitely both excellent purchases, there's no way I'd have been able to get the eyes done this well otherwise. I included the second photo because I just CANNOT get the edge highlighting properly visible when they're sitting on the table like in the first photo.

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Posted on 21 March 2024, 22:19

A photo of a group of six partially-painted Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing the standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads which has been painted in a deep rich red colour. All the guns are black and they have brown leather pouches strapped to their waists. The armour all has lighter red strokes along the edges of the plates, and the only completely unpainted bits are the heads.

THE EDGE HIGHLIGHTING IS DONE! ::collapses in a heap:: I didn't even do the "proper" pin-sharp do-it-with-the-edge-of-the-brush thing except for the very lightest highlights at the very end, on the tops of their kneepads and along the edges of the armour in front of their faces, but man that took a while. I only managed to do two each night because it was that tedious, no way in hell would I be doing an entire army like this. Very happy with the results, though looking at the photo it's not super-obvious with the lighting there, but trust me, it is in person. 😅

our house darkroom kill team painting space marines

Posted on 15 March 2024, 21:48