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A photo of five miniatures (2 Tau, 2 Death Guard, 1 Space Marine Reiver) with an undercoat colour of white or black, with their weapons clearly newly-added because they're fully unpainted raw grey plastic. The miniature in the middle isn't fully assembled and is missing his head and both arms.

With the new edition of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team coming out and all the changes to squad composition (generally speaking you can only have a single type of special weapon in each squad), I'm doing some converting of my as-yet-unpainted miniatures!

Most of them I could just break the glue apart on the arm joints, but for the guy in the middle, his arms were one single piece connected to half the torso, so I had to hack through the whole arm at the shoulder.

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Posted on 21 August 2021, 13:27

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting at the arm of a beige lounge with his front legs up on the arm.

Beanie's staring intently at the front door, waiting for Kristina to get back from her walk.

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Posted on 20 August 2021, 17:30

A photo of the elliptical showing 1349 calories burnt in an hour twenty-nine, and the iPad is paused at the very end of the last episode of Deep Space Nine, with the station itself slowly receding into the distance and a deep purple nebula behind it.

So I finished watching all of Star Trek: The Next Generation in September of 2020, and tonight have finished watching all seven seasons of Deep Space Nine!

I think this was my favourite Trek, I liked the darker and more shades of grey versus the unbridled optimism of TNG. As with TNG, it's always sad to finish a series you've been watching for ages. I bought the "What We Left Behind" documentary they made about DS9 a few years back, going to watch that on the weekend.

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Posted on 11 August 2021, 19:33

A photo of my Roland electronic drum kit set up in front of the TV, where Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock from the Xbox 360 is mid-song. There's PostIt notes on the drums to indicate which drum corresponds to which colour pad from the original drum set.

IT'S ALIIIIIVE!

our house music darkroom gaming guitar hero drums

Posted on 9 August 2021, 21:00

A photo of the MadCatz Rock Band MIDI adapter controller, used for plugging my drum kit into the Xbox 360 for use with Guitar Hero.

Aww yisssss! (Now hopefully it works with Guitar Hero... I've seen anecdotal reports that it does, but nothing official from the manufacturer). Also this controller is over ten years old now and the plastic is doing that weird thing where it gets sticky, so I'll need to clean it up.

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Posted on 9 August 2021, 13:39

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!

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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.

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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. 😛

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Posted on 30 July 2021, 14:20