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Hacker. Father. Scientist. Rantist. Atheist. Roboticist. Treehugger. he/him. No longer “on” Twitter. Mastodon: @unixbigot@aus.social
Feb 27, 2022 22 tweets 16 min read
Here’s the river level plots from dam to city
Wivenhoe bit.ly/fl_wiv
Lowood bit.ly/fl_lowood
Kholo bit.ly/fl_kholo
Mt Crosby bit.ly/fl_crosby
College’s Corssing bit.ly/fl_colcross
Moggill bit.ly/fl_moggill

ctd next tweet #bneflood River level plots (part 2)
Aitchenson st: bit.ly/fl_aitch
Goodna: bit.ly/fl_goodna
Jindalee: bit.ly/fl_jindalee
StLucia: bit.ly/fl_stlucia
Port Office: bit.ly/fl_portoff
City: bit.ly/fl_bne
Mouth: bit.ly/fl_mouth
#bneflood
Sep 21, 2021 16 tweets 3 min read
Datasheets. The thing ever engineer has to look at in order to use a part. They should not be cryptic crosswords. I should not have to look at the marginalia of a technical drawing on page 63 to find out how the pins are numbered. Inverted. Fucking. Pyramid. 1/♾ Datasheets 2/♾: the patents on I ²C expired LAST CENTURY. You can stop pretending your part uses some novel unnamed “two wire interface” and replace those twenty pages of timing diagrams with “it’s bog-standard I-squared-cee you know the drill [link to the drill]”.
Mar 17, 2021 14 tweets 4 min read
Email: "You have a new sexual partner in your MyGov inbox" Instagram: "We noticed you have 3 sexual partners in common with Charlie.  You should hook up". 
#sexualconsentapp
Mar 4, 2021 16 tweets 11 min read
#ToolOfTheDay: If you 3D print, you probably know that trying to sand or grind PLA is futile: it just melts and gums up. Well (as happens more often than you’d think) the beauty industry has got dis. A nail sculpting burr and pneumatic drill allows finessing PLA fits w/ no clogs! ImageImage JST connectors can be a pain to disassemble. Screwdriver, tweezers and scalpels all work, if you don’t mind the odd stab wound. A set of connector shims is much better but even then it’s not obvious which tool to use. Here’s how I use the two-prong tool for JSTs. #ToolOfTheDay ImageImage