|
distortion park posted:These are awesome! Do you throw and fire at home or in a pottery workshop? I've did a few sessions in a workshop when I lived in London but don't have one conveniently nearby anymore the dream is a home studio but for now i have a membership to a 24/7 access studio. they have some glazes and do the firing. ive recently started making my own glazes (most of those are store bought except the brown on Delores). took classes for about 6 months before we moved. i take occasional workshops (recently beast sculpture & soda firing) and going back to class for some intermediate/advanced instruction next month. most things can be learned from YouTube once you get the basics down. you can totally hand build at home! i do sculpture at home. YouTube has some “how to clean up” videos. look around for a studio that fires outside work.
|
#
?
Apr 24, 2023 17:45
|
|
|
|
| # ? Oct 5, 2023 03:11 |
|
|
That's so cool, having a local studio like that sounds awesome!
|
|
#
?
Apr 25, 2023 10:54
|
|
|
crime committer update : it’s coming. almost everything is a button lol, the purpose being that half the game is that there are (going to be) unhinged rants about anything you can click on also creating a system of unlocks, so that things unlock after time javascript amazes me lol, some of the poo poo you create with it is truly unhinged but somehow also kinda works
|
|
#
?
Apr 26, 2023 00:55
|
|
|
Bought a Dolch PAC 60 network sniffer that I will turn into a DOS gaming machine (not my picture). It's a 486 DX2/66 based lunchbox with 6 EISA slots that are usually full of network cards. I'm not exactly sure what cards are in mine but I can spot a VGA/TFT controller, a token ring node, a 10base-t ethernet card and an I/O controller. It is pretty barebones. It also has a nice Cherry MX keyboard and a 640x480 active TFT screen for which I have very low expectations. I don't know how much RAM it has but these come stock with 8MB which is enough for what I plan to do with it, anything else is gravy as I'm not sure I have non-EDO RAM sticks left. It should arrive this week. Looking at my stash I got some nice sound cards which I will install:  On the menu... 1. Swap the HDD with a CompactFlash, I'm still unsure wether the BIOS will accept a hard drive over 504MB so we will see. I'd be OK with 4GB. In the extent that it does not work, I'll be looking at burning an XT-IDE boot ROM to be inserted in the network card boot ROM socket. 2. Potentially swap the floppy drive with a Gotek, this Dolch does not have a CD drive so all transfers will either be done via ethernet, copied over directly on the CF or via the (potentially emulated) floppy. Any of you got experience with FlashFloppy? I'm not sure if it's worth it for an IBM PC with a plain jane Gotek (no OLED, no encoder). 3. Install the GUS and the SB16. 4. See what my upgrade path is regarding the CPU, I'm not exactly sure what motherboard will be in mine, or if it supports 3.3V 486. If it has provision for a 3.3V regulator on the board I'm ready to add the support in. We will see, an AMD 5x86 133 would be great in there. There's always upgrade CPUs with the regulators on board... tbd. 5. Install a sound system, as this network equipment does not have sound capabilities out of the box. I'm looking at 5W stereo aux amplifier boards from aliexpress and some 2-3 inches driver. I'll see how much space is left at the end. Olivil fucked around with this message at 00:36 on May 1, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 00:26
|
|
|
Olivil posted:EISA hope you bought enough chickens to sacrifice. making multiple EISA cards work makes VLB look easy
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 00:36
|
|
|
Sweevo posted:hope you bought enough chickens to sacrifice. making multiple EISA cards work makes VLB look easy None of the cards will be EISA though, all standard ISA.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2023 00:38
|
|
|
Welp, I received it, the CPU came loose in shipping (socket still clamped so wth). Straightened the pins, checked the PSU, all good but I'm not getting any activity. No image, no POST beeps and most of all no activity on the ISA bus. Will think about what I do with it... I have a Pentium AT board that would fit but putting an ISA video card on a Pentium seems weird to me.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 03:02
|
|
|
I have a Pentium with a micro channel video card OP
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 05:35
|
|
|
That's a nice offer, but I need that ISA card because it drives the TFT panel directly. Otherwise there's no point using the Dolch.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 05:37
|
|
|
how difficult or what would I need to make an adjustable lpf for the sub in my car I want to put the sub back in and there were two things I'd love to have a knob for. one was an overall volume adjustment knob and the other am adjustable low pass filter the amp has a lpf, and I've noticed that for edm or whatever, I want to have it set higher to make the most of out having a sub but for rock/metal, I want it lower, so it's not so boomy and messy and extra question.. can these be done passively? I suppose it's a car so I have 12v to fiddle around with but a small little module with two knobs
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 11:04
|
|
|
dont sign your posts you dumb poo poo mother fucker
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2023 11:04
|
|
|
thought you might be interested how I run my amp for my sub. it runs down to 2ohm and it kicks rear end but to get it into my house i had to use a pc power supply coz i needed 12v: I has to do this  i soldered all the yellows into one and all the blacks into one and that was almost there but it also wasn’t enough to connect the two pins on the connector so it was always on, it would continually flick off and I found out the power supply has some thing where it needs a load to work so in the bottom left you can see a fat resistor cable tied to a heat sink the fact that it hasn’t caught on fire is evidence of how well engineered it is
|
|
#
?
May 3, 2023 23:07
|
|
|
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002523361254.html and lots of electrical tape watch out for hifi fever 
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2023 14:08
|
|
|
oooo thanks
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2023 02:28
|
|
|
made some improvements to Decker which allow it to adapt to keyboard-less devices like tablets: details in the release notes
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2023 02:09
|
|
|
I've secured a nice Asus ISA/VLB 486 board with and AMD 5x86 133 which SHOULD fit the Dolch. In the meantime I did test the LCD and the TFT driver card with another board that is much newer (AMD K6 with AGP, PCI and ISA) and while it did work, I got a lot of noise/flicker. Running an ISA graphics card with that board is an extreme edge case so let's wait and see with the new board.
|
|
#
?
May 6, 2023 19:02
|
|
|
I wanna be able to take my moog minitaur portable I believe it runs on 12v I could go the motorcycle battery route, but I was wondering if there would be a solution that was as if the minitaur and the battery were one and you just plugged it in when at home and that allowed you to use ir and also charge the battery and when you unplugged it just carried on like a UPS maybe i’ve just answered my own question
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 07:34
|
|
|
if you wanna make it way heavier by sticking a bunch of lead acid batteries in, you could I guess?
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 09:52
|
|
|
I mean I was hoping for a less bulky solution, it’s an analog synth without a display, surely it doesn’t require huge amounts of current? like, how doable is a 12v UPS style arrangement* but with a chunk of rechargeable AA cells? idk the best way to describe but but like a laptop or whatever where it just runs regardless of being plugged in and it charges when plugged in and obv stops when it’s flat
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 10:24
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 10:26
|
|
|
and also tbf the synth wasn’t cheap I suppose I kinda wanna make sure whatever I do is safe for it. if it turns out it’s best to just create a battery power supply to use when I need to take it out and about and forget about having it be like a UPS then that’s no big deal I guess. I suppose it’s advisable to have some kind of decent voltage regulator between a battery and a synth right?
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 10:29
|
|
|
lead acid batteries are heavy because of all the lead. going for lithium batteries is probably better! e: and then you'd need a voltage regulator and charge controller which makes it more complicated but also not super heavy just a thought, I think motorcycle batteries will work. just know that you need more than 12v to charge them
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 10:42
|
|
|
the motorcycle batteries, AGM they're called, need 14.6 to 14.8 volts to charge Google tells me. If you have a 12v power brick it won't charge, you need some extra stuff to make that work.
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 10:48
|
|
|
like a car battery charger?
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 10:50
|
|
|
I realise now why its like 14.4 volts in a car, coz of the alternator generating more volts to charge the battery, but the battery itself is probably solid at 12v tbh weights not a massive issue, just practicality really
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 10:51
|
|
|
use a high capacity usb-c power bank, so all the battery and charging nonsense are already handled in a way that won't set you on fire, and then use one of these to draw 12v from the power bank for your synth
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 14:24
|
|
|
echinopsis posted:surely it doesn’t require huge amounts of current? i mean the entire point of the exercise hinges on figuring out current draw * time = battery capacity. you can't just assume that. maybe it does suck a few amps, maybe it draws 50 milliamps. We can't tell you! But the sticker on the back would give a rough idea, and a DMM in line with the power adapter would tell you for sure. I would just get a 12v external battery pack. Don't try to shove cells in the case
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 18:40
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:use a high capacity usb-c power bank, so all the battery and charging nonsense are already handled in a way that won't set you on fire, and then use one of these to draw 12v from the power bank for your synth Jonny 290 posted:i mean the entire point of the exercise hinges on figuring out current draw * time = battery capacity. you can't just assume that. maybe it does suck a few amps, maybe it draws 50 milliamps. We can't tell you! But the sticker on the back would give a rough idea, and a DMM in line with the power adapter would tell you for sure. yeah if I can find a pre made solution that doesn’t cost the earth that’d be excellent. thanks for the hot tips
|
|
#
?
May 28, 2023 19:33
|
|
|
a friend now has a tendency to hack a USB-C PD charging port onto everything he repairs, since there’s an IC you can just strap with a couple resistors to provide you the voltage and amperage you need he has a 68K PowerBook that can use USB-C PD
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2023 08:45
|
|
|
it's pretty fuckin handy, tbh. i've got a bunch of crap i'm putting together that's just powered off a 20amp hour usb-c powerbank
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2023 13:13
|
|
|
eschaton posted:amperage current, please
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2023 15:09
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:it's pretty fuckin handy, tbh. i've got a bunch of crap i'm putting together that's just powered off a 20amp hour usb-c powerbank have you got any examples of the power bank? like how would I make sure I’m delivering 12v?
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2023 23:00
|
|
|
stick a multimeter up in there
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2023 23:02
|
|
|
I use these for my ham rigs. Nice clean 12.6-12.8v
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2023 23:02
|
|
|
oh right i’m an idiot, I just look for a 12v power bank
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2023 23:16
|
|
|
echinopsis posted:have you got any examples of the power bank? like how would I make sure I’m delivering 12v? echinopsis posted:oh right i’m an idiot, I just look for a 12v power bank or one of these https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerCore-Portable-Double-Speed-Recharging/dp/B09VP9QJSS if you want a little more flexibility for powering other things. you can get those usb-c cable adapters for pretty much any common voltage and just use this thing to power whatever pretty much anything that says it will charge a macbook will work e: to be clear, you also need one of these to get 12v out of it https://www.amazon.ca/Blind-SPOT-Adapter-Device-Battery/dp/B08CCX5S96 infernal machines fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 30, 2023 |
|
#
?
May 30, 2023 01:00
|
|
|
i've started tinkering with an android port for decker, my hypercard-like thing most of the horrendous tooling problems are sorted, and soon i will need to figure out how best to distribute the android version would any of you folks actually want to use it on android? if so, do you prefer raw .apk downloads, google play store, amazon fire store, something else entirely? google play seems to be the only straightforward option to make it usable by folks on chromebooks, but i honestly have no idea whether those hoops are worth jumping through at all
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2023 16:45
|
|
|
how does the interface work with the screen real estate limitations and the limited interaction via touch?
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2023 16:56
|
|
|
the main touch adaptation is that there's a soft keyboard that eats/reflows a big chunk of the ui space whenever a field has focus: i also recognize some gestures for navigating around decks. from the beginning i designed the entire ui to offer menu-based alternatives to everything keyboard-based and avoided any use of right-click. similarly, the scripting apis are designed for a common denominator on touch device: no tooltips, no custom cursors, no hover events, no raw key events, etc on a larger tablet it works reasonably well. on a small phone it's pretty terrible unless you're using a device that has a stylus. on chromebooks it'll support hardware keyboards and work almost exactly like the regular desktop version i suspect that few people will want to use tablets and phones to create decks, but i'd like for those users to be able to use decks and perhaps do some light editing within reason Internet Janitor fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jun 14, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2023 17:10
|
|
|
|
| # ? Oct 5, 2023 03:11 |
|
|
nice. that sounds like a well considered compromise. i was wondering since we were talking about mediums and interaction metaphors in the tech bubble thread when decker came up before
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2023 17:12
|
|