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Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social
Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: Fort Francis

Secret Santa gift for a coworker who had a pet vinegaroon named Francis. I made her some terrarium accessories and re-badged a hat to make her the general of her arachnid army.

The tanks have laser-engraved leather treads. The appliques are all acetone toner-transferred.

Of course it was packed in a wooden supply crate with a tiny crowbar.

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: Perfect-bound Journal

I kept a travelling journal with an ex of mine while we were dating and then many years after. I made the original with wooden covers and brass hinges but it was mostly destroyed from years of handling and posting. While visiting home for the holidays, I stopped at a local stationery shop and scraped together the supplies to re-bind it with some added blank pages before handing it off.

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: Fort Francis

Secret Santa gift for a coworker who had a pet vinegaroon named Francis. I made her some terrarium accessories and re-badged a hat to make her the general of her arachnid army.

The tanks have laser-engraved leather treads. The appliques are all acetone toner-transferred.

Of course it was packed in a wooden supply crate with a tiny crowbar.

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

I'm looking through my smartphone backups and there are a lot of pictures of projects that I either never posted online or were on defunct social networks.

How about a thread of lost projects from over the years?

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Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

My M. Bjoernstroem binge inspired me to invest in a set of good workwear. Now I'm swagged out in full Strauss motion 2020 and I gotta say: This shit is comfortable.

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Anyone else's brain still hit em with a "plop the ham thusly, please" out of nowhere?

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Dad's been trying to build me a coffee table for years and I've always declined because I wasn't sure I was gonna have room for one. Well, this year I decided to take him up on the offer. Looks great!

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

I'm using the Arduino SPI bindings, but I'm not calling beginTransaction() or endTransaction() because the mutex is expensive and unnecessary, only one function ever accesses the SPI. I only call beginTransaction() at startup. I am manually toggling the CS pins, but that should not create the sporadic delay I'm seeing. Should I talk to the SPI Master driver directly? Can I give the SPI driver a core affinity and would it help to pin it to the core where the function that calls it is pinned?

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Anyone with FreeRTOS knowledge know why I would be seeing occasional delays (in the 10s of microseconds) in starting a SPI transfer on esp32? It's usually the first of several consecutive transactions after not accessing it for a millisecond or so.

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Evergreen Toot:
Where the fuck is my tape measure?

Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

I mean, I don't think there needs to be discourse about it. Baristas should be allowed to wear whatever hand lotion they like. It's just not a sensory experience I enjoy.