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Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social
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: Dubblecup

This was a candidate for a crowd-funded novelty project that I did quite a bit of brand development on before abandoning. It's a ceramic cup that looks like two styrofoam cups stacked together. The packaging is based on the actavis packaging for prometh with codeine. This was at the tail end of the vaporwave-era lean/syrup revival.

This photo is of a 3D printed mock-up but I had one made of ceramic by shapeways that I still drink out of.

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?