Mo @mo@nitech.online

I will never not bawl my eyes out when hearing Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová perform Falling Slowly. It’s like raw emotion in a song.

@shezza_t @BeebsyMcA I would go to New Zealand as well. Have been 3 times but only once as an adult, so I feel like I’ve a lot of places yet to see.

@iain Warpaint?

@oisin LIFE HACK!

@ashfurrow@masto.ashfurrow.com I’ve never really considered “feels like”, and it’s only the last couple of years I’ve seen it mentioned on TV weather reports. But I guess that Ireland, while not Cupertino, is pretty temperate and “feels like” isn’t a big consideration for us either.

@iain and I’m here for it

The resistor was fine, but after checking the schematic I was able to work my way back from the non-functioning output/LED to the AND gate where it seems like I didn’t do a great soldering job. A quick touch up on 3 pins and everything is working perfectly now.

@MarkXA for sure. Complaining about even 1 mortgage is a privilege compared to what our kids will face. Fucking Tories.

Have a Korg SQ-64 arriving in a couple of days. I have enjoyed using the SQ-1 with my #Eurorack gear but found the tiny little pots for the pitch voltage to be too fiddly for an optimal experience. I have a KeyStep Pro that is probably a better sequencer than the SQ-64 overall, but the keyboard gets me too tempted to think in terms of poly synths and lose the modular focus.

@joshua I probably don’t either 🙂 It was fun trying it though.

@joshua I’m 99.999% confident the polarity is good. All LEDs were oriented the same way and I double checked the position of the long leads for them all. Whereas my placement of the SMD resistors was particularly dodgy! That said, the resistor was probably only for managing the voltage across the LED itself, and there was nothing coming out of the jack.

The good thing about building the kit though is that you get all the schematics so it’s easy to narrow it down.

@MarkXA I’m paying two mortgages at the minute, but I suspect that I get a lot more benefit from those two places than you are from the three!

Tested it live in production (ie threw it into the rack rather than testing components/traces) and it all seems good except for the “1+2 4+7” jack. No LED or signal even if I’ve manually set all bits on the Turing Machine to on. Need to check the resistor I think.

@MarkXA I got my merit review details just before the holidays, and it sure makes the new year feel a little less daunting!

@Sloanysoft World Class Leaderboard and Rockstar Ate My Hamster! Two games I spent a lot of time playing!

Still not tested anything yet, but I’ll grab the schematic tomorrow and figure out the best way to test the components.

Feel like I need a double pronged soldering iron tip that I can apply to a blob on both pads at once so that I can put the component down a bit more symmetrically.

First foray into SMD components this evening. I still haven’t quite figured out my preferred technique. Currently using flux pen to prep the pads, then stick a solder blob on one pad and lightly tin the other pad. I then get the component (all resistors in this case) in the tweezers and heat the solder blob so that the component can be plopped into it. Heat still applied I push the other end of the component down onto the tinned pad then add a bit more solder to improve the joint.

@stuartgibson I’m anticipating a future in which there’s a giant floating patch of 3D printer “test runs” in the middle of the Atlantic.

@bigzaphod but you’re not getting quoted though, right? 🙂

@denis this is the way