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What would you bring to an adult show and tell?

I don’t necessarily mean adult as in NSFW.

I’d probably bring in my RG280V. It was my first handheld emulator. I had emulated games on my phone in the past and even used a Bluetooth controller but playing on it felt different. More real in a way.

I grew up with the Game Boy so the idea of having thousands of games on the go is pretty neat to me.

https://leminal.space/pictrs/image/2d3c0a5b-ed03-4847-9f73-243975ae0275.jpeg

I’ve since moved on to the RG405M.

What about you? Do you have anything neat or special to you that you could talk about for a couple minutes?

Would love to see photos as well

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Maybe my little DIY walnut cased ESP32 universal remote https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/765b57f3-93f6-4582-a113-19d4ad0f8a01.jpeg

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I can’t tell you how much joy I get at the crossroads between technology and woodworking. This is an excellent choice.

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

The inside - I hope y’all like cable management!

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/42bf23f1-bae9-4fdb-b102-1c5f0b2c9433.jpeg

MrQuallzin ,

Loving the look is this. Got a guide for making one?

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Thanks! Fraid not, it came together pretty ad hoc as I was building it.

Essentially the process was breadboarding the major components to get them talking and sort out the software, then built the main board to hold everything in position, then built the box to fit around it all

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Better charge that thing!

Is this universal remote in terms of IR to your TV, or more like connecting to Plex/Kodi/etc?

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Yeah the battery management board is a bit flaky so keeping it charged is a pain! Yeah it’s just doing IR for the various living room devices, sound system, TV etc so I didn’t have to keep tabs on 4 different remotes

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Ah that’s really cool!

Is it nice to use? For a bit I used a Kodi app on my phone but it gets annoying having to unlock your phone, open the app, then hit pause or whatever you’re wanting to do. I presume this is much nicer.

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

Its great to hold! Very chunky in the hand. Functionality wise I only gave it the on/off, volume and input selection from the media devices, and then it talks to another esp32 base unit that controls some lighting over WiFi, but as far as actually driving the media controls I shamefully just use the Google Chromecast controls, I’m not savvy enough to set up a FOSS alternative yet

BertramDitore ,
@BertramDitore@lemmy.world avatar

I LOVE this. I’m pretty sure I’ve tried every single media/pc remote available, and they all suck for one reason or another. Been thinking about building my own, and this is totally the direction I would go. Thanks for the inspiration!!

squid_slime ,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

My fully water cooled itx PC running arch, then I can force my hubby on them 😍

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

then I can force my hubby on them 😍

Trying to decide whether that was a typo, or if you are into the whole open relationship thing.

zout ,

He has a water cooled PC running arch, chances for an actual hubby are slim.

squid_slime ,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

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This is my hubby 🫠

zout ,

Nice. Sorry about the burn, but the urge was too strong.

squid_slime ,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

I found it funny dw

squid_slime ,
@squid_slime@lemmy.world avatar

Oh god

Jimmycrackcrack ,

Open or not consent is key here.

tias ,

My nVidia-branded plastic “sculpture” with a laser-etched 3D Eiffel tower and an actual pre-production GeForce 3 GPU embedded.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/b96d93fb-04cb-4bf1-9da6-4c4d49bda471.jpeg

In the early 2000s I worked for a small game studio and got the attention from Nvidia for how we used their graphics cards. They wanted us to adapt our game to their new secret GeForce 3 project which was the first programmable GPU (as in shaders).

It was a crazy time with a lot of stories to tell. We got invited to the press conference for the new card, which was held in the Eiffel tower. Yeah, they actually rented the Eiffel tower.

As a thank-you for the work we’d done their developer relations representative had these made for all of the external game developers involved.

PlexSheep ,
@PlexSheep@feddit.de avatar

Not sure what a show and tell is, I guess my laptop with tons of stickers, and boot up something that looks hackery. Besides that, my guitar perhaps?

CorrodedCranium OP ,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_and_tell

It’s something kids do at school. They bring in something important to them, show it off, and describe it a bit

Shanedino ,

Climbing gear or 3d printers.

Pistcow ,

My favorite rock. Its just neat.

CorrodedCranium OP ,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Got any rock pics?

Pistcow ,

ibb.co/5KntNfT

Zoop ,

Ooh, it IS neat! Thanks for sharing! I bet that feels nice to rub your fingers on.

Pistcow ,

Welcome! Very much so. Smooth to rub my thumb along. It was a gift from my grandmother.

clay_pidgin ,

That’s a nice rock.

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

My Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators.

I fuckin love these things. I used to feel left out when my friends would try to play music together, but then I found a way to be involved with a few mini-electronic-drumkits.

You can sequence a bunch of them together and sync them, easily, as well.

Teenage Engineering makes a bunch of other cool shit, too. I’m not much of a musician, though, so most of it is way beyond me.

HaywardT ,

That stuff is so cool. Thanks! Solved a birthday puzzle for.me I think.

soupspoon ,

These are so cool, thanks for introducing me to them! Might have to get the sub one

Toneswirly , (edited )

Ma dick

Edit: Buncha prudes…

SnotFlickerman ,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That’s him right there, officer.

Buffalobuffalo ,

Are you ready for the critique or is that all just part of the enjoyment? Secondly, if presented with a challenge of sword fighting would you accept?

Toneswirly ,

Im ready for anything

badbrainstorm ,
@badbrainstorm@lemmy.today avatar

Will you at least tell jokes, like Louis CK while you violate everybody?

velox_vulnus ,

Probably my chi-fi headset. Don’t really have anything to show off. And maybe my laptop to show that I use a package manager of the future.

kakes ,

I built one of those Ben Eater 8 bit breadboard computers, which I’m pretty proud of.

Mwallerby ,
@Mwallerby@startrek.website avatar

How would you rate your jumper wire neatness compared with his?

kakes ,

An attempt was certainly made to keep it tidy.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/de940ecf-987a-469f-9ce6-6e571c1a813d.jpeg

lemming934 ,

Wow I thought you meant the 6502 computer, but it looks like that’s the original one made of logic gates and shift registers, right?

kakes ,

Yep, that’s the one! I 100% want to give the 6502 a shot too, would be fun to run something more complex than a Fibonacci Sequence on it, haha.

HaywardT ,

Is a copy of Ben Eaters or did you do your own thing?

kakes ,

I largely followed along with his build, but tried to rearrange everything to be more compact.

I also had to make some changes to get it to work, since there are actually a few well-known issues with the way it’s done in the videos.

I have plans to hook it up to a Raspberry Pi Pico, and set up a webserver so people can control it online. Could be a fun mod for sure.

HaywardT ,

Very cool!

I was recently at a maker space that had thousands of unused ICs and thought this would be an excellent project. I couldn’t really interest anyone else. They wanted to just keep hording the things away.

Soullioness ,
@Soullioness@lemmy.world avatar

Probably my wheelchair. It’s a pretty nifty little chair that has quite a few unique features. Also I would need it to get there anyway. Otherwise maybe one of my drawings.

CrimeDad ,

My radial arm saw. image

sramder ,
@sramder@lemmy.world avatar

Yes! A fixture in our garage for like 35+ years :-)

Squeezer ,

😍

acastcandream , (edited )

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Sal ,
@Sal@mander.xyz avatar

If the timing is right, I would bring a mushroom grow bag with mushrooms sprouting.

If not… probably my radiacode gamma spectrometer and some of my radioactive items. Maybe a clock with radium painted dials and a piece of trinitite. I think that there are many different points of discussion that can be of interest to a broad audience (radioactivity, spectroscopy, electronics, US labor law story of the radium girls, nuclear explosions, background radiation… etc). As a bonus I can bring a UV flash light and show the radium fluorescence. Adults love UV flash lights.

sramder ,
@sramder@lemmy.world avatar

Reminds me of a prank that a physics professor pulled on us. He put the trinitie sample in a large/elaborate Giger counter and then slyly kicked it into test mode while recounting what Trinitite was. “Oh… wait, that’s not supposed to be radioactive…”

HaywardT ,

Somethings ESP32 related. Meshtastic radios, a controller I am building to add some features to my car.

user224 ,

Ah, a fellow mesher :)

For now I can only talk to myself though.

HaywardT ,

Me too. That’s probably why I would want to talk about it. So others will get onboard.

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