June 1, 2018
Bedhead systems
From left: call button receptacle, call button plugged in (button itself dangling) with red reset button overhead, and a red triangular emergency-pull →
Category: The Diary of Lupin Pooter
May 11, 2018
When Goop goes bad
It had been a year or more since I'd needed the cleaning power of Goop, but need it I recently did, so I dug out my mostly-full 14-ounce container of orange-scented →
April 27, 2018
You Need Cry, Dear
You Need Cry, Dear sort of, very loosely, sounds like the characters printed in Chinese beneath the nonsensical English. The Chinese translates to something →
March 30, 2018
Back in the cut: WEAR HELMET
It was a public holiday and so we spent the afternoon back in the cut, crawling through promising-looking industrial buildings in a corner of the New Territories. →
March 29, 2018
Best fuel I know!
Rad sign, eh?
Workspace Search 2018 seemed to be inching towards a satisfactory dénouement, but it was just one of those pesky false endings. The →
March 22, 2018
Notice: Please beware of the undulating pavement
Why go to all of the fuss of repairing "undulating" pavement if you can simply tape up warning notices about the issue and call it a day?
In one industrial →
March 21, 2018
Looks like a worthwhile use of GPUs to me!
Count the ZOTAC GPU boxes. Don't forget to smile and wave at the surveillance camera pointed at the open door. It and the street-facing windows are open →
March 20, 2018
Bodge of the week: replacing a naked piezo buzzer
Two specimens of the same model of timer. Top: an as-yet-unused timer, opened up to show its innards. Bottom: my good-enough-for-now five-minute fix: soldering →
October 4, 2017
A buck-fifty soldering iron tip-cleaning sponge versus one that cost thirty cents
The two sponges, side by side: cheap third-party sponge on the left and official Hakko-supplied sponge on the right.
I'm still using the same cellulose →
August 4, 2017
What would a fridge magnet made out of that stuff look like?
The patterns for the letters I wanted to cut from the meter-square sheet of yellow astroturf.
When I spotted meter-square sheets of cheap astroturf →
August 2, 2017
Curious markings on a Bosch Sensortec BMP280 sensor: “117 YP”
Handheld-magnifier view of the BMP280 barometric pressure sensor on my CCS811 sensor breakout board.
A sensor breakout board which I recently purchased →
August 2, 2017
Being John Searle inside the Chinese Room
Google Translate gives Spot as the meaning of 现货, but it actually means in stock merchandise. I was asking whether they could fill an order for a list →