My superpower is wondering “what happens if I do this” and then somehow causing epic drama.
Bangalore, India
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Travelling after a long time, so I had to rediscover the concept from first principles and make something called luggage.
Here's a CO2 sensor on the edge of a forest documenting the daily photosynthesis cycle. My 12 y.o.'s textbooks describe this in the most banal language. I learnt this decades ago in school and never connected the dots. This year the itch asked to be scratched.
ALT CO2 sensor log graph from a tunneled Home Assistant graph.
And now I have the soldering helping hands recommended by @donttrythis. They're good!
Singapore → Hong Kong → Philippines → China → Phillipines → India, featuring missed flights, connections to the wrong country, breakdowns, and an immigration crisis. My @UPS parcel is living the life.
ALT UPS tracking history across countries.
ALT UPS notifications about parcel arriving tomorrow, daily for the past week.
I did the homework a few years ago and settled on this Croma whitelabel. Used paint thinner to scrub their ugly logo off. It's worked well – it has airflow across the column, which I needed for under-table air circulation.
Today's WTF: none of my breadboards are actually 2.54mm pitch. Can't use them without deforming the pins on a Pico or ESP32 DevKit. The best I have is a pricier transparent breadboard and even that is only usable up to 4".
@shantanugoel where are you getting usable breadboards?
Found a twist. I can now message a business from WhatsApp Desktop but not WhatsApp Mobile. What a mess! @internetfreedom @kunalb11
