Playing openttd I've just sent a full passenger train to the depot, sold the engine, bought a new one, attached it to the old carriages and then allowed it to continue on the route. Which, in the game is afaik the standard way to do so.

However, while doing so my mind was thinking of what the passengers were experiencing.

And well, not even our local commuter train company has ever done something like this :D

Programming the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo with Arduino


Posted on April 30, 2023
A few months ago we may have bought a few ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo boards from Olimex.

Since every time I go back to working with them I’ve forgotten how to do so, and my old notes on the fediverse are hard to find, this is the full procedure.

Setup


I start by sort-of-following docs.espressif.com/projects/ar…

  • Install arduino from the distribution packages (version 1.8 is ok).
  • Under File → Preferences, add the development URL to the Additional Boards Manager URLs field. (on 2023-04-30 that’s https://espressif.github.io/arduino-esp32/package_esp32_dev_index.json).
  • Under Tools → Board → Boards Manager make sure that you install a version of esp32 by Espressif Systems that is above 2.0 (on 2023-04-30 there is a 2.0.8 that works).

Programming

  • Under Tools → Board → ESP32 Arduino select ESP32C3 Dev Module.
  • Under Tools → USB CDC On Boot select Enabled.

You can now compile and upload your sketches.

If something goes wrong, to force the board to bootloader mode bring GPIO9 to GND.

Note that the serial port device /dev/ttyACM0 only appears when in bootloader mode, but uploading sketches and the serial monitor will still work even if the port is not set in the arduino IDE.


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I've decided I need to do something vaguely useful with a few microcontroller boards I have, use some of the simple ESP8266 ones to collect temperature and humidity data from various rooms of the house to a MQTT server, collect that data in a RRD and show the current values on an epaper panel together with the current time and weather forecast.

Current status is:

* the MQTT server at home is no longer working (uops, that's why I wasn't receiving other unrelated notifications. I believe I know what the reason is, and how to solve it, but not today. I have mosquitto installed also on the laptop and that one is working)
* the python library I wanted to use to read data from MQTT is broken in debian testing (bug opened at the end of november)
* I can't find the ESP8266 boards. I know that they are around here somewhere, but WHERE???

#microcontrollers #arduino


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The Pile of warm weather things that required some #mending love has been taken care of. And I've finished adding buttons and buttonholes and lace to my new linen combinations (there will be pictures).

Now (for “tomorrow” or “next week” values of “now”) I need to change all of the hooks and eyes on my linen jacket, and then I think I may be sort of ready for the hot season?

(I'm never going to be ready for the hot season.)

#sewing

TFW you finish sewing a pair of slippers with rope soles (there will be pictures), take off the slippers with vibram claw soles you have been wearing (there will be pictures also of these) to try the finished ones on, and they feel slipperryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

after a few minutes I realized it was just a feeling caused by the comparison, they aren't *that* slippery, but for a second there I was worried.

#sewing

uh, Dracula Daily (Dracula, rearranged in chronological order and sent daily) is starting again in a bit more than a week!

I think that the website talks mostly about email, but there is also an rss available.

#mastoRegalo

La mia pasta madre si sta dedicando ai grafici di crescita esponenziale manco fossimo a primavera 2020: la sto anche usando, ma credo che nei prossimi giorni ne farò seccare un po' per farne farina (che poi si può conservare nei mesi, e usare come starter quando si vuole della pasta madre).

Qualcuno ne vuole? preparo anche qualche barattolo per la consegna?

Zona Varese – Como (non so se si possano trasportare colture viventi, anche se dormienti, extra UE :D )

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Conta come #origamiSegreti se non arriva da livellosegreto e non è neanche chissà che origami? Avevo bisogno di una scatolina per evitare di perdere in giro degli aghi, e mi serviva *ora*.

Ho seguito le istruzioni di youtube.com/watch?v=7u-4G1lkx4… ma credo che sia un modello tradizionale.

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Se conosci qualche tipografia che stampa in offset puoi recuperare le lastre di alluminio delle matrici (il solvente per pulirle costa più di quel che vale l'alluminio da 0,10 mm, quindi le buttano).

Tempo fa le provai per origamare e si comportano benino, anche se sono un po' delicate nelle pieghe.

Per tagliarle basta farci una riga un po' calcata con una biro, per dare un'idea.

@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

Ho visto questo e ho pensato alla conversazione dell'altro giorno sull'uso di stampante 3d e cibo

mondo-artista.it/artidee-verni…

certo che non ho idea della resa, ma sospetto che non sia sto gran che rispetto al costo, e probabilmente non è neanche così ideale dal punto di vista del lavaggio (immagino solo a mano, con acqua tiepida ma non calda), però *esiste* :D

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Buono a sapersi, grazie!

Un'altra cosa che si può fare è usare la 3D per fare stampi per silicone, che almeno si va sul sicuro.

Ma bisogna usare il silicone giusto… non quello da idraulici come ha fatto qualcuno.

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Yesterday I was measuring out and cutting a simple garment with my mother, and I had to divide 160 by 3. I can't be trusted to do basic arithmetic, and it's not a division by 2 (which is conveniently marked on the measuring tape), so I grabbed the #slideRule that I still had on the cutting table and... panicked, and couldn't do it.

This morning, on my own, I saw the slide rule, tried and of course I could do such a simple operation.

demo effect, I guess? :D

Fitting Top and Camisole


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Posted on April 5, 2023
A woman wearing a simple, long sleeved, fitted white top; the fabric is somewhat transparent and the outline of a camisole can be seen.

For this summer, I’ve just made a nice sleeveless dress, but that doesn’t mean that I’m planning to go around with bare arms like, I don’t know, a peasant or even somebody with no health issues, perish the thought!

Instead, at the end of last season I’ve bought a remnant of white ramie / viscose jersey that is a bit too transparent to be decent when worn on its own, but should still give some protection from the sun without being unconfortable in the heat, with the intent to make myself a new top.

Because of the transparency I wasn’t sure whether to actually use it for a top, or just to make camisoles, but with the decency preserved by the dress the choice was made: I had enough fabric for a top, a camisole and maybe something small.

I already have a trusted pattern for the top and camisole, but they still had to be published, so I took care to write down instructions and take step-by-step pictures; maybe the white fabric isn’t the best, but it’s better than nothing, and I can still take better pictures the next time I’ll do another make. They are of course on my pattern webiste: top and camisole.

some fabric (the top pictured above) crunched up in a loose ball, less than 15 cm in diameter (there is a ruler for scale).

Since the fabric was bought online as a remnant, I didn’t exactly know what to expect, and was pleasantly surprised by how soft it is: it feels like touching a cloud.

This however means that it felt like working with a cloud, and, well, let’s just say I’m happy that both patterns were quite simple and I didn’t have to deal with fiddly bits.

I was also not so pleasantly surprised by the fact that part of the fabric had a few small holes as if the end of the roll had been caught on something; I was able to cut everything around the holes, other than a small bit that I hadn’t noticed and had to be mended. It’s not a big deal, but I suspect it’s a sign that this fabric may not be as sturdy as it could have been, and that there will be more mending in the future as I wear it.

And then, when I had finished the set I was faced with another problem: taking pictures. For one thing, worn on their own they aren’t exactly decent, and then there was the fact that after a week of late spring weather in March, as I was working on summer clothing the temperature dropped and there was even a hint of rain.

image

I solved this by wearing the new set on top of another set of fitting top and camisole, with matching leggings. Not exactly something I would wear on the regular streets, but good enough for a picture of underwear.

A woman wearing a white camisole on top of black top and leggings.

Still, the pictures were taken in quite a hurry, because I wasn’t completely freezing, but still pretty cold.

Anyway, I’m off to find some other piece of summer wear to make, hoping that it will bring proper rain. :)


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@Technology Connections do you (or somebody else on the fediverse) know whether somebody has ever done the ObviousTrollThing and released a vinyl record with two completely different tracks on the theoretical left and right channels?

Ideally, for maximum trolling, music in completely different tempo and style, but similar perceived loudness, I think. (I suspect that speech could have possibly even just worked)

I wonder whether this would have caused a vertical wiggling above specs, and possibly even caused some damage, or if it would have just sounded bad even when listening to just one output channels.

filed under: catastropheeeeeeee

it seems I have maybe not exactly lost but at least misplaced one of my favourite nibs.

Ok, I have another one (uops, just one, I thought I had two: one in my purse and a spare, and it seems I don't have a spare), and it's probably around the desktop somewhere, I only have to clean it and it will resurface.

but still. runs around in circles screaming.

For the record, it's a Gilbert & Blanzy-Poure N° 808 J, and it's the one I almost always use to write addresses on mail.

#dipPens #snailMail

Dear #sewing-verse,

while under distress caused by a protracted¹ internet malfunction, aggravated by the fact that my work computer decided not to connect to my backup internet connection, it is perfectly reasonable to drop everything and decide to draft a combinations suite from an edwardian drafting book and make a wearable mockup from an old sheet.

But, since it's a mockup, even if wearable, why did I choose to hand finish all seams?

WHY?

Especially since I didn't have an internet connection, so I couldn't watch videos online while handsewing? (thankfully I still have a dvd collection, even if most of it is stuff that is not really suitable for watching while doing something else)

¹ multiple *days*

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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

@Green and Rainbows that's likely.

However I also remember having do pay a tariff when food was being moved from the back seat to the front seat and vice versa of a 9 seats minivan that was traveling internationally.

OTOH, part of that trip was outside of the EU (and some of the times part of that food had been bought outside the EU), so, yeah, that makes stuff more complicated, I guess :D

(I don't think we ever tried to pass food from the back seat to the front seat while the car was *exactly* over the border. That's a significant lack of planning on our part.)

Ora, io sono una persona distratta¹ che ha dimenticato a casa la versione stampata dell'impegnativa, ma è possibile che il CUP dove si va a pagare le visite non abbia accesso alle prescrizioni del fascicolo sanitario, ma ti dica se hai problemi a stamparle² di andare a chiedere di farlo in farmacia?

¹ non è esattamente il termine che ho usato al di fuori della compagnia educata
² potrei non aver esattamente detto che avevo dimenticato la stampa, ma aver lasciato intendere di essere senza stampante O:-)

Swiss Embroidery Princess Petticoat


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Posted on March 16, 2023
a person wearing a blue sleeveless fitted dress with calf-length skirt; there are small ruffles on the armscyes and the hem, and white lace on the collar and just above the hem ruffle, and small white buttons on a partial placket down the center front.

A few years ago a friend told me that her usual fabric shop was closing down and had a sale on all remaining stock.

While being sad for yet another brick and mortar shop that was going to be missed (at least it was because the owners were retiring, not because it wasn’t sustainable anymore), of course I couldn’t miss the opportunity.

So we drove a few hundred km, had some nice time with a friend that (because of said few hundred km) we rarely see, and spent a few hours looting the corps… er… helping the shop owner getting rid of stock before their retirement.

A surprisingly small pile of fabric; everything is blue or black.

Among other things there was a cut of lightweight swiss embroidery cotton in blue which may or may not have been enthusiastically grabbed with plans of victorian underwear.

It was too nice to be buried under layers and layers of fabric (and I suspect that the embroidery wouldn’t feel great directly on the skin under a corset), so the natural fit was something at the corset cover layer, and the fabric was enough for a combination garment of the kind often worn in the later Victorian age to prevent the accumulation of bulk at the waist.

It also has the nice advantage that in this time of corrupted morals it is perfectly suitable as outerwear as a nice summer dress.

Then life happened, the fabric remained in my stash for a long while, but finally this year I have a good late victorian block that I can adapt, and with spring coming it was a good time to start working on the summer wardrobe.

scan from a vintage book with the pattern for a tight fitting jacket.

The block I’ve used comes from The Cutters’ Practical Guide to the Cutting of Ladies Garments and is for a jacket, rather than a bodice, but the bodice block from the same book had a 4 part back, which was too much for this garment. I reduced the ease around the bust a bit, which I believe worked just fine.

The main pattern was easy enough to prepare, I just had to add skirt panels with a straight side towards the front and flaring out towards the back, and I did a quick mockup from an old sheet to check the fit (good) and the swish and volume of the skirt (just right at the first attempt!).

The mockup was also used to get an idea of a few possible necklines, and I opted for a relatively deep V, and a front opening with a partial placket down to halfway between the waist and the hips. I also opted for a self-fabric ruffle at the hem and armscyes.

same dress, same person, from the side, with one hand in the pocket slit.

The only design choice left was the pocket situation: I wanted to wear this garment both as underwear (where pockets aren’t needed, and add unwanted bulk) and outerwear (where no pockets is not an option), and the fabric felt too thin to support the weight of the contents of a full pocket. So I decided to add slits into the seams, with just a modesty placket, and wear pockets under the dress as needed.

I decided to put the slits between the side and side back panels for two reasons: one is that this way the pockets can sit towards the back, where the fullness of the skirt is supposed to be, rather than under the flat front, and the other one is to keep the seams around the front panel clean, since they are the first ones to be changed when altering a garment for fit.

For the same reason, I didn’t trim the excess allowance from that seam: it means that it is a bit more bulky, but the fabric is thin enought that it’s not really noticeable, and it gives an additional cm for future alterations.

Then, as the garment was getting close to being finished I was measuring and storing some old cotton lace I had received as a gift, and there was a length of relatively small lace, and the finish on the neckline was pretty simple and called for embellishment, and who am I to deny embellishment to victorian inspired clothing?

A ruffle pleated into a receiving tuck, each pleat is fixed with a pin, and there are a lot of pins.

First I had to finish attaching the ruffles, however, and this is when I cursed myself for not using the ruffler foot I have (it would have meant not having selvedges on all seams of the ruffle), and for pleating the ruffle rather than gathering it (I prefer the look of handsewn gathers, but here I’m sewing everything by machine, and that’s faster, right? (it probably wasn’t)).

A metal box full of straight pins.

Also, this is where I started to get low on pins, and I had to use the ones from the vintage1 box I’ve been keeping as decoration in the sewing room.

A few long sessions of pinning later, the ruffle was sewn and I could add the lace; I used white thread so that it would be hidden on the right side, but easily visible inside the garment in case I’ll decide to remove or change it later.

A few buttons and buttonholes later, the garment was ready, and the only thing left was to edit the step-by-step pictures and publish the pattern: it’s now available as #FreeSoftWear on my patterns website.

And Of course, I had to do a proper swish test of the finished dress with the ruffle, and I’m happy to announce that it was fully passed.

a person spinning on herself, the skirt and the ruffle are swishing out. Something in the pocket worn under the dress is causing a bit of bulge on one side.

Except, maybe I shouldn’t carry heavy items in my pockets when doing it? Oh, well.

I have other plans for the same pattern, but they involve making some crochet lace, so I expect I can aim at making them wearable in summer 2024.

Now I just have to wait for the weather to be a bit warmer, and then I can start enjoing this one.


  • ok, even more vintage, since my usual pins come from a plastic box that has been probably bought in the 1980s.↩︎

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#mastoHelp

Can somebody with an account on discord or something contact the people of freesewing.org/community/where… to let them know that on the Fediverse there is a community of a) people who sew and b) people who care about free culture c) an hashtag ( #FreeSoftWear ) where they have been mentioned a few times and it would be great if they wanted to join us?

Thanks!

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Di solito, quando devo chiedere a chi è accanto a me, ma è in confcall, se va bene l'ora di pranzo prendo un foglietto usato poche volte di carta, una stilografica e scrivo la domanda in buon #corsivo.

Oggi mia madre, al telefono, mi ha passato un pezzo di carta e una penna a sfera per capire cosa stessi cercando di chiederle (era “devo andare avanti a mescolare il pranzo mentre tu sei al telefono?”), e mi sono accorta che mi son messa a scrivere in stampatello, facendo molta più fatica.

La soluzione: abolite le penne a sfera. :D

Forgotten Yeast Bread


Posted on March 7, 2023
Yesterday around 13:00 I started my usual ”I’m being lazy” bread recipe:

  • 400 g flour
  • 250 g water
  • 6 g salt

worked for 8 minutes (by machine), left to rise until about 18:00.

For the record, it was a strong flour (310 W), type 1, so white, but somewhat coarsely ground.

And then, when it was time to cook bread for dinner I realized that something was missing. Something critical. See if you can spot it in the list above.

The yeast.

Some bread was taken out of the freezer and defrosted in the oven, but I didn’t want to throw away the flour, so I mixed 2-3 g dried yeast, 10 g flour and 10 g water, and left it to rise until after dinner.

Then I added it to the dought, added some more water (I know. I should have measured it. I didn’t expect having to repeat the thing. It was probably about 20 g), mixed for 5 minutes, covered it to rise.

This afternoon, around 15:30, I took the dought, folded it 5-6 times, formed a round loaf on the lined baking tray and left it in the cold oven until 17:45. Then I removed it from the oven, turned it on at 240°C, scored the top of the loaf and sprinkled it with water.

When the oven was hot I baked the loaf for 10 minutes at 240°C, then turned it down to 160°C for 20 additional minutes.

And then I realized I need to repeat this.

No, there are no pictures (there is some left, but it’s too dark to take pictures).


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Uh! the 2023 edition of #ColorOurCollections is out (has been out for a while, now :D ): free (as in price, but often also as in freedom) #colouringBooks based on the images found in the collections of museums around the world.

BRB will be downloading stuff :D

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Bookbinding: photo album


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Posted on March 6, 2023
an open book with a watercolour of a costume pasted from two corners on one page; near the spine there is a sliver of paper as a spacer.

When I paint postcards I tend to start with a draft (usually on lightweight (250 g/m²) watercolour paper, then trace1 the drawing on blank postcards and paint it again.

I keep the drafts for a number of reasons; for the views / architectural ones I’m using a landscape photo album that I bought many years ago, but lately I’ve also sent a few cards with my historical outfits to people who like to be kept updated on that, and I wanted a different book for those, both for better organization and to be able to keep them in the portrait direction.

If you know me, you can easily guess that buying one wasn’t considered as an option.

A closed hardcover book in uniform dark grey.

Since I’m not going to be writing on the pages, I decided to use a relatively cheap 200 g / m² linoprint paper with a nice feel, and I’ve settled on a B6 size (before trimming) to hold A6 postcard drafts.

For the binding I’ve decided to use a technique I’ve learned from a craft book ages ago that doesn’t use tapes, and added a full hard cover in dark grey linen-feel2 paper. For the end-papers I’ve used some random sheets of light blue paper (probably around 100-something g / m²), and that’s the thing where I could have done better, but they work.

Up to now there isn’t anything I hadn’t done before, what was new was the fact that this book was meant to hold things between the pages, and I needed to provide space for them.

a book seen from the top: near the spine all signatures are made of 4 sheets, but two of them for each signature are just stubs, and leave open spaces between the pages.

After looking on the internet for solutions, I settled on adding spacers by making a signature composed of paper - spacer - paper - spacer, with the spacers being 2 cm wide, folded in half.

And then, between finishing binding the book and making the cover I utterly forgot to add the head bands. Argh. It’s not the first time I make this error.

The same book, open on an empty page.

I’m happy enough with the result. There are things that are easy to improve on in the next iteration (endpapers and head bands), and something in me is not 100% happy with the fact that the spacers aren’t placed between every sheet, but there are places with no spacer and places with two of them, but I can’t think of (and couldn’t find) a way to make them otherwise with a sewn book, unless I sew each individual sheet, which sounds way too bulky (the album I’m using for the landscapes was glued, but I didn’t really want to go that way).

The size is smaller than the other one I was using and doesn’t leave a lot of room around the paintings, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because it also means less wasted space.

I believe that one of my next project will be another similar book in a landscape format, for those postcard drafts that aren’t landscapes nor clothing related.

And then maybe another? or two? or…

Traceback (most recent call last):

TooManyProjectsError: project queue is full

  • yes, trace. I can’t draw. I have too many hobbies to spend the required amount of time every day to practice it. I’m going to fake it. 85% of the time I’m tracing from a photo I took myself, so I’m not even going to consider it cheating.↩︎
  • the description of which, on the online shop, made it look like fabric, even if the price was suspiciously low, so I bought a sheet to see what it was. It wasn’t fabric. It feels and looks nice, but I’m not sure how sturdy it’s going to be.↩︎

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