Stringbender @Stringbender@mastodon.xyz

I have a friend who is studying instrument making, here are some pics of a guitar she was working!

She'll be doing an apprenticeship in #Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in August, and is looking for some nice people to stay with.

You? Someone you know? DM me!

Morning! Those of you who know me from Twitter will know that for ten years now I have run a weekly photographic challenge called #SundayPix. Each week I set a theme and people post their photos, videos or artwork to match the theme. I see no reason why you lot shouldn't join in the fun too.
The theme today is "House". Post your pictures with the hashtag #SundayPixHouse

A fun little tidbit on how pilots communicate to each-other using lights. Planes have different sets of lights, and here is what they mean.

Navigation Lights (red in left, green on right, white behind): The main master switch is on.

Beacon Lights (red or white rotating, usually on the top of the tail): Either the engines are running or are about to start.

Taxi Lights (white, sometimes on the nose wheel): Either the plane is moving or is intending to move.

Strobe Lights (white flashing lights on the wingtips): Either the plane is in the air, or is on or intending to be on an active runway.

If anonymity on the internet would become illegal, would you consider preserving your anonymity and/or privacy even if that may be a crime?
Had to abreviate the answers a little bit.

RT much appreciated, this really interests me.

Guys, can you connect me with someone who hosts soft-skill training classes using zoom?

Please #RT

for every engineer who moves fast and breaks things, there are four more who move slow and fix things. and they're tired of the first engineer's bullshit

How to do vector network analysis without really doing it, using only a power meter or other scalar instruments.

First, use a power meter with a predetermined complex impedance to measure the reflected power or SWR. Ideally, Γ is complex and you get a single point on the Smith Chart. Unfortunately, without phase, you get |Γ| instead of Γ, the best you can do is drawing a circle enclosing all the possible complex impedance values that give the same reflection magnitude.

Next, use another power meter with a known but different complex impedance, (possibly by deliberately introducing a mismatch), repeat. You get another circle. Finally, use yet another (mismatched) power meter, and you get yet another circle.

Finally, the unique solution of the complex impedance is found at the intersection point of the three circles. Basically the theoretical foundation of a six-port reflectometer. #electronics #amatuerradio #hamradio

#Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run
#JMCoetzee

https://unifiedpush.org

Did you know that one of the ways Android and IOS reduce energy consumption is by using a unified system-level notification provider?
UnifiedPush is FOSS implementation of the same idea that could help projects such as #pinephone and #linuxphones in general by providing both a framework to reduce battery consumption and a more unified interface to code notifications on.

If you follow FOSS, would you please boost?

New French Law Requires Car Commercials to Tell People to Walk or Bike Instead - https://www.thedrive.com/news/43727/france-will-require-car-ads-to-tell-people-to-walk-or-bike-instead

My unsolicited advice to young people is to wear earplugs when you go to the rock show. You will absolutely 100% regret it someday if you don't!