Glen Akins

@bikerglen

Building gadgets, riding bikes, and fighting the good fight for municipal broadband. Chip designer by day. Fort Collins. Some days you're a mountain goat; other days you're a fainting goat. 🐐

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Glen Akins@bikerglen· 18d

Found the strike.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· 18d

I'm stuck at gym until this stops.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· 21d

Yep. From the PRPA website. I wish PRPA would make this data available for more than just the last 24 hours.

graph of PRPA generation sources for the last 24 hours. solar cratered about 6 pm.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· 22d

I have this one that's Bluetooth to Ethernet. I don't use it much except if there's a video on my phone that I want to hear while I'm lugging stuff around in the garage or basement.

dante avio bluetooth i/o adapter. black dongle with ethernet port on one end and bluetooth log on the other.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· 29d

Apparently I did not buy the 1 mV / 1 mA upgrade. It's still good enough to measure the forward voltage of the LED at 10 mA though.

Miniature 3D printed plastic traffic barrel with an amber Type A barricade warning light on top. It's connected via black and red alligator clip to banana plug test leads to a Rigol DP711 bench power supply which is suppy 2.05 volts to the LED at 0.01 A. Not 0.010 A because I didn't spend $59 for the extra zero.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 12

Lunch by the lake.

Sandwich in plastic bag, bag of chips, and a can of beer on a picnic table with a tree and lake in the background

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 12

I found their ball!

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 10

interior.

I've extended the rear part of the enclosure to touch the front part of the enclosure and added a lip of intersecting plastic all the way around. this is a cutaway view showing the interior and the lip.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 10

Rear view.

same image as previous post except viewed from the rear. there's an inset on the rear panel that is flat for all the connectors. can see the cut out in the back of the front that is flat for the front switches and indicators too

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 9

Thinking about making a parameterized enclosure design that looks and stacks similar to an old linksys router. Overall seems doable but 3D printing would require a ton of supports no matter the orientation. Basic shape is simple enough. Still need to make it fit together and add supports for PCB.

The front and back half of an enclosure that kinda looks a linksys router. The front and back are separated by a couple of inches.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 9

May have interrupted someone's dinner plans.

A common garter snake and a frog, well, an american toad, on a dirt path at night. They're separated by about 3 feet.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 6

Boards are finally back so I added the boot mode buttons to the mini variable message sign for realsies. I went with yellow. One boots into Wi-Fi AP mode instead of Wi-Fi client mode; the other boots into fixed zombies ahead mode. Cutaway of the buttons, top hats, PCB, and mounts in the 2nd photo.

back of my mini vms showing a black chassis mounted to an orange frame with two yellow buttons in the upper right hand corner.

A piece "cut" from the rear panel where the batteries are located. It shows the rear panel, a green and blue top hat poking through the pane. Each top hat is centered over a 6mm sq Omron tactile switch. They are mounted on a PCB with JST PH 4 pin connector. The PCB is affixed to the rear panel using some M2 screws.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 5

being skinny is my skeleton key

nine pad locks and a series of chains connected in series securing the gate but there's a wide enough gap for me to fit through

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 5

Aspens

A bunch of aspen trees on green ground with a blue cloudless skies. many of the trees don't have any branches or leaves. they dead, jim.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 4

antifa vandal cows messed up my reflecting pool

Cow drinking pool full of water with red algae bits floating in it. Surrounded by green grass in the mountains which are almost reflecting in the pool

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 4

finally got my baby turkey photo

four baby turkeys standing on aspen tree that's bent to be horizontally. they're about a foot apart and all looking at me. the 2nd from the left is giving me the sideeye while showing me his ass.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 3

Went around a corner today and at least twenty baby turkeys scattered. Here's a photo of one of the moms. The babies are short. The grass is tall. The babies instantly disappeared.

A turkey standing in a field of tall natural grasses. Two distinct pine trees are visible on the right side of the image. The image background is solid pine trees.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jul 1

This guy explains the lack of garter snakes around the house this year.

A very long and aggrieved yellow bellied racer cornered between a fence and a house.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 30

This lawn chair in the lower left corner is pretty killer too!

Crop of a portion of the crowd revealing a foldable lawnchair with bold vertical green, yellow, orange, and blue polyester straps weaved between horizontal white polyester straps.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 30

Reflecting Pool crowd at Bicentennial. Thursday, July 1st, 1976. Darrell C. Crain, Jr. Photograph Collection. DC Public Library. Non-commercial use permitted. Source: digdc.dclibrary.org/do/42f9be33-...

Crowd surrounding the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial at the U.S. Bicentennial celebration on the National Mall. A choir stands in bleachers in the right middle ground.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 26

Buttons for Wi-Fi AP or Wi-Fi client modes, USB C 2.0 programming port, and a battery box with on/off switch and 5V regulator!

back of my mini variable message sign. there are two button knubs. one is red. the other is orange in the top left rear of the sign.

front left of sign with diffuser removed revealing a small USB break out board with a USB cable plugged into it. Above the plug the bottom left 8 x 24 pixels of the 32x64 pixel led panel can be seen.

orange battery box on trailer frame with the lid open. hinges at the back. magnetic closures at the front, a small slide switch on the upper right side of the box, a bunch of wires for the battery.

another shot of the USB port showing the detail required to make the connector dovetail into the rest of the housing

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 24

Aurora police impound lot selfie. I did not win the auction for the sign in the background.

Me standing in a dirt field next to a wanco full matrix metro large variable message sign in mint condition.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 24

Post a robot that's not from Star Wars or Transformers.

My dodgy-ass, homebrew aluminum five axis robot arm with a bright red diablo 8" saw blade for an end effector.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 23

not a great scan but good enough for checking for interference

The back of an electronic sign I'm building. It's 50% transparent revealing the 3D scan of an RGB LED matrix panel inside it.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 19

gemma4:26b running locally got the correct answer on the first try.

screenshot of ollama cli in a windows command prompt running gemm4:26b figuring out how many feet are in 222 meters.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 18

casual snap from swim beach last night.

venus, crescent moon, water, reflection, dark sky

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 16

It's just like one of those roadside construction signs that's been hacked to say CAUTION ZOMBIES AHEAD except it's only 12 inches tall.

scale model of a roadside variable message sign used in construction zones. it's about a foot tall. it's displaying caution zombies ahead. It's on a messy workbench.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 16

Burned some tokens since I haven't designed a web page since the web became mobile first.

A web page for setting the three lines of text on the mini variable message sign.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 16

Hinges and magnets installed on the battery box.

Glen Akins@bikerglen· Jun 14

Also the prototype for the design of the Memphis Bass Pro Shops. Look carefully in the parking lot.