Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected])

Hard|soft/ware hacker, tinkerer, writer, assistive tech. Sometimes I design satellites. Living on Wurundjeri land.

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

It's amazing how many of my friends have their 56th birthday tomorrow, almost as if January 1st 1970 was some kind of special day. Hmmm.

If you know why that day is special you really should come to my talk at Everything Open! https://t.co/LL9opkYwI6

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@elronxenu You know me well!

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

We did it! The result is snap-on, snap-off pressure plates that can be easily swapped to suit the job. Magnets FTW

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

I don't often do mechanical CAD, but when I do, I make sure it's in public so everyone can laugh at me

https://t.co/X6LsbpUjNq

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

Heh. #StickItUpYourTube! Ping @WAssembly

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

Sometimes you need to merge several electronics projects into a single design. Livestream starting in a few minutes:

https://t.co/5KLCK02Fdz

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@EERandomness @eevblog OpenPnP on Ubuntu using my OpenKayo ESP32 based protocol converter, controlling the original onboard motion controller

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@EERandomness @eevblog My Kayo A4s are essentially the same machine, I think with the same motion controller. I ditched the original control software and converted them to OpenPnP

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@eevblog Standard board thickness of 7.6mm. Yep, just like my typical boards 😱

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@ihaveabluehat I’m so sorry to hear that Angelo

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of surreal places you (probably) didn't know existed 🧵

1. Sverd i fjell, Norway

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing.

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[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@producerjason1 @YourAnonCentral It was in the US’s own interests to provide that help, because Ukraine borders Russia and was containing it. It was a way for the US to block Russia without having to fight personally. But now US foreign policy has flipped to being a Russian ally.

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

I need the dopamine hit of finishing something, ANYTHING, this year! I have a big list of unfinished projects so let's get started.

Livestream starting in 5 minutes: grab yourself a coffee and lets GOOOO!

https://t.co/s2AQM7qPVk

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@eplop I do not need more projects. I do not need more projects. I do not ...

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

It's hard to schedule time for major overhauls of production equipment when clients constantly need PCBs produced, so the Christmas / NY break is about the only chance I get to do it. Time to make a mess!
Step 1: Rip out the lighting and paint the ceiling beams

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

Step 4: Design stands for the pick-and-place machines to get them up off their trolleys, order steel, and weld them together. Amazingly the result was <1mm of dimensional error in every axis!

There's still much to do and it's going to be a stretch to be ready in 7 days :-O

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

Step 3: Realise the open ends of the beams look awful, so laser-cut some acrylic end caps, fit them, and then paint over them

[Jonathan Oxer (@[email protected]) @jonoxer]

@bindureddy Just look into those eyes. There's fire right there!