Notices by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)

the year is 2005. PHP is the easiest language to deploy on my apache server, since I just need to drop some files in, and not have to set up any new services.

the year is 2025. PHP is somehow the easiest language to deploy on my apache server, since I just need to drop some files in, and not have to set up any new services.

@mhoye who was it who said the only intuitive interface was the nipple, and after that, it's all learned?

cause they're right.

The scientific accuracy of last night's dream was abysmal.
Even if the US accidentally launched all their ICBMs at Topeka, Kansas, there's no way it could create a black hole.

making a laptop which doesn't specify the voltage/amperage/polarity of the barrel jack should be illegal, and this rule should be implemented retroactively

That battery is the Tadiran TL-4934 Lithium Thionyl Chloride.
Nominal capacity of 1 amp-hour.

if they're running this thing at 10µA on average this battery will last about 11 years

that's all I can tell without being able to photograph it better (I'm doing this while laying down) or do some continuity testing

I can't be sure what mode it's in without examining the registers, but it looks like they gave it a 7.2mhz crystal instead of the expected 32mhz. So the CPU might be running at 3.6mhz instead of the nominal 16mhz

This is the closest I was able to get to a non-blurry picture.
It's not super complicated inside: Two main big components, a battery (non-rechargable lithium!) and a switch. The antenna is built into the PCB itself.

California uses a radio-tag system called FasTrak for vehicles, and recently they sent me a new tag.

So naturally I had to open up the old tag, right?

It's officially called a T21 Internal Tag Fixed Battery Switchable

(some models don't have the switch)

part number R2916-219

And the microcontroller is a TI MSP430F2121 Mixed Signal Microcontroller.

This thing in the corner under the designation BP1 is an SFM-1640A by East Electronics, an SMD External-driveen Piezo Transducer.

This thing beeps when you change the number of occupants or (sometimes) when it gets scanned.

Datasheet says this runs at 1.8v to 3.6v, and ultra-low power consumption: 250 µA at 1mhz, 2.2v, 0.7 µA on standby, and 0.1µA when off (with RAM retention)

It's a 16-bit RISC architecture, 256 bytes of RAM, 4K +256B of flash memory

I typed "Windows" into my phone and it suggested "95".

I couldn't be prouder

I finally had enough spoons to do this 3d modelling but I'm not sure I have enough spoons to go to the store and still have enough left over to do the 3d modelling

Finally got batteries and my calipers are working!

And the thing I needed to measure is destroyed, fuck!

yeah good question amazon AI, are these DIGITAL CALIPERS able to measure small objects?

It fell off my desk and right onto a button, which shattered.

The worst part? I was going to use the calipers to make an enclosure to avoid this sort of problem

all three are interchangeable, but choose wisely