Just saw this article come up thanks to #womenshistorymonth. I watch a lot of documentaries and such like on the space race (including the fantastic film, Hidden Figures. If you haven't seen it, watch it!), but the women who literally wove the programs into modules are just mentioned in passing.
This article goes into a bit more detail and celebrates the incredible work they did.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa
Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible
The stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown.Joy Lisi Rankin (Science News Magazine)
Getting ready to do another batch of #astropixels
20 sets put together and tested, just have 60 HP lights to solder up and test and then I'll get them boxed and put up on my store.
The HPs are a time consuming pain, but hopefully they won't take too long.
https://60chequersavenue.net/allsky/
Might clear up as the Pi warms the enclosure up. Amazed its actually working to be honest, its been sat on a pole outside my garage for nearly two years now. (last powered up March 2021!)
#astronomy #allsky #raspberrypi #astrophotography
One circle to reprint, but put the others on to test, and will probably work on them in place. So tomorrow may well be another sanding day.
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Life long #geek, more recently a #droidbuilder and #maker. Been into computers since a young age, now working as a solutions architect using #python to automate everything. I tend to stay away from politics so my feed is usually just things I make with an occasional link to interesting articles and such like.
Based in the North West of the UK. I have been following the whole distributed social media experiment with interest since the early days of Diaspora. I'm hoping that Elon has unwittingly helped us all out and done a good thing for the internet.
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Second half is printing now, should be done in a day or so and I'll do the same to that, then put the two halves together and the circle panels on to do the whole thing at once.
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Just doing some colour testing for my next droid. Settled on the yellow, just need to decide on the blue. Ignore the bad paint job, was a rushed one on some failed prints.
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Was asked to do some light boards for a friend's droid.
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Doing a test print and the filament broke at some point. So fed it back in whilst the print was still going, and despite a 5mm gap, it actually recovered! :)
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My resin printer has been doing nothing for ages, so despite how cold it is in the garage, I've managed to get some good prints out of it.
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Thanks to Nik at https://www.groovypearldesigns.com/ for my awesome #astropixels logo, and for https://stampit.co.uk for turning it into a rubber stamp!
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A few weeks back I wrote a post listing all my @Raspberry Pi :raspberrypi: projects. I may be the reason for the supply shortage. :P
https://60chequersavenue.net/wordpress/2022/10/who-used-all-the-rpi/
To paraphrase a certain chocolate egg marketing campaign:
How do you use yours?
#raspberrypi #makers #projects #RPi
Who used all the RPi? - 60 Chequers Avenue
Wow, its been so long since I've done a post on this blog! So, here is a list of projects I am currently using a Raspberry Pi for. Occasionally this comes up in conversation, so I thought I'd compile the list here.60 Chequers Avenue
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•I see you have an Allsky camera as a WIP - I presume for night time going by your other projects, I've been looking at a meteor camera at some point (don't think they are on here yet).
I did have one (finally rebuilding it) for daytime use to record cloud cover for @me15weather to throw another idea towards you ????
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I've looked at the meteor cams too, not sure if I can dual purpose my allsky cam. Will look at the cloud cover! :D
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•https://github.com/peter-mount/piweather.center/tree/original
I've branched it as I've started rewriting it from scratch but the math is pretty simple.
As for meteor I'd suspect it'll should be separate to the all sky cam.
GitHub - peter-mount/piweather.center at original
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