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Fantasy RPG Maybe With Five Editions And An Ampersand But Whatever #HackOfTheDay

If you miss an attack, put the damage die you would have rolled aside

Miss again? Put another one aside

When you finally hit, roll ALL THE DICE

Describe how you turn tables on the enemy
They had that coming! BOOM!
December 12, 2023 at 12:58 PM
twpc484.bsky.social
Hi everyone!

I made a #graphicdesignhack you can use when designing an #aestheticgrid on instagram

this is the same hack i've used for my all my art there.

bdw i used canva to make this carousel post

#graphicdesigner #tutorial #hackoftheday
how to design this grid in adobe illustrator cover page step 1: setting up the artboards and their sizes step 2: aligning the first 2 and last 2 artboards close to each other step 3: designing the artworks in illustrator
November 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday With the latest betas of OpenSCAD and BambuStudio it *is* possible to produce a coloured design in OpenSCAD, and import that file into BambuStudio in one operation, without needing to futz about with separate models per colour!

See an explanation on […]

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Screenshot of the Export-to-3MF dialog in OpenSCAD (a recent nightly build). The colors in my OpenSCAD design are going to be encoded as colours (not materials!). in the output file. Screenshot of the import-3mf-colours dialog in Bambu Studio v2 beta (version 1 cannot process the colours and just discards them, if you have v1, then you must do change-filament-at-layer instead). BS v2 lets you map the colours from your openscad 3mf to available colours in your BS filament set.
June 29, 2026 at 7:17 AM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday use a soldering pick and a file card to recondition heat exchanger fins.
Before and after photos of a small refrigerator condenser with bent and crushed fins straightened out
August 18, 2026 at 1:04 AM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday snag dead printers from e-waste or #festivalofdiscardia and recover the stainless steel rollers. The machined shafts and rubber rollers are great for all kinds of tool handles.
The chuck key from a drill press has had its handle replaced by a sliding bar held in place by two rubber rollers.
August 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday 'cyme' (cargo install cyme, it's a rust program) is a smarter colour-enabled descendent of 'lsusb' which lists the usb devices on your computer. On linux I habitually run 'sudo dmesg -w' when working with USB devices to see the system log of device […]

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Screenshot of the output of a script that produces a coloured listing of USB devices, and then shows the time and specifics of the most recent change to the USB bus. The apple internal USB bus is filtered out. It'll probably work on Linux too.
July 1, 2026 at 4:24 AM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#tooloftheday or is it #hackoftheday. You have a brradboarded mashup and you want to add a logic probe or injector bit it’s already really skeevy. Make up some du-pont replicator adaptors which give you extra pins to attach grounds and probes.
A 2.5mm pitch stacking header has had one of its long pins bent across the others and soldered to them, meaning that there are four sockets and three pins which are now all electrically connected. Inserted on the end of a “duPont” jumper wire, you now have one signal multiplied for attaching test gear.
April 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday I bet you have at least one cordless power tool with a dead battery. Cut it off at the pelvis, wire it for sound, and make a bench tool. Here an ancient cordless angle grinder becomes a diamond drill-bit sharpener.
An old power tool is bolted to the T-slots in my workbench. A drill sharpening jig, you know, that one you bought at a garage sale and never learned to use, is also mounted to t-track. Together, they fight crime!
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday: Friend of the Lab (I'm typing on his hand-me-down macbook pro!) Donald dropped by today with a problem dear to my heart. When speaking to an audience he struggles with time, going into terror induced tunnel vision. His idea: put an LED bar graph on top of his laptop screen where […]
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July 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday Another circuit remix. I want to compare the efficiency of a few different solar charging controllers. My go-to for power measurement is the Adafruit INA219 current sensor breakout. This has two screw terminals for current in-out, but the ground […]

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A small square circuit board with two holes for power in and out, but no ground connection nearby. This 2x2cm square circuit board has a two-pin screw terminal that takes the input voltage and output voltage, and measures the current. If I want to measure voltage also, I need to connect ground. It's a pity that there wasn't provision made for a three pin screw terminal, there's plenty of room. I've placed a three pin screw terminal over the existing two holes and scrobbled it around to scratch the position of third hole. Since the whole back of this 2x2cm square board is the ground plane, I can scrape away the protective covering to access a ground connection.
July 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
#hackoftheday is free-form circuit remixing. I’m installing some Meshtastic devices which use LoRa radio (low power long range wireless). I want to use solar power but need to know how much energy I use. To do this i’ll install an electric current sensor between […]

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A circuit board with a battery holder soldered directly to the back, leaving no place to insert a current sensor.
July 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM