I am pleased to advise that today my new Logitech BRIO 4K webcam arrived. I have installed it in the booth, and unlike the last one, this one actually works. The implication for me is less stuffing around when it’s time to record videos because I will no longer have to move one camera between two mounts, the cameras are static now.
These are some notes I made about the pin-out of the HW-260 adapter boards I have for my ATtiny85 microcontrollers. I think my ATtiny45’s are also compatible. Not sure about my ATtiny13A’s.
Some photos I took this morning of some of my microcontrollers and associated devices.
I have built a new computer ‘trail‘ out of my old workstation ‘tradition‘. I was able to do this because I migrated the VirtualBox VMs that were running on ‘tradition’ over to QEMU/KVM VMs now running on ‘lore‘.
My new computer ‘trail’ is setup as the recording workstation for the “booth” in my studio. This is good because now I can record at 4K in the booth!
I don’t use Windows much these days but this new studio workstation runs Windows 11 Pro. I haven’t used software RAID on Windows before but for this workstation I setup a RAID1 mirror using 2x 2TB NVMe drives. I was able to configure the block size for the NTFS file system so I picked 2MB (which was the maximum) as this RAID array will only be for storing video recordings (which are huge files).
My good friend Dubz shouted me another round of Silicon Chip books as can be seen here. I now own all the books which have been marked and I’ve pretty much purchased everything that was left.
Thought today was snapshot worthy. Here is my lab as it stands at the end of 2023:
And this is what my lab looked like two years ago, when it began:
Picked up some drill bits from Amazon for AU$30: Bosch Accessories 91-Piece V-Line Titanium Drill Bit and Screwdriver Bit Set with Ratcheting Screwdriver (For Wood, Masonry, and Metal).
My new computer ‘verve‘ has been installed. You can see it driving its two monitors. So far so good. Up next: I install OBS Studio and see which of my cameras work. Fingers crossed!
Spent AU$50 picking up some bits and pieces during AliExpress’s latest sale.
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Silly Job Title: Science Officer
Today we’re gonna take a look at what arrived recently from AliExpress. They were having a sale so I purchased some natty tools and a few consumables. Details below. I made some notes at the time of purchase if you’re interested in what I paid for this stuff.
In the video I refer to the workstation I am planning to buy for the studio. When I get this new computer I should be able to improve the quality of my YouTube videos. If you’re interested in the details the new computer I’m planning is ‘victory‘. In the video I say this new computer will cost me AUD$6,000, but it’s looking like it will cost more like AUD$7,500 (roughly USD$5,000), so I will have to save my pennies! The Dell OptiPlex computer that I am presently using is ‘wonder‘.
In the video I refer to “box openers”. If you know what these things are actually called, please do let me know!
The spider who popped up on my bench during the recording of this video was found later. He, um, didn’t make it…
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