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Guy Dupont

@guydupont.bsky.social

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Jan 22

Playing with the idea of "different perspectives on the same story"!

QR code that sends you to a different source based on the angle.

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Evan Kahn @eka.hn · Aug 31

For the past few weeks instead of reading the news i have been making a handheld game console. It has a 1.7" display and a 400Mhz CPU. The front is a trackpad. It does not go online. It does one thing (plays Go), and hopefully does that better than anything else that fits in a coin pocket.

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · 5d

I'll be joining these two in about 30 mins (8:20)!! Come hang

dr lee cyborg @leeborg.bsky.social · 6d

Me and @cyborggarbage.bsky.social are ready to go in the morning for the @oshwassociation.bsky.social 12 hour Livestream!!!! Tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...

Lee and sid holding OSHWA mugs in cool purple lighting

Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · 11d

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Ebay listing for a Theranos branded ballpoint pen. The Title is: "Authentic NOS Theranos branded ballpoint promotional pen Elizabeth Holmes (jail)"

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · 14d

This project got me so jazzed on laundry that I actually got the the bottom of my bin for the first time in probably 15 years

Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · 16d

Started the process of open-sourcing all of this last night! Still got some TODOs in the repo but it's all going up here:

github.com/dupontgu/diy...

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Alpenglow Industries (Carrie) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 20d

We’ll be bringing all of these to Maker Faire Bay Area next weekend! They can be finished as a necklace, fish hook earrings, or lobster claw earrings for hooking onto hoops, your choice. #glowies #alpenglowies #ledjewelry #makerfaire #mfba2025 #makerfairebayarea

Lightning bolts, yarn balls, aliens, and snowflakes on a table.

rainbows, stars, unicorns, planets, and yarn balls on a white table

unicorns, planets, and yarn balls on a table

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Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social · Sep 11

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ah huge! Was wondering about something like this just yesterday. (Though Y'all's web editor is killer)

Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 10

Unexpected data leakage: I threw a BME680 in kid's room so we can keep better track of temps as it gets colder. This is derived from the gas sensor. Can you guess when we left our daughter in bed and when we went to go grab her in the morning?

Graphy showing air quality in our nursery for the past 20 hours or so. It's relatively noisy until 7:53 PM and then goes very stable until 6:20ish AM, which is exactly how long my kid was alone and asleep!

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 7

ah yeah I see some too - I think the constraint I left out is that I want digital output but now that I think about it I can probably work around that

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 7

I've had very good experiences with the common I2S (INMP441) and now PDM (MP34DT01) MEMS microphone modules, but I am left wondering: are there no unidirectional (or at least, more directional out-of-the-box) small, embeddable mics?

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 6

Enttec + Max/MSP is such a classic combo. That's like... how I got into software

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · Sep 6

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 6

Where was my invite to the meeting when we decided that it was OK to just put *mid-sentence* cuts in video. I know folks are using auto-editors and this is probably a byproduct of that but dear lord is it distracting. I would much rather hear you say "um" than fucking glitch out on screen

Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 5

So THAT's how corn syrup is made!! gather it up and make some terrible american soda

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have absolutely no idea what this is going to do to my server but if you would like your own command line virtual pet, simply run:

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -p 2222 [email protected]

Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 5

What shell is everybody using these days? I just switched to Tamagotchi P1

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Guy Dupont @guydupont.bsky.social · Sep 5

What shell is everybody using these days? I just switched to Tamagotchi P1

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