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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻

@slofunk.bsky.social

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Hackshack.us make.break.hack.tinker.learn.share https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=548652 I like to tinker with stuff. Some old stuff, some new stuff. Fixing broken things, sometimes breaking things.

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 2d

This is an amazing book to snag for yourself or any fellow nerds that like to see the insides of things. Great photography.

Tomb👻Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 3d

My coffee table book, Open Circuits, with beautiful cross-section photos of electronics, is 25% off through the 12th. Use the super-secret discount code "SHOWOFF". What, you already have the book? BAM--you just thought of a friend who would enjoy a copy.

nostarch.com/open-circuits

two images of a small cathode ray tube. the upper image shows that it is nearly as small as a ball-point pen, starting out at the same diameter but flaring out into a tiny screen that is about 10mm in diameter. the bottom image shows the same CRT cut in half, with a complex array of small metal electron lenses.

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Peter Fletcher @rectapete.bsky.social · 4d

A deadmau5 - Atari collaboration wasn't something I had on my BINGO card.

deadmau5 Is Teaming Up With Atari For Special Atari 7800 Game

💌Like retro gaming news? Join our free newsletter to receive a weekly round-up from our team of nerds. I've seen a lot of retro gaming references making their way into the music world of late. Bring ...

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 5d

Fresh nerd stickers for distribution!

👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 6d

Got some new yard signs done up for our 10th year of @extralife4kids.bsky.social playing in support of Norton Children's!

👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 8d

Just dropped a new video!
This @hackerboxes.bsky.social (#0117) is all about RFID: dual-frequency readers, writable tags, and an NFC dog tag you can program yourself.

It’s a great intro if you’ve ever been curious how contactless cards or badges really work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mra...

Hackerbox 0117 - RFID Lab (+Giveaway)

YouTube video by Jamie's Hack Shack

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 10d

Only 23 lines of code need changing to support almost _every_ AMD and Intel graphics card on the Raspberry Pi (on Debian Trixie). github.com/geerlingguy/...

Might cover this on a livestream Saturday, stay tuned!

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 10d

If you know me for any amount of time I'll probably get around to telling you about the time I got to shake Dr. Jane's hand at my graduation in Liverpool in December of 2007. It was a complete and total surprise and I had zero idea she was going to be there. Pretty darn amazing. R.I.P

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 10d

Finally got my TRS-80 Model III up and running again after two years under a growing pile of junk! SepTardy for #septandy yet again. :-D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0F9...

#Septandy #TRS80 #RetroComputing

TRS 80 Resurrection | #septandy (A Little Septardy)

YouTube video by Jamie's Hack Shack

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 14d

Fun prints from the Chautauqua Art Festival!

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Ray [REDACTED] @rayredacted.com · 17d

Sam is competing in the Speed Climbing World Championship from here in Seoul, South Korea, and you can it live on YouTube at this URL: redact.link/final

Men's Speed final | Seoul 2025

The highlight of the 2025 season is happening in the vibrant capital of South Korea, Seoul, where hundreds of climbers and para climbers will compete from 20 to 28 September for a chance at the world ...

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 17d

Needed some deflection yoke tweaking after putting the CRT tube back in. It's been two freaking years since I fixed the broken mounts with 3d prints and epoxy. #septandy

Photo shows skewed display on old Tandy trs-80 model iii CRT.

Same display as the other photo but now tweaked a bit to look as expected.

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Blenster 🅅 @blenster.com · 21d

Streaming now at @pancakescon.com -- I did my through hole soldering demo and @se.gfau.lt is talking about multimeters now!

Lots more to come - including a workshop on @kicad.org taking a project from breadboard to PCB.

#MakeAllTheThings #HackAllTheThings

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Lynnie @lynnie3.bsky.social · 22d

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More Fun Making It @morefunmakingit.bsky.social · 22d

I swear I'm not doing this on purpose!

C64 Repair Number 2 - I'm Still an Idiot

YouTube video by More Fun Fixing It

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 22d

If you were all "I wish I could have a window open that tracked how many total items are at the Internet Archive with a little emotion icon of @brewster.kahle.org next to it", you're in luck.

mirrorball.textfiles.com/archivecount...

Internet Archive — Live Item Count

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 23d

#VCFMW - Saturday afternoon, by the valet station:

Man 1: "What kind of event is this?"

Man 2: "Some kind of old computer sci-fi thing."

Man 1: "Can't be a sci-fi thing, too many of these people smell like soap."

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 23d

VCF Midwest walkthough has been released! While relaxing trying to get over my illness, I decided to edit video youtu.be/KcctUXD7ybo

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2025 Walkthrough

YouTube video by THEtechknight

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 22d

You are 100% correct. As soon as you flip the switch a motor is spinning and waiting for your actions to engage various gears.
Made by Tomy.

👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 22d

For #Septandy I tracked down an old Radio Shack Armatron 🤖
One of my favorite 80s memories. And yes, I had to repair it before I could play!

🎥 New video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG65...

Radio Shack Armatron: My #Septandy Robot Arm Adventure

YouTube video by Jamie's Hack Shack

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 25d

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON.

Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 25d

Digging around for a transcript earlier and unearthed this forgotten gem from the past. :D RPG!

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