My first attempts at video editing. Footage taken at the Book Art Museum in Łódź, Poland where I worked for five years and developed the rpi2caster - Raspberry Pi based controller for Monotype composition casters. A line of text is shown being cast on that very machine.

The video is wobbly as I recorded it with a Sony HD camcorder on a tripod standing on the machine itself, which means that vibrations from the machine were transferred to the camera. I didn't have a better way of doing it.

Music by Dariusz "Balon" Adrynańczyk and the TypoMachinesCru music project, which I participated in, operating the typecasting machines.

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A little intro sequence I made for my videos, featuring the tubes on my WS-1 amplifier and the tune from an experimental music project I once took part in.

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Repairing an amplifier for my queerfriend's brother. The amp was said to be not working on one channel, and it turned out that the fuse socket was loose... Later on another problem showed: the speaker protection fuses were .16A instead of 1.6A and they both blew through bench testing on a dummy load. After fixing those issues, the amp started working correctly.

Recapacitulation followed.

BTW why does Youtube not have basic cutting or rotation functionality in the editor?

Trying to fix a well-worn clutch on a mixer made of finest grade Chinesium with no spare parts available. Heatshrink tube to the rescue, though I'd rather use 3D printing or molding to make a new spline, if I had access to the technology. Lefthand thread spotted too.

Thanks to all my subscribers for reaching the first milestone (100 subs). We're getting out there, thanks for your help!

Very disappointed about Youtube still not letting me choose a custom channel link, although I fulfilled last one of the requirements (100+ subscribers) on the Saturday night. All other requirements (30+ days since channel creation, and profile pic & banner uploaded) were met a few months ago when I was setting it all up. This kinda blocks my progress here (especially with promoting my channel, setting up a Patreon page etc.) and is rather demotivating...

I was also looking for help at the YT support forum, found more than just a few people there who had this very problem in 2021, and they got the same kind of replies: the list of requirements for being eligible for a custom URL. I mean, they probably reported an issue on the forum BECAUSE they knew about these requirements beforehand and that they met them, right? And yet they got the same kind of reply: "your channel must be at least 30 days old, you must have a banner, a profile pic and at least 100 subscribers" yadda yadda yadda. Which to me is just implying that the creator reporting this issue is not really smart. Meh.

I guess every tier of creators has their own Kryptonite, but we all have that one thing in common: YT does not lay out the rules clearly or stick to them, rigging the game against us.

Showing you some '50s/60s signs and boards meant as an on-site reference for type foundries using Monotype hot metal typesetting system.

Talking about my rpi2caster Raspberry Pi based computer control sytstem for the Monotype composition caster.

rpi2caster connects with the RPi over I2C and uses two MCP23017 expanders with four ULN2803 drivers which control 24VDC solenoid valves. Mechanically it's a RPi HAT expansion module, but I never got round to figuring out the device tree overlays and flashing the configuration chip (even though I included it in the design and all units have it).

Not going through the theoretical parts of Monotype design and engineering here. There's a lot to explain about units, set widths, wedges, matrix positions etc. I don't know it all either.

Oh, I'm moving around so much...

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Recapacitulating the amp; all the small electrolytics have to go as well. Testing follows. Had a Fran-tastic time doing it, haha!

Continuation of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_p4ufMQjGM

TDoV should be a time to celebrate for all of us... Sadly it's not, but it's up to us, the next generations of trans women, men and non-binary people, to do whatever we can to change this.

Using the cool laser rifle from our local hackerspace as a prop.

Autism Spectrum Superpowers, that is.

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Сплав по дикой речке Шоша на пакрафте

Такое сложно вообразить, но всего в нескольких километрах от географического центра Европы (одного из 😃) возле озера Шо в Витебской области, есть тридцатикилометровый кусочек по настоящему дикой природы, где протекает маленькая речка Шоша. Начинается она от озера Шо, и заканчивается в озере Плиса, на берегу которого стоит город Подсвилье.

Обычно по ней сплавляются весной или осенью, по высокой воде. Но в этом году перед жарой прошли хорошие дожди, и я рискнул взять пакрафт и сплавиться летом. Пакрафту высокой воды и широкого русла не надо. Но сначала до речки ещё надо было дойти...

00:00 Идём к речке

The Fire Shosha. Shosha rafting on packraft #1: I finally made it...

Rafting down the wild Shosha River on a packraft

It's hard to imagine, but just a few kilometers from the geographical center of Europe (one of 😃) near lake Sho in Vitebsk region, there is a thirty-kilometer piece of truly wild nature, where the small river Shosha flows. It starts from Lake Sho and ends in Lake Plisa, on the shore of which the town of Podsvilje stands.

It is usually rafted in spring or fall, on high water. But this year there were good rains before the heat wave, and I ventured to take a packraft and raft it in the summer. The packraft doesn't need high water and a wide channel. But first you had to get to river...

April 6th is the World Asexuality Day. Talking about my views and experiences of being on the ace spectrum.