@_the_cloud loved those things. you could collect them from the back of computers in offices to help them get an engineer to come round and sample the coffee. the little green ones were rarer, maybe they were the bosses? /s
- was a network monkey with a pocket full of these, a multimeter, a bnc crimping tool, and many many tales of needing all three and also wishing we could have a locking version of them too...
185 metres seemed so far until it ran out :(
@mattround oh no :'(
big hugs :(
@anon_opin the correct reference is "during the previous century"
especially when referring to internet practices :)
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Holy shit, i did it, lol. It looks terrible, but it works.
For people who haven't been keeping up with this project, I've been doing ceramics for a couple years now, and recently people kept tagging me in posts about a European feminist hacker collective that was making circuit boards out of court they dug out of the ground and fired in a campfire.
After having an epiphany about some experimental copper ceramics glazes i made last year, i thought i would see if i could solder to them, and i found that i could.
Sooo ... I made a stamp and stamped out some really basic boards for an astable multivibrator (two blinky lights) circuit. I filled the recessed traces with copper powder and had them fired in our pottery kiln.
Now i have ceramic circuit boards.
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.