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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · 21d

His buildings at Southampton uni are more like "cooked" though...

The Faraday tower. Bands of grey mosaic tiles and black windows, stood on a pedestal that's smaller than the footprint of the tower. In this pic it's wrapped in blue mesh prior to demolition.

The chemistry building, another box of grey mosaics and black window bands. Here covered in scaffolding while roofing work was being done

The physics building. Another long lasagne of mosaic and windows

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah alright Basil Spence was cooking with this one.

A view up a concrete column towards the square wooden grid of the nave cieling of Coventry cathedral. It's all delightfully modernist

A view of the apse of Coventry cathedral, showing the tapestry, the angular shapes of the windows, and part of the organ

The Chapel of Christ the Servant. A tall cylindrical glass walled room. The windows are supported by regular, narrow concrete columns.

A view of a cross suspended between red sandstone columns. The columns support a concrete ceiling with broad corrugations. The regular pattern left supporting formwork is subtly visible. Where the ceiling meets another arch there's an opening, and green light reflects through from the copper cladding on top

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · 22d

Ah shit, this counts as an Internet Thing™ doesn't it :/

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · 23d

Current project is to replace the brains of that big PDU. It needed a recap, but once I did that the main controller stopped talking to the relay boards reliably :<

Anyway here's my code talking to it instead. Satisfying clicks and clunks :3

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · 24d

Be the evidence you want to see in the world 🤔

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · 29d

Just gone from 1.2 up to 1.6 today. I figured 400 microns was basically nothing but holy heck it hurts :<
Going up 1 mm in one go must be intense x.x

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · 29d

Sinning at Gloucester cathedral for #FursuitFriday
It rained on the parade after so I guess I angered god...

Tobii the colourful yellow dino-dog stood in front of the tower of Gloucester cathedral on a sunny day.

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Robyn (meow) 🔜 Pawsome @robynmeows.bsky.social · 29d

#fursuitfriday #fursuit out with the gang gang at pride!

🦊 @snowywolf.bsky.social
🐺 Prophet/Ace
🟡🐶 Tobii
📸 @nixthedoxad.bsky.social
🗺️ @prideinglos.org.uk

Angled photo of me, Prophet, Tobii, and Flynn in fursuit during the Gloucestershire pride parade, outside the cathedral. A secret person's face is hidden by a cat emoji.

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BerryBarnWorks @berrybarnworks.bsky.social · Sep 4

🍓 Hey everyone!

We are finally 100% done with Pat’s head ✨

Next up - handpaws 🥳

#furry #fursuitmaker #fursuit

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Aug 29

I only have two cat pictures on my phone 😭 making up the numbers with a goose and a dragon I hope that's ok. Sending lots of hugs too 💙

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sounds like an invitation to fill the corners in with rainbow stripes if you ask me :3

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Aug 28

Amazing, awesome work! The green eyes are very cool 💚 Looking forward to meeting him someday :3

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Aug 26

How am I just now learning how cool Cov cathedral is on the inside o.o I'm gonna have to pay a visit soon

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Aug 25

😍🥵 looking good~ :3 I adore those rubberpaws hoods too

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Aug 24

Biblically accurate TO-92 package

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Aug 22

Being called a luddite should be a badge of honour honestly. They smashed machines not out of fear, but to put pressure on the ruling classes. They fought for the quality of their craft and for worker's rights.

Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jul 19

Forensic scientists tend to be light source enjoyers. Not sure they'd appreciate a source that cooks the crime scene though...

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jul 4

This thing has lost its marbles. Has no idea which outputs it actually has switched on and off, sporadically forgets to actually turn an outlet on when you ask it to...

Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jul 4

Back on my ~enterprise grade~ bullshit

Rackmount power distribution unit with ethernet and very jankily bodged serial cable attached.

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Gwen!!! @poodlewool.bsky.social · Jun 29

as the month closes out this GAY MAGPIE wishes all you queers a happy pride once again!!!

watercolor of a magpie waving a magpie-sized pride flag

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jun 13

They're screaming their tinder profile into the void

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jun 8

Anyway we make it though the self test we got stuck on before, and get the BOP 🎶 test done too.

There's no "hooray self test passed!!!" screen unfortunately. You'll just have to trust me when I say it passed ^_^

I'll put the case back together in the morning 😴

Self test screen for the MPSC ASYNC DATA TEST CHANNEL B, running at 19200 baud passed. That failed last time

Self test screen for the MPSC BOP DATA TEST

Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jun 8

Balls, forgot to use my obscure meme re the corroded crystal

a man standing on a ladder with the words " what are you doing " written above him

ALT: a man standing on a ladder with the words " what are you doing " written above him

media.tenor.com

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jun 8

🎉🎉🎉 looks like the receiver is working now. I was able to send data from my PC

The display shows the quick brown fox test pattern, but the data is on both lines now

Text on the display shows "Hi BSky this is Roggee :3"
There's a serial cable plugged in to one of the ports.

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Roggee @roggee.bsky.social · Jun 8

Oscillator setup is a bit janky. They've got load caps slung on the bottom of the board.

The crystal collection I bought from Maplin as a teenager let me down, no 1.842 MHz.

We can steal the healthy clock from the good oscillator with a bodge wire for now

Underside of the PCB showing two ceramic caps soldered under the UART ICs

Microscope shot showing a bodge wire running from one oscillator to the other

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