Tom Wardill
tom.theclacks.cloud.ap.brid.gy
Tom Wardill
@tom.theclacks.cloud.ap.brid.gy
Enthusiastic hobby collector, prone to rabbit holes. Makes things, codes things, professionally keeping servers happier.
Occasionally known to ride a bike.

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Got some more parts printed for the telescope, now to assemble the BOM into a shopping cart and get some parts ordered.

Satdump was a bust as I got sidetracked into diagnosing a segfault on my machine - Broken OpenCL loading, but I don't really understand why as yet.

Shipped the hardware […]
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theclacks.cloud
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
This goes a lot better if you put your debug probe on a different USB bus to the Pico you're trying to work with.

I suspect that my debugging is breaking the USB bus in weird ways, which then makes the debugger / host freak out.

Going a lot faster and more reliably now they're connected to […]
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theclacks.cloud
January 1, 2026 at 3:26 PM
@yaxu i have the Ashford Knitters Heddle loom, it’s more the space to set it up that’s the problem really.
It’s still tempting, though I should do more weaving regularly before worrying about more looms…
December 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@yaxu I am very enjoying this series and wish I had room for a table loom.
December 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
@tom this has now turned into building a QRP transmitter strapped to a RP2035.

Christmas KiCad time.
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
@lexbailey … that is cursed. What is it!?
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM