Notices by Sophie (sophistoche@tootplanet.space)

Just impulse-bought an Ableton Launchpad Mini that I spotted in a pawn shop. Any project ideas for it?

A lot of my followers are cis and into software privacy/FOSS so I just want to make it crystal clear that a software dev placing limitations on its use for fascist behaviour is good and not in any way against free software, because a fundamental responsibility of the free-as-in-libre ethos is to *protect & help the oppressed*, and that is itself *in direct opposition to fascism*.

So today I noticed the Sigur Rós store has moved to Warner Music and removed all their album digital downloads that were available, free and paid. So this is a reminder to everyone that international licensing deals just wipe music and art off the internet all the time with no warning. Own! Your! Music! Streaming services are nice for discovering new music but they pay nothing to artists, and it can all be taken away instantly unless you own and store the files yourself. #music

Here's a recent project. This is my Workbench Lighting Controller. It has 10 12V dimmable channels. I designed it as an exercise in SMD circuit design and construction as well as using a microcontroller directly embedded. It worked great, except the LEDs misbehave a little sometimes. I wrote it up as an article for DIYODE magazine, you can find the instructions here https://diyodemag.com/projects/workbench_lighting_controller (And at hackaday dot io as soon as I get around to writing it up there).

It feels really hard to find people with similar interests on Mastodon. You can’t search the entire fediverse so if your instance doesn’t have people using certain tags then what are you meant to do?
I want to find people who make cool things! #making