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I’m having three book launches in June. Very grateful to these excellent writers and comrades for joining me!
Tarntanya/Adelaide - June 5
Launch with Walter Marsh at State Library of SA
Gadi/Sydney - June 12
In conversation with Intan Paramaditha at Better Read Than Dead Newtown
Naarm/Melbourne - June 19
In conversation with Jinghua Qian at Readings Carlton
All the details & booking info here: https://jennifermills.net.au/2025/04/14/salvage-launches/
justada 
I received an old car radio some time ago and decided to scrape components from it. One of the chips was a TEA6330T sound fader, that miraculously has a not classified datasheet ( https://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/19741/PHILIPS/TEA6330T.html ) so naturally i decided to bring it back to life with a custom Arduino library!
You can view the lib on my github here: https://github.com/adreline/TEA6330T
The library includes functions for every option the documentation mentions. I tested it without actual speakers but the chip responded correctly to all the commands. Sound test remains on my todo list.
pdf1.alldatasheet.comTEA6330T PDFPart #: TEA6330T. Description: Sound fader control circuit for car radios. File Size: 158.7 Kbytes. Manufacturer: NXP Semiconductors.
Earlier this week I got to visit #Bangor and do another #salvage exercise with GLAMs around #NorthWales on behalf of the Welsh gov.
We were treated to a sunny day so we actually did most of it outside: this was a joy but also presented some additional little hiccups like potential sunburn, being mildly threatened by seagulls, things drying TOO quickly or becoming sun bleached, and the ever present risk of a gentle breeze blowing something away! 
Diolch to everyone who came along! 
Good to see this. Salvaging building materials for re-use makes so much sense. And warehousing them, to make easily available. 
The Guardian · ‘It’s beautiful, don’t you think?’ The urban miners unearthing treasure in Belgium’s homes and garages
Today I had a lot of fun running a practical #salvage day for GLAMs in #Wales: we had a great time talking about #DisasterPlanning and how to best deal with #collections when they get soggy. 
One of my favs from the salvage buckets were these handwritten pages of training notes from someone: the blue ink was running everywhere and staining everything in its path. Beautiful! Horrific!
I'll be doing another in Bangor soon, so if you missed this one and you're in Wales you should get in touch!
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the intent is to go into a custom fixture to illuminate a path
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Here they are running at what I think is 1/2 of their original intended running voltage, which means they’ll run FOREVER
almost never is it the LEDs that burn out when an LED light bulb burns out.
save those discs while you can, the light quality is also good and so bright and you can run singles or pairs at low voltage for stupid brightnesses, they’re great
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@hydroponictrash I agree that #solarpunk shouldn't get too hung up on the solar specifically, but we also shouldn't attempt to do everything from scratch. A purely mechanical washing machine sound nice, until you realize that they operate a multi-step process and require a lot of torque. So you either have a complex, damage prone gearbox, or you split it into multiple machines, both of which are more resource-hungry (both in material and space) than a single electric/electronics based machine, especially since electric (and basic electronic) components are easy to #salvage and repurpose.