C.<p>But we can simplify this.</p><p>I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/boxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boxes</span></a> at this point; I'm <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/experimenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimenting</span></a>, not producing a product. So I have a simple <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/modular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modular</span></a> system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/experiments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experiments</span></a> together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Vcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vcc</span></a> (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a> voltage when AC coupling <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/signals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signals</span></a>, since this is a single-supply system.</p><p>So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.</p><p>But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/switches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>switches</span></a> were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bypass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bypass</span></a>", as opposed to the soft switching.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Soft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Soft</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/switching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>switching</span></a> involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.</p><p>2/x</p>
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Itchi5 illustrations<p>My neighbor is selling Georgian wine and I was making a drawing for him. </p><p>I missed the 'wine' colour in my palette, and then a brainfart hit me: just use wine!</p><p>It didn't really work since wine is way to water-ish, but we had good fun.</p><p><a href="https://illo.social/tags/wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wine</span></a> <a href="https://illo.social/tags/illustrator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustrator</span></a> <a href="https://illo.social/tags/winecolour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>winecolour</span></a> <a href="https://illo.social/tags/watercolour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>watercolour</span></a> <a href="https://illo.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://illo.social/tags/experimenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimenting</span></a></p>
Rachel Wright<p>I spent some of yesterday doing experiments with possible techniques for the the overlays, and ended with with hands like Lady Macbeth's (always assuming that Duncan's blood was purple acrylic ink!). For such tenacious colour, the effect on the gauze was disappointingly feeble.</p><p>I'm concerned about the inktense because the first gauzes are beginning to look much muddier than when I started, but I think acrylic ink is not a better solution, in the end.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DreamsOfAmarna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DreamsOfAmarna</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Overlays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Overlays</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Akhenaten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Akhenaten</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ArtistsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtistsLife</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Experimenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Experimenting</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>...also if you just want to experiment on your own laptop with Llama3 there are various options:<br><a href="https://gpt4all.io/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">gpt4all.io/index.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://ollama.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ollama.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://lmstudio.ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lmstudio.ai/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Ofcourse larger models need serious hardware but the smallest LLama3 model also runs on relatively old hardware. Check it out.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Llama3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Llama3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/experimenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimenting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
richard<p><span class=""><span class="">Reading Time: </span> <span class="">2</span> <span class="">minutes</span></span></p><p>Yesterday I experimented with NixOS and Debian. I managed to install NixOS on the Pi4 and I managed to implement several changes to the configuration.nix file before the Pi started to overheat and become much slower. At this point I tried to run Debian and that worked. </p><p>At first Debian was running in command line mode so I took the time to install the KDE desktop and that’s when I ran into the same limitation of the Pi4. It tends to get hot and slow down to a crawl. </p><p>This could be seen as a failure, or as a success. The reason for which it is a success is that I managed to get NixOS to work on a Pi, in the first place, and that I managed to compile a few changes before the system became too slow to work. </p><p>With Debian too, I class it as a success, rather than a failure. I class it as a success because I read documentation, understood it, and then installed Darwin first in command line, and then with the GUI. It was working well enough for a bit. it’s when I left the machine to “sleep” and the display time out that the system failed to start again. </p><p>It counts as a success because if I had been using a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB or higher it would have worked well. It’s only because of the limitations of the hardware that this could be considered as a failure. </p><p>The other success that I am counting is that I was able to get my log ready for editing on three linux machines, within minutes, rather than quarter hours as I had previously. I have learned the work flow to get the hugo version of my blog downloaded locally, and set up the theme, and then git-ftp to upload the latest hugo compilation. </p><p>## And Finally</p><p>Today I wrote my blog post using VIM rather than WordPress and VS Code so it went faster. I find that I am gravitating towards simpler blogging habits once again. I only broke with blogging via VIM because I thought it would take hours to set things up again on the current machine.</p><p><a href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/nixos-and-darwin-partial-success/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/nixos-and-darwin-partial-success/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/experimenting/" target="_blank">#experimenting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/learning/" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/linux/" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/nix/" target="_blank">#nix</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/nixos/" target="_blank">#nixos</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/tag/os/" target="_blank">#os</a></p>
Amelia Hanslow<p>Well, I've already found some very interesting people here - so I'm happy about that!</p><p>I'm into <a href="https://aus.social/tags/communications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communications</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/soccer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soccer</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>football</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/eating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eating</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/tasmania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tasmania</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bluemountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluemountains</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/knives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knives</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiking</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/experimenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimenting</span></a> the oddball, the underestimated and the overlooked</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introductions</span></a></p>
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