Gerrit Niezen @gendor@merveilles.town
Maker of open-source software and hardware
Good morning! I'm Gerrit. #intro #introductions
I'm into decentralized networks, open source hardware, modular design, distributed manufacturing, appropriate technology and solarpunk.
I spend most of my time liberating data from diabetes devices like insulin pumps and blood glucose meters, writing open-source software for tidepool.org.
I would like to spend more time growing food and building hardware to support that, and I hope to find inspiration here in the Merveilles.town community.
48 hours ago I received a dongle with a RTL2832U chipset in the mail, that I bought for £8 on eBay.
Since then I've already been able to decode location data from airplanes (ADS-B) and ships (AIS) using open-source tools.
Software-defined radio has become really cheap and easy to use.
The glass cup we used for holding our toothbrushes was always wet and making things mouldy. Yesterday afternoon I made a 3D printed holder with holes in the bottom so that the water can drain out.
telnet http://mapscii.me # For maps in your terminal from OpenStreetMap. Use arrow keys to move around and a/z to zoom in/out. Or use your mouse if your terminal supports that.
Playing around with the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333) I got for free with my new HackSpace magazine subscription (https://hackspace.raspberrypi.org/)
Finished reading a book and wrote a book review on it: https://gerritniezen.com/book-review-time-and-how-to-spend-it-by-james-wallman
Book review: Time and how to spend it, by James Wallman https://gerritniezen.com/book-review-time-and-how-to-spend-it-by-james-wallman
"New research estimates that a worldwide tree planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere by human activities, a figure the scientists describe as “mind-blowing”". Let's get planting! 🌳🌳🌳
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions
It took me more than a year to just sit down and solder this Boldport Whiteboard project together, but tonight was that night! 🎉
https://boldport.com/whiteboard
Beautiful black PCBs for building a NODE mini server just arrived. https://n-o-d-e.net/node_mini_server2.html
Annual average temperature for Wales 🏴 from 1884 to 2018. You can generate one for your location at https://showyourstripes.info/
#showyourstripes
Made steamed artichoke with lemon butter sauce last night for the first time. #theGalley
Is there any relation between the Merveilles community described in this article and ours? https://blog.passcod.name/2014/jun/05/bruteforcing-the-devil
The NODE vol. 1 zine is back in stock at https://n-o-d-e.shop/products/node-vol-01-pre-order and I just received my copy.
You can read the digital version for free on the DAT network at dat://d5f52282d8277c323abcd838e7b1e62113af6dfa70f3c7316ec004911881ec41
Full of awesome P2P stuff.
Just meditated using Headspace for the first time since February.
It's a good feeling to get unstuck and do something that helps you find focus.
Good morning! I'm Gerrit. #intro #introductions
I'm into decentralized networks, open source hardware, modular design, distributed manufacturing, appropriate technology and solarpunk.
I spend most of my time liberating data from diabetes devices like insulin pumps and blood glucose meters, writing open-source software for tidepool.org.
I would like to spend more time growing food and building hardware to support that, and I hope to find inspiration here in the Merveilles.town community.
Maker of open-source software and hardware
