I am still alive and kicking while waiting for the gifted active stylus for the flight bag tablet repair to show up. The conversion from spinning rust to CF cards was a success. All that’s left to do is update a missing IDE controller driver.

While waiting I have been working on trying to setup a stop motion animation rig to play with something new. But I ran into that my only 4/3 lens died. Lucky for me my partner is always thinking ahead and bought me a lens adapter back in 2020 so I can use her Nikon lenses on my 4/3. I totally forgot that she did that. 😀

I also wanted to take the time and mention a new material I have been working with called Apoxie sculpt and it has been amazing! I have been using it to modify found objects, make findings for a fossil, glass jewelry, creatures and even some repairs.

Lastly, I’ve been working on some of my experimental musical instruments. I redid my noise workstation project and have been accumulating parts for some wind instrument experiments.

As as always I will gladly share the details as things move along.

I am grateful for those special people in my life who constantly remind me of the gifts that I bring to the world.

Please take care of each other.

I was able to use my microscope to roughly see the scrubbed off part numbers of the chips used and I was able to locate a data sheet with the partial part number. Knowing this I used a raspberry pi pico since it has a pair of i2c buses to probe the i2c lines of the two chips. I was able to get the whole display to light up! But dang it it has a huge load of segments:

The digits of the clock are made up of squares of 8 of these little triangles plus the center delineator and the bottom is a 12 digit 15 segment alpha numeric line with a : and a . Plus the other various icons. So I will work on this later too when I get the chance.