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My model for this year's Meccano show. He drives around waving his carry handle and cord reel at people generally being a cheeky fella.
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Clicking in the bottom right of the page opens the settings pane where you can adjust pretty much everything to modify the built in clocks, change captions etc, or create your own completely custom ones.
Your custom parameters are stored in the gigantic ugly URL, so you an bookmark and share your creations.
As a special Christmas treat, here's a secret BBC1 Wales Christmas clock:
https://zxnet.co.
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Added some more features to the clock. It now supports separately coloured hands and full colour logos.
https://zxnet.co.uk/clock/#template=C4
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It's only taken *checks notes* eighteen months, but I've finally got around to cobbling together a closed-loop speed control system for the Meccano Hellschreiber machine.
The circuit's not very pretty and the speed sensor may well fall off into the workings at any second, but it's pretty nailed-on speed wise 😁
📊 Post engagement
17
Avg engagement / post
8.5%
Engagement vs followers
Jan 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: My model for this year's Meccano show. He drives around waving h · 116 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.36 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 6 text · 5 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
3.4×
Follows 60 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
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My model for this year's Meccano show. He drives around waving his carry handle and cord reel at people generally being a cheeky fella.
Doh, I've earwormed myself with the Scumm Bar music now
I'm not at #EMFcamp, but the Chunkytext teletext service is, and I'm told can be viewed on a TV in the Robot Arms.
I've fired up the online editing server so do have a go and create a page for your hackspace or village etc, or just have a …
This worked very well and I soon got the hang of driving in a bigger space than the kitchen floor. The downside is that it occupied my phone so I couldn't take any video myself! Lots of people were recording him though so hopefully some go…
A couple of screenshots of the control interface, which is just a webpage loaded from Henry's webserver over his wifi network 😅
All the control inputs are sent over a websocket, and battery voltages and a few other bits of state sent back.
He came fifth in show! 🤯
I expect that anyone who plays with microcontrollers and servos will already know this, or would figure it out in five minutes themselves, but I came up with something last night after designing myself into a bit of a corner, so thought I …
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The mechanical load on the motor is very "lumpy", so the feedback is quite aggressive!
I was expecting to need to consider a much longer average of multiple rotations of the character drum, but it seems like this Just Works so I should pro…
It slightly spoils my claim that this machine can do international text based communication with no computers, but what's an attiny24 between friends? 😆
An IR opto beam break sensor looks through holes in a rotating disk on the input shaft…
It's only taken *checks notes* eighteen months, but I've finally got around to cobbling together a closed-loop speed control system for the Meccano Hellschreiber machine.
The circuit's not very pretty and the speed sensor may well fall off…
Added some more features to the clock. It now supports separately coloured hands and full colour logos.
https://zxnet.co.uk/clock/#template=C4
Clicking in the bottom right of the page opens the settings pane where you can adjust pretty much everything to modify the built in clocks, change captions etc, or create your own completely custom ones.
Your custom parameters are stored i…
A couple of screenshots of the control interface, which is just a webpage loaded from Henry's webserver over his wifi network 😅
All the control inputs are sent over a websocket, and battery voltages and a few other bits of state sent back.
He came fifth in show! 🤯
I expect that anyone who plays with microcontrollers and servos will already know this, or would figure it out in five minutes themselves, but I came up with something last night after designing myself into a bit of a corner, so thought I …
▶
The mechanical load on the motor is very "lumpy", so the feedback is quite aggressive!
I was expecting to need to consider a much longer average of multiple rotations of the character drum, but it seems like this Just Works so I should pro…
It slightly spoils my claim that this machine can do international text based communication with no computers, but what's an attiny24 between friends? 😆
An IR opto beam break sensor looks through holes in a rotating disk on the input shaft…
It's only taken *checks notes* eighteen months, but I've finally got around to cobbling together a closed-loop speed control system for the Meccano Hellschreiber machine.
The circuit's not very pretty and the speed sensor may well fall off…
Added some more features to the clock. It now supports separately coloured hands and full colour logos.
https://zxnet.co.uk/clock/#template=C4
Clicking in the bottom right of the page opens the settings pane where you can adjust pretty much everything to modify the built in clocks, change captions etc, or create your own completely custom ones.
Your custom parameters are stored i…
🐘 Community & instance
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On Mastodon since
Jan 2023
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 17 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
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Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~8.5% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
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About
I mostly do #teletext things. Mainly nerdy coding and teletext archiving stuff, but occasional #TeletextArt too.
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