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Arne

@androidarts.bsky.social
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"a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high." Art, old games, miniatures, gunpla and electronics. www.androidarts.com mastodon.gamedev.place/@androidarts (No twitter account anymore)

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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The black-clad man took out a notebook and pen and looked with troubled interest at the restrained man in the high security cell. —"One final question Mr Hannibal Lecter... what would you like served at your funeral?" —"Oh, I will be baking myself."
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Caste Computing Joseph pointed at a man crossing the district 5-6 walkway, and spoke quietly. "See that man up there, flaunting the DDR3 stick and refurbished 2.5" IDE mechanical in his clear shopping bag? That is wealth my son. He is going to run his own system, circumvent the whole telemetron."
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So far not the Swedish election result I was expecting to develop (50% votes in). When a party is firmly geared a certain way and there are some pretty exotic international developments and concerns butting in, maybe that siphons voters off... I don't know.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can you motorize N-scale cars with just garbage? Yeah, kind of. The tricky part is getting them around the loop-wheel at the ends. It might work best to use a wider turn, and maybe dangle the metal/magnet on a drag-line so the belt can be all-belt.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One thing I don't quite like about digital brush engines, here Krita, is how crossing lines get this distracting dot in them--something which is less pronounced IRL I think. Haven't found a tweak for it despite looking. Might have to do with the physical structure of paper & how deposits saturate.
Test in Krita using a pressure sensitive  Wacom tablet.6B pen.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Battletech sketches, going more for the vintage look, less trunky and square-plated. There's quite a bit of difference between the early designs and later "refresh", which I think became greeble and silhouette homogenized close to its detriment.
I'm writing this hidden message from my jail cell deep under Fort Boyard. Please send some earplugs the squids are making a terrible ruckus outside.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What's the name of that battletech mech with the Darth Vader neck-guard helmet? Possibly late 1980s design. I saw a painting of it but forgot to save...
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sometimes reasonable men must open Deluxe Paint III and push some pixels.
Hard to find good ref of this thing in its early intact state.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just a bit of pencil panty.
Very normal outfit in the outer conclaves, where the fight against the dark hattifatteners unfolds.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"How exactly were the Nazis bad?" "The death camps? The war and the destruction?" "Yes, but besides that, how exactly were they bad?" "Uh..." "You can't even think of a thing!"
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Were early 80s diving games the only good underwater games? Anyways, wanted to pixel plop one in DPIII. Ah, there were those sink bomb ones too. I can't remember which ones I played--it was so long ago now.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I have two LEGO 4V Technic motors, similar to the ones in the 1977 set 870. They are very screechy and hard to turn. There's a stackexchange post with people failing at disassembly. I didn't manage either, but oiling the ends of the exposed shafts did help quite a bit, I can report to the internet!
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Getting vague visual ideas for a new hardware concept: C64-cube. The front panel could be quite interesting visually, featuring a datasette unit, with counter, maybe VU-meter, 5.25" floppy drive, Cartridge slot, and blinky lights. Borrow a bit from the SX case. Carrying handle. Blue trim.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
500 megawatt data center: $ 15M * 500 ? Hardened killdozer with RC controls: $ 50.000 ? Seeing it go down the server aisles: Priceless.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just one way to hide text in text. Simply making text white will reveal the line when highlighted and the line takes up space. The hidden bit here will only show up when copypasted, scraped or read using TTS. ( visibility:hidden; does not work here. )
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Long ago when I was a clueless wee lad with a mullet I watched a TV-series called V, and the part with the people in red specifically going after scientists and hoarding sweet water felt a bit strange, kind of like, bullying random architects and stealing rocks. The shuttle crafts were cool though.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sorry it's just another butter knife post.
This image has nothing to do with Waterworld ft. Kevin Costner, especially not that scene where he comes out of the water like whoosh and surprises the baddies!

Anyways, it's freshly cut hazel... so not much texture.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
They really added a zero to the original Raspberry Pi $35 price. you might as well just build a regular budget computer at th- ... oh.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Headlines Are Quietly Including More Quietly, Quietly.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Pretty useful video that explains a sewing machine. A lot of tutorials just have pointing to buttons and saying their mysterious names. When you see the actual mechanical operation a stronger association and understanding is created. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cVU...
youtube.com
Sewing Machine Anatomy
YouTube video by Paul Chevallier
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A few times recently I've needed an obscure Swedish word translated, both web searches and translation things would give me nonsense. Usually I just go to wikipedia and change the language to get the answer. Now it was "krevera", which ddg says is crevice and google says is demand. Both are wrong.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I want to buy a cheap-ass sewing machine so I can fix up some clothes without hand-sewing at the pace of 10 stitches per minute. The handheld ones only do tailor stitch though. For jersey/knit I need zigsag setting, a ballpoint needle and a bottom bobbin it seems. Going below 120€ seems unwise.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Made a little test. Bleach works to remove/reduce stains on paper (a drawing or like... a mystery brown spot in a book). I dabbed some hydrogen peroxide on with a q-tip and the spot faded to 20%. Will possibly bubble/warp the paper and cause the grains and specularity to misbehave though.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Okej gubbar, titta på det här, linjerna är ju fan inte distribuerade på samma avstånd! A5=210mm / 10 = 21mm, men dom är ju ihoptryckta runt namndelen till 20mm, och den precis över är 22mm. Hur var det tänkt egentligen? Kanske fanns det något estetiskt skäl? Mystiskt. Sänder klagomål tebaks i tiden.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Movement, light, sound and smell, expertly captured by me in 1981.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Traveling back in time would probably kind of suck, especially if it happened several times. Every cultural reference you knew would be impermanent along with anything you did, making everything incredibly disorienting. Who is Arnold? Was he in Zytor Wars? Or is he in that 1-hit-wonder popband BABA?
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looking at this starter set, I think I would have picked different colours. >White and sand merged into the 50-50 equiv. for use on teeth and as warm highlights. >Brown to mouth red. As green and red mixes to brown (sloppy ork pants can be uneven). >New darker cold green for skin hue slide options.
From Warhammer site, 35 dollah set.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Finans was a Swedish Monopoly game with additional economics but the same amount of randomness. This edition has kind of poo typography compared to the older edition. The inlay is baffling. Trays are like 1-2mm too small to fit the cards sideways, and you can't close the lid with money in the bank.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I recapped (x10) the old Freestyle and cleaned the head. Sound better but freq coverage is lacking. The drive belts were strangely still intact, but are slipping/distorted. The 1-sided PCB was a mess with solderblob near-shorts. I only removed the worst. Noname brand (Sportie 3238P), but w. SONY IC.
I may have added a few solderblobs of my own. There's a second dip-8 IC on the back which possibly inspired the number printed on the case.

This image does not show an elephant.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Went to vacuum the attic. Suddenly I'm repairing a wireless ball mouse (which linux handled without a driver), installing an LED in a flash light, and reconditioning a board game (west-germany era), and building a bookshelf for storage out of wood scraps.
The conductive pads needs some conductive paint to get working again. Two of the circles lead to the red light bulb, one to the green. The answer position is always the same regardless of which country sheet you put on. Te pens completes the circuit. There's no ICs in this, just a battery and foil-pcb. "Patented".

The questions are now outdated. Population per car in Denmark circa 1980 or before? Cattle in millions?
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
FIFA creates the "Soccer Win Prize - Number 1" for the US team following embarrassment.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So hot I made a fan. This 20+yo fan draws 0.125A at 4.5V, which I think gives it about a day of runtime on 3AA, but it can run on anything up to 12V of course. Had to put trains away as I have no (permanent) space even for N-gauge.
Table fan with variable voltage supply.It's a Dreamcast.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Alright, I just did some image searches and both ddg and google are no longer swamped with pinterest results but seem to prioritize the original source sites. Is this a thing that just changed?
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Whittled a pear wood butter knife and a cake spade handle.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Web novel xianxia: MC is a cold deathmachine, never bowing. Live action xianxia: MC is a nervous lecherous clutz *constant clown sound effects*
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In case you've ever wondered why the eagles didn't just fly Frodo into the volcano, they were busy rigging the black gates for demolition and digging sink hole traps, then patiently waiting for Frodo's signal. The sink hole traps, not in the book, naturally came as a big surprise to the orcs!
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Riding a dusty speedway bike might make you look somewhat cool in the apocalypse, but they make a lot of sound that will alert the zombies... who will soon catch up to you because with the terrible fuel efficiency and deliberately minimal fuel tank you likely won't even get out of the city.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Bless that little reader view button in the firefox url bar. So handy for quickly getting to the actual article texts.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If Summer of '69 was written today it would be... Summer of 2011. (Arab Spring & Occupy, Kim Jong Un, Tsunami & Fukushima, Norway terrorist guy, Curiosity launch, Minecraft, etc.)
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Managed to actually fix a broken mechanical pencil. It was a metal one so it was just blocked and had some tension and alignment problems. The plastic ones have feeder mechanisms that tend to physically break though. Anyways, that needle in the detachable eraser is a poker for clearing blockages.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I decided to check out the original Flash Gordon comics from 1934 onward, and I have to say, I wasn't quite prepared for how much bondage and whipping there would be. Perhaps that scene in the 1980 movie was on point then.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Was pulling Dandelions and this one's a bit weird.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Nothing make me quit an isekai novel faster than the author deciding to needlessly flesh out just how drab and dreary the MC's original life was by wallowing in it for 2 chapters. And then it's immediately contradicted by some hot person finding MC interesting. What did they find interesting? WHAT?
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Found my old telescope. Periscope. Microscope! No object glass so I used clear plastic packaging. Also booted up my gameless Switch and downloaded a random thing: Teravit. A sort of freemium Minecraft/roblox by the C21 guys. Interesting engine with subblock offsets, but the story play is tedious.
1970 or 1980... fairly common in catalogs.Teravit for the Switch
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Pict slide of Chaos forces corrupting the ventifacts just outside of an irradiated and recently abandoned out-city on †Khernobol Secundus. A lush but now nearly extinct form of poaceae monoculture covered much of the planet, seemingly as resistant to chaos taint as tread of boot.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Made another island, this time on masonite.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Island work. I don't have a proper 4' board for this, nor enough blue paint, so I'm using binders. Terrain mats suck and consistently look like awful photobashes. Handy to put away though. I could imagine one working for a calm sea as it's quite flat... and naturally gloss.
Is it a bird, or a plane? No, it is an Ork Wyvern at probably 3x the scale.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The whole Sora thing just makes me feel they're up to something, like... We have reshuffled our staff and silicon and are proud to announce our new improved services: Open Chattel, and The Mordor Integrity Platform.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Working on some ships. Paintjob mostly from the '90s. No flag yet. The metal version of the wargalley is more realistically proportioned, with guns around the right size. These plastic guns are humongous. Rigging is strings threaded through the hull. Sails are folded and curved paper.
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Arne @androidarts.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bei...
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Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....
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