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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

one-shotted shields for both sides of this little mixer; im back baybeeee

A 4-in 2-out active audio mixer PCB, with two 3d-printed plates acting as shields for the sets of sockets and controls. This side shows 4 potentiometers and a 3.5mm TRS socket seated perfectly in it, with tabs holding it onto the PCB.

The reverse angle, showing 5 pairs of RCA connectors, a DC barrel socket and a 3.5mm TRS socket, all similarly snug in the plate.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i have gone straight past becoming the joker to something else

Quote from a possibly-autonomous business suit:

ANZ CEO, Soraya Alali, commented:
"Australian consumers remained resilient in the second half of FY26, but ongoing cost-of-living pressures meant they continued to seek greater value and he thoughtful about where their money went. We saw our customers balancing essential household costs with the products and experiences that matter to them.”

"Across the six months, we saw customers using Zip across more parts of their everyday life, from utilities, health, insurance and groceries, to areas such as solar, home improvement and wellness," she continued.

Alali pointed to Zip Plus - the company's no-to-low interest flexible credit option for …

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

friday night activity: cutting M2.5 threads in a coat-hanger

A coat-hanger clamped in a bench-vise, being threaded with a die and handle.

Closer, showing the thread and the tapping oil behind it.

The resulting rod, keeping a set of 3D-printed wire spools together.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

they’re having a forest rave out there

Same as before, but there seem to be more of them bunched up and upside down, like at some kind of dance party.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I may have slept like shit, skipped lunch and been nauseous for the last hour, but at least I’ve [checks notes] uhh spent it making some usb and trs plug housings and some extra spools

Some laser-cut wooden spools, and a black 3D-printed USB A socket-plug housing, a toggle switch junction box, and a right-angled TRS plug housing.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

big fan of ‘adding paint onto tools you can’t easily read the engraved labels on’

My venerable cheap CSP-30-1 wire stripper, with messy white paint filling in the 20-30 AWG / 0.2-0.8 mm engraved markings.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

not sure i’m liking what i’m learning, gang

Google Translate, English to Latin, “cum” (ko͝om, preposition) to “ejaculatio”

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

happy 45th birthday to my favourite power switch

The big-ass thunky red-levered switch on the back-right of the IBM 5150 PC case.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

you ever mix up radius and diameter, lose access to the source file, only realise your error after printing, and have to bodge a fix up in the slicer for attempt number two? 😅 (the correct size is on the left. oops.)

Two 3D-printed curtain-rod holders in my hand, one literally twice the size of the other.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

example adapter for CR2430 here: www.printables.com/model/138385... (I made one out of a couple of tiny scraps of wood before I could get to the makerspace printer, so this isn’t necessarily a requirement or anything)

A curved strip of wood approx 4mm wide with a retaining sliver of wood glued on top of it perpendicular to the curve, shoved in with a CR2032 battery in a CR2430 slot in my kitchen scales. A bigger, flat CR2430 sits nearby.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’ve had this watch since early ~1996; tail end of primary school. 30 fuckin’ telephone numbers, 5 alarms, timer, stopwatch + lap, and light-up digits baybeeee

A Casio DB-35H “Databank” watch, black case with dark grey highlights, on my arm. Freyja looks on.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

i practiced first with this offcut of acrylic with some holes bored into it (superglue -> CA glue, pardon)

A strip of black acrylic, with a socket and fixed notch, with four other ones nearby. The baking soda container, strip of wire used as a watch oiler, a pen grinder, and a 3mL tube of CA glue.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

repaired the broken lugs on my venerable, beloved Casio DB-35H; I built up layers of superglue and baking soda, then shaped it with my lil 2.35mm-shank pen grinder

The back of the watch, black plastic front casing with blown-out lugs, which stops the spring pins from staying in its little sockets.

The built-up layers of glue, translucent white and greebly.

The lugs, after being shaped with the grinder. It looks more white than translucent now.

The spring pin reinstalled, retaining the nylon pink, white and navy NATO strap.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

sure beats The Verge, which has swung in this direction instead

Podcast summary screenshot:

The Vergecast
“The one Al detector people actually trust”, 17 July 2026

Al text detectors have been notoriously unreliable, but that's starting to change.
This year, Pangram keeps coming up as the trusted source in identifying Al-written text. We sit down with Pangram CEO Max Spero to find out how the system was made, how much we should trust it, and where the line is between useful Al and Al slop.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

big fan of this bit (also, unrelated: i adore your desk aesthetic)

Close-up of the metal strain relief / gland(?) on the base. I don’t like that latter term. Gland. D:

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

once again, my kingdom for untreated pine 2x4s i’m trying to build a solid bench out of the scraps i have here

A scribbled list of my wood inventory; some 90x45 (2x4) in short lengths, a couple of long ones, a larger set of 90x35s, some 70x35s, and some odd wide boards.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

drive-by ad for someone else: if you’re in Sydney and after an adjustable base jack (steel, 32mm), then Sun Scaffolding / Scafeast in Villawood has ‘em for $17 a pop. (I’m using mine to make leg and tail vises for my workbench.)

A scaffolding base jack, a flat plate welded onto a chunky threaded rod, with a cast-iron wing thingy screwed onto it. A second one is sitting nearby.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

fuggit, i just 3d-printed the thread instead

A Q2U microphone shock mount screwed onto a white 3D print, which in turn is clamped onto a V-pulley sitting on the end of a moveable arm.

Same, just showing the inside cross-section, and a closer view of the twisty-knob made out of layers of laser-cut acrylic.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Without downloading new pics, describe your gender in one image

Me holding up a model airplane box containing a Hobby Boss 1:72-scale MiG-15bis NATO-reporting-name “Fagot”.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

doll-painters, show off your guns (figurative)

Relic Blade “Questing Knight”, full plate harness, red+white tabard, visored houndskull helmet, arming sword and torch, painted in ‘non-metallic metal’ comic style on a grassy base. I fucked around with torchlight reflections and am happy with the result.

Another angle showing more torchlight fuckery and his bag, potion and sleeping roll.

Relic Blade “Warden of Justice”, a dude with a grey beard, beige headwear and wrist and leg wraps, blue clothes underneath an orange body wrap, and curved sword and mustard-coloured shield.

Relic Blade “Illusory Horror”, a big mouth-creature with mottled purple and blue skin, massive irregular greyish teeth and beady red-yellow eyes, on a rocky base.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

the discourse is finally catching up with him

Jazz Jackrabbit, the green gun-bunny (literal) star of a short series of video games in the 90s

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

context: disassembling this bench to get it out of the way while I do further garage clean-up. I was worried about needing to replace the slats (felt floppy to sit on), but i think it was just the very loose bolts. it will appear on my balcony after some cleanup and reconditioning, I think.

A small (1.25m) bench, cast-iron sides and back feature (simple star/knot kind of pattern), with dark wooden slats. It’s sitting on a yoga mat in my garage, in front of a pile of wood.

A rusty bolt in my hand, in front of the partially-disassembled bench.

Most of the bench bits, labelled and stacked up against a garage wall.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

at least it might displace this

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

death to fuckin philips-head bolts in outdoor furniture

A piece of lovely red wood, with a rusty philips-head (cross-shape) bolt with a very stripped head

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

tfw you’re trying to glue an awkward shape so that it’s square

a couple of pieces of wood at right angles buried in a pile of five clamps and a block square. i am holding it aloft with my hand. you can see a bit of my sword+vines tattoo that I quite like.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

alternate pair of images, interpret how you will (damn my grey-ace arse)

“this probably feels good when you're a printer”, with a line-art diagram suggesting that a printer has a uhh g-spot that needs attending to.

Triple-M AFL poster, titled “No Cumming for a month” of a guy called Cumming.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

without downloading any new pics, what’s it like to date and/or be married to you?

Maslow’s Hierarchy meme, scribbled over with a shoddily-edited “kissing my biblically gorgeous autistic nonbinary person after their insightful yap sessions”

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

i can’t be the only one feeling insane reading stuff like this, right (The PR is github.com/anthropics/k...; found it via a friend who stumbled across both this and other WTFs while poking around the repo.)

A PR’s history, showing it being reviewed and merged into an Anthropic GitHub repository. It is followed up by another PR referencing this, titled “Weird Text in LICENSE [file]”.

The entire diff of the change, in full, adding:

Syntax-file, code seperations,code vault integeted with css definition.
Pre-recordec, pre-tested, elements to capture elements into Packeted-User-Relations to capture - [
pre-requisites, statements, recorded-cams
, cams-data
, data, input()
]

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

the LWS2200H-4AV has my attention

Four-side-button beige resin watch, with Lap Reset and Step Counter prominently feature outside the screen that shows the current time and date.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

fished the dead common-area ceilings lights out of the recycling bin(!) the sparkies dumped them into (in the new lights’ boxes, forch); happy to report that all bar one of the LED PCBs work just fine; i can’t legally test them, but the process of elimination leads me to believe the drivers failed

A disc-shaped PCB, on which there are 5 runs of 13 pairs of LEDs, warm-white and cold-white, connected up to a power supply reading 36 volts / 0.7 milliamps. Other discs sit behind it on the bench.

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

oh god it's worse; I have saved four or so times in the last 12 hours, and none of it has created a new version/revision, it's all one big Now version. or at least it appears that way from the UI; looks like it's still there behind the scenes:

$Screenshot from the Fusion/Autodesk forums: Fun fact, folks -- the versions are still there. Install the Parametric Text plugin, create a sketch, and enter a text of "v". Open Parametric text (Modify, Change Text Parameters) and click on the "v" text in the sketch you just created, and it'll select in the window. Add "{_.version}" to the "v" in your text, and click OK, and you will see the text changes to something like "v4". Save the design (without being able to say why you're saving the design, another dumb change) and you'll see that version number increments.$

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buzzyrobin @buzzyrobin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

i'm paying *how* much per month for this shit? i can use freecad to get this for free

"Fusion Error Report" dialog, "A software problem has caused Fusion to close unexpectedly. A limited set of crash data necessary for basic error reporting and to help us provide the service is being sent to Autodesk. To help Autodesk improve product stability and prevent similar errors …"

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