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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

At the #AMSAT-UK Colloquium to run the live stream! Normally there's more than one person, however the rest of the team is still traveling back from the #ARISS astronaut contact, so it's me and whatever would fit hand-carried on the Eurostar

Wouter with a large transport case exiting London St. Pancras International

Wouter with a large transport case at Euston station just before boarding the train to Milton Keynes

Kents Hill Park training and conference centre reception building

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Ending with a cover of The Whole Of The Moon with everyone, and giant moon balls bouncing around in the crowd. brilliant choice #publicservicebroadcasting #trfs10 +1

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Progress, from Every Valley, with the wonderful EERA #publicservicebroadcasting

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

During Gagarin, the band freezes, and so does the audience! #publicservicebroadcasting #trfs10 +1

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Sputnik prop suspended from the ceiling, and many projections / LED screens on stage #publicservicebroadcasting #trfs10 +1

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Such an amazing show of #publicservicebroadcasting at the beautiful Alexandra Palace (ally Pally) this weekend. The 10 year +1 anniversary show of The Race For Space. #trfs10 +1 Fireworks, confetti, props, guest artists, the works Me and @emsie met them the day after in the pub as well!

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999! #solareclipse

Eclipse glasses from 1999, with the nose bridge taped together. They are visibly aged. Photographed on a wooden table outside in bright sunlight. The solver-coloured filter lenses reflect the table

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Weeks ago, @renze@hsnl.social gave me a spare keyboard film to repair my pre-production #tanmatsu. Today I finally found the time to exchange the dome film and I also updated to the latest firmware. Everything works as expected, thanks Renze! Note I have a […] [Original post on pixelfed.com]

purple tanmatsu with a CPU firmware update screen

Purple tanmatsu with a radio firmware update screen

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

#MeshCore preview 2 running just fine on the #tanmatsu. One of the benefits of working from home is flashing in your coffee break!

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Good morning hoomans. Happy #caturday This is the local supermarket cat, JumboKat. JumboKat was also the basis for Emily's artwork titled supermarket cat. Yesterdays scratch and petting session was very successful! *boop*

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

I had a great #FUNcube design meeting in Felixstowe, UK last weekend. We made lots of progress on #FUNcubePlus, including the ever-evolving interface discussions and some hardware on the table. #amsat #hamradio #satellite #cubesat

A bread board with several PCBs on a table with loads of wires interconnecting prototype boards.

Picture of a top down view of a bread board with several PCBs on a table with loads of wires interconnecting prototype boards.

The team looking at the prototypes on the table

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

When you are wearing the same Orla Gartland Hero tour shirt shirt without coordinating at all!

Emily pointing at the camera wearing an Orla Gartland Hero tour tee

Wouter pointing at the camera wearing an Orla Gartland Hero tour tee

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

20 years ISISPACE. It all went by so fast

Square bot of birthday cake with a balloon print on top and 20. It is sitting in a pack of snow outside in the afternoon sun

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

when you go through your old notebooks and find the disk lay-out of some old hdds...

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Fixed up this beauty today. It's a hand crank & solar powered radio I've had for years and years. the in-built NiMH battery gave up and started leaking magic crystals.

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

EMILY'S SHOP 🧚🌱🍃 After having worked on it for months, my partner emily has just opened her webshop at shop.emilywelbers.com, with art prints lovingly created and printed right here in the Netherlands. Everything is self-hosted in the EU, no scary tracking and […] [Original post on pixelfed.com]

Collage of art prints, digital with several different prints arranged in a collage. Some of the prints are collage style themselves too.
Themes include dodie, cats, fruits, sody, FIZZ, orla gartland and more.
In between the collages the text "emily's shop" is prssented and "=live now="

"the shop" overview of prints in a grid with pricing and titles and "shop.emilywelbers.com" at the bottom.

photograph of dodie prints held up in varous sizes

overview of prints available with prints held in a hand. The sizes are A4, A5 and A6 and the theme is fruits. an in-set of dodie can be seen on the right. there's a text saying "prints available in three sizes"

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

Some quality OpenSCAD time. designing a power distribution box for 3d printing. test fitting on a partial print.

a monitor and laptop on a desk. the monitor is placed above the laptop and is showing a cad drawing in OpenSCAD with code on the left and preview on the right.
The laptop is showing the same part in a 3d printer view with several colours indicating various layers

six CEE16 three pole sockets arranged in a 3x2 grid, with a neon indicator per phase

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

vooral het uittrek plankje is een mooie toevoeging!

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

On my way back home from seeing #EmmaHarner with the SDC gang in Berlin!

Emma Harner on stage playing a guitar and singing, lit with red backlight and warm white front light

group picture of the secret demo club and Emma Harner.

a collection of show memorabilia like a signed tour poster, setlist and an announcement poster from the venue

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

Going to see the wonderful Emma Harner in Berlin! #music #traveling Sänk ju vor träwelling wis Deutsche Bahn

electronic sign that shows two train seats reserved until Berlin Hbf ("Belegt bis Berlin Hbf")

Selfie of Emily and Wouter in the train, with a green grass field visible through the train window. both are smiling, mouth closed

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025

I 3d printed a case for a SSD dock PCB, to use with ATOMOS recorder disk caddies and my 3d printed replacement disks

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Thanks to @koen for the inspiration! Printing glow in the dark ice crystal decorations! (in between work print jobs)

3d printer bed filled with ice crystal decorations of about 5x5 cm, during the printing process. the filament is a greenish white and glows in the dark

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

will this old #wakawaka solar light end up as my #meshcore node power source? maybe!

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Today, the coveted cyber security baseline certificate 2025 arrived from the #internetcleanupfoundation #basisbeveiliging #certificatenregen. This certificate has been presented to AMSAT-NL for having zero identified baseline security risks during cyber week.

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

🔴🗳️Gestemd. Nog zwevende? --> nerdvote.nl 🤓

stembureau vlag waar het lijkt dat het rode bolletje wordt ingekleurd door mijn potlood in mijn hand op de voorgrond

op de voorgrond mijn stempas met de vlag van het stembureau op de achtergrond

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

showing my 3d printer setup for the #hackerhotel chat! #3dprinter. No, it's not in the cloud, running stand-alone!

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

live video streaming shenanigans at the #amsat-uk international space colloquium in the UK #amsat #space #batc

A speaker presenting in the background with video shown on various screens on a table with some gear

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

In my area I see quite a few #Meshtastic and #MeshCore nodes. so when I was asked to travel to #London for work I took two nodes with me to check coverage. It's substantially more difficult in the big city! After no signal for most of the day, some stations […] [Original post on pixelfed.com]

Tanmatsu with Meshtastic running with a Eurostar train destination board blurred in the background.
The meshtastic client shows no other stations detected, just itself

Tanmatsu (meshtastic) and Heltec (MeshCore) clients next to each other, both showing no clients other than themselves. the devices are next to a window in a hotel

MeshCore map of the greater London area with a few stations present

Heltec client running MeshCore held up against a blurred London city streets background showing a message received

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

I spent a week in Bahrain for work, setting up a ground station for a customer in a remote location to receive their current and future satellites. Apart from work we were shown some amazing historic sights of Bahrain, including "fort Bahrain", where a fortified […] [Original post on pixelfed.com]

Picture of wouter standing tents of meters in front of the fort wall

Picture of the skyline in the distance though one of the arches. The contrast of a building from the 11th century with some 21st century skyscrapers in the background

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Now that we can post up to 20 images on this #pixelfed instance, I can post a carousel. I don't think the scrolling effect will carry over to Mastodon. Just threw together a little collage of my time in #Berlin with @emilywelbers.com@bsky.brid.gy, seeing SDC […] [Original post on pixelfed.com]

Picture of Emily & Wouter on a town square and the fernsehenturm

fernsehenturm at night with it's reflection in calm water

night long exposure of the light illuminating a street with bikes and cars passing

collage of two portraits of wouter and emily plus two plushies and a close-up of the fernsehenturm

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Wouter @pa3weg.pixelfed.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

Happy birthday @emilywelbers.com@bsky.brid.gy ❤️🎉🎂 Every day I see how hard you work, how talented you are and how much time you invest in others. And secretly being a big nerd. Today is YOU time!

Emily standing on one leg, the other leg bent backwards. Wearing blue jeans and a black top. The background is an industrial building from the 1900s

Portrait of emily smiling, with a blurred evening background. the light is very yellow and street lights are visible in the background

Close-up of Emily soldering a kit, holding the soldering iron and looking very focused

Emily at the beach with a sunset behind her

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