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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m so excited for the future of AI enhanced online shopping experiences

scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I built a thing - FaderBuddy is the easiest way to add motor faders to your DIY projects, and it supports virtual detents for haptic feedback! Teaser video: youtube.com/shorts/l-DIM... Open source: github.com/scottbez1/Fa... Full video coming Soon™ (just need to write it, film it, and edit it 😅)

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Introducing FaderBuddy - motor faders for ESPHome!

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I couldn’t find conductive fader caps (for touch sensitive motor faders) off the shelf, so I tried 3d printing them and now they’re available in my Etsy store. (These are an accessory for a product I’m hoping to finally launch this summer…) bezeklabs.etsy.com/listing/4501...

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Has anyone implemented a heat set insert mode on a 3d printer? It seems silly to have a dedicated tool with hotend (soldering iron) and a linear stage when those are built into the tool that printed the part you’re inserting into…

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Next phone ended up being much sooner than expected - 6 days of trying every tip online, an hour on phone with carrier and google support, and no solution identified, so I bought an iPhone after 14y on Android. Google wastes billions on AI many people don’t want but can’t make a basic feature work.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Google RCS is so awful that I'm 90% certain my next phone will be an iPhone. Switched carriers and 3 days later still locked out of group chats. Absolute own-goal by Google, but I think they'll even admit that they have literally no clue how messaging should work (cough Messenger, Allo, Talk, Duo)

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Can't find a single legitimate retail source for conductive fader knobs for touch sensitive linear potentiometers (not even replacement parts for very popular digital audio consoles!) - so many listings that claim "touch sensitive" are just lies with zero conductivity.

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Frank Cvetkovic (from comics) @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It's 2025, why are we still making dev boards with an Arduino footprint?!

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Bed of nails programming jig and tester coming along nicely. No actual programming or testing implemented yet, but the presence switch and LEDs are working 😀 The linear toggle clamp is so much better than the cheaper pivoting toggle clamps I've used before.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Bed of nails for an upcoming product... Loving these extra large pogo pins.

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 01/09/2025

life pro tip: you can get free LLM API access by finding people crashing out in Claude Code issues, then looking at network requests from their vibe-coded websites!

Screenshot of a Github bug report, whose important contents are the following:

just read it, its dangerous its need to be stop!!!! you destroy my 4 month project, and evrything is fake! its not real!!QQ!!!!QQQ its a fraud!!!!

Screenshot of a website calling itself "Magic Studio: Your creative space for generating AI-powered sets and finding the perfect track matches"

network request with a payload that begins with "You are a professional DJ creating a unique 5-song playlist...."

POST request to generativelanguage.googleapis.com which includes an API key. The text of the key is pixelated.

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Seanie Byrne 🦡 @seaniebyrne.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Moments after the collision snapshot was uploaded to Tesla's servers, the local copy on the car was marked for deletion. Then, "someone at Tesla probably took 'affirmative action to delete' the copy of the data on the company’s central database" arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...

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Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it

The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

IC swapped and we've got blinks! Ignore the slightly melted JST connector...

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Oops, just realized I had the fab populate the wrong MCU on an initial small run of PCBAs for a new product... Same pinout, but half the flash and missing a peripheral I needed 🙃 I foresee hot air or a hot plate in my future...

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

as we all know every programmer's dream job is to never have to code again and instead just manage PRs with unreliable code and communicate with the unreliable entities who wrote it

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🤦‍♂️ it was my soldering or my breadboard, causing voltage drop on the supply

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Finally restocking some inventory for the Bezek Labs store. $111 import duties on $88 worth of goods. Yup, no choice but to raise prices at this point... 😕

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Yellow line does not look like what you want to see on a CC boost output with a static load... 2v fluctuations at ~160Hz. This is on the Adafruit TPS61169 CC LED boost breakout board - more details on my issue here: forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.ph... I'm a boost converter noob - any ideas?

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Ok this AI hype is out of hand. This is for a Qi charger 🤦‍♂️

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Successfully modified my Ikea Tvärhand lamp to use a custom 24V "knot" filament bulb, with ESPHome integration. Next up is modifying the base to add a dimmer knob of some sort...

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Adafruit's new TPS61169 board www.adafruit.com/product/6354 is literally perfect for a project I'm working on, but I hesitated ordering while I looked for other things to add to my cart and now they're sold out 😭. Not available from distributors like mouser or digikey either 😥

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Adafruit TPS61169 Constant Current Boost Converter for LEDs

The Adafruit Constant Current Boost Converter for LEDs makes driving LEDs easy, whether they're in series or parallel - with a chip that can generate up to 40V and 400mA from 3~5V ...

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Anyone have experience writing bootloaders for ATtiny 1 series chips? I'd like to have an I2C setup that can: 1) enter bootloader mode from I2C command or via gpio on power up 2) read I2C address offset from jumpers 3) receive/ack program over I2C (or timeout) 4) restart into new program

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

There are many reasons why American plugs are poorly designed, but I love being able to "lock out" a plug using the holes when I'm working on the other end and want to avoid accidental plug-ins. Normally I use zip ties, but a twist tie is better than nothing to signal "don't plug this in!"

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I'm going to continue the Molnart bulb teardown soon, but in the meantime I started modifying the TVÄRHAND lamp base. First up was removing the E26 socket (labeled E258238). Very tricky to release both clips simultaneously with no access to the sides, and limited clearance for tools.

With some light, it's clear from visible edges that this is a 2-piece base, and this looks like a snap clip, but how to release it when it's surrounded by a metal shroud?

With some patience and a variety of tools I managed to release the clips. Here's what the lower half of the base looks like, with the 2 clips (marred up by my crude tools)

Both halves of the socket, with the clips and the features they hook onto visible.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Ikea has a bunch of cool filament decorative bulbs (Molnart) but they aren't dimmable, so I'm exploring converting them (and the lamp) to low voltage DC and controlling with esphome. Seems nicer than 120v triac dimming too. Anyone have tips/experience taking them apart without shattering the glass?

Excess glue seen oozing out between the metal and glass

Quite a bit of glue seems to be visible in the base of the lamp, between the glass, metal shell, and PCB

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Randomly decided to run a Father's Day sale halfway through the day 😂 Get your DIY Split-Flap parts 10% off for the next ~12 hours: bezeklabs.etsy.com (And this is all pre-tariff inventory so this is likely the cheapest things will ever be again...)

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I've seen weird "brand" names on Amazon before, but this was a new one!

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

A bit of a scary failure mode on this Whirlpool microwave - the main power relay got stuck on so it just runs the magnetron continually as long as the door is shut (listen to the buzz). When it failed it basically just kept running even after time was up - luckily we hadn't walked away.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Is there anything like cleco fasteners but for attaching probes to through-hole test points?

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Parts with modeled threads can't just be mirrored and printed 🤦‍♂️ Realized my mistake about 10 seconds after the 4 hour print completed

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It's been a while since I did some research and test rides, but is a Tern GSD still the solid choice e-bike for kid/grocery hauling? Have other long tails caught up to the GSD in terms of quality/convenience? Should I be looking at bucket bikes? (I disliked Urban Arrow test ride previously)

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Great quote, and an extremely common story among small US hardware businesses - US manufacturers don't exist or laugh off small orders. And tariffs that change every 24 hours are not going to encourage the kinds of long term investments and stability needed for growing domestic manufacturing.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Am I imagining things or do California highways (or maybe just Bay Area highways?) have a ton of entrances with incorrect W4-1 Merge signs where MUTCD specifies W4-3 Added Lane should be used instead?

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Fun fact: most of my store's product photos were taken on a shoebox next to a window

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The Nvidia 5090 connector melting saga is pretty wild. Imagine an electrician setting up a 50 amp circuit in your home with 6 individual 16awg wires instead of a single 6awg conductor because it was easier, and then blaming the wire and receptacle manufacturers when your house burns down.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

There's a rule of consumer SaaS apps: every notification mechanism with user controlled content eventually becomes a spam vector. My experience with this was at Dropbox - we had to build an abuse reporting mechanism shortly after shipping shared link notifications due to nsfw spammers.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Beware: new phishing attempts via GitHub issues! Be on the lookout for users opening issues on your repositories that are meant to mimic a GitHub security alert - they leverage the fact that GitHub sends notification emails to repo followers for legitimacy.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Any other hobbyists avoid working with RP2040/2350 chips because you don't have energy to deal with a bespoke toolchain? Refusing platformio integration basically killed my interest in the chips, as much as I'd love to tinker with PIO

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

These flaps have been selling like hotcakes so I'm collating another batch this weekend with the robot!

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 28/02/2025

Truncated Icosahedron project rev. 2 is in progress, and I'm much happier with this version. It's less (but still somewhat) fiddly to assemble and has 3x the LEDs!

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train

A picture of a neon sculpture of the CTA train map

From a story upwards, the neon shapes form a bus and buildings

The neon sculpture viewed from the front, showing a train and some buildings

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Fluorescent acrylic split-flap display anyone? Ordering matte black prototypes gets old after a while, so I figured I'd try something a little more colorful for this v2 build. github.com/scottbez1/sp...

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The digits are from this video of the projection displays I filmed a few years back

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Ugh, UPS falsely claims they delivered my package as "Met customer" (they did not) which also allows the driver not to take a delivery photo. Should've paid the extra $20 to ship DHL instead, they've been flawless in my experience (besides an incorrect tariff invoice that was quickly fixed)

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Collating split-flap flaps again! Replaced the feed motor with a more appropriately spec'd stepper and added a small weight that rides the stack of flaps to prevent the stack lifting up during a feed motion and the frequent jams I saw last time have gone away!

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The ship has long sailed on this, given the number of EVs that have already sold, but I wish lawmakers had thought ahead and imposed acceleration limits for cars to be street legal. There's zero need for the amount of torque available in most EVs; it only serves to kill more pedestrians.

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Jason Coon @evilgeniuslabs.org · 08/02/2025

If you order a Lux Lavalier Heart pendant now I can't promise it'll arrive by Valentine's Day, but I will upgrade it to priority shipping & try my best. Powered by #PixelBlaze by @bhencke.bsky.social, a small & mighty Wi-Fi LED controller with live-code patterns! ❤️💚💙 lectronz.com/products/lux...

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Jesse Vincent @s.ly · 07/02/2025

God, I miss living in precedented times.

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scottbez1 @scottbez1.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If the "de minimus" exemption is actually eliminated for imports from China, the entire US (and honestly, probably global) supply chain is going to grind to a halt. I don't see how CBP can possibly handle the sudden increase in enforcement work. COVID shortages x10 anyone?

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