oooooooooo "You're getting a shipment" from Italy! My Begali key is arriving!
(edit) Argh mis-read it
We have your shipment.
Scheduled delivery date
Thursday, 03/04/2025
Before 20:00
Oh well, at least I know it's on the way!
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If you have a local ham club with several people interested in this key, you can buy brass hardware, and with the links in the README can buy enough to make 5 keys for $50 (with a bunch left over because of different multiples, of course). I did this because I intend to make several of these keys for testing and display.
But it works fine with far cheaper stainless hardware; brass just looks nicer. As far as I can tell, most hardware stores even in the US have M3 metric hex socket screws in bins, so you don't have to buy 10-packs or 50-packs of hardware. This works perfectly fine. You just need a hex wrench and a small box-end wrench or needle nose pliers or forceps/hemostats or something to tighten the nuts when you adjust spacing.
My goal here is to help make it cheap and easy to have a really usable key.
And if you run into any problems, please please ask for help! The whole point of the beta release is to get feedback so I can improve both the models and the instructions before posting this more widely.
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This design is ready for you to test!
I printed out keys with six different variations on spring strength, four different sizes of covers, two different heights of swivel bases, and brought them all to my local club monthly show-and-tell. A few others club members have also printed them. I took some feedback, and have now updated the documentation and released STEP and STL files for multiple configurations.
The ones I printed were ABS. One club member printed in PLA, and another in PETG, so it looks like this design can work well across multiple types of filament. One club member screwed down what I had meant as a belt swivel mount to a board that you rest your wrist/forearm on and it's a very clever addition! Picture attached.
I would like lots of detailed feedback! If you are interested in a single-paddle morse key, it doesn't matter whether you want a very light or extremely stiff spring or anything in between, this design can meet your needs. It's not expensive. You may be able to use random hardware lying around the house, especially if you have spare parts for 3d printers, but I also have links in the documentation for various hardware you can use with it.
Lots of options and possibilities, and if you need help, please don't hesitate to speak up!
Je crois qu'iels ont du mal à intégrer à quoi sert une revue de code individuelle. (#CW arme à feu, nudité)
Excusez-moi mais mon gratin est absolument superbe. #CW nourriture pas végé
Dearest #Fediverse,
Don't become a doomscroller's den.
I'm not preaching at you about the #CW right now, just saying, "watch out for one another."
I know world events are very distressing.
So please keep posting your nerdy-arse status updates and passion projects.
Love you,
—The Melancholy Dane
#CW Tierrecht-Frust
#Menkay
Animal Lovers Dont Eat Animals
#ALT4you #govegan #veganfortheanimals #veganfortheplanet #essenohnetierleid
Hide boosts from account, hide boosts from account, hide boosts from account, hide boosts from account, hide boosts from account...
If I wanted to doomscroll, I'd be on reddit, you nerfherders.
#CW your shiz!
Edit: clarifying that I'm hiding boosts from many individual accounts, rather than screaming at people to hide all boosts over and over again like a lunatic, lol
Darude Sandstorm as it was always meant to be: played on Morse Code paddles
https://loops.video/v/75kyX1g_By
Direct video link, for terminal enjoyers: https://loopsusercontent.com/videos/80575218996875264/127598525214357858/el1iOMDcfBdVgEMmgh0B78z2vT6CgBH4x4muNhGb.720p.mp4
From @utahforrest on YouTube.
Loops.video · Watch @RL_Dane's loop on Loops.videoDarude Sandstorm as... • 0 likes • 0 comments
That's a couple of accounts unfollowed and some on short-term mute again.
I'm begging you, CW your US politics posts! Mastodon makes it really easy to do this and improves the experience for everyone.
My timeline here is absolutely DESTROYED by the same articles and the same posts over and over and over. I get it, you're scared and venting but there's only so many What Elon Did posts I want to see, especially if his face is front and centre of it.
Be kind, CW your stuff.
Fascinated by all the new shows being advertised on the CW that is like them doing a low rent version on normal Big 4 network shows from sitcoms to crime to dramas to crime shows rather than teen/young adult soaps.
This torture in #Sudan is heinous. The parasitic ruling classes (or wannabees) feed on violence and death as much as they do on money. It's an unholy web stretching across the globe and back in time.
#Palestine #NaziGermany #USslavery
#CW for descriptions of torture in article.
https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/114120789558023329
MastodonAndrew Stroehlein (@andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)#Sudan - "More than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum, according to evidence seen by the Guardian."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/07/evidence-of-torture-found-as-detention-centre-and-mass-grave-discovered-outside-khartoum-sudan-rsf
Any good resources to start learning #CW?
CW QSO Finder:
"This page lists CW operators who are available for a QSO. Tune into their frequency to try a QSO or listen to any QSOs in progress. To add yourself to this page, click the "I'm Available for a QSO" button at the top."
