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Showing off new features for my home cockpit: Priority alerts, sounds and more status indicators

This uses my X4-SimPit extension for X4: Foundations, that sends ship telemetry via a socket to my node-red plumbing pipeline, which in turn forwards data to Websockets, SocketIO and MQTT. Various subscriber listen on the new messages to run blinken lights and my HUD app. I’m using the well known message format also used by Elite Dangerous so it’s compatible with that game as well.

Pick your poison: https://makertube.net/w/nUoG2ZPeAW1QhT3A2BXRrM / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1PkVhH9cc

Oh yeah… and on Linux PC 🤓

Let me know what you think!

X4-SimPit code (pending changes) is here: github.com/bekopharm/x4-simpit
The cockpit panel has a dedicated project page here: simpit.dev/

https://beko.famkos.net/2025/03/12/showing-off-new-features-for-my-home-cockpit-priority-alerts-sounds-and-more-status-indicators/

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#Astrolab is developing a rover the size of a Jeep Wrangler that could autonomously drive cargo 📦 or people across the #moon’s 🌙 surface. Before sending #FLEX, Astrolab wants to send a smaller rover named #FLIP that #Astrobotic’s #Griffin* will take to the moon. nytimes.com/2025/02/05/science

* December 2025 nextspaceflight.com/launches/d

The New York Times · NASA Gave Up a Ride to the Moon. This Startup’s Rover Took It.By Kenneth Chang
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@Ruth_Mottram @AntennaPod
one of my favorite ultra-blacks in nature is the hydrophobic and super-light-absorbent black patches on the Gaboon viper, and the toad that imitates it.

herphighlights.podbean.com/e/0

#herps
#viper
#toad
#reptiles

herphighlights.podbean.com065 Viper X Toad | Herpetological HighlightsThis episode we take a look at the Gaboon Viper… or is that a toad? Looking at a couple of papers, we check out the characteristics of Gaboon Viper skin, and how a smart toad may be harnessing the looks of a viper to stay safe. Species of the Bi-week returns and continues our African toad journey. FULL REFERENCE LIST AVAILABLE AT: herphighlights.podbean.com Main Paper References: Spinner M, Gorb SN, Balmert A, Bleckmann H, Westhoff G. (2014). Non-Contaminating Camouflage: Multifunctional Skin Microornamentation in the West African Gaboon Viper (Bitis rhinoceros). PLoS ONE 9:e91087. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091087. Vaughan ER, Teshera MS, Kusamba C, Edmonston TR, Greenbaum E. (2019). A remarkable example of suspected Batesian mimicry of Gaboon Vipers (Reptilia: Viperidae: Bitis gabonica) by Congolese Giant Toads (Amphibia: Bufonidae: Sclerophrys channingi). Journal of Natural History 53:1853–1871. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1669730. Species of the Bi-Week: Ceríaco LMP, Marques MP, Bandeira S, Agarwal I, Stanley EL, Bauer AM, Heinicke MP, Blackburn DC. (2018). A new earless species of Poyntonophrynus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola. ZooKeys 780:109–136. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.780.25859. Other Mentioned Papers/Studies: Spinner M, Kovalev A, Gorb SN, Westhoff G (2013) Snake velvet black: hierarchical micro- and nanostructure enhances dark colouration in Bitis rhinoceros. Scientific Reports 3: 1846. doi: 10.1038/srep01846 Penner J, Fruteau C, Range F, Rödel M-O. (2008). Finding a needle in a haystack: new methods of locating and working with rhinoceros vipers (Bitis rhinoceros). Herpetological Review 39:310–314. Wittenberg, R.D., Jadin, R.C., Fenwick, A.M. et al. (2015). Recovering the evolutionary history of Africa’s most diverse viper genus: morphological and molecular phylogeny of Bitis (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae). Organisms Diversity and Evolution 15, 115–125 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-014-0185-3 Music: Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson Other Music – The Passion HiFi, www.thepassionhifi.com

Sono quelle cose che non sai di avere...classico dei vecchi collezionisti come me.... Ho aperto una vecchia #amiga #Amiga1200 (per un recap) comperata tipo 15 anni fa per 50 euro e poi messa via e ci trovo dentro la sorpresa.... Una #viper T1230 con Motorola 68ec030, coprocessore matematico 8 MB di fast RAM e controller fast scsi opzionale... E improvvisamente la giornata (iniziata de merda) ti sorride ....#retrogaming #retrocomputing #commodore