JacobCoffinWrites
@JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
I write science fiction, draw, paint, photobash, do woodworking, and dabble in 2d videogames design. Big fan of reducing waste, and of building community
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- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - slrpnk edition 2 weeks ago:
This sounds rad, which protocol/meshnet system are you using?
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - slrpnk edition 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got two-ish projects that might count: I’ve been reading up on Reticulum mesh networking, particularly with LoRa nodes. I like the idea of that kind of network, but have no idea what amount of activity I’ll find nearby despite living in a pretty big city. I’m still at the stage of figuring out what to get and how I’d like to use it.
I’m also looking at setting up a Gemini server (the gopher-based web alternative protocol thing, not google’s dumb LLM) but I’m a bit skittish about anything that puts a hole into my home network, especially a service made by such a small group because I don’t know what kind of security holes might have been missed (I’m certainly not likely to spot them). Ideally I could set it up through Reticulum, so it’d be air gapped from my regular network, and it appears that someone has made that work, but I think it’d only be accessible to other folks on Reticulum and I’m not sure if that’d be worth it at first. We’ll see!
My active project at the moment probably barely counts because I’m going full analog. I’ve got two antique Leich 901 crank telephones (like an actual crank, not a dial. Turning it generates AC and rings all the phones on the network).
I plan to use them to rig an intercom between the kitchen and workshop. This’ll involve some woodworking as I’m making a nice box for the talk battery for one, and a display board with a voltmeter and two plexiglass-covered cutouts for displaying the wiring and batteries for the workshop end.
I got them all wired up with some really ugly splices and was impressed - they can ring each other and the sound quality is quite good when talking, no repairs needed! Attaching them together is rock simple, just a few wires, plug and play. But my plan is to wire in some old rj11 phone jacks to the display board and battery box so they can (mis)use standard phone cables to talk to each other. In fact I’m hoping to use some of the old wiring already in place in my apartment.
- Comment on Realism Question About Depicting Antennas 7 months ago:
Thanks! How’s this look? I added one to the barn and one to the house, pointed in different directions.
- Comment on Realism Question About Depicting Antennas 7 months ago:
Thanks! I’d appreciate it! And I’ll read up on them anyways because I find military history and the way kit gets adapted and upgraded very interesting
- Comment on Realism Question About Depicting Antennas 7 months ago:
Thank you so much! I can definitely add the cantenna dish - should it be pointed in any particular direction?
- Comment on Realism Question About Depicting Antennas 7 months ago:
It is! On a previous project I read up a bunch on agricultural UAVs and how some farms even send out multiple passes with different types of drones before going out in person to inspect an issue, and I fell in love with the idea of a farmer adding a sort of drone hangar to their barn. It’s probably not a realistic amount of UAVs but I love the visual of drones just pouring out like bats.
- Comment on Realism Question About Depicting Antennas 7 months ago:
Thanks! I really love working in this style, it’s a sort of photobash/collage and it’s an absolute blast. I really enjoy doing rural cyberpunk scenes - I actually did a very short webcomic in the same style and similar setting. The single panel ones might hit the same vibe for you.
- Comment on Realism Question About Depicting Antennas 7 months ago:
Thanks so much! That sounds great (and pretty cyberpunk) so I’d love to add them but ‘ASIP military antenna 1960s’ isn’t finding me much at first glance - could you link an image so I can reference it while looking for examples?
- Comment on Realism Question About Depicting Antennas 7 months ago:
That’s good to know! I can definitely add some electrical clutter!
- Submitted 7 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 16 comments
- Comment on Ideation - What to Run? 1 year ago:
Just wanted to say I really like this idea, especially as mixed with local mesh networks. I agree with the point about storage, and mostly I’m just really looking forward to reading about some of these services, and seeing what this could look like in the future.
Good luck!
- Comment on what do y'all actually host? 1 year ago:
On an old raspberry pi 3b, a copy of a blog by one of my favorite writers (the original is long gone and was never archived, I happened to grab a copy with wget when it came back up briefly) so I can read it when I’m on my home network. And a pi hole dns adblocker.
I’m hoping to set up some kind of media system for streaming eventually, but we currently use a PS4 as our media center and it doesn’t look like our options for compatibe apps are great.
I’d definitely like to get a local Mealie instance going in the next year
