Kind of curious what tech people own, everything from small to big tech. Assuming solarpanels are a given for a lot of peeps here, or maybe will be in the future. But what other tech do you own that you’re happy with?
I started messing about with Linux/Raspberry Pi, Arduino, LoRa/Meshtastic in the past couple of months due to being (further) breadpilled with podcasts about open source, greenhouse automation, autonomous text-based communication and such.
I’m not a tech person so I’m literally doing kid-level electronics tutorials on the Arduino (“Congratulations! You’ve made your first circuit!”) and still get a kick out of running sudo apt-get update/upgrade and seeing the lines of text scrolling by.
But I really like the concept of appropriate tech in conjunction with open source “stuff” and, since I’m in a position of being able to listen to ~6.5 hours of podcasts during my workday, I might as well learn something. I hope to get comfortable with electronics for DIY solar eventually, too
Glad to hear about this! Everone has to start somewhere :) I am upost interested in these podcasts you mention, am an avid podcast enjoyer myself, so if you wouldnt mind sharing which ones you listen to?
Back from the asparagus patch!
(drops into Atlantic Canadian accent)
“Turn yer head for a minute and those fuckin’ asparagus will be three foot tall and not worth a fiddler’s fuck!”
Anyway, I digress…
Some of my go-to podcasts | relevant episodes, are below:
Poor Prole’s Almanac | Skillshare episode on Arduino
It Could Happen Here | Meshtastic/LoRa episode | recent episode on off-shelf solar solutions
That LoRa episode led me to the guest’s website for more information on his pretty cool shit: Hydroponic Trash/AnarchoSolarPunk
He was also featured on Live Like The World Is Dying, which I had been listening to for a while anyway | S1E49 – Andre on Solar Power, DIY Internet, Mesh Networks, and Solar Punk
Less radical podcasts I listen to are some of the maker-type folks like Simple Electronics and the (now discontinued?) Make: Magazine podcast.
That just about covers it, other than some of the solarpunk podcasts I listen to, but I kinda feel they - while informative and entertaining - aren’t as…hands on (?)… as some of the links I shared above.
Cheers gang
SK0
Thanks for sharing all those. Since you mentioned arduino, I thought of sharing something that came to my attention quite recently, and admittedly I found it very disturbing. Before reading that I was an arduino fan, I’m not anymore. Anyways here it is:
(drops into Atlantic Canadian accent)
“Turn yer head for a minute and those fuckin’ asparagus will be three foot tall and not worth a fiddler’s fuck!”
I read far more letters in the transcript than I heard in the speaking. ;-)
Thanks a lot for sharing, got a long train ride tomorrow, will check them out then! 🌻
Just heading out to check the asparagus patch, I’ll make a list with links later today!
I’m also interested to see if you have any that I don’t know about
Hello there, fellow knight. I shared a list in a comment above, cheers
