jan Niko, Queer of Pastries @nihilazo@tiny.tilde.website

today I learned of the "Gyrobus", an electric bus used in switzerland in the 50s and 60s that, rather than a battery, used a spinning flywheel to store power. It had a tiny range and was inefficient and unreliable, but I still love the idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

I did a music too. Here's a jam with my latest grid instrument experiment. Patch: https://tildegit.org/nihilazo/pd-experiments/src/branch/main/looper.pd

mi pana e ijo pi toki pona tawa len mi!

my #songaweek this week: a dance-y chiptune sketch.
https://itwont.work/songaweek.html

https://tildegit.org/nihilazo/grid-uxn
got grid output from uxn now too! ready to call it a first release. The video only shows basic output, but all output commands are supported!

grid and uxn, best friends
(well, not quite. It's input only. But a start!)

aaaaand stichfix fails at the first hurdle. I legit would love a service like this if it could actually like respect me

ah yes, the 3 genders

this is what i mean by "awful messy code" if you didn't believe just how bad it gets

finished my DIY monome grid clone! Wrote up a page about it and a page about the problems with 3d printing. Looking forward to making some weird programs and weirder music with this thing :D

https://tilde.town/~nihilazo/grid.html
gemini://breadpunk.club/~bagel/grid.gmi

the choice to try and persevere with the 3d printer, as I already had the files for using it, is starting to feel more like a mistake. Fully recalibrated the machine and have the same problems. And the pile grows. Beginning to re-reconsider making a case from wood. Or cardboard. Or anything at this point.
I wish I could love 3d printing. Turn any home into a workshop! Manufacturing power to the people! But I can't when this is the outcome in practice.

I am not sorry.

holy shit
this was 100% a fluke right?
has to be

thunar r u ok

a very tiny orca/sunvox jam. I wanted to record the whole thing but forgot, so here's a little bit of what resulted. space vibes I guess?
Sorry the audio's crunchy, need to figure out how to do non-terrible video/audio compression for masto.

speaking of random music jams, here's one from last night! melody is improv and I am bad at improv but I think this is kinda cool.

I got my rank on tetr.io!
C+, which is not a good rank, but a good start!

yeee
https://tetr.io/#r:60e18e7771704a32da452cd2