I don’t necessarily mean adult as in NSFW.
I’d probably bring in my RG280V. It was my first handheld emulator. I had emulated games on my phone in the past and even used a Bluetooth controller but playing on it felt different. More real in a way.
I grew up with the Game Boy so the idea of having thousands of games on the go is pretty neat to me.
I’ve since moved on to the RG405M.
What about you? Do you have anything neat or special to you that you could talk about for a couple minutes?
Would love to see photos as well
Beer. Not to show, just to enjoy it.
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my stuffed dog
Somethings ESP32 related. Meshtastic radios, a controller I am building to add some features to my car.
Ah, a fellow mesher :)
For now I can only talk to myself though.
Me too. That’s probably why I would want to talk about it. So others will get onboard.
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Edit: Buncha prudes…
Will you at least tell jokes, like Louis CK while you violate everybody?
Are you ready for the critique or is that all just part of the enjoyment? Secondly, if presented with a challenge of sword fighting would you accept?
Im ready for anything
That’s him right there, officer.
Not sure what a show and tell is, I guess my laptop with tons of stickers, and boot up something that looks hackery. Besides that, my guitar perhaps?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_and_tell
It’s something kids do at school. They bring in something important to them, show it off, and describe it a bit
My Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators.
I fuckin love these things. I used to feel left out when my friends would try to play music together, but then I found a way to be involved with a few mini-electronic-drumkits.
You can sequence a bunch of them together and sync them, easily, as well.
Teenage Engineering makes a bunch of other cool shit, too. I’m not much of a musician, though, so most of it is way beyond me.
These are so cool, thanks for introducing me to them! Might have to get the sub one
I built one of those Ben Eater 8 bit breadboard computers, which I’m pretty proud of.
How would you rate your jumper wire neatness compared with his?
An attempt was certainly made to keep it tidy.
Wow I thought you meant the 6502 computer, but it looks like that’s the original one made of logic gates and shift registers, right?
Yep, that’s the one! I 100% want to give the 6502 a shot too, would be fun to run something more complex than a Fibonacci Sequence on it, haha.
Is a copy of Ben Eaters or did you do your own thing?
I largely followed along with his build, but tried to rearrange everything to be more compact.
I also had to make some changes to get it to work, since there are actually a few well-known issues with the way it’s done in the videos.
I have plans to hook it up to a Raspberry Pi Pico, and set up a webserver so people can control it online. Could be a fun mod for sure.
Very cool!
I was recently at a maker space that had thousands of unused ICs and thought this would be an excellent project. I couldn’t really interest anyone else. They wanted to just keep hording the things away.
My kids. “LOOK, I made these myself!”
“Don’t worry, we all have to start somewhere.”
Professional level landscaping accessories.
Folks always seem fascinated by my keyring.
Like what?
I’d bring my best girl Laika, because she’s awesome and I don’t have any interesting junk.
I’m an antenna engineer. I’d bring an antenna because after hearing a lot of adult show-and-tells I figure people could probably use some sleep.
99% of audience dozing off, 1% fascinated by the mystical art of antennas and radio waves. I know the science behind it, but I still don’t know how you guys came up with some of those designs.
To be honest, we learn about the basic antenna designs, and there are many, and then usually new designs come from altering some idea to fit a new need, until there is nothing of the original idea left. LOL. Usually, we’re asked to size reduce but it’s just not physically possible to do what is often asked of us. There is a running joke in the industry that customers always want an infinitely small antenna with infinite gain. Usually we start with something like a monopole design and change the physical parameters until we can no longer meet the spec. Hopefully the antennas fitsb in the required space. At least that how did it. Necessity is the parent of invention, after all.
Do you still use nec2, or do you have some sort of proprietary thing?
Never used that myself. There are many programs we use depending on what property you are looking to calculate. I’d say the main tool is HFSS. I personally used CST mostly because when I was learning all of the licenses were usually in use and CST was always available since it was not as well known. But seriously, I’d estimate there are literally dozens of programs plus programs that each of us writes, usually in Matlab.
Matlab
That might be the barrier. I seem to remember NEC2 was the only game in town for amateur use, which is why I have it installed. It’s the only thing I’ve used that still expects punch cards.
I would bring my modular synthesizers. I brought my eurorack set up to a synth meet up and it was the most popular station next to the theremin
I play Warhammer and D&D…and have extensive mini collections. I’m envisioning a diorama.
Or a few of my favorite knives and a good whetstone, to show how easy it is to do and teach a good skill!
