On a #hike. #BBSing from a stump.

@tqw
#hiking #bbs #solarpunk #touchgrass

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Rainbow-colored handmade cyberdeck perched on an old stump in the midst of a verdant TN forest.

Hey folks,

We are happy to announce that we have added LaSuite Docs to our Co-operative Computer, our extremely un-automated Solarpunk As A Service.

https://cooperative.computer/

If you already have an Co-op Comp account, you can find the La Suite Docs app here: https://docs.cooperative.computer

La Suite Docs is a minimal collaborative document editing app funded by the French and German Government.

It's very minimal right now but it could grow to be a Google Docs competitor for certain use cases in the future.

Note that we also offer LaSuite Docs hosting for organisations for £30 per month: https://docs.coop/

#coops #hosting #saas #solarpunk #foss

Lots of people talking about buying solar panels. Alas if you look online there's a lot of retailers with all sorts of panels for sale, not all of which are honest. Want an easy way to check if the listed power output is plausible?
Example using a 50w panel listed on Amazon. It's 370x820mm.
Step 1 calculate the area in square meters. (0.37*0.82=0.3034)
Step 2 multiply by 1000w. (0.3034*1000=303.4)
Step 3 assume 20% efficiency and multiply (303.4x0.2=60.68)

60.68>50w. It's Plausible.

#SolarPunk

What a great tutorial! Making printed circuit boards for the ATmega328P chip with natural clay

#solarpunk #permacomputing

https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial

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Clay PCB board

Today I encountered this Volvo Amazon (from the 50s) and the hero who converted it to electric WAY BACK IN THE 90s! After getting a new battery pack from a crashed EV and solar panels in recent years it has a range of 400km and charges a few 10s of km per day on sunny days. Basically an infinity car!

So inspiring, I’m doing something like this some day! Imagine the future we could have had.. and maybe still can.

#electricvehicles #solarpunk

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An old car with 3 solar panels stuck to the roof

today arrived my copy of @/kathrynthehuman 'Ruins' zine, for which I had the honor of drawing the cover artwork. 💚
absolutely stunning works inside, full of #solarpunk vibes and "the people and places left behind after the world has moved on" 🌻
#pixelart #dinchenix

An idea for an alternate home/personal/8bit computing timeline:

Imagine history, where the next step after printing BASIC program dumps in computer magazines, instead of evolution towards cassette tapes, memory cartridges and floppies, some kind of high capacity QR codes would be standardized and massively used by computer zines.

So, instead of AD/DA converters, used to connect cassette recorders, early home computers would be instead equipped for manual scanning. Not for scanning images (OCR software was already known, but considered high-tech, these days.... image compression was not standardized, with exceptions like GIFs on Amiga's, which were kinda high-end) but for scanning code and data. Hand scanners existed, but compared to tape recorders, it was luxury periphery.

Instead of saving your programs to cassettes, you would print it as huge QR-like-code and scan it into restarted computer next time. You would also buy paper magazines with open source games published, next levels for these games, and so on: like half of the pages would be reviews and screenshots and so, and half would be scan codes, which would provide actually significant bandwidth, for the era (depending on resolution of both print media and scanners, but still...). It would be more accessible, than typing-in BASIC source code manually...

I think the reason history didn't take this turn was the relative low availability of affordable printers in 1980s and relative abundance of audio cassette tapes and chance to reuse them. But still, magazines were being printed and such distribution channel would make computer zines viable...

We could perhaps emulate some of this with smartphones - the required resolution of cameras is available, printers are still around, and it is alternate channel to wi-fi and bluetooth, completely contact-less and relatively private...

#solarpunk #permacomputing #retrocomputing