gábor ugray

i make machines go beep, sometimes in front of a crowd. born 334 ppm, he/him.

built https://rss-parrot.net, and a few other things.

Website: https://aka-gabor.xyz

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2026-06-06 11:49:05 UTC

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i realize i maybe had a somewhat atypical upbringing, but for me growing up this was a very obvious object: a tuning capacitor. now i realize that just as almost no one knows what a "magic eye" is, people are unfamiliar with this part too.
now that i retrieved it from the old radio, it's ready for a second carreer as the showcased tuner of an audio oscillator i am yet to build.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/116/702/984/712/049/578/original/7ca2e289fd18c6ba.jpeg

2026-06-06 08:53:46 UTC

I'm thinking a lot about the AI hype. Let's fast-forward to when the bubble has burst and the current crop of digital East India Companies has gone bust.
Is there a future where the models belong to the commons and inference is run by people on their own machines, with green energy, where LLM usage is fair game?

2026-06-04 21:11:56 UTC

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This is an oddball output transformer... But hey, it came really cheap! I'm uncovering its little secrets.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/116/693/881/616/763/874/original/7312b75ad5fa30c0.jpeg

2026-06-03 22:08:16 UTC

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I can see that Grundig 2030/W already has a fan base, so I owe it to y'all to clarify: this is a scavenging mission, not a rescue mission. I'm cannibalizing this device for parts.
It has a few things that are valuable and hard to come by: most of all, a fine power supply and output transformer (up to 50~100€ new). But also, speakers; high-wattage resistors; a splendid tuning capacitor.
I don't need a big radio, but I really need parts like this to build things with tubes!

2026-06-03 20:47:04 UTC

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"back in the day when women were women, men were men, and circuits with lethal voltages were built as a rat's nest"
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/116/688/128/201/439/050/original/ddc61ef2f37fd5ef.jpeg

2026-06-03 20:13:54 UTC

Is this a particularly pretty radio? (No)
Does it work (Borderline)
Do I need a broken old radio? (Nope)
Did I just get it for 10 bucks in Schöneberg? (Hell yeah)
Let me present you the new donor for my ongoing high voltage audio shenanigans: Grundig 2030/W from 1955.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/116/687/977/061/896/034/original/e0a153b71a5b92ac.jpeg

2026-05-29 08:05:25 UTC

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lovely!

2026-05-26 13:13:46 UTC

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oh no, this good. excellent, in fact. the faster it breaks the sooner it will burn

2026-05-26 12:47:55 UTC

thanks @npub1xse…lgk3 fir this latest excellent trolling!
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2026-05-22 08:56:43 UTC

Are any mutuals coming to OHS 2026 in Berlin tomorrow? Let's say hi IRL.

2026-05-21 22:44:02 UTC

circuits gonna come and get you
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/116/614/981/382/601/888/original/70e609a848c57bf0.jpeg

2026-04-15 07:16:48 UTC

Asking the Fediverse hive... Do I know someone in/around Nürnberg who could lend me an old-school cathode tube (CRT) TV from Thursday to Saturday next week? It needs composite video (or SCART) input.

2026-02-25 11:16:34 UTC

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at the risk of pulling the "someone is wrong on the internet" move, AFAIK FF uses classic encoder-decoder neural MT. this is the precursor of LLMs, but meaningfully different. the models are orders of magnitude smaller, and they are trained on orders of magnitude smaller, "labeled" datasets (sentence pairs in a language pair, not boundless unstructured text).

2025-11-21 17:05:47 UTC

I'm low-key considering a digital detox experiment: specifically, not carrying an internet-connected smartphone around during the day.
Does anyone have experience with this? What was easy, what was hard? What were the surprises?
My motivation is twofold: mental health; and to test how realistic it is to remove captive tech from one's life.

2025-11-02 20:02:01 UTC

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where do you find them?? i've only ever found two...

2025-09-21 21:13:09 UTC

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awww these look very cool

2025-09-15 05:44:12 UTC

Bogdan, who is sadly not on Mastodon, built a web server from a disposed vape.
On the one hand, what has the world come to, treating 32-bit processors faster than our youth's computers as disposable...
OTOH, the sheer amount of cool we can do by just repurposing the trash shat out by rampant consumerism!
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
#Permacomputing FTW

2025-07-26 09:37:37 UTC

LLMs are like the talking computers from Star Trek actually happened, but it's the wrong series and instead of Starfleet they were built on Coruscant and are run by Palpatine's cronies.

2025-07-13 19:10:17 UTC

redundancy
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2025-07-07 20:31:05 UTC

Pinging the electronics hive mind...
A new Shenzhen-based electronics parts seller called LCSC has started coming up in my searches. Their shipment fees are below Digikey and Mouser (to Germany) and they seem to have the chips that my go-to native German seller (Reichelt) notoriously lacks.
What is your experience with LCSC?

2025-07-06 13:12:04 UTC

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If I say it works, it works!
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/806/455/155/592/125/original/251518ddc60d210b.mp4

2025-07-06 13:10:03 UTC

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Here's the hand-drawn sketch I made four years ago, and the initial frankenstein build that I just dusted off.
The idea is a forever-running engine powered by a small solar panel. It's an arsthetic object like a light mill, with no practical purpose.
It's like a last-ditch love letter to the idea of sustainable tech with solar power. And to open hardware and reclaiming tech from sterile white enclosures sealed off from us by consumerism.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/806/439/950/526/391/original/fb0ece07a08b659d.jpeg
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2025-07-02 15:54:39 UTC

Warming up a four-year-old project of mine
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/784/444/710/153/634/original/c320fae71a93adb9.jpg

2025-05-16 17:04:18 UTC

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soooooo many oleds! jealous! what are they going into?

2025-05-04 17:33:57 UTC

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Here it is running the 2D water simulation from earlier. After some more fighting with PlatformIO, I got the FPU working too. It's sweet and fast!
Time to kick back and relax.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/450/750/812/831/155/original/56bd98c5bf43182e.mp4

2025-05-04 17:30:29 UTC

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All mysteries resolved! It was an extremely embarrassing oversight: my code did not initalize the GPIO pins for CS, DC and RES. Along the way I also borrowed the init sequence from U8g2.
This board is now also fully functional! The creative phase can begin - it's coding all the way now.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/450/745/692/686/096/original/157738fe4f2ebbcc.jpeg

2025-05-03 07:42:32 UTC

such a near miss.
#pastpuzzle 149
🟩🟩🟥🟥 (-13)
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x/4 🟥
https://www.pastpuzzle.de

2025-05-02 16:58:57 UTC

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Much additional soldering has happened, with one near-fatal mistake, which the circuit miraculously survived. I have working USB! But for today I've hit a roadblock: the display won't display.
Worst (but most likely) option is I got the order of the 24 pins wrong. Next is, the library I'm using sends an incomplete init sequence. I may even be using SPI wrong, though this is improbable.
The investigation will continue tomorrow with more tooling.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/439/292/386/115/047/original/6cd766bd92c937eb.jpeg

2025-04-30 22:08:39 UTC

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Parts Have Arrived! A five-hour soldering marathon ensued. Two out of four milestones have been reached.
Rarely has a blinking light sparked so much joy in a person :)
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/429/186/144/873/991/original/ed784307ee9f86fc.mp4

2025-04-20 09:39:40 UTC

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I am most concerned about soldering the USB and FFC connectors. But through a combination of inspired searching and luck, I discovered these two modules! They'll let me plug into my board and verify connections one by one, using the test pads where needed, and check that I haven't shorted neighboring pads.
These are my recent learnings :) Let's see how they'll hold up in practice.
If you have any experiences or suggestions to share, please don't hold back!
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/369/611/664/222/996/original/8b9c79f20165ec0d.jpeg
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2025-04-20 09:28:36 UTC

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This is by far the most ambitious board I've attempted yet.
- It's tiny! And packed. All SMD morsels.
- I'm wary of the many-legged beasts: a USB-C socket, 24-pin FFC cable connector, LQFP64 chip
- It has a 3.3V -> 12V boost converter for an Oled display; I've never built this kind of circuit
- I've discovered pogo pins! That's how the programmer will connect (pads at bottom right)
- Added a bunch of test pads (top) so I can verify sub-circuits while building up the board

2025-04-20 09:15:35 UTC

Upcoming PCB shenanigans
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/369/522/620/849/450/original/4567ddcb94a843c3.jpeg

2025-02-18 22:19:56 UTC

Tonight at Show Us Your Screens: @npub1xse…lgk3 making the case for ⁂ (the character known as asterism) as the Fediverse symbol. Perspective projection distortion courtesy of my phone :)
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/114/027/208/401/857/620/original/c043d4ba0e9bcbb7.jpeg

2024-12-27 11:06:05 UTC

The pigeons are unimpressed.
#Berlin
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2024-12-26 14:02:20 UTC

Somewhere along the Vltava. This is not a focus issue.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/113/719/486/262/707/139/original/e27a12fe1ae9a89d.jpeg

2024-11-30 19:20:07 UTC

Behold this procedurally generated tree on an e-paper display.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/113/573/511/166/223/042/original/1d855c15919b6982.jpeg

2024-10-29 23:31:28 UTC

Is this the time to launch a new botsinspace, based not on Mastodon code but something like #fedify, or even RSS Parrot's minimal Go codebase? A specialized service might be more affordable to operate?
But expertise is clearly needed to detect and block bandwidth-hungry scrapers and other bandits... This needs to be a team effort.
Thoughts, anyone?
https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

2024-09-06 07:59:04 UTC

Hello hive mind! What recommendations do you have for art history books, focusing on visual arts?
Gombrich partly looks appealing, but partly feels extremely Dead White Male. A combination of 2 or 3 works that balance each other's blind spots would also be appealing.
Hit me with ideas in the replies!

2024-09-04 17:44:00 UTC

In the VW models I last drove (e-Golf, ID.3/4), temperature and fan have no physical knobs. It's all integrated into the shitty touchscreen UI. Usually this "app" is inaccessible for minutes after starting a car because it hasn't "initialized" yet.
I hate to see generations of engineering culture and a whole manufacturing ecosystem go down, but fuck it, VW: you had this coming.
Not to mention the emissions cheating, remember?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/04/volkswagen-has-a-year-maybe-two-to-turn-around-financial-chief-warns

2024-08-31 08:37:41 UTC

This whole week I've been frantically trying to make cyanotype prints of a series of plots on tracing paper. I dare say it's a finicky technique! I've got individual pieces that I'm happy with, but getting to a consistent series of 4 has so far been elusive.
But I'm extremely pleased with the Bathroom Window Caustics™ effect that I discovered somewhat by coincidence.
#PenPlotter
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/113/055/713/444/660/332/original/30c4dcc2454ff2d4.jpeg
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2024-08-08 13:07:51 UTC

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unruly spiral, now on paper.
#PenPlotter
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2024-08-03 21:26:13 UTC

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Spent the evening defining a more interesting spiral geometry. I'm loving the soft, flow-y, and dream-like output of this algorithm.
I am feeling for a way forward towards a longer-form piece with a compelling amount of variety. Lighting and composition are very sensitive, so I expect a lot of curation will be needed.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/900/197/594/508/755/original/05bf03249ec4af92.jpg

2024-07-31 10:42:18 UTC

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The classic Hangar Rat, of which I once built an RC version, also has a little pilot :) (Although the plan says it's "optional.")
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/880/682/834/049/582/original/394fb9c0de8f9991.jpeg

2024-07-28 20:18:04 UTC

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Shadows... They are hard! But we're getting there.
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/865/957/703/032/099/original/08fbcc42307cd108.jpeg

2024-07-26 20:08:20 UTC

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Let's go a-climbing!
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/854/593/502/621/545/original/ef26fc066ef08c59.jpeg

2024-07-25 16:54:15 UTC

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There's a lot of dialing in left to do... It's mostly very rewarding! (Except when a new perspective reveals yet another bug or head-scratching edge case...)
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/848/169/361/261/562/original/c942044da9fe86e4.mp4

2024-07-24 19:59:22 UTC

It's been 1.5 years since I first started obsessing over Piter Pasma's rayhatching algorithm. I recently dusted off my own solution and adapted it for ThreeJS mesh geometries.
Here's a cloth getting hatched!
https://files.genart.social/media_attachments/files/112/843/212/441/667/110/original/09cdd7841d72d924.mp4