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What Solarpunk Tech do you own? (slrpnk.net)

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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:

The Untold History of Arduino by Hernando Barragán

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks a lot for sharing, got a long train ride tomorrow, will check them out then! 🌻

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

(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. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just heading out to check the asparagus patch, I'll make a list with links later today!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm also interested to see if you have any that I don't know about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hello there, fellow knight. I shared a list in a comment above, cheers