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Pumped up the tires and first step is cleaning this bike. Also. For sure will need new brake pads, extremely worn. Bike stand from a Fediverse friend there, thanks Kevin! Have been using it a lot. #BikeTooter #BikeRepair #restoration
New video! Refurbishing 2 Super Famicom Controllers and looking at the differences between regional variants.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/gluiCLIRdks
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/1e3BLCX677U6iuv4DLjzwr
#Nintendo #SNES #Controller #SuperFamicom #SuperNintendo #Refurb #Restoration #Retrobright #RetroGaming
Pumped up the tires and first step is cleaning this bike. Also. For sure will need new brake pads, extremely worn. Bike stand from a Fediverse friend there, thanks Kevin! Have been using it a lot. #BikeTooter #BikeRepair #restoration
New video! Refurbishing 2 Super Famicom Controllers and looking at the differences between regional variants.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/gluiCLIRdks
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/1e3BLCX677U6iuv4DLjzwr
#Nintendo #SNES #Controller #SuperFamicom #SuperNintendo #Refurb #Restoration #Retrobright #RetroGaming
I spent yesterday at Travis Wetland, Ōruapaeroa, which is a large wetland restoration site in eastern Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. One of my MSc students, Tommy, is embarking on an invertebrate survey of the wetland, and we spent the day setting up Malaise traps (to catching flying insects) and pitfall traps (to catch invertebrates on the ground).
Tommy is repeating a survey done back in 1995–1996, when the wetland (then mostly wet farmland) was being purchased from a housing developer by the City Council.
We expect a lot to have changed (hopefully mostly for the better) as the vegetation of the wetland is much more diverse and native than it was.
Stay tuned over the summer for insect discoveries.
#entomology #wetland #restoration #InsectSurvey #insects #nz #LincolnUniversityNZ #research
I spent yesterday at Travis Wetland, Ōruapaeroa, which is a large wetland restoration site in eastern Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. One of my MSc students, Tommy, is embarking on an invertebrate survey of the wetland, and we spent the day setting up Malaise traps (to catching flying insects) and pitfall traps (to catch invertebrates on the ground).
Tommy is repeating a survey done back in 1995–1996, when the wetland (then mostly wet farmland) was being purchased from a housing developer by the City Council.
We expect a lot to have changed (hopefully mostly for the better) as the vegetation of the wetland is much more diverse and native than it was.
Stay tuned over the summer for insect discoveries.
#entomology #wetland #restoration #InsectSurvey #insects #nz #LincolnUniversityNZ #research
Now it's time to put it all back together. 1 hour to disassemble, 5 to clean everything, an hour back together?
This is one of the CLEANEST vintage machines I've laid hands on, by the way. It was in great working order; I can't wait to try it out in this condition.
Now it's time to put it all back together. 1 hour to disassemble, 5 to clean everything, an hour back together?
This is one of the CLEANEST vintage machines I've laid hands on, by the way. It was in great working order; I can't wait to try it out in this condition.
*I'm saying we, since I would need to work with an expert. I am not only totally blind (who knows if this would be accessible), but I know nothing about this sort of thing.*
To make a very long story short, I am aware that there is severe frequency loss in acoustic recordings. That is why they sound so tinny, even when compared to the earliest electrics. Some voices are affected more than others, but even the ones with the best recordings still experience some of it. With the advances in technology at our disposal in 2025, however, I am wondering if it would be possible to attempt to restore some of those frequencies. Ideally, it might sound like something from the 1940's, but I doubt that is possible, at least with the earlier records, so at least the 1920's or 1930's would be great.
The thing is, I don't know exactly what is lost. So my idea is to record a modern singer (with at least a somewhat similar voice to the original) on period equipment and digitally symultaneously. In this way, we would have the live singer, plus two very different recordings. We could then compare the live, electric, and acoustic versions with a device or software that measures frequencies. Once we have determined what is lost, we could then try to restore the actual records in question.
If we were doing this with a cylinder machine, it would be very easy. Not only can one literally still record at the Edison Museum, but there are people today who record in wax with both real machines and reproductions, including commercially! However, the first singer whom I have in mind for this, Francesco Tamagno, recorded on disks, which complicates everything. I was very familiar with cylinder recording prior to designing this project, though I had never done it myself, but I knew absolutely nothing about 78s. Then, I learned.
https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/making-gramophone-records
As I was saying, it is beyond complicated! Even if we took a chance and recorded the wax master and then used it for playback, skipping the step of actually making a shellac record, there is still the issue of finding recording equipment from Tamagno's time, which is ridiculously rare and doubtlessly too expensive for most people to consider buying. You might ask why we couldn't just use a cylinder machine, since they were certainly around in 1903. The problem is that their frequency loss was different from shellac records, so it would ruin the experiment if the difference was significant. Is it? Can anyone tell me? Do we even need to make a modern recording, or is technology good enough that we can simply add in the frequences from previous knowledge? If this can be perfected, or at least made feasible, there are hundreds of singers whose voices can finally be let out of the can, at least a little, and made to sound more life-like! Many of these didn't live to see electric recordings. I'm sure everyone would jump on this if I said Enrico Caruso was on the list, for example. But he, too, recorded on disks. I wonder if we can skip the recording experiment and use a singer, such as Tito Schipa (my personal favourite), whose recordings span both the acoustic and electric eras, from 1913 to 1964, as a control and gauge the frequency loss that way. If we wanted someone who recorded earlier, we could try someone like Alessandro Bonci or Mattia Battistini, but both only made it to the 1920's.
#78s #acoustic #cylinders #electric #music #opera #production #project #recording #records #restoration #science #SoundRestoration #technology
It’s great to see the #LowMow Revolution coming to Wellington, NZ.
“Low mow sites had about double the plant species - an average of 21.8, compared to 11.3 on regularly mown sites. Bugs were also more abundant, with 5.5 invertebrates on low mow sites, but just 1.2 on sites mowers frequent. Bird life was about the same, but the ground absorbed rainwater twice as quickly.”
“Others said the area wasn't used much, and longer grass with daisies and buttercups poking through looked more interesting than a plain mown patch.“
It’s great to see the #LowMow Revolution coming to Wellington, NZ.
“Low mow sites had about double the plant species - an average of 21.8, compared to 11.3 on regularly mown sites. Bugs were also more abundant, with 5.5 invertebrates on low mow sites, but just 1.2 on sites mowers frequent. Bird life was about the same, but the ground absorbed rainwater twice as quickly.”
“Others said the area wasn't used much, and longer grass with daisies and buttercups poking through looked more interesting than a plain mown patch.“
New video! I'm restoring a 1980s vintage NAD 7020e receiver and setting it up correctly.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/EQksKIyDJvY
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fYUAwoWVDpKi49p6fBFZTh
#NAD7020 #NAD7020e #Receiver #Restoration #NAD #NewAudioDimension #Refurb #Recapping #IdlingCurrent #Bias #Adjustment #VintageHifi #VintageAudio
New video! I'm restoring a 1980s vintage NAD 7020e receiver and setting it up correctly.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/EQksKIyDJvY
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fYUAwoWVDpKi49p6fBFZTh
#NAD7020 #NAD7020e #Receiver #Restoration #NAD #NewAudioDimension #Refurb #Recapping #IdlingCurrent #Bias #Adjustment #VintageHifi #VintageAudio
I spent this afternoon touring the "Red Zone" of Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, with two friends. One of them works for Corrections and with his "clients" they've so far planted more than 90,000(!) native trees in this area of the city. Many more are to come. They're still baby trees now but a whole forest is on it's way!
For non-locals, the Red Zone was created after the disastrous Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 wrecked the housing in this eastern area of the city. Most of it was reclaimed wetland and the ground didn't hold up to a serious quake. The city decided not to re-house it.
The houses have since been removed although many of the home garden trees were retained. The area is now being re-landscaped for nature, recreation, and floodwater retention.
I spent this afternoon touring the "Red Zone" of Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, with two friends. One of them works for Corrections and with his "clients" they've so far planted more than 90,000(!) native trees in this area of the city. Many more are to come. They're still baby trees now but a whole forest is on it's way!
For non-locals, the Red Zone was created after the disastrous Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 wrecked the housing in this eastern area of the city. Most of it was reclaimed wetland and the ground didn't hold up to a serious quake. The city decided not to re-house it.
The houses have since been removed although many of the home garden trees were retained. The area is now being re-landscaped for nature, recreation, and floodwater retention.
"From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield"
"Some European governments are now wondering if reviving ailing bogs can solve several problems at once. Finland and Poland told POLITICO they were actively exploring bog restoration as a multipurpose measure to defend their borders and fight climate change."
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-defense-kyiv-ukraine-nato-eu-bogs-poland-war-germany/
Here are four wetland birds I've photographed on my bike commute to work this week, between Ōtautahi-Chirstchurch and Lincoln, New Zealand. Together they're a testament to how much wetland bird life has been returning to the wider city, as the city has been restoring native wetland habitats.
I've been counting birds on my bike commute to Lincoln since 2003. While I saw pied oystercatchers in 2003, the first ever pied stilt I counted wasn't until August 2017, the first grey teal I counted was in July 2019, and the first coot I counted was in June 2024.
Bring back the wetlands and the birds return.
Poaka · Australian Pied stilt: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208255
Tete · Grey teal: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208254
Tōrea · South Island Pied Oystercatcher: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208266
Australasian Coot: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/306208248
Vintage sewing machine with 116 years of grime mostly removed. Didn't remove the patina, but I suspect some of the funk on this piece is vintage cigarette smoke from back when everyone in the US was a smoker. #sewingmachine#ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #sewing #restoration
Long-lost Charlie Chaplin film meticulously restored after 100 years
The original 1925 version of ‘The Gold Rush’ is now available in 4K.
By Andrew Paul
https://www.popsci.com/technology/charlie-chaplin-the-gold-rush-4k/
Movie books at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/49
Long-lost Charlie Chaplin film meticulously restored after 100 years
The original 1925 version of ‘The Gold Rush’ is now available in 4K.
By Andrew Paul
https://www.popsci.com/technology/charlie-chaplin-the-gold-rush-4k/
Movie books at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/49
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