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No Perspex diffuser yet ( need a beer ) ….

Yes , yes . Patience ! You had to wait 10 yrs to see my build almost finished - so a few days of suspense you can tolerate fore sure 😎

See what did there ? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

I was that lad who worked in a clock shop

I looked for clocks I like . None are big and ‘wow ish ‘ ( or cost mega money ) . So only option was as a girlfriend once said to me “ go big or go home “

Me and my mate Claude have been on yet another side project . Bit of wiring adjustment, diffuser Perspex sheet on top and then some neat edging trim. Claude’s description: A 1200 × 1000mm wall-mounted LED clock. The digits are made of 460 WS2812B addressable RGB LEDs in 3D-printed 20mm-deep light cells behind an opal acrylic diffuser, driven by an Adafruit Sparkle Motion (ESP32) running ESPHome. A separate date and weather row uses two P10 RGB LED matrix panels driven by a Huidu HD-WF2 controller (ESP32-S3), also on ESPHome. Both controllers connect to Home Assistant over Wi-Fi for time, weather and control (colour styles, animation speed, brightness, 12/24-hour time), and everything runs from a 5V supply.

Oh I’m being slack tbh . The 3d engine is complete apart from infinite extras I could add . M5 ultra arrived yesterday. I’ve promised myself not to transfer anything over to it until I’ve made my video . So I’ve set a hard stop forcing me to do video - but been on other special projects ( not related to Avalon ) using Claude of course - so expect a separate post about that soon .

I live in the promised land …

(expletive deleted)ers

Insurers starting to listen now - so I think they will send a loss adjuster out which is what I want .

Yeah it’s a rental . How can an insurer take 5 yrs with no result ? . Don’t worry ; I’m good at motivating companies by annoying them - it’s my special skill .

yeah but as I said drains on the opposite side of the plot . Managed to get hold of the neighbor (another LL) and his tenants have reported cracks in the same place their side - so I'm on insurers back now.

I'm going to push the insurer to supply a loss adjuster/subsidence specialist - I hope they see it's in their interest to establish cause and remedial work rather than me "try"

Thanks. Floor window cills all fine. So how do they access that party wall?. Neighbour isn't helpful as presumably they want me to sort and pay the excess whilst potentially benefitting. Lets assume the movement has stopped ; how can we be certain there wont be more?. I have monitored it for a year now doesn't appear worse. So what would/should a contractor do?

Yeah I was thinking that. But wont an SE just say "yes subsidence" , cctv down drain to eliminate that as potential cause i.e. collapsed; and then tell me to get a professional subsidence company in? The most likely reason is ground shrinkage - as the entire area is mainly on clay. But how do you "get under" a shared wall that isn't directly accesible ?

Nope they've had zero work

of note (maybe) there is a drain running under the property (front to back) but thats on the opposite wall

TBH even with recent photo's it looks pretty much the same. I notice on the landing ceiling some obvious damp so maybe render cracked on roof? The main cracks are on a shared wall with neighbour i.e. terraced house. So even with resin how do they fix that? Going to have to get insurance involved for 1K excess ... What I dont want really is subsidence fixed 1k poorer and then I still need a roofer/plasterer and decorator!

I posted about this property a while ago. It has got worse. So really need recommendations. Not keen to google, click 'n' hope. I see lots of "resin" fixes this viable? ta

Videos coming ! I’m away at the moment so getting Claude remotely to add new features and send me videos .

Yes I know it’s “ generic “ but it’s obvious ( too me ) that these things can and will be solved via llm / AI and within our lifetimes ( subject to how long either of us live of course ! )

Just imagine cancer cured ! (expletive deleted) me that’s a big one ! . Onward then to every other main disease etc then maybe dementia etc . That’s (expletive deleted)ing A star stuff

Looks like Astra has made 3d artists redundant now ! . Staggering examples . No programmers , no artists - Chuck in seedance no movie makers . Can’t imagine what will get just 6 months from now !

Lol. I had a problem with a opus session - it wasn't doing what I wanted. Told the Boss session and it sorted it out. As I'm doing optimisations decided to get multiple Fable sessions up to look at different aspects. As timings are critical can only have 1 at a time using the m3 for rendering. To avoid messing each other up they have coordinated themselves . Each asked how long the other sessions needed. They all then scheduled themselves i.e. "I'll wait until 16:40 for my gpu session". Only got about 20% fable time left this week so it's going to be a stretch. But resolving some tricky issues - optimisations are thin on the ground but I'll squeeze what's left. Though any gains are lost as I add new features at the same time!. I got a feeling the video is going to be (expletive deleted)ing awesome!