A vulture gliding head-on to a landing with wings extended. Lightly textured background. Photographed in Zimbabwe Africa.
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#Scavenger episode N.
Dropped some bags of clothes at the local waste facility.
Found some interesting items in a dumpster with electronics:
- 2 DC fans, 24V, 10W,
- 4 small solar cells with light sensors and batteries from the garden lamps,
- 1 small solar panel rated 6V, 1W.
After cleaning I tested them.
Both fans work (also at 12V). The solar panel gives 12V at full sun.
Haven't tested small cells yet, but at least one charges builtin battery well. It shines when it's dark.
Satisfied.
#reuse
The Last Seed (2022) [5 min] by Christopher Woods, Doryan Beauvillard, Paul Gressier, Nadia Miller and Thomas Doussineau | #France
Testing my new laser power meter with another ‘rescue’ from a scrapped CD drive. Scavenging laser diodes leaves a lot of ‘debris’.. 
It’s an infrared laser so I can’t see it (besides a minor glow of deep red), but my phone camera shows it as an eerie purple tone with the characteristic speckle-pattern.
The power meter? It has an absolutely massive thermopile sensor, no wonder it’s quite heavy 
I don’t know much about it’s absolute accuracy, but I think it’ll be ok for my experimental (hobbyist) use.
The lasediode produces some 50mW power at 100mA current, which isn’t uncommon so be careful when playing with invisible light 
Trying to get into #pixel_dailies again, today's theme is #scavenger . Made using the six color #inkpink palette, at 64x64 pixels. #pixelart
