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Status update

Hello there!

I'm still alive, but I've been extremely busy and I ran into some problems.

In the past few days, I started building the Saracia. It's almost finished now. We found an old computer in an attic, and we decided to use the case of that computer because it looked very cool. No cardboard after allπŸ˜”






Meanwhile, my sony Mavica camera arrived. Not the one I ordered, an inferior model instead, but still absolutely awesome. I took some pictures yesterday with it.





If I forgot to mention what's special about this camera, it's that it stores pictures on foppy disks.



Also, I fried the USB C port on my phone, so I'm making this post directly on it, because I don't have any efficient way of transferring photos to my computer. So sorry if this post looks weird.

I did bother to transfer some pictures taken with the mavica trough email. This is what they look like on "Fine" quality:







Also, my new Zenith AC adapter arrived. Way earlier than planned.



Well, that's all for today. I'll do a review on the Saracia once it's completed, and on the Mavica after that.

Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day! πŸ˜πŸŽ‰

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