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For the first time in like 20 years I played on a Game Boy just a couple of months ago after finding my old box with handhelds (also had quite some Game&Watch t
by stinos 6y ago
For the first time in like 20 years I played on a Game Boy just a couple of months ago after finding my old box with handhelds (also had quite some Game&Watch titles, but who has LR44 batteries these days..). Still fun. Unfortunately my 'Game Boy Oscilloscope' cartridge was missing, that was a pretty cool thing actually. Reminder of an era when things were different, but not necessarily worse. Probably I'll think the same of this decade 20 years in the future, but it's sometimes easy to foget how fast things can advance and holding an older piece of hardware always reminds me of that.
More on topic: the comment wrt batteries in the article is spot on. So common, yet so many problems with it. For that exact reason we have a kitchen scale driven by a small dynamo for generating power. No more empty batteries right when you need it. No more despair when the batteries it needs are not the type you have lying around. No more auto-off in the middle of weighing (cannot believe how many scales are plagued by that - or did I just get unlucky?). Just spin the wheel a couple of times and it goes on for minutes. Really hoping the thing lasts a lifetime; that's a good general rule for how tools should be actually: do one thing, do it good, and last forever.
Anyway: too bad this isn't up for sale, would make a nice gift for instance. But good to see there's still R&D being done in the direction of not requiring batteries, combining a couple of sources is perhaps the novelty here.
- war1025 6y ago> For that exact reason we have a kitchen scale driven by a small dynamo for generating power. No more empty batteries right when you need it. That's interesting. Mind linking to it? We've had a kitchen scale for about five years now, and I find myself becoming ever more dependent on it. They are just an amazing little piece of equipment that makes cooking so much easier. And they do seem to die without warning, which is maddening. I've started keeping more button cell batteries on hand exactly because of that situation.
- KMnO4 6y agoEven better, why not use a mechanical scale? Digital is sure easier to read (plus you get neat features like tare and unit conversion), but a plain old mechanical force measure doesn't require batteries at all.
- war1025 6y agoI haven't ever seen a mechanical kitchen scale that has any amount of capacity. And they also tend to be much larger and bulkier than a digital scale.
- stinos 6y agoI really liked that idea, but at the time when I was looking for a new scale none of the mechanical ones I encountered had the combination of a resolution of 1g or less (I also use it to weigh beans for espresso) and also able to weigh up to a couple of kg. Though maybe I just didn't look hard enough.
- jdhawk 6y agoEllessi Food Weight Scale. Amazon ASIN: B074MRLMVG
- stinos 6y agohttps://www.zassenhaus.com/produkte/kuechenaccessoires/waagen/220/digital-waage-eco-energy?c=19 https://www.zassenhaus.com/produkte/kuechenaccessoires/waage... Mine is only like a year old, so no idea if it'll do more than 5 years..