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Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
- zeristor 1y agoThey could do a Mrs Doyle on that: “Go on, go on, go on, go on, goes on” Or that gives you a coup of tea instead
- anonzzzies 1y agoIt's a microcake! You won't feel it going in!
- tempodox 1y agoI read somewhere that the cake is a lie.
- 4ugSWklu 1y agoYou sir have just won the internet!
- antithesizer 1y agoI hear you're a redditor now, Father!
- Ylpertnodi 1y agoDoes it have cocaine in it? I mean 'raisins'. I love cinnamon.
- Macha 1y ago> a coup of tea I mean, I wouldn't put it past Mrs Doyle if some government got in the way of her serving tea, I suppose.
- austinallegro 1y ago(My lovely, lovely, lovely horse) My lovely horse (My lovely horse) Running through the field (Running through the field) Where are you going, with your fetlocks blowing in the wind? (All Summer) I want to shower you with sugar lumps And ride you over fences Polish your hooves every single day And bring you to the horse dentist (My lovely, lovely, lovely horse) My lovely horse, (My lovely horse) You're a pony no more (You're a pony no more) Running around with a man on your back Like a train in the night... like a train in the night (I Love You Anyway) My lovely, lovely, lovely horse
- Animats 1y agoNext, the paper towel and toilet paper meters.
- narhdo 1y ago[dead]
- nabla9 1y agoTalk about Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Just a week ago I became aware of Father Ted and watched only the show with the tape dispenser because it was recommended to me by Youtube. This article is year old, and shows up now in my feed.
- stavros 1y agoYesterday I found out about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon and now I see it mentioned! Must be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon phenomenon.
- FionnMc 1y agoI genuinely never thought I'd see Father Ted, let alone the lourdes tape dispenser on the front page of HN. What a great day.
- mywacaday 1y agoSitting have a lazy late breakfast, sun is shining and this comes up, great start to the day. Showed my wife and she had the great idea that we should watch Fr. Ted from the start again. Fr. Ted first came out when I was in college in the 90s, Thursday night was the big night out for students and as new episodes of Fr Ted would air at 9pm our night out would start in a jammed pub with everyone watching it on a big screen. On a side note, not sure if this would be a sacrilegious or an ecumenical matter but having voice options for Ted, Dougal, Fr Jack, Mrs Doyle, Bishop Brennan, Fr Noel Furlong, Fr Stone, Fr Fintan Stack, Tom, Henry Sellers. That's just off the top of my head, there are many more.It was such magnificent writing and acting that characters that only appeared in one episode would still be mentioned as a joke or reference among my generation. Fond fond memories.
- esperent 1y ago> Fr. Ted first came out when I was in college in the 90s I was a teenager, and some of the episodes were filmed at my school. The lovely horse video is the field behind my school where we used to sneak out during break. They even stopped class one day to film a scene at the front of the school - they used the school building as the outside of the craggy island sports center.
- sandworm101 1y agoI don't believe it.
- tempodox 1y agoI didn't know sticky tape usage is a blessable act. TIL!
- ekaryotic 1y agoit's not, the dispenser is a jab at the kind of trinket stalls that form around holy sites. what i don't understand is how the dispenser compensates for the changing radius of the tape roll in order to measure accurately. i suspect that it doesn't.
- arp242 1y agoDivine intervention, presumably. They don't bless those tape dispensers for nothing.
- tempodox 1y agoDivine intervention sounds reasonable for an automated blessing device. Otherwise the issued blessings might be unauthorized or even in violation of copyright.
- samwillis 1y agoTwo ways to make it: - know the total length of the tape, and when it's changed, and therefore predict the current radius of the roll - a small sprung variable resistor pressing against the under side of the role But that could be over-engineering something that almost more perfect if it's a little imperfect.
- fecal_henge 1y agoId just weigh the roll.
- ekaryotic 1y agothought of a third way: cellophane tape does emit xrays when unrolled, so correlate the strength of the radiation with the angular velocity of the roll to more precisely calculate how much tape was removed. I suspect a second photodiode may respond to the radiation.
- timwis 1y agoHaven’t heard of Fathers Ted, and I assumed by the title that this was an article about passphrases
- pansa2 1y agoYes, a Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser is an alternative to a Correct Horse Battery Staple
- bryanrasmussen 1y agosurely there is no alternative to my lovely correct horse battery staple?!
- card_zero 1y agoNow that he's got the manufacturing costs down this is edging toward being the surprise breakthrough device of the 2020s. Just needs marketing, I hear that Jonathan Ive fellow is in need of something meaningful to do these days.
- bookofjoe 1y agoHmmm... what if this IS the AI device he and Altman are talking about but it leaked a year early? Asking for a friend.
- stavros 1y agoI don't know if this is an HN thing (as in, the software disallows it), but that title needs some punctuation. My first thought was "Who's Ted Kilnettle and what's Shrine Tape"?
- jerrysievert 1y agoat most it could use a "the" in front of the title: The Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser which is a reference to a show name Father Ted, in which a Kilnettle Shrine tape dispenser was sold as a souvenir at the Kilnettle Shrine, and brought on a plane by Father Ted in the show Father Ted.
- stavros 1y agoFather Ted "Kilnettle Shrine" Tape Dispenser.
- dottjt 1y agoLiterally been watching through this series over the past week. Interesting to see it here.
- anonzzzies 1y agoFather, what's it all about?
- austinallegro 1y agoThat money was just resting in my account. Ask Pat Mustard.
- theoreticalmal 1y agoFeck off!
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoCareful now!
- puddingpop 1y agoDown with this sort of thing!
- Malic 1y agoNow I want a rubber frog that croaks, “The Golden Age of Ballooning” (Monty Python reference)
- lproven 1y agoI can do you a 9front release but that's my final offer. https://9front.org/releases/2022/10/31/0/ https://9front.org/releases/2022/10/31/0/
- vgeek 1y agoThis seems to be an ecumenical matter.
- scottlamb 1y agoNeat project! > Instead of a rotary encoder to measure the tape rotation, it now uses an IR led and sensor. I don't get it; how does this work? Are there openings at certain positions in the reel that it detects the light through? Why is this better than the rotary encoder design?
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- stephencoyle 1y agoThanks! > Are there openings at certain positions in the reel Yes, that's exactly it! The spool has holes, and there's an IR emitter/detector on either side. You can view the STLs on the GitHub repo or Printables and see for yourself. It's better than the rotary encoder [for this project specifically] because it's cheaper and doesn't require the sensor to be a load-bearing part.
- vmilner 1y agoDid Father Ted have much impact in the US? - it always seems v British/Irish in its humour (but that’s true of Monty Python of course and that obviously made it over there)
- dylan604 1y agoBBC America is a thing since 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_America
- vmilner 1y agoI forget that shows from non-BBC channels in the Uk can get shown on BBC America.
- kadoban 1y agoIt didn't have the cultural impact of many other shows, though certainly some people know of and have seen it. It's less well known/referenced than even Red Dwarf and other fairly niche shows in my experience.
- Padriac 1y agoWe loved it in Australia.
- faoioifdaoifds 1y ago[dead]
- userbinator 1y agoThe logic runs on an ESP8266 microcontroller instead of a Raspberry Pi Zero, all of which means the electronics inside can be purchased for less than €10. This looks like the type of application which, if mass-produced, would have the electronics done on a $0.10 mask-programmed COB.
- 8bitchemistry 1y agoIs there a metric version?
- theamk 1y agoOne of the hardest things in Arduino-based designs is power savings, and this one is not an exception. This design has no power saving, which means it will only last few hours tops on the batteries. This could be improved, but the current design (ESP8266 + analog IR sensor) does not really work with low power. A good start would be to put a 2nd low-power micro on IR encoder that'd (1) count pulses (2) wake up ESP8266. This will allow one to keep complex stuff (audio out) using Arduino libraries, while small piece of hand-written code will take care low power stuff. A more advanced design would be to get rid of ESP8266 and switch to low power MCU. If you keep audio uncompressed, a small MCU (STM8 or AVR8) is perfectly capable of playing some speech... and it will only take microamps in sleep/sense mode. You likely won't be able to use as many pre-made libraries however, so this is substantially more development time.
- dTal 1y agoI think you can do even better and make one that draws no power when not in use - since the activation is a physical movement, you could design it in such a way that it closes a physical switch.
- 10yearsalurker 1y agoShoddy shoddy shoddy