CarVac

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by CarVac 3y ago
How loud is it?
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by CarVac 3y ago
Firefox always gives me a button that directly opens the portal login page.
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by CarVac 3y ago
It's simple statistics. The chance of every parameter not being an outlier is small. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... "Even more surprising, when Daniels a
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by CarVac 3y ago
They may be normally distributed, but most people have at least one or two outlier parameters that customization could help with. Personally I just suggest going to a keyboard meetup and trying out a bunch of ergos and picking the design yo
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by CarVac 3y ago
Hand width and size are not the only things to take into account. The resting curl of your hand is important, as is relative finger lengths (particularly of the pinky). And then there's resting thumb position relative to the fingers.
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by CarVac 3y ago
The other proble is that sometimes the cheaply built chair is more comfortable and looks better than the solidly built chair… then the right option is to buy neither.
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by CarVac 3y ago
Ah, so ESD protection should cover that case?
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by CarVac 3y ago
Based on jmwilson's article above, it seems you can end up with nasty resonances. With other capacitor types that have more ESR, they dampen out the resonance peaks.
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by CarVac 3y ago
And Dragon isn't a mythical creature. (does Boeing's Starliner get a pass?)
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by CarVac 4y ago
The first draft was 2020. https://qntm.org/lena Still feels like ages ago somehow.
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by CarVac 4y ago
The "yes-clean" flux I'm talking about is high-solids rosin flux that leaves a conductive residue. The conductivity can definitely cause a circuit to fail. Makers come to our discord chat, asking why their builds aren't
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by CarVac 4y ago
"Yes-clean" flux has absolutely been the cause of controller malfunctions due to its conductivity for makers of my controller project. It needs to be removed. But yes, no-clean flux is best left where it is.
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by CarVac 4y ago
When I instruct people to solder, I emphasize that heat transfer improves when you press very firmly with the soldering iron tip. Too bad most PCB holders are flimsy. I recommend a solid metal vise instead of those contraptions.
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by CarVac 4y ago
And intentionally choosing not to blame your tools doesn't transform you into a good craftsman, either.
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by CarVac 4y ago
Those cheap "adjustable temperature" irons are "adjustable power" with no actual temperature feedback control. The middle ground is the Pinecil, which is $25 but needs a laptop power supply. It's… okay. It has less
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by CarVac 4y ago
SAC305 melts at a slightly higher temperature but has a lower melted viscosity than Sn63. So it takes a smidge longer to heat a joint than for leaded, but you don't need to hold the heat there as long once it flows. It's slightly
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by CarVac 4y ago
I 100% agree. They say "a good craftsman doesn't blame his tools" but when you start out you need good tools. A non-temperature-controlled soldering iron is a huge impediment to learning because the temperature varies with us
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by CarVac 4y ago
Lead-free is fine. Lead-free with poor quality flux is abhorrent to use. Get good quality lead-free with good flux from a reputable manufacturer (Kester is good, as you mentioned) and it's fine. In fact, I prefer how thin and quick to
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by CarVac 4y ago
A wet sponge doesn't cause rust, it's occasionally blamed for cracking plating when you use a high temperature. If you use a moderate temperature (650°F/340°C) it's a gentler way to clean flux residue off the tip. Brass
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by CarVac 4y ago
I have a similar setup, but with Monoprice coaxial audio cables that seem totally immune to interference, and using mixers so there's no input switching. I have simultaneous inputs from my old analog consoles hooked up to a CRT, my OLE
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by CarVac 4y ago
As I mentioned yesterday, I really hope that it becomes possible to DIY designs, whether with thin-enough modular scissor keys, or by opening the thickness requirements of the keyboard. Perhaps there could be alternate tall hinges and a thi
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by CarVac 4y ago
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/392387047740014624/... Is this how the GPU module cooling will work? (a poor mouse drawing of my best guess based on the pictures)
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by CarVac 4y ago
For proper ergonomics you want the keyboard at elbow level and the top of the screen at eye level.
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by CarVac 4y ago
Thanks! I use a 46-key ergo layout (Mitosis) that would be perfect for a laptop and have always itched to have it integrated into the computer.
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by CarVac 4y ago
MXM is alright for upgrading, but it's not modular the way this aims to be. This includes cooling, so a small GPU could have smaller heatsinks and a beefy GPU could have huge heatsinks. And if you don't want the GPU and the associ
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by CarVac 4y ago
Is there a chance you could have individual scissor switch key modules made for DIY ergonomic layouts on a custom PCB? The height limitations of the 16" laptop are too low for low-profile discrete mechanical switches.
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by CarVac 4y ago
I'm planning on making partial sunglasses out of neutral density filters that only shade the lower left quadrant of my vision, simply for driving at night. I used to love driving at night but nowadays it's actively painful.
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by CarVac 4y ago
Unfortunately there are no volunteers with Macs forthcoming. Even the far more established darktable project is looking for a new provider for Mac builds.
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by CarVac 4y ago
How does this compare to my Filmulator, which basically runs a simulation of stand development? https://filmulator.org (I've been too busy on another project to dedicate too much time to it the past year, and dealing with W
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by CarVac 4y ago
The "more balanced processing" is still rather heavily sharpened and extremely noisy by my standards, so this all but confirms what I felt before about phone raws.

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