ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 11mo ago
The Bigelow stuff was very promising and showed that it could work. The larger units on extruded spokes was a viable path to a .5G space station. This would be doable with three (possibly 4) Starship launches[1]. [1] Caveat Starship has t
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The death of Arduino?
14 points by ChuckMcM 11mo ago|1 comments
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The Death of Arduino?(linkedin.com)
458 points by ChuckMcM 11mo ago|254 comments
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by ChuckMcM 11mo ago
The "production" lift capacity included some assumptions apparently about how much they could get out of Raptor and what they expected the assembly to weigh. Engineering constraints requiring more structure, the heat shield being
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by ChuckMcM 11mo ago
I'll defer to your experience on this, however Falcon Heavy is the comparable platform so what you're saying is that New Glenn might be able to out compete Falcon Heavy given it was designed from the start for this space? (Not t
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by ChuckMcM 11mo ago
Congrats to the Blue Origin team! That's a heck of a milestone (landing it on the second attempt). It will compete more with Falcon Heavy than Starship[1] but it certainly could handle all of the current GEO satellite designs. I'm
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I just have to add that this is a fucking brilliant plan. The number of useful things you will learn doing this is very high.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I can recommend a 'Hacker Boxes'[1] subscription. It's $44/month currently, every month you'll get all the parts to build some gizmo or project and a full list of instructions. The prerequisites are that you know ho
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
FWIW, the last time I tried ventoy (early 2025) some ISOs would screw up the USB stick if you tried to boot them (and by that I mean the USB stick would no longer boot anything).
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Fun stuff. You kids don't know how lucky you are to have really capable MCU's for just a few bucks. :-) It is kind of the ultimate "not a TOE[1]" example yet. [1] TOE or TCP Offload Engine was a dedicated peripheral card
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
"On Prem" is looking better and better :-).
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Nice, page 13 has the 'standard' chemical labels which happened to also be the contents of a 'standard' chemistry set (minus a couple for me, like no concentrated sulphuric acid and only dilute nitric acid.) One of the t
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yes, the bikes in the pictures do not have fenders. However, if you look at the press coverage, there are lots of studs on the frame for adding everything from cargo racks to front pannier wine bottle holders. That makes me unwilling to dis
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Well in the talk the presenter was talking things like tardigrades which are multicellular. The challenge with tardigrades (and any multicellular life) is that you want it to be reproducing (and hence evolving) so it has to be able to do so
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yeah, and you want to explain to future generations why we could have had a happy relationship with Mars but no, we gave it a really bad yeast infection and now it never wants us anywhere near it? Hmmm? :-) I heard an interesting speculat
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I tend to agree with comments that point out that 'modern' e-bikes are really electric motor cycles or the original "MoPed" from the 60's. And they have the same appeal, relatively cheap to operate, fit in between r
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Roomba redux[1]. Seems ill advised to have appliances that cannot function when offline and reminded me of push back I got at Google for telling them offline maps were essential (in spite of the product manager insisting "everyone has
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
And it definitely seems to be the audio stuff. Got the game to start but no audio, and that lack of audio persists for everything until a reboot. So something is hanging up in the OS.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Good thought. Managed to get the game to start although without sound which makes it a bit challenging. An acquaintance suggested I just cons up a virtual machine running XP (or Win98) and do it that way (I've got the original media so
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Sigh, "bought" a copy of Dark Reign which I had a lot of fun with back in the day, but is doesn't run. Click on 'Play' and it briefly says "Syncing 0%" then the play gets shaded for 3 or 4 seconds and then
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Pretty neat, I always appreciate it when someone can give the reasoning behind their programming choices. Its a good start but some issues (on Win10 using the binary from releases) that became pretty apparent right off the bat. I took an in
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I think it would be amazing to be able to buy an M5 based open platform.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is both informative and kind of amazing that anything works at all. Talk to anyone who did graphics at the turn of the century and you'll hear about "racing the beam" which you had only 16.67 mS before vertical retrace t
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I suppose it would depend on how you wanted to simulate it. In my case I was targeting taking the signal from an unmodified test instrument that thought it was talking to a CRT and using that to figure out what display it wanted. That would
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This kind of nails it. Absolutely keep in touch with people because connection is essential to the human existence. Don't "pretend" to offer connection if you aren't willing to nourish it. The pretense is just mean and d
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yeah, not really the same. I had a really really complete Vectrex setup, every game (even the stupid ones :-)) AND their overlays, I'm pretty sure every accessory. Which I ended up selling to a guy doing a museum?[1] Anyway it was quit
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This. I had ripped a bunch of DVDs and had them on my NAS, sort of like NetFlix where the movies are all ones you like and they are never "leaving soon" :-).
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Agreed it was great ergonomics. It should not be too difficult to replicate with existing offerings. I wonder if anyone has one that could be scanned for replication by 3D printing.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I'm a bit baffled by this. For those of you who were paying attention there was a big controversy when Arduino split with Arduino and filed a lawsuit[1]. That made it hard to get hardware and resulted in a bunch of open source folks wh
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
True, but their demising technology appears to be quite good too. I had an interesting discussion at the Small Satellite conference in Utah with folks about demising and they mentioned starlink. "Good" demising has the 'slips

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