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by Zuph 13y ago
Told to me by one of my engineering mathematics professors: "Anyone can design a bridge that doesn't fall down. It takes an engineer to build one that only barely doesn't fall down."
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by Zuph 13y ago
I had been fighting with Makefiles for a very long time, and I never really got beyond finding a boilerplate makefile, and changing it to just barely accomplish what I wanted to do. A while ago, I found Tup thanks to HN: http:/&#x2F
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by Zuph 13y ago
Eagle and Kicad have a pretty steep learning curve. Diptrace is far-and-away the easiest to use of the "hobby level" EDA packages. They have a non-profit license (for anyone not looking to sell the fruits of their labor) which wor
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by Zuph 13y ago
Reasons are largely historical. The engines used on the Proton were designed in the late 50's/early 60's for ICBMs. Ignition! is a great book on the history of rocket propellants: http://www.sciencemadness.org&#x2
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by Zuph 13y ago
It looks like Vagrant is designed to help out web developers more than anything else. I develop primarily for microcontrollers, and it can be a pain to manage toolchains for different architectures. Would Vagrant help with that? Does anyo
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by Zuph 13y ago
I'm the current president of the LVL1 hackerspace ( http://www.lvl1.org ) here in town. Our presence and our members have played a part in retooling this award. This is neat for a few reasons: * The Vogt Award has existed since 1999, and
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Vogt Awards looking for hardware startups. $20k seed money, $100k prize(vogtawards.com)
1 points by Zuph 13y ago|1 comments
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by Zuph 13y ago
Orbital has scads of experience with solid rocket motors. Simplicity is the major advantage (and disadvantage).
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by Zuph 14y ago
Or you can use a build system like Tup, which uses inotify to notice when any dependencies change: http://gittup.org/tup/
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by Zuph 14y ago
They missed a major deadline and their primary investor pulled the plug.
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by Zuph 14y ago
Seriously. I have a smart TV, but I might buy this just for the remote headphones. Nice wireless headphones are at least as expensive as a roku box, but I already have nice wired headphones.
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by Zuph 14y ago
Speaking from experience, Chinese plastic filament is almost always out-of-spec enough to mess up prints on today's 3D printers.
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by Zuph 14y ago
In most job markets in the US, refusing a pre-employment drug test would make you literally unemployable, from the crummiest fast-food/retail job, to middle/upper-level management.
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by Zuph 14y ago
It depends on the depth of a crater. A 15-20 mile deep crater would get you to Mt. Everest levels of density. Of course, that kind of a crater would require a direct impact from an object of this size, not a glancing impact.
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by Zuph 14y ago
It would also dig a deep crater. Depending on the depth of the hole, the atmosphere may be dense enough at the bottom that you wouldn't need anything more than an oxygen mask and a heavy coat to walk around outside. Some have proposed int
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Steve Blank: The Rise of the Heartland(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by Zuph 14y ago|0 comments
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by Zuph 14y ago
MCM has been shipping out RasPis next-day for a few months now: http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi
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by Zuph 14y ago
Not every country saddles their young graduates with tens (to hundreds!) of thousands of dollars in debt.
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by Zuph 14y ago
In addition to a huge loss of corporate knowledge concerning the construction, use, and maintenance of the engine, one of SpaceX's primary goals is turning raw materials into rockets at the lowest possible cost. The F-1 is not in the solut
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by Zuph 14y ago
MCM Electronics ( http://www.mcmelectronics.com/ ) has them in stock, and ships very quickly.
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by Zuph 14y ago
Not to burst your bubble, but Raspberry Pi IO pins operate at 3.3 volts, and the board you linked requires 5 volt logic inputs. It might still work, since there are no specs available for the transistor on the board, but don't count on i
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by Zuph 14y ago
Fair point. You can find BGA memories with ball spacing just slightly north of impossible, though. As far as I'm aware, that isn't possible with most (any?) A10/A13 chips.
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by Zuph 14y ago
Take a look at the Olinuxino: https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO https://www.olimex.com/dev/imx233-olinuxino-maxi.html They've got one version running an admittedly slow i.MX processor, and another coming down the pike running an Allwi
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by Zuph 14y ago
I think Phill Torrone hits the nail on the head: The problem isn't that the's copying a device, it's that he's relying on the trademark of the original developer to sell his "new" version, without substantially describing how he's going to
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by Zuph 14y ago
Why is a device without AAA games necessarily a device that isn't primarily about games? I'm genuinely curious about this. From my perspective, the Ouya seems to perfectly match my gaming habits (I have not played a "AAA" title in many year
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Open Source Initiative claims infringement on part of Open Source Hardware logo(oshwa.org)
2 points by Zuph 14y ago|0 comments
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by Zuph 14y ago
The elaborate floating crane isn't as Rube Goldberg as it seems. It's pretty similar to the Mars Phoenix mission, but with the engines on the other end. The only real difference is that SpaceX is eliminating the need to pack a parachute b
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by Zuph 15y ago
In order to go higher, you must enclose a larger volume of lifting gas. Eventually, the weight of your envelope will exceed the amount of lift you're able to generate with the enclosed volume. The Japanese currently hold the world altitude
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by Zuph 15y ago
Prediction tools are a big part of it. The US government publishes global wind data every 6 hours, as well as tools that can be used to parse and process this data. We've done a bunch of scripting on top of that to automatically email, sm
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by Zuph 15y ago
The balloon will never escape the atmosphere. It simply drifts higher until it either reaches neutral buoyancy, or pops. As the balloon rises, air pressure decreases. The result is that the gas inside the balloon is compressed less as th

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