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by alnwlsn 2y ago
That wouldn't happen to be from this story, would it? https://hackaday.com/2020/11/18/larry-berg-and-the-purple-op...
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
I know it's against the spirit of the thing (and probably against the law somehow), but I wonder what a path of data -> encode to text -> text to speech -> radio -> speech to text -> decode -> data would be like?
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
I'm considering it. Of course, the whole argument could then be extended all the way to "does your computer have an OS installed?" and that can of worms is something I think most would agree is outside of the scope of the ori
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
In my opinion, all these types of projects (Meshtastic, etc) fail at their goal of working "completely offline" as I discovered when I brought a bunch of Meshtastic stuff with me on vacation to a place with very limited internet.
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
Apparently, yes! https://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php/board,45.0.html
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
The thing I find the most interesting about this engine is that Ford did not use a spark plug. Inside the cylinder were two electrical switch contacts, and the spark was made on opening the switch. The electricity for this was provided by p
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
Anyone know if this is the right technique to use on 8/16 mm movie film (which is a positive instead of negative)? Modifying an old projector to go one frame at a time is the easy part, but you can't use the original halogen bulb
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
and probably the carbon monoxide awareness crowd too
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
The same goes for rubber bands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmrvxB154w
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I Wrote the Windows Start Menu [video](youtube.com)
4 points by alnwlsn 2y ago|1 comments
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
Not at all. To be sure, the design is non trivial and rather impressive if it meets the claimed specs. Is it $14M non trivial though? I have a feeling their valuation is overestimating more than I am underestimating.
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
I agree. I've worked with peltiers myself and they are annoying little buggers and like to break all the time. If you have good enough insulation, I have no problem believing that this device meets claims even on a modest battery pack.
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
How was someone able to raise $14 million by putting a Peltier chip, some batteries, and an ESP32 in a box?
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by alnwlsn 2y ago
This reminds me of a project a friend of mine worked on, where he wrote a dictionary of all the English one syllable words, but defined only in terms of other one syllable words. For example "day" would be something like "tim
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by alnwlsn 3y ago
What's old[1] is new again. I guess with an AI to take your order, the last piece has been solved. Only took 60 years. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE
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by alnwlsn 3y ago
I think the original poster is Aliaksei Zholner [ https://www.youtube.com/@nothingssmore ] who makes a lot of impressive things out of paper (like engines)
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by alnwlsn 3y ago
Paging Jason Scott, @textfiles
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by alnwlsn 3y ago
Wow! That's much fancier than the one I made. I got bored and never implemented anything other than text. [ http://alnwlsn.com/printer/ ]