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by alnwlsn 5mo ago
The real trick is that it's a skill that you practice and get better at. I was able to do this https://hackaday.io/project/197868-sub-surface-simon using no magnification, and only cheap soldering tools. You can
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by alnwlsn 5mo ago
There isn't much advantage to even learning on lead in my opinion, unless your only goal is to work on old stuff that used leaded solder. Any modern or new stuff (i.e. the smallest components) has the whole supply chain designed around
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by alnwlsn 5mo ago
I've used a couple of the ZD- ones and they are ok, but not very good quality. They don't really clog all that often, but they do fill up quickly and are very difficult and messy to clean out. They are also made of cheap plastic w
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by alnwlsn 5mo ago
Literally saw a video ad the other day which went like "I've always been cautious using Google's AI because it sometimes gets things wrong, but this time, it got it right!"
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by alnwlsn 5mo ago
For football, yes. Although I think it only broadcast on some small cable TV channel that you had to get special access for. There definitely were small media crews at the games (I was in the band; I went to most of them). One year I was th
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by alnwlsn 5mo ago
Not sure it happens with the sun, but if you have differently located light sources of different colors you can get shadows of different colors (because the shadow area is one source being blocked but it is still illuminated by the other so
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
Mostly it was that electronics got cheap enough that you didn't need to keep building the bulky and expensive mechanical version. The first wireless remotes that used batteries were still ultrasonic, they just generated the tone electr
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
One time, I was driving on a highway, and every now and then I'd see a tomato on the side of the road. At first it was one every couple minutes, but as I passed more vehicles the rate increased. 10 per minute. 30 per minute. Then, hund
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
I would play this if it allowed one to steal the moon.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
Here is the full prompt for that part: >The main cylinder axis is vertical along Z and centered at the origin. >Create a central barrel with diameter 36 mm and height 70 mm, bottom at Z = 0. >Around the barrel, add 12 horizontal ci
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
>2 My personal philosophy on this is that in the grand scheme of things, there is almost nothing that "really matters". So you might as well spend as much of your time as is reasonable doing something fun.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
Should make it so you can send texts by using the letters and dialing a number multiple times like a T9 layout. Actually, hold on, I've thought of a design for my next keyboard.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
>I can close my eyes and still feel the plastic cutting into my index finger Yeah, but you can't close your eyes and dial a number on a smartphone.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
No human* would waste the time to write a piece that is both highly polished while being so long that any useful information is spread so thinly it is essentially empty. This is how people "can tell" if it is written by AI. Not a
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
I guess that depends on what is considered moving. A latch is, but is a vibration dampener? On launch, I bet a lot of parts are moving that you probably would not otherwise want to be.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
To prove you can. Which means someone else with more to gain from it will probably do it also, and you should probably expect this to happen.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
Neat! I've been using a Teensy 4 for some of these things recently. The Teensy Audio Library is pretty good, but even though open source is pretty well tied to the Teensy hardware.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
You'll get to it when you get to it. After 2 years, I've just been working on my flipdiscs this weekend!
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
They can't if they are wired like they usually are from the factory, because they are wired in a matrix where you can only update one row at a time. They did this to save on IO lines/output transistors, I guess. So you have to wai
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
This is an especially funny screenshot as DosBOX itself is built on SDL.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
because you can
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
There was an 8089 I/O co-processor. I'm not sure what used it, maybe if you were making some kind of realtime data acquisition system?
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
It was just something a friend of mine came up with - we called it "Area Capture" or something (and was ironically, mostly vibe-coded). There were 4 or 5 "color" teams. Each one carries a meshtastic node, and they all re
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
I got to participate in a game that used Meshtastic and GPS where you walk around a large camp and "capture" different regions. It worked great for that and was a lot of fun. If there ever where a more serious situation where my l
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
I wish that were the case. I'm trying to make a tiny emulated z80 computer, and to fit a screen of 64x16 test on a smartwatch sized screen, I have to use a 4x6 pixel font, because the highest res, most available screen I can get in tha
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
They usually color ferrites to indicated different magnetic properties. I believe they used different color of wires though.
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
I remember that video. Hey, I wonder what happened to that $3000 Micronics SLS printer? Wasn't it a kickstarter? I remember that being a big deal at the time, and I guess it suddenly disappeared? > We got bought by Formlabs in 2024
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
If only they had put the AI in a ship instead of in a store
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
I think it's most obvious in hindsight, probably it was a long time (some decades) before cars were understood to have much of a negative effect at all. Nobody* thought much about air pollution (even adding lead to the gasoline) or cl
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by alnwlsn 6mo ago
I've been to a few mineral museums like this and one of the interesting ones you can come across is Asbestos. Just hanging out there on display right next to some other mineral. It forms beautiful formations just like the rest, but I&#

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