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by conesus 7y ago
The Wood Book that’s part of this site was a huge help to me when I did my woodworking tech projects. The best wood book, IMO (and others in this thread) is Understanding Wood. That book is next level and is my go to for any wood reference
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by conesus 7y ago
Most advice we give is advice we want to give ourselves.
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by conesus 8y ago
I built a complementary product called the pedestal which does exactly this. You can either mount it on the wall (it has magnets to hold it in place) or place it on a nightstand (as I do) where it lives in the same place every time when I r
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by conesus 8y ago
It tells me which features I should invest more time in getting right and handled edge cases and which features nobody but me uses and so it’s not worth the extra effort. I only have so much time!
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by conesus 8y ago
What you do with the remote is between you and what you control. I store anonymous metrics that I use to gauge usage levels but you can turn that off. Sonos undoubtedly takes your listening habits and profits off that data but Turn Touch do
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by conesus 8y ago
Check it out, 100% open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/turntouch-ios . The Mac app, the firmware, and even the CAD and CAM designs are also there. And I documented everything so you can get a peek into how it was
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by conesus 8y ago
I kinda agree in that I also dislike it. But I just disabled the exit intent pop up so you won’t see it again.
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by conesus 8y ago
Yikes! It's part of a hidden video that shouldn't play until you explicitly open it. What's your browser/OS? I tested on Chrome, Safari, and FF on mac as well as iOS. I also just added a muted attribute to the `video` ta
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by conesus 8y ago
If you're interested, I sell a dedicated Sonos music controller (built out of wood no less). It's available at https://turntouch.com and it's entirely open source so you don't have to worry about me taking yo
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by conesus 8y ago
I designed and built a wooden remote control[1] so I know a bit about why this is. My iOS app asks the user for location permissions because without it the remote control app won't know when to attempt to connect when you walk in the d
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by conesus 8y ago
Check the links on the stories, it doesn’t yet work. Also, why truncate the feed?
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by conesus 8y ago
Oh I saw that! I just started grad school so I’m batching low priority emails for the end of the month.
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by conesus 8y ago
Hey, this is a great contribution. Thank you for making it. I run one of the more popular readers and I have to ask why wasn't NewsBlur included in your list. It's the oldest on that list for one. It's also got its own native
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by conesus 8y ago
I recently learned that on a single sided pcb you can use a zero ohm resistor to effectively cross over a trace, netting you half the benefit of a 2nd layer without having one.
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by conesus 8y ago
I have 3D Touch and use this handy cursor all the time but I would welcome a transition to a hold down on the spacebar. 3D Touch doesn’t always fire when I press down hard and I wish it was more reliable to enable. Using the hard press alwa
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by conesus 8y ago
Stay curious and well read and ideas will come to you. Well read, to me, implies reading about advances in tech, in culture, and in environment. Reading a lot of books is great for synthesizing crossovers.
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by conesus 8y ago
And no light switch in the world is as versatile as this remote is.
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by conesus 8y ago
It's Apple only for now. Once that market shows it's worthwhile I'll expand into Android. As for Sengled hubs, if there's IFTTT support or custom URL support, then it's in there.
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by conesus 8y ago
Yep, you're completely right. I've already replaced a poor remote that was chewed up by a user's dog. Luckily I give free replacements if the user can provide a photo.
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by conesus 8y ago
Unlike very other tech product, the board inside Turn Touch is user replaceable (without tools!). So you can order a new circuit board when the wireless standards improve and get new functionality without having to spend the full amount.
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by conesus 8y ago
I have remotes setup in my home and office and the only time I need to enter the Turn Touch app is when I add a new device. You would be surprised at how easy the app is to use. I looked at every other home automation app I could find and I
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by conesus 8y ago
It's not baked in. I can select it just fine in Safari. Also, "Bluetooth" is mentioned in How It Works.
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by conesus 8y ago
What happens when your fingernail goes into the wood? Mahogany and Rosewood are both hard enough that these remotes will never show any wear unless you abuse them on concrete.
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by conesus 8y ago
In that case you'd be better off connecting it to a communal iPad or to a Mac that lives at home.
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by conesus 8y ago
Oh yeah, I would love that! And if you do, email me and I'll add it to the open source list, where you can also find the API and my email: https://turntouch.com/api
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by conesus 8y ago
I'm with you on that but I've had that price in my head for a long, long time. The sub $50 point is what I'm aiming for and having thought enough about the plastic version after having made the wood version, I also have a goo
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by conesus 8y ago
It's pretty simple. Four buttons for four devices. Each button can toggle a device. You can also hold a button to switch to that button's app, giving you four apps with four buttons each. So music app has volume controls and play&
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by conesus 8y ago
Yep, the RaspPi client is instead of the iOS/Mac app. Basically the Turn Touch API and Bluetooth spec is open source ( https://shop.turntouch.com/pages/open-source ) so you can extend it in ways that I haven't
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by conesus 8y ago
I would hope not, that certificate is powered by Shopify. The other certificate on turntouch.com proper is a Let's Encrypt cert.
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by conesus 8y ago
Don't knock it til you've tried it. It's easier than you think to orient the remote in your hand without looking. That north ridge (the chevron) is quite pronounced by feel and you can feel it through clothing. As for the woo

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