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by conesus 10y ago
At 500 remotes, I'm planning to flash them myself. And I just called a bunch of factories to get quotes on box build assembly, wood machining, PCBA, and injection molding. It just took time to work on the manufacturing quotes.
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by conesus 10y ago
Thank you for your kind words. I really tried hard to capture what was years of work into just the salient pain points and design lessons.
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by conesus 10y ago
Yep, this is exactly what I wanted when I was starting out. I just had the resources and time to write everything done as I went through it in the hopes that other people take it and can make even better tools and open source docs.
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by conesus 10y ago
Hello HN! This is a ridiculously long but thorough guide to building your own hardware on a budget. Turn Touch is a small wood remote that controls your smart home. I built it because I wanted it to exist and I was tired of waiting for some
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Show HN: Everything you need to build your own Turn Touch smart home remote(medium.com)
103 points by conesus 10y ago|13 comments
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by conesus 10y ago
People who work with the industry know more about the industry. My comment relies on my experience.
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by conesus 10y ago
Those European commercial forests are cut at a younger age than these tropical plantations, as these plantations are growing far denser wood than European sycamore, beech, and alder wood. Usually any plantation grown wood will be certified
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by conesus 10y ago
That's an unfair reading of my comment. And as others have mentioned below, I'm invested in thinking about how to sustainably grow wood because I'm commercially invested.
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by conesus 10y ago
I simply have experience in the subject because I've spent the last three years researching ways to make woodworking more sustainable. And driving up demand will in turn drive up supply, and as I explained above increased supply does i
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by conesus 10y ago
Thank you, that's very kind of you to say. I have a bit of a history with art projects, in fact. Among other projects, I built and blogged a big interactive biofeedback art piece at Burning Man 2014 called Pulse & Bloom that hit HN
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by conesus 10y ago
Hah, that was my decision last minute. We had anticipated a fitness section outside but I forgot to prep the actors with the right clothes. Then it rained and we had a ridiculous scene that thankfully only took a small part of the shoot.
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by conesus 10y ago
I'm running a Kickstarter for a wood product right now and so I've learned a thing or two about how to encourage reforestation. The answer is get economics to drive reforestation. Cats, cows, turkeys, dogs, and horses, among many
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The Great A.I. Awakening(nytimes.com)
33 points by conesus 10y ago|4 comments
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by conesus 10y ago
What are examples of those "do anything when pressed" Kickstarters? All I know of is Flic.
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by conesus 10y ago
NewsBlur has an organizer that provides this exact info. Just sort of last update (or even stories per month) and mass delete. It's somewhat new but it makes a world of a difference. The organizer is on web and just launched on iOS.
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by conesus 10y ago
This is a brilliant idea. First I've heard of it, and I run NewsBlur. Where were you when the RSS spec was being worked on!
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by conesus 10y ago
I like to leave little hints for those who try. But you also don't know what it looks like yet. That's going to be quite the reveal.
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by conesus 10y ago
Thank you for posting about NewsBlur. I'd like to remind everybody that one of its most important features is that it is entirely open source http://github.com/samuelclay This means that if I were to ever invoke the bu
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by conesus 11y ago
Congratulations on the acquisition! As a fellow small company I feel like it's one (of many) fantasies to join a larger team and continue working on your product.
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by conesus 11y ago
Hey, I wrote that widget! I'm also a long-time Sentry user and would love to see VisualSearch.js integrated.
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by conesus 11y ago
David, I've been a Sentry customer for years and I rely on it. But one feature I miss dearly is having a 1 day graph that shows me the health of my servers based on a single count. A few months ago the top-right dashboard lost its tota
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by conesus 11y ago
Hey, I run NewsBlur and I'd love to know why it's slowing down in safari for you. I use Safari myself as my primary browser and NewsBlur's always instantaneous. Are you running any extensions, specifically adblock? Email me:
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by conesus 11y ago
This is magical. I'd love to see you try to submit this again. I'm at WWDC all this week and would be willing to show it to the App Store Lab, where actual App Store employees could hear your argument in person. If you want to mak
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A new experiment for XOXO(blog.xoxofest.com)
1 points by conesus 11y ago|0 comments
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by conesus 12y ago
The universe may / be as great as they say / but it wouldn't be missed / if it didn't exist. - Piet Hein
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by conesus 12y ago
How much are you paying per in^2 to have Sunstone fab a board? Are you paying for assembly? OSH Park, as used in the article, is only $10/in^2 for 4-layer.
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Attending events as an introvert: Make one meaningful connection(limedaring.com)
4 points by conesus 12y ago|1 comments
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by conesus 12y ago
Oddly no. There's a photo in the post where I show a well dusted board, but no shorts were caused by the dust. There was definitely weatherproofing we could have performed on the boards to handle that issue, but I was waiting until it
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by conesus 12y ago
Originally I bought leaded solder paste from McMaster Carr, but then I discovered a lead-free solder paste from Sparkfun: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12878 . It's not as good as the leaded solder paste, but h
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by conesus 12y ago
Neat, I had never heard of that group and then I noticed 21 of my FB friends are on it. Thanks for sharing!

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