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This was an interesting article and the process shows some promise. I'll be interested in watching where this goes in the future. In the meantime... ...in the picture with the furnace, what role does the mayonnaise play? https:/&
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You should probably be angry at the CAFE regs too. It's what (supposedly) had prevented all the manufacturers from selling a small pickup, which is why Ford stopped selling the Ranger. They basically switched to making the F150, then m
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7y ago
My question would be - does frequent short charging sessions cause issues for the battery packs? Versus longer full charging sessions? I know that lithium cells with their different chemistry are more forgiving of charging and discharging (
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7y ago
> "a privately operated citation processing center" In a way, this is the real bug - one that affects more areas of local government than most people know or understand. Our local governments are constantly seeking - and usuall
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7y ago
Given what is shown, minus the solar panel part, you can create such an IP camera using a RasPi Zero W, one of the small 5 MP camera modules for the Pi, and a copy of MotionEyeOS - and do it all for under $50.00 USD. I have such a camera mo
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There are many different kinds of cameras for the RasPi - some have IR illumination and/or filters removed, others don't. Some allow interchangeable lens, others are "fixed". Quality can vary depending on the camera. I h
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7y ago
This is all very interesting and amazing, and kudos to the person for being able to do this - but I think we need to take a step back here a bit; this doesn't look like something that "just anybody" could replicate. For one,
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7y ago
This is pretty damn impressive - I'll definitely have to give it a deeper look later. On seeing the name, I had hoped it had come out of Udacity and their Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree program; I was a "beta-tester" fo
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Ok - haven't read the article, paywall, etc - but from what I've heard elsewhere, the tagline should be "...are the Feds" Maybe that's more a joke than anything - but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that th
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7y ago
> second rate talent Not saying this is true - or even workable - but maybe they've figured out a way to apply so-called "second rate talent" to create "first rate results"? For instance, have you ever researched
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7y ago
> I forget all the details but it it nearly placed the sound in your head. Keywords on that is "voice to skull" - though what I recall, the way it was done was by layering the audio over an ultrasonic carrier wave that could be
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7y ago
It really bothers me to see nothing going on in the Phoenix, Arizona region, where I live. I'm planning on getting my Technicians HAM license sometime soon (I took one of the online practice tests "blind" and scored an 80 - s
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7y ago
I don't know of any multi-rotor craft that incorporates the ESC (electronic speed controller) in such a way as to be cooled by the downwash of the props. Not saying there aren't any, but I haven't seen it. Most hobbyist multi
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> some dude out there still has working floppy disk drives and feels that they might still be used I don't know if I would ever use mine (maybe with MESS emulation for my TRS-80 Color Computer?) - but I have a small collection of 3.
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Is that the right term, "sleeve"? I always thought of the "sleeve" on my 5.25" floppies as being the tyvek/paper thingie you stuck the floppy disk inside for safekeeping (ultimately putting both in a case/
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> "Arduino" is the company I'd argue it's more the "ecosystem" today, rather than just the organization/company (or the "board"). In many cases, if you want your microcontroller to gain wide a
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7y ago
I have a brother-in-law who's been dyeing his hair, and wears a toupee (a very poorly fitting one) - for whenever he's at some kind of formal function or whatnot. This is a guy who drives dump trucks and excavators, and could crus
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Part of the thing that's left mostly somewhat unsaid of the whole fictional arc of the Star Trek universe is that there was a full-exchange nuclear war, which led (IIRC - I am not a major trekkie, though I prefer it to Star Wars - each
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I honestly think the first one mentioned will become a "primary" reason as soon as the first largish "came from the direction of the sun" doomsday asteroid slams into us, and makes us rethink some of our priorities. Assu
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Have you considered building your own phone? Sure it won't be very stylish - nor will it be slim - but all the parts are out there with more than enough example code to hack together exactly the phone you want. I'm seriously consi
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50 years if you go back to the beginning - but most people didn't get on the internet until the early 1990s, when it was "opened up" to commercial interests (which led to the meme of "Al Gore invented the internet")
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If you're going to do FDM using metal, wouldn't a chamber filled with argon or some other inert gas, with a CNC positionable MIG/TIG head work as well? For that matter, what if you just dispensed with the chamber, and mounted
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I cannot comment on the reasons, why's or whatnot of this particular issue, but I do wonder about the outcry of "not having access to download the repo"? I mean, aside from maybe not having any forks (because you can fork ano
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In my collection of VR documents and software "artifacts" - I have a collection of QuickBasic 4.5 programs (source code) that this French team built (circa late 1990s IIRC) to generate various VRML models and "worlds" us
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I guess there's a limit on time you can edit your post... Other comments I have read here indicate that this software is for "standalone" systems - and not, as I presumed, for "component" systems (I'm not sure
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Interesting - are you prone to claustrophobia? It sounds like what you experienced is similar to that, from what little I know about the condition. Do you have the same response when wearing other kinds of goggles or face shield (say someth
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I wonder how that game would be to play it relaxing in a "zero-g" recliner/lounge chair? Have you ever heard of the company Flogiston - and the Flogiston Flostation? https://www.techbriefs.com/component/c
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I don't really consider that to be "simulator sickness" fatigue - it's just exercise and fatigue in general due to the course of the simulation, not because of technical flaws in the implementation of the hardware. Thoug
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How much of this fatigue for you is with your eyes? How much is it with your head/neck? I just wonder, because even when they "set" the focus of these HMDs to "infinity", your eyes are still technically only looking
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> You can find modern reviews online. Which I don't think do them real justice; it's like people growing up with modern cars doing a review of a Model T - a fair review you have to try to replicate everything around what is bei
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