durkie

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   by durkie 11y ago

   There are also solitary bees that don't form hives and are important pollinators.
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   by durkie 11y ago

   Batteries (like Tesla's PowerWall) are an increasingly-relevant option for peak loads. I was also under the impression that most peaker plants are likely to be natural gas fired and not nuclear -- as in, easier to build, and less of an
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   by durkie 12y ago

   and it makes a surprisingly good vegan/vegetarian pulled pork substitute: http://www.moreveganblog.com/2014/06/28/bbq-pulled-jackfruit...
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   by durkie 12y ago

   hear hear. we saw the launch via pg's tweet, but the available sizes also aren't that great for us.
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   by durkie 12y ago

   this sounds amazing! aside from the organics-only requirement (which makes sense to me), what other limitations are there on what you can make? or is everything basically open given a long enough search?
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   by durkie 12y ago

   Almost certainly. I would also expect contamination (finger oils, for example) to be a big issue. (Source: I worked on and designed equipment for commercial scale-up of a nanoscale superhydrophobic coating process)
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   by durkie 12y ago

   thanks for this! that amazon link is for a 50 pack -- is there any reason someone would need more than one? i've just been using tweezers up till now. any chance you have a video of it in action?
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   by durkie 12y ago

   thanks!
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   by durkie 12y ago

   You're totally right and that's exactly what we want to address! Sex toys are no longer taboo things -- they sell vibrators at drug stores in the US now, and sex toy shops have transformed from sleazy, look-both-ways places to sex
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    by durkie 12y ago

    Point taken! But we're also not starting from scratch here. We've been doing prototypes for the past year along with continuous software development and refinement, and project documentation and workshops and conferences and ... W
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    by durkie 12y ago

    Thanks! They are indeed pricey -- it's tough reading things like this ( http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297 ) talking about chips that are 40 times as fast, have 2 thousand times more memory and cost half as m
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    by durkie 12y ago

    haha, no problem! we are actually working on it. :)
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    by durkie 12y ago

    Definitely! We don't have a lot built out for this yet, but hope to have more connectivity options available is crowdfunding is successful. One of our beta testers even managed to set up a remote console for his partner: "My partn
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    by durkie 12y ago

    We love Bad Dragon! They are true artisans (www.bad-dragon.com -- SUPER nsfw, but truly amazing). We met their founder at Arse Elektronika in October, and I think they 3D print their masters, but still do all their molding by hand.
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    by durkie 12y ago

    There is definitely still room to go in improving the materials and the limitations around working with them. Especially because people are so wary about sex-toy materials that it limits your options even further. We think there's stil
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    by durkie 12y ago

    We've sort of tried this? :) We have a howto ( https://www.comingle.io/howto/computer-vision-dildos ) that connects our vibrator to the image coming off of a webcam, and the webcam of course is inserted in another
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    by durkie 12y ago

    Our initial feedback has been super positive. In particular, it's really awesome to have your toy respond to your (or your partner's!) heartrate or bump to the music, or even just tweak a vibration pattern to work for you. Everyon
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    by durkie 12y ago

    Hi all! We're making an Arduino-based sex toy platform to which you can attach any kind of sensor or controller and change change how your toy responds. You can also create interesting motor vibration patterns or build your own toy in
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    We're making hackable, open-source sex toys (NSFW)(comingle.io)

    172 points by durkie 12y ago|59 comments
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    by durkie 12y ago

    well shit. we tried putting some big pla prints in the oven last night and they definitely just started warping and caving.
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    by durkie 12y ago

    i was about to propose some sort of annealing process like they do with metals, and it seems like someone has already beaten me to it: http://3dprint.com/3388/study-how-to-make-3d-prints-stronger... as a side note, thi
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    by durkie 12y ago

    re 2: you're loading mixed https and http content. open up the devtools console and it will show you what's being loaded over http.
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    Ask HN: How good is YC doing for hardware companies?

    5 points by durkie 12y ago|2 comments
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    by durkie 12y ago

    It's not ouright illegal, but it's becoming more and more onerous to work in the adult industry because of things like this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/the-banks-w...
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    by durkie 12y ago

    We're in the process of launching our first product at Comingle( http://www.comingle.io ), making Arduino-based, open source and hackable sex toys. We're making a sex toy platform (our library is named OSSex of course) s
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    by durkie 12y ago

    what about sprint? I thought they were cdma.
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    by durkie 12y ago

    does anyone know how these types of follow-me drones do with obstacle avoidance? do you just tell them to fly high enough that they avoid things by going over them?
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    by durkie 12y ago

    have you seen fallingfruit.org? Seems like there'd be some way for yall to collaborate...
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    by durkie 12y ago

    flu is airborne. ebola isn't, and no one that i know of at the cdc is seriously considering the possibility that it will become airborne.
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    by durkie 12y ago

    No, it doesn't. I know a lot of people that work day-in-day-out on ebola at the CDC. The US (and many countries) are totally equipped to handle ebola and you really don't need special facilities to do it.