fiziks_hckr

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by fiziks_hckr 4y ago
> This kind of approach doesn't work so well when the subjects that need to be learned don't lend themselves so well to exciting projects or even when the students don't get to self-select based on their interests. Awesome
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by fiziks_hckr 4y ago
I've taught in schools from all corners of San Francisco, and can't agree more with majority of what was said in this article, except maybe the money part*, I'll leave a footnote for this. One day when I was volunteering at o
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by fiziks_hckr 4y ago
Math not necessary being about numbers but concepts is something I'm really happy to see : ) in sibling comments on this article in HN.
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by fiziks_hckr 5y ago
Ive been hoping to find others interested in this vein of xrf for community lead detection would be more thab happy to connect.
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by fiziks_hckr 5y ago
well icp (inductively coupled plasma) is the gold standard (expensive but highly sensitive and used for heavy metals like lead in stuff). xrf can spot higher concrntrations, but one can concentrate beforehand and then use xrf. while xrf fix
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by fiziks_hckr 6y ago
From my experiments making my own, got around 100W of power. For reference, a laptop is around 30watts, charging a cell phone around 5w, electric shavers, fans for air circulation, small monitors are also game, so there are things you can p
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by fiziks_hckr 10y ago
Andrew Zonenberg has a whole list of open projects for FPGAs on his wiki: https://github.com/azonenberg/openfpga/wiki There has been a lot of exciting work in the same repo for Silego lines and general foundations