jonnycowboy

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by jonnycowboy 13y ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZXaYLVFdcQ‎
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by jonnycowboy 13y ago
When will Amazon buy Fedex or UPS or (gasp) USPS? http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkanellos/2012/03/26/will-...
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
Could you try out something I've modified to work on canvas on Firefox Mobile? Are you driving the standard HTML orientation variables? http://ljd2.com/nemesis/indexcanvas.html
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
A great payphone hack would be to make it a dead-drop. Ie: put in a hard drive and a usb port and small controller. Then plug in your usb key, dial a number, it gets copied to the HD. Next person to insert his key and dial your number gets
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
I'm surprised a great source of ideas hasn't been mentions: Google search suggestions. For example, try typing "build android apps" (don't hit Enter). Hundreds/thousands are looking for how to make apps with: no programming experience, or
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
And of course the Metaverse in Snow Crash.
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Typecast acquired by Monotype(typecast.com)
23 points by jonnycowboy 14y ago|14 comments
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
And at a higher price!
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
Does anybody know how they deal with the smart chips on the credit card? Almost no retailer uses the swipe anymore.
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
To be copied in 5..4..3..2..1 Actually the main problem I see is that there is far too much weight on the arms.
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
These seem to use some kind of "sliding thumb" control (see kickstarter)
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
My bad, I misunderstood your comment that you were using "(relatively) cheap brushless motor controllers".
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
Brushless motors. You could put them on a bike but then you'd break the laws governing electric bicycles (500w or 1000w limits depending on the jurisdiction).
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
You might have luck in voluntarily limiting the power output to 1,000W and trying to follow the California guidelines for electric bicycles. Then gradually petition the government to delete the current motorized skateboard law. http://en.
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
I'd like to add, I love the controller design. That alone must be worth a couple of hundred ;) Does it use bluetooth? I hope it is not a standard RC transmitter because they can get jammed fairly easily (leading to injury and death, etc
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
They are using off-the-shelf brushless motor controllers (from what I can gather) and off-the-shelf brushless motors. There are many makers of ESCs with your requirements including from the now-ubiquitous HobbyKing, both sensored and senso
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
How are you cooling the motors?
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
At a 1,000$ pricepoint I'm not so sure it will be good enough for the masses, especially for such a standard powered longboard setup. Longboards can be found for 100$, add two 50$ brushless motors, a belt-drive setup and a controller, I do
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
It might be possible to save the variable and ID states in the code before updating, then "pasting" them back in once reloaded.
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
In fact, Carmack did make a personal angel investment. In the MTBS3D forums it was mentioned that John was the source of the copies of DOOM 3 BFG. He is buying them at wholesale price and "donating" them to Palmer's project so that it wil
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
"Cadillac To Release Self-Driving Cars By 2015" (no joke)
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
Just call it Rapid Magic! Instead of Tragic Rage
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
The more modern CAM packages will do this for you automatically (routing CNC so that it does not interfere with the part) but this version probably relies on the user to properly define the bends and angles so that no interference occurs.
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
Never heard of this, but as somebody who travels and uses Skype all the time, this is a GREAT idea...
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
SCADE! barring that, Ada and C.
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
The main problem with this 'rock' is that Planetary Resources' plan only allows for ~10m diameter asteroid. This one is over a mile large!
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
Nuclear weapon use is no longer warranted and big nation/states like the US, Russia and China will definately not be using them for any kind of attacks. This Mach-20 glider is for a more targeted attack. A similar concept is presented in
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by jonnycowboy 14y ago
Great talk, thanks for the link.
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by jonnycowboy 15y ago
I would add a "only used items" option
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by jonnycowboy 15y ago
Yes actually Google hired those that won the 2005 Challenge.

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