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by scottbez1 2y ago
And perhaps more to the point - you USED to be able to use normal Java file apis and syscalls outside of Java, but that functionality has been gradually whittled away (in the name of legitimate security improvement) over the years, meaning
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by scottbez1 2y ago
I used to develop Android professionally (at Dropbox in the 2010s, so I have some familiarity with older Android filesystem APIs) and made a very conscious decision to switch to devx and backend work and get out of Android (as did most of m
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Neat idea! In college I hung blackout curtains in my dorm room with conduit - IIRC it was maybe $5 for a pipe that was longer, sturdier, cheaper, and less annoying than the typical telescoping curtain rods (where the curtain always gets cau
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Maybe I'm the weird one, but it seems odd NOT to consider ~40,000 deaths in the US each year to be "violent" (often they are gruesome blunt force or crushing injuries involving objects traveling 40+ mph coming to a stop nearl
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by scottbez1 2y ago
If I had to guess, it's for accessibility, for red/green colorblindness.
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by scottbez1 2y ago
No wifi - it's web serial so connects locally via the USB connection when you plug the iron (or base station) into your computer. It's only "web" in the sense that it uses a browser and web technologies for the GUI, not
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Eh, I'm mostly just sad Firefox hasn't implemented it yet. I daily drive Firefox, but switching browsers temporarily still beats installing single-use applications with full local machine permissions by a huge margin. So I've
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Oh interesting, I'll have to try that polyfill - I've been using web serial for all my projects lately because I hate users having to install anything, but Android has been an annoying gap.
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Appreciate the response! I'm still not immediately sold (my TS100 is doing great and I can't justify replacing a perfectly acceptable iron), but I'll have to give it a try sometime because it does look really thoughtfully des
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by scottbez1 2y ago
It will almost certainly be a class up, if only because it uses integrated tips that combine heating element, temperature sensor, and tip itself into a single element, rather than having thermally bulky and inefficient interfaces like the F
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by scottbez1 2y ago
Yeah, boost button was a huge step up when I got my TS100 and now I can't imagine ever buying a new iron without it. Plus, not having the ability to quickly tune temperature settings on the iron itself seems like a step back as well. I
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by scottbez1 2y ago
I'm not super familiar with this so I could be totally misreading this, but assuming those are operating under part 15 the answer to whether they are guaranteed to continue working seems to be explicitly "no" under NextNav&#x
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by scottbez1 2y ago
These policy tradeoffs are interesting (and tricky) - if you have a huge number of different parties that are unorganized yet impacted by a policy, how do you ensure you have adequate representation from them when compared to a single well-
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by scottbez1 2y ago
The thing that's really legacy in GitHub is the code review flow, which is likely one of the surface areas that corporate customers use the most. Actions and Codespaces have been huge and transformative, so it's disappointing that
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by scottbez1 2y ago
In the California Vehicle Code section 360, a "highway" is defined for the purposes of the vehicle code as "a way or place of whatever nature, publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular tr
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by scottbez1 2y ago
This is false. Please don't spread dangerous legal misinformation. See CVC 21209(a): No person shall drive a motor vehicle in a bicycle lane established on a roadway pursuant to Section 21207 except as follows: (1) To park where parkin
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by scottbez1 2y ago
This is absolutely false in California, please don't spread dangerous misinformation. See CVC 22400(a): No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unles
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by scottbez1 3y ago
Succinctly stated and something that resonates strongly with me. In the last internet revolution (web search), results started high quality because the inputs were high quality - bloggers and others just wanted to document and share knowled
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by scottbez1 3y ago
Care to expand a bit? I've been daily driving FF Android for a few years now and I've had the opposite experience: the vast majority of pages work and render fine (including HN) and it's an extremely rare occasion that I swit
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by scottbez1 3y ago
On a related music/audio note, I recently came across videos of the teenage engineering TP-7 which looks like a really cool application of similar haptic feedback concepts. Unfortunately it's out of the price range where I can jus
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by scottbez1 3y ago
Designer here - I will admit that I just do this as a bit of a hobby and I'm not an EE, so I don't have a great answer for you, but generally speaking since this is a high resistance/low KV motor and there's only so fast
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by scottbez1 3y ago
Agreed, this seems a likely explanation to me. I run a small hobby electronics business in my free time and although I ship some items to the EU I explicitly don't ship to Germany due to the additional complexity there; it's simpl
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by scottbez1 3y ago
Hah, yeah I think it may have. I've noticed an increase in comments over the last few days, which usually suggests the algo is showing it to new people again, and it got featured on the Adafruit blog this morning which probably reinfor
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by scottbez1 3y ago
I made a rotary input device that provides software-defined "virtual" detents and end-stops, implemented using a BLDC gimbal motor. It can dynamically switch from completely smooth unbounded rotation, to having detents with config
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by scottbez1 5y ago
I'm not super familiar with strain gauges, but I've seen some discussions about designing them as part of a PCB and it seems like 2 concerns come up: resistivity and, to a lesser extent, trace width. It sounds like strain gauges m
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by scottbez1 5y ago
I haven't compiled the full BOM yet (since I gathered the parts for this gradually over an extended time), but I'm 99% certain BOM cost for a single unit is under $200. Probably closer to $100 or $150. And I think the single most
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by scottbez1 5y ago
It's on the roadmap (as much as there can be for a hobby side project). I've got an ESP32-S3 dev board that I want to start testing, as soon as the Arduino core supports it - it looks like an awesome combo of dual core ESP32 with
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by scottbez1 5y ago
With the motor I'm using the "endstops" feel like a moderate strength spring-loaded return, if that makes any sense? Not a stiff spring, more like pulling on a rubber band? It's definitely not a hard stop, but still noti
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by scottbez1 5y ago
Sharing a little side project I've been working on in my free time (and open-sourced [0]), using a BLDC gimbal motor and a magnetic encoder to create a rotary input knob with all sorts of software-configurable haptic feedback. You can
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DIY haptic input knob: BLDC motor and round LCD [video](youtube.com)
10 points by scottbez1 5y ago|4 comments

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