general-chat

[manic tide]

aftermarket stuff

although when it comes to nano - not sure

I can't wait for graphene batteries though

They would be perfect with apple devices, since you don't want to open them as much

[delicate stream]

Aftermarket batteries can be hard... I got a few duds trying to replace my Nexus 6P battery

[late fulcrum]

If it becomes a problem, I'll probably either just remove the battery and power it from the car's electrical system, or replace it with a micro SD card.

[delicate stream]

Some devices can't boot without the battery, which sucks...

[manic tide]

I have some android phones with batteries lost that I may like to boot

[frigid tiger]

I've had it with my macbook, apple products do not "just work" and when they don't work troubleshooting them is a practice in futility that inevitably leads to RMA

[tardy badger]

Make a PCB with spring contacts that fits into the battery compartment and then apply 3.9V from a power supply lol

[delicate stream]

Thankfully my MacBook Pro hasn't had too many problems... I had an issue with the keyboard, which was actually under recall, and they replaced the keyboard, which is basically the entire top of the laptop AND the battery, for free. It was nice to get a free fresh battery 3 years in, lol

[tardy badger]

Lol

[delicate stream]

Some of them actually seem to communicate with the battery... it's so annoying

[manic tide]

The latest of my phones (2018) doesn't have traditional 3-pin connector though

[delicate stream]

So they won't just take a 3.7-4.2v source to the battery pins

[manic tide]

Yeah, what's bad about smartphones as "miniPCs" is that they don't accept standard interface, like regular sized computers

cause I have some phones with broken screen

[delicate stream]

It would be nice if you could just connect HDMI to any phone via the USB port...

[late fulcrum]

I kind of liked the Atrix Dock concept, were you could add a bigger battery, keyboard, screen, and touchpad to your phone by plugging it into the dock. Now I use that dock to make a Pi into a laptop

[manic tide]

oh, just like asus fonepad

[delicate stream]

Intel had a concept where the core components [primary CPU, RAM, storage] were in a thing roughly the size of a 4-stack of credit cards, and you could slot it into a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop shell, and each could provide it with varying capabilities... I wish we had something like that. You could upgrade the shells to get more advanced capabilities while keeping the core, and every now and then upgrade the core itself to go even further

[frigid tiger]

I'd love to use my phone as a PC, the tech isn't ready I guess

[late fulcrum]

There's a modular phone concept like that but it keeps running into reality

[delicate stream]

Depending on what you mean by "as a PC", it's there... Samsung has Dex, so you dock your phone to get a desktop-like experience. You can do all the basics, browse the web and word processing and whatnot, but you're not gonna render 4K video edits on it

[frigid tiger]

ya at the minimum I'd need to compile code on it and dock it

[late fulcrum]

I do use my phone as a terminal, which has been handy on a few occasions

[delicate stream]

There have been so many good ones... I think Google had Project Ara? been a while, but that was a great looking concept. I think it had PCIe bridging between modules

[late fulcrum]

I had been watching the Fairphone for a while.

[delicate stream]

For basic stuff like that, phones have the processing power. It's just a matter of whether the manufacturers gave it the capability to do video out via USB, and if they enabled anything like that in software. Some devices have the PHYSICAL capability to output HDMI via USB C, but there's no software support, so it just doesn't work.

Gotta go, bbl peeps

[manic tide]

bye

[dusty citrus]

do sbc manufactures follow some sort of standard of size? I see like that 3.5 inch boards have wide different sizes

[tardy badger]

Looking at the acquisition announcement the company I work for made this morning, I sit here and wonder.. how big of a raise or how big of a bonus would that turn out to be if it was used to retain employees vs acquire and consolidate the industry

[late fulcrum]

My guess is "enormous", but since it doesn't benefit rich old white guys, it's not going to happen.

[burnt tendon]

I mean, it's not like other CEO type people aren't as.... you know... as the one in the news. It's just most of the time they manage to not be unfiltered and in front of the press.

[tardy badger]

Just board meetings 🙂

If you want to know what company CEOs really think, listen to quarterly board meetings.

Or go to a company all hands and here off handed excuses about why we can make huge acquisitions but not give raises that match inflation

[burnt tendon]

Oh yeah, no that's still coached.

[frigid tiger]

Paying employees enough to afford living expenses is bad for the economy

[whole jacinth]

"the economy" is often rich people code for "share prices of stuff i'm invested in"

[tardy badger]

We were told we’d get around a 4.5% raise in the spring for annual merit increases

And inflation is checks notes over 7% still

[burnt tendon]

At least in software folks can get a commesurate-with-inflation raise generally by hopping jobs.

[tardy badger]

My rent will surely go up in May, I’m guessing at least $100, if not up to $300

[burnt tendon]

But not by getting a raise. Then wonder why nobody stays around and everybody has to retrain all of the time?

[tardy badger]

I boosted my salary $20,500 by leaving my job, getting laid off from my new job, and then going back to my old job making $3k over what I made at the job I was laid off from.

And now I’m talking to a company that’s willing to pay me at least $10k over my current salary. Software is fun. I’ll probably top out around $160k in a few years

[burnt tendon]

I was thinking this morning that, while the old white dudes who provide the circle around the average CEO and help make him sound reasonable and set achievable goals do frequently pull down money in the order of millions, yet it's still fundamentally unfair because they have to play nice with the billionaire who, if left to swing in the wind, would sound like a complete fool, but somehow keeps growing his wealth by billions.

[tardy badger]

Yeah, i like to call it the billionaires paradox

[burnt tendon]

Like, why can't I get a few billion to build a super-rocket? I can provide just as much actual value as those other guys!

[dusty citrus]

hahahaha

[tardy badger]

I believe most people would try to be philanthropic with the proceeds of success; yet our global society tends to promote people who hoard instead

[dusty citrus]

Nobody's got a great new idea to replace the old idea. Our legacy situation (the present) comes from, I think, an entirely different set of selection pressures.

[tardy badger]

We want kings, not freedom you say?

[dusty citrus]

torches, pitchforks > wrong changes

I'm saying it's not a spaced ruled by the best ideas.

[tardy badger]

Chinese society really is an interesting change from the norm because historically, their identity is based on unity and collectivism.

And from that, a small group of people convinced them over time that authoritarianism was the best system to protect that identity.

It’s cool how different systems emerged simply because of geography

[dusty citrus]

hahah.

"if we could all just be japanese we'd solve our problems overnight." ;)

[tardy badger]

I want to visit Japan one of these days

I want to see all the random vending machines with random contents

Visit the Japanese countryside

Tis expensive to visit though. Last I looked, like $2500 a plane ticket

[dusty citrus]

My nephew went for six months in college. Threatened to get serious about learning Japanese.

[tardy badger]

Lol

[dusty citrus]

I asked on his behalf (privately) and got the impression it's a very serious commitment for an English-speaking United Statesian to really 'get good at Japanese' (language).

[wooden schooner]

Any thoughts on its current state? I'm probably going to get a new phone soon and Fairphone (the next-most recent model so that it's cheaper) is on the list.

[wooden schooner]

Yeah, or to say it the other way around, software companies punish people who stay too long, even in cases where that is very irrational.

[manic tide]

A thought keeps bothering me.

[tardy badger]

Yeah..

My work is heavily influenced by how much a committee thinks we should spend on IRAD

So I run out of irad and program work frequently and end up on internal technical tasks

Which makes me feel like I’m not all that valued

And then i start getting bored and entertaining recruiters 😛

[manic tide]

Different one

[tardy badger]

Oh sorry, thought you were following the current conversation

[manic tide]

Yeah

I've had this thought for a week

Even though it's a PC market related one, for me it feels to better ask here, among friendly people.

From what I've got from an LTT video, you might as well just upgrade your whole computer instead of buying just a GPU

[burnt tendon]

Oh yeah, I went to Japan when I was a little 2nd grader and it was quite a thing. I need to go back.

[tardy badger]

Depends I guess. If you’re buying a prebuilt computer, probably

[lusty fossil]

I just upgraded from year old hardware. I haven't had a chance to install an OS yet tho so it's just sitting there until this weekend

5 year*

[tardy badger]

For me? I have pretty recent hardware from late 2021, so getting a GPU would make more sense than a whole new computer

[burnt tendon]

And, heh, my chassis is from 2000 or so and at this point, it's a source of perverse pride that I'm still using the same old chassis.

[manic tide]

I'd like to get everything separately. Something like a Ship of Theseus gonna happen on my desktop

I was given a pretty cool lenovo OEM with i5 6400

Only thing proprietary I think is the PSU. It's only designed to power the motherboard.

[tardy badger]

I think I’ve got a Ryzen 5 5600X

I know for sure it’s a Ryzen 5 5600, just don’t remember the exact letter after 🙂

Yeah, 5600X

And 48GB of RAM lol

Plus an older AMD RX580 8GB graphics card that works well enough for most games

[manic tide]

The video transcript goes something like that (formatting the transcript) Looks like you can't search for "return carriage" in word.

I'll better get to the point by sharing the video with a timestamp

https://youtu.be/1BLU-tnFOXk?t=561

Despite all of that "acting" and cleverly written scenario that might sugar coat the concept. It's a rally double idea

[late fulcrum]

The Fairphone 4 is out, but only in Europe. Since I don't live in Europe, I haven't been following it that closely.

[late fulcrum]

That can be improved by clever purchasing. It turns out that Hawai'i is a popular tourist destination from Japan, and Las Vegas is a popular tourist destination from Hawai'i. So the trick is to find a cheap flight to Vegas, then a backhaul flight from Vegas to Hawai'i, then a backhaul flight from Hawai'i to Japan. It takes some persistance and patience, but the available savings are staggering (one time I got a redeye from Vegas to Hawai'i for $67).

As for computer upgrades, I just upgraded by Jetson with a Coral TPU. Granted, that meant removing the WiFi module, but that's okay.

[tardy badger]

True, Hawai'i from San Francisco is ~$500

I see you could save ~$1200 flying SFO—>Oahu—>Tokyo

[tardy badger]

Yeah, I’ve seen this. Sometimes budget devices are terrible in overall quality and performance compared to some older devices. This is definitely true. But if you’re already building a new computer, sometimes integrated graphics can be better than older cards and some never ones given the price.

Vegas to Tokyo is <$1000 for the dates I’m looking at wow

Only $100 more than flying from Oahu

[lusty fossil]

I'm finally getting the non electronics tools I need for jobs in order so I don't have to borrow anymore. I should have everything by the end of the week

One thing I want to look into is a mini press for my drill

I guess I could make it

[tardy badger]

You could print a stand

There’s plenty of thingiverse and the other platforms you can get files from

[lusty fossil]

Yeah that's what I was thinking

I just don't know if there's an official one I could buy

Will have to look into it

[thick wind]

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Milescraft-DrillMate-Portable-Multi-Angle-Drill-Guide-with-3-8-in-Chuck-1318/206520394

[lusty fossil]

interesting

[manic tide]

Although I'm looking to buy more of a used beefy gpu like RTX 20 or 30 series

I already have a spreadsheet comparing their performance to one another. although it doesn't contain their precise perks

[late fulcrum]

Main perk I care about is software support for the environments I use and accelerating machine learning.

[lusty fossil]

I'm trialing a dog walker. My dog was so confused when she was being lead away from me

[manic tide]

I'm planning to run linux on it. Nvidia might not be the right choice, but I might just have to dual boot

[delicate stream]

You could just run everything in VMs and assign Linux-unfriendly GPUs to a Windows VM

[lusty fossil]

Oh random. A connection of mine in the Seattle area is fighting for his life waiting for a bone marrow transplant. He need platelets every day. If you're in the Seattle area and can stomach the process, you'd be doing a serious mitzvah, even if you don't end up being a match.

[sleek crest]

hello

is this possible Use fiber optics to transmit data between arduinos?

[dusty citrus]

Why do you think it is, or isn't, possible. ;)

[sleek crest]

I think is it possible if I use a SFP transceiver to the both sides

[fierce prawn]

Spf yes
But you need to convert tx Rx to Ethernet

[sleek crest]

and it may not be possible because of internet protocol...

[sleek crest]

so, I need a ethernet module like this?

do you have a schematics for something like that?

[fierce prawn]

Nope
A Ethernet to serial module

[dusty citrus]

Sparkfun has fiber optics stuff.

[fierce prawn]

https://www.keelog.com/rs232-ethernet/

[fierce prawn]

Even it have
We would need conversions

[sleek crest]

something like this, it can send and receive data from uart

[fierce prawn]

There's what you want

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/17509

For the other side

[sleek crest]

and where I can found the fiber for this module?

because on the internet I found fiber with different connector

[tardy badger]

What joy! I might get my RP Watchy PCB before Christmas 🥳

Maybe parts too

And just got shipping notice for my mouser order too! Yay

[fierce prawn]

Should I use economy shipping on sparkfun

@tardy badger

[tardy badger]

Are you trying to get it by Christmas?

[fierce prawn]

No

[sleek crest]

Where can I found the FO cable ?

[fierce prawn]

There's so much site for you
Google it lol

[sleek crest]

I didn't find, I found but with different connector

[fierce prawn]

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/industrial-fiber-optics-hookup-guide?_ga=2.85090655.712595338.1671484254-683340134.1671006585

[fierce prawn]

@tardy badger

[tardy badger]

Standard shipping probably works then

[lusty fossil]

Are you outside of the US?

[thick wind]

That looks about right

[fierce prawn]

Yes

[thick wind]

Southeast Asia somewhere IIRC

[lusty fossil]

Ah yeah makes sense

[fierce prawn]

So economy shipping better?
But no insurance lol

[thick wind]

Better is relative to your needs as a consumer. There is no right answer, only one that works better for you.

[fierce prawn]

But kinda without insurance is risky

[thick wind]

Whether or not your part is worth 27 extra dollars for insurance and speed depends entirely on what you need in terms of reliability and promptness.

[fierce prawn]

The parts including keyboard switches

[thick wind]

It depends on you, not the parts haha

[fierce prawn]

I am scared of my country's postage service handler but at the same time do not have money to pay the insurance

[thick wind]

I know nothing of your local postage service nor your financial situation, so I don’t think my advice would be of much help…

[fierce prawn]

They throw parcels lol

[fierce prawn]

Any shipping vouchers

[timber plinth]

adafruit seems to refuse to send me the meshgrids that come with the p3 64 x 32 panels. actual ridiculous. paid this high if a premium and they won’t send me the meshgrids that come with the panel. how do i obtain these grids?

i’m talking these grids

[thick wind]

I would not be surprised if you were supposed to just use two of them side by side. If that’s just plastic, you could probably also get them 3d printed too?

[timber plinth]

that’s ridiculous. how’s that fair!?. Can get this panels from aliexpress for $11 with the meshgrids , and pay $45/panel and i don’t get the basic grids that make these panels useable?

[thick wind]

Not sure what to tell you? I’m looking at the product page and there’s an itemized list of exactly what comes in the package.

[timber plinth]

the meshgrids are standard and come with every panel. there’s no reason why i’ve ordered from adafruit before and got the grids and now i dont. really to just save $0.10 of plastic? anyway thanks for your reply

[delicate stream]

The first one I found for sale for the plain display doesn't come with a grid

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832542670680.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US

[whole jacinth]

if it's not in the product description or the learning guide page, i wouldn't assume it comes with them. it might not be what you expect, but please don't assume that what you get through one vendor is identical to what you get through another, unless it's explicitly stated

[wanton thistle]

I keep telling myself I should design a Lithium balancer so I can stop monkeying around and using single batteries with a boost converter, but I hem and haw like always, and convince myself "dis is da wae" and end up using single batteries with a boost converter.

I only need to design something thats good for 3S or 4S batteries. Yea, I know the cheap modules exist (I have a few). But I do like the idea of rolling my own.

[delicate stream]

I'd use the cheap ones as examples -- they're usually pretty simple, so you can look at them and see what you like and if there's anything you want to add/change

[wanton thistle]

Just being able to integrate it (so if I wanted to make a all in one charger and balancer), but also not be beholden to a supplier if it goes down or specs change. If I roll my own, I know its my own design. On top of that, it can be shared so other people can do it 🤔

Also I feel that the front end where the different voltages are measured are kind of black magic for some reason 😅

[delicate stream]

Lol. Just gotta watch what parts you use, or else you might still be held back by suppliers -- altho I know Adafruit has a few good examples of dual-component designs, like PCBs that can take both the DIP or QFP versions of a chip

[timber plinth]

the integrated circuits/drivers in the panel PCB isn’t listed either but it’s expected because that’s what makes the panel work. same with the mesh grids

[wanton thistle]

microcontroller based....but if you've tried to design anything in the past few years then you know its hard to get any sort of chip and your best bet is to order twice as many as you think you need

[delicate stream]

Are you sure mesh grids weren’t just a bonus from one supplier? I’ve never gotten mesh grids with those sorts of displays

[late fulcrum]

The displays work fine without the mesh grids, they're hardly required. AdaFruit does offer some nice smoked acrylic to improve the contrast. If you really want mesh grids, you could 3D print them easily.

[delicate stream]

Smoked acrylic/diffusion glass is so nice

[ebon dew]

@timber plinth can you post a picture of what it looks like without the mesh grid? you received a matrix panel without a grid?

[delicate stream]

Having not seen them with a grid, I’m curious what that looks like

[timber plinth]

the grid is a game changer

i’ll post pics

[tardy badger]

Thought my heating was electric heating, turns out it’s gas heating. Urgggg

[delicate stream]

oofies

As much as I love my gas stove, gas makes me nervous

Heating I'd rather be electric

[tardy badger]

Same

[delicate stream]

What if I told you... you can make batteries from wood

[tardy badger]

I’d believe you

If we can electrolyze starches in potatoes, surely we can electrolyze wood

[shadow siren]

I have lots of Aliexpress RGB matrix's and I never got a mesh for them.

[delicate stream]

Apparently waste from paper production is good as a carbon source for lithium batteries, and other methods https://youtu.be/bs7CQf_F088

[frigid tiger]

I remember seeing a paper on making flat speakers out of paper, but I don't remember where I found it

[delicate stream]

I remember something like that too

[blissful roost]

Probably using piezoelectric speakers.

[whole jacinth]

or metallizing the paper and using them in capacitive speakers

[blissful roost]

Mebe.. Not looked at that yet

[delicate stream]

I think it was this

[late fulcrum]

Like this?

[delicate stream]

lmao

[whole jacinth]

those look kind of like ceramic HV bushings…

[delicate stream]

HV wood battery

[late fulcrum]

Frame grab from a Project Farm video reviewing jump starters, this was the stand-in they built for a "dead battery".

[whole jacinth]

heh

[delicate stream]

Spammers aren’t even trying anymore

[late fulcrum]

Let's put that number on an autodialer connected to an annoy-o-bot

[delicate stream]

Lol, I didn’t even notice the number… I didn’t read the little picture

Other than “GeekSquad”

[sharp nexus]

Hey Gs, getting closer. One question, can somebody guide me through creating this device:

very complicated but eventually correct 🙂

[lusty fossil]

Check out #help-with-hw-design

[fierce prawn]

The websocket api I need to use needs a token obtained via a http Api

So I should route the request through my server and add cors?

[wanton thistle]

Ha, I love it when past me has an idea, designs something and puts in 90% of the work, only to drop it for a year or two and present me picks up with the same idea, "Hey I knew I did this thing before"

[tardy badger]

Lol

[wanton thistle]

Although present me questions some of past me's design choices 🤔

Gordan Ramsey's "You donkey" gif (cant post because it has swearing)

[gusty torrent]

Are you sure a CR1220 cell can provide sufficient current? Its only rated for a 100uA draw.

[delicate stream]

Me to past self sometimes:

https://tenor.com/view/gordon-ramsay-idiot-sandwich-angry-mad-what-are-you-gif-4169547

[wanton thistle]

💯

"Why did I do that?"

"I dunno, that guys an idiot"
moments later
The dawn of realization hits" "OHHHHH"

[delicate stream]

Trouble for me is, I’m still dumb, lol

[wanton thistle]

gotta leave notes or something somehow

thats why Im commenting on my code more. Hardware design is harder to leave notes or breadcrumbs for though

[delicate stream]

If I actually am shelving a project, I’ll write up notes and leave it with the project or in my common project folder

[wanton thistle]

I should do that lol. I found a "All in One Lithium Charger/Balancer" I had started that was based on a dsPIC, which is way too much for something so simple. So I think I was just using that chip just to get the experience of using a 16bit IC. But I was lost when I found it

[delicate stream]

Lol

[frigid tiger]

Imagine a wireless usb drive

[fierce prawn]

Raspberry pi project time

[wanton thistle]

so the cloud basically? lol

[delicate stream]

I kinda have that? Wireless flash drive — it’s chonky by regular modern flash drive standards, and has its own WiFi router in it — can plug it in via USB, or connect to its internal AP/file server, or have it connect to a network and access its file server

But the USB actually being a wireless connection would be cool

[solar kindle]

https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/nas-box-raspberry-pi-tutorial/

[fierce prawn]

We would need to find someone to salvage parts from a wireless mouse and scoup something up

[delicate stream]

Someone posted a BLE UART/USB chip the other day, which if google translate was accurate, would appear to the computer as a USB device

[delicate stream]

Wireless mice just transfer small data packets for movement, probably not capable of even USB 1.1 speeds

[fierce prawn]

A poc would be fun

[delicate stream]

Poc?

[fierce prawn]

Proof Of Concept

[delicate stream]

Ah. I don’t think a mouse would work for that

But full USB 2.0 probably could be done wirelessly with the right bridge

[fierce prawn]

You mean this?
https://www.cameralabs.com/wd-my-passport-wireless-ssd-review/

[delicate stream]

No, we’re talking about emulating a USB connected drive — those drives either use something like FTP or act as network shares

[fierce prawn]

Hmm you would need to power the drive and plug a dongle on both side

[delicate stream]

Yup. Same idea as the non-Bluetooth wireless mice, but for data

[fierce prawn]

Or this who needs driver on the host https://www.net-usb.com/usb-over-wi-fi/wireless-usb-hub/#:~:text=A WiFi USB hub or,attach different numbers of devices.

[delicate stream]

Yeah, that’s good too

I do like the idea of the dongle tho because it can be driverless

Well, no special driver

[rustic scarab]

anyone got a workaround for this ?

FastLED.addLeds<WS2812B, 15, GRB>(neoPixels, NUM_NEOPIXELS);
FastLED.addLeds<WS2812B, 16, GRB>(neoPixels, NUM_NEOPIXELS);
FastLED.addLeds<WS2812B, 17, GRB>(neoPixels, NUM_NEOPIXELS);

 for (int i = 0; i < NUM_NEOPIXELS; i++)
 {
   pinMode(NEOPIXEL_PINS[i], OUTPUT);
 }
// how do i change that to this?
for ( int i = 0; i < NUM_NEOPIXELS; i++)
{
 //needs a const for the second header parameter
 FastLED.addLeds<WS2812B, NEOPIXEL_PINS[i], GRB>(neoPixels, NUM_NEOPIXELS);
 pinMode(NEOPIXEL_PINS[i], OUTPUT);
}```

[lusty fossil]

@crystal ore You're a contractor in California right?

[crystal ore]

Yep. I have a single-member LLC for my business.

[lusty fossil]

ok cool. I'm going into negotiations to convert my job to a contractor position (not what I wanted but I'm not 100% in the position to go job shopping right now). Do you have any tips for a newbie? Do I need an LLC? I have nearly sold three projects that will keep me busy until the end of July but I don't know how to go about negotiating as a 1099 employee.

[crystal ore]

So that's somewhat troublesome in California. A recent law clamped down on using contractors as employees, and converting a current employee would likely be a red flag. I had to wait 2 years to consult with a former employer. So you might need to check with the company's legal folks.

An LLC isn't needed, but sometimes can be a factor in how independent a judge would think you are.

[lusty fossil]

Hmm

Ok our HR person said just not the same year but she's not a lawyer

[delicate stream]

Always good to ask a lawyer if you have one handy

[lusty fossil]

I don't.

[delicate stream]

No company lawyer?

[lusty fossil]

Lol

Maybe but I don't have access and they wouldn't be acting in my interest, by law

[delicate stream]

I didn't realize corporate lawyers were legally obligated to work against employee interests

[lusty fossil]

They are required to work in the best interests of the business

[delicate stream]

hmm

[lusty fossil]

I'm not saying they wouldn't do right by me, just that legally they are not looking out for me

[fiery quarry]

In this case weather they can take a current employee as a fture contractor is partially in there interests, right

[delicate stream]

I'd think so

I think this sort of question might be one where they can't like... answer in a way that would benefit the company and not you

[lusty fossil]

IDK I'm just of the opinion that you should never rely on the work of a lawyer you aren't paying, unless they were appointed

[delicate stream]

Well, I don't think that thinking can hurt you XD

[crystal ore]

In this case, the risk is all on the company side, not yours. If you get reclassified as an employee later on, the company is liable for back unemployment insurance, benefits, penalties, etc. but you are just an innocent victim of the evil capitalists exploiting you. 😉 So a company lawyer would be motivated to figure it out.

[lusty fossil]

I reached out to my boss, she didn't want this to happen and is looking out for me, so we'll sort it out.

Thanks all

Appreciate the community

But I do have a sick LLC name picked out

[lusty fossil]

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything!

[crystal ore]

I see that the oatsnhoney.llc domain is available, heh heh.

[delicate stream]

Ed corporate shill confirmed? /jk

[crystal ore]

Heh heh, I did my time in Big Tech already. 😅

[lusty fossil]

I was actually thinking AdaVegetable LLC

Start that company war early

[wanton thistle]

Adafruitwo LLC

[lusty fossil]

"Have you AdaVegetable today?"

[delicate stream]

AdaFroot

[wanton thistle]

Adagroot

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/real-groot-i-am-groot-guardians-of-the-galaxy-gif-7317007

[crystal ore]

Make two enemies at once with AdaFrootLoops.

[wanton thistle]

AdaSparkFun

Or MouserKey haha

[delicate stream]

AdaMouseFunKey

FunKeyAdaMouse!

[lusty fossil]

How about just ComeAtMeIger?

[delicate stream]

?

[lusty fossil]

Bob Iger - Disney CEO

[delicate stream]

Ohhh, I thought that was an L — MeLger

Lol

[lusty fossil]

Lol

[delicate stream]

I have a random question

Why don’t resistors have values printed on them? Why always only bands? I know it was hard to print clearly on them years ago, but they can print on tiny caps, why not resistors?

[lusty fossil]

Resistors predate written language

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/deadpool-gasp-sarcastic-shocked-surprised-gif-20229446

[tardy badger]

Honestly, I’d go for AdaUwu, LLC

[delicate stream]

uwu

[wanton thistle]

uwu

[whole jacinth]

it's easier to read color stripes than digits on small roughly-cylindrical parts

[tardy badger]

All products contractually have to say “uwu” when powered on

[wanton thistle]

in another server theres a bot that responds with a gif if you type uwu

[tardy badger]

I feed like we need Anime blinka now saying uwu

Kattni, I have an ideaaaaa

[wanton thistle]

someone make a light saber that says uwu when you swing it.

[tardy badger]

Oh yeah I think I’ve seen that

[wanton thistle]

doesnt surprise me

[tardy badger]

Uwu Blinka would be a nod to the cosplay community that heavily uses Adafruit products

[wanton thistle]

"press for uwu"

that seems like an awesome gag gift

[delicate stream]

https://tenor.com/view/egoz-uwu-uwu-army-dance-party-gif-15090789

[late fulcrum]

Also, they can be read from any angle, which is (again) useful on cylindrical parts.

[delicate stream]

Can’t we have both? DX

I can’t memorize the full resistor code and it would be nice to be able to have a number on there

[late fulcrum]

You really only need to memorize 10 colors for most resistors (and a couple more for the rest)

[lusty fossil]

My cordless drill is particularly unsettling.

[late fulcrum]

Some components do have the numbers stamped on them, and they're truly annoying to read (impossible after they're soldered down)

[delicate stream]

I remember that black is zero, and that there’s red, blue, green, purple, and yellow… and that gold and silver are the precision indicator

But beyond that always escapes my brain, I have big issues memorizing charts of values

[late fulcrum]

You're already mostly there, although modern resistors are often 1%. I have issues like that too (hard to memorize stuff that doesn't have a specific structure). Luckily, most of the colors are in spectral order (red to violet).

[lusty fossil]

It's rough for my colorblind friend

[late fulcrum]

The EIA-96 values for SMD resistors are beyond my ability to memorize. Sure, I might learn that code 81C is 68.1kΩ and 41X is 26.1Ω but it's hard to get from there to any other useful value.

[delicate stream]

I might remember if I used it all day every day… but I do not

I can’t even remember the Ethernet color code beyond using it within a day

[delicate stream]

This is another reason to have printed values

[late fulcrum]

I quickly realized I don't need most resistor values, and the E12 series are the most common ones, so I learned those. I can only (kind of) remember the usual Ethernet pinouts, and that's only because I've worked with phone wiring. I still have to look up if blue/white is green/tip, or white/blue.

[lusty fossil]

It's a tough needle to thread. Effectiveness vs accomodation

[delicate stream]

I think you could easily have both -- like, split the rings along two sides and have the printed value

[lusty fossil]

I wonder if they discussed colorblind folks when deciding on the rings method

[delicate stream]

Probably not, the ring method is old as dirt

[late fulcrum]

The majority of the resistors I use are 330Ω (orange-orange-brown, for LED current limiting), 1kΩ (brown-black-red, for decoupling logic circuits), and 10kΩ (brown-black-orange, for pull-ups/pull-downs). Those are pretty easy to tell apart. I bin my resistors by the third (decade) band, so for those three, they're each in a different bin: brown band for LED resistors, red band for decoupling, orange band for pull-up/pull-down.

[delicate stream]

I don't currently have bins... I have a bag with the bandoleer things with the values written on them, in order from lowest to highest

[late fulcrum]

In the old days, the assumption was that color-blind people would a) use resistors in marked envelopes, b) use a multimeter, c) work with someone with color vision, or d) find a different job. Those days weren't the "good old days" in many important ways.

[delicate stream]

The "good" old days were pretty heavily biased in favor of neurotypical folks

"normal" folks

[tardy badger]

Or borderline neuro divergent

[delicate stream]

yeah

[late fulcrum]

Neurodivergent folks in those days tended to find jobs that suited their abilities. Some became lighthouse keepers, others mathematicians, others teachers, and so forth. However, many were just shunted to the edges of society and their special gifts ignored/shunned.

[tardy badger]

Basically

[delicate stream]

yeah...

[tardy badger]

It’s not as bad now with the STIM to STEM pipeline

[late fulcrum]

I've been working on theories of how this has powered human development for æons.

[tardy badger]

When they realized that neurodivergents were really good at solving highly complex problems quickly

[delicate stream]

Yeah, people who might have just gotten forced to be janitors because they couldn't fit the neurotypical model can have a chance to use their special gifts now

[late fulcrum]

Oliver Sacks' story about the surgeon with Tourette's syndrome is a fascinating example.

[tardy badger]

The situation basically flipped over the last 25 years. Now neurodivergence is sought after and abused

[late fulcrum]

Neurotypical people still are abused as well, as they always have been, just differently.

[tardy badger]

The problem is lots of neurodivergent people don’t realize it’s abuse by their employers because they just want to solve the problem. And then they get burnt out and left for the wolves of poor performance reviews.

[delicate stream]

That's me, stop talking about me

[tardy badger]

Thankfully there is more awareness for that over the last 2-3 years and now we have quiet quitting

[tardy badger]

I have a weird form of neurodivergence called HSP

And if I really like the work I will absolutely pour myself into it until utter exhaustion

[delicate stream]

This letter combination is new to me

[tardy badger]

Highly Sensitive Persons

[late fulcrum]

I love working hard on interesting problems but hate even looking at boring ones. This is why, at one job, my job description eventually shrunk to just "other duties as assigned", which basically meant I was free to float around the company and attach myself to whatever project intrigued me. Happily, the company recognized I brought massive value that way and put up with it.

[delicate stream]

I do this too sometimes... Particularly personal projects. Don't want to sleep, must finish... even if it ends up causing more issues

[tardy badger]

It’s something that borders the autism spectrum but has some distinctions that make it not

[late fulcrum]

I have only guesses as to what any real diagnoses I might have: my parents believed I was better off not knowing and avoiding labels.

[delicate stream]

Hmm.... That might explain why some of my behavior makes autistic folks think I might be autistic, yet tests have indicated I am not

[delicate stream]

I feel like this is a double edged sword

[tardy badger]

Knowing about HSP has helped me better cope with my life, but I don’t like the flagrantly throw around labels

[late fulcrum]

On the one hand, I'm curious, on the other hand, it might point up some things that would let me better accommodate my peculiarities, on the gripping hand, I'll probably never get around to scheduling specialists, tests, etc. to arrive at a real conclusion.

[tardy badger]

I get all the benefits of quickly learning and absorbing new information but don’t get stuck on particular topics like can be common with those with autism or ADD/ADHD

[delicate stream]

If you don't feel you're suffering with your current situation, it probably isn't something you should investigate urgently... I suffered before my ADHD diagnosis and subsequent therapy/treatment to learn how to deal with it

[tardy badger]

It also means I have better coping abilities for getting overwhelmed by stimuli

But there are not so fun things about it

[late fulcrum]

The last time I was seeing a professional (in my late teens), they explained that I was certainly abnormal in a variety of ways, but that I was well-adapted to my particular way of life. Eh, I'll take it.

[tardy badger]

Like not being able to control emotional responses when people are presenting very dominant emotions

[tardy badger]

That’s a good diagnosis. Pragmatic

HSPs suffer from emotional hijacking where they end up mirroring and sometimes amplifying strong emotions of others

[late fulcrum]

I learned to deal with that particular situation an odd way: by theatre. So when my emotions threaten to take me in a bad direction, I can switch into "play acting" mode and present whatever effect I need at the time: confidence, bravado, obsequiousness, etc. It's almost like magic.

[tardy badger]

Yeah, I attempt to do that when I am emotionally overwhelmed

[late fulcrum]

It also turns out to be an awesome skill for job interviews.

[tardy badger]

Sometimes works, other times doesn’t

[tardy badger]

I can definitely see how that would be beneficial

Kind of like a fake it till you make it sort of act

[delicate stream]

... oh, my god, you're talking about me

[late fulcrum]

My parents met on the debating team, and were relentlessly logical. The only way to make any headway in our house was to be logical and play by the rules. If you attempted a fallacy, they'd call you on it. If you got emotional, they'd call you on it. When I got older, I ended up in relationships with some manipulative people, and I frustrated them to no end, because I did not react like they wanted me to. I'd come right out and say "thank you for the offer of the lovely guilt trip, but I'm not interested in taking that trip."

[tardy badger]

The issue is, you’re going to have a very hard time finding a therapy person who knows about HSP and knows how to effectively treat it

[dusty citrus]

hsp? what's like girls in their 20s slang like lsmp or intfp ?

[tardy badger]

Highly Sensitive Persons

[late fulcrum]

There's another thing that makes it even harder: it really helps to have someone smarter than you for mental health help, so they can catch it when you try to fake them out (consciously or not). But for very intelligent people, the pool of qualified professionals becomes vanishingly small.

[tardy badger]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/highly-sensitive-person?amp

[dusty citrus]

yes... I know but that wasn't the point... although I shouldnt bring here my edgy humor I'm sorry

[tardy badger]

Oh sorry 😛

Text unfortunately is a terrible medium lol

[late fulcrum]

From Rorshach to MMPI to Myers-Briggs to Shrinks-To-Fit, a progression of analysis tools, or a history of dead ends that eventually proved useful in a different way.

[tardy badger]

Myers-Briggs is an interesting example of smart people doing something because other people thought it wasn’t a worth while idea

[dusty citrus]

tbh it all sounds pseudoscience to me, sure there are some really bad things, but treatment or diagnostic, more than often is out of air, other things I think that's utterly garbage

[delicate stream]

I’ve gotten every single result for the Myers-Briggs, it just depends on when I take it….. it’s exceedingly rare that I get the same result twice in a row tho

[tardy badger]

You mean psychology in general? Or Myers-Briggs?

Or what specifically are you speaking to?

[dusty citrus]

both

[delicate stream]

Psychology is chaos, brains is chaos

[tardy badger]

I don’t think calling it garbage is a fair characterization. For many people, the issues they face are very real to them. The treatment they receive helps them.

[late fulcrum]

I had a psych professor who was very much a behaviorist, and I am ... very much not a behaviorist, so we spent a lot of class sessions arguing over things. One of the takeaways I got was that, while it is a "soft" science, it is indeed a science, but you really have to know your stuff, and a lot of the practitioners are ignorant of the actual details of what they claim to be doing. Sort of like real doctors vs chiroquacktors.

[delicate stream]

What’s a behavioralist again?

[tardy badger]

My feelings exactly

[late fulcrum]

That's the hard part: while many people (including myself) have benefited from correct treatment, many people (including myself) have suffered from incorrect treatment. Finding the right practitioner and modality is hard, and doubly so when you're in need of mental health support.

[tardy badger]

It isn’t perfect and certainly neither is our understanding of human consciousness

[late fulcrum]

Behaviorism in a nutshell claims that by fixing the behavior, you fix the problem.

[tardy badger]

In many cases we’re making the best observations we can based off the tools at our disposal

[delicate stream]

Ah

[dusty citrus]

and for many others it doesn't. but if it helps them, well good enough

[delicate stream]

I need to go eat, I’m shaking so bad… bbl

[tardy badger]

People not getting the right help is more a symptom of the system rather than the field as a whole. It’s incredibly understaffed for the number of people who need help unfortunately..

[late fulcrum]

There's currently not a mechanism to match people with practitioners. And a bad match can be worse than no treatment at all. At the current state of the art, you really need to find the right practitioner.

[tardy badger]

Other countries tend to do better to in how they incentivize practitioners to deliver care. And by incentivize, I mean set very enforceable rules about patient care.

If your exposure of mental health care is the US, yeah.. it’s a really big mess here

I’ve had apprehension about finding a therapy provider simply because I haven’t found one that understands the specific things I’m dealing with.

[late fulcrum]

I agree with all of that.

[tardy badger]

And tools that claim to be able to do this end up being grifting platforms where people pay for help and get ghosted.

[dusty citrus]

oh this remembers me, why are psychiatrist generally so mad about being cathegorized as psychologist?

[tardy badger]

Not sure, I’m not familiar with the conflict in names

[dusty citrus]

in my understanding the first is more closer to a medical professional, since they can prescribe meds and they look at you in a more medical way, the other ones are the modern days priest, at least for the state of arts around here

[tardy badger]

I’ve considered psychologists to be more of scientists

But that’s not really an accurate characterization

[late fulcrum]

Perhaps it's like confusing opthamologists, optometrists, and opticians?

[tardy badger]

Probably

[umbral phoenix]

dentists, oral surgeons, endodontists, and orthodontists

[timid cave]

hi peeps!

I'm sorry if this is not the right channel to ask this, my apologies in advance

for the life of me I can't figure out how to enable flipping on fritzing? anybody got any thoughts on that?

[fierce prawn]

This good?

[lusty fossil]

Uh oh, Rover goofed!

[blissful roost]

Bad Rover.. BAD!

[fierce prawn]

What you all think

[slim shard]

I think the colors might be a little too saturated.

[fierce prawn]

So what it should be

[blissful roost]

What is "Unkown"?

[fierce prawn]

Not yet loaded

[blissful roost]

The typo is bothering me more.. lol

[delicate stream]

Having the button stretched across the entire display isn’t great, makes it hard to be sure you’re clicking the right thing

[lusty fossil]

I messed up. I have an allergy oral challenge today but I didn't prepare something with "baked milk" in it. Can anyone think of a product that's baked and has milk but doesn't have egg or nuts? Would really be saving my bacon.

[tardy badger]

That’s a hard one

[lusty fossil]

Yeah

I was thinking crackers?

[frigid tiger]

I have one, trying to remember it

[lusty fossil]

Oooh

Oh! Naan!

[frigid tiger]

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/09/25/byzantine-honey-fritters/

[lusty fossil]

I don't know if I can get that here but it looks lovely.

If I'm not allergic ill make it!

[wanton thistle]

any type of milk bread

hold on, getting recipe

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pain-de-mie-recipe

Note: there are others out there that dont have potato flakes

[frigid tiger]

good idea, Japanese milk bread is basically a pastry

[lusty fossil]

I'll see if I can get that!

[burnt tendon]

Some milk bread has egg in it tho

Can we all pause for a moment and acknowledge that the Cats movie came out three years ago today? It might not have created a new generation of furries, nor was it a good movie, but it did create a rip in reality wide enough to doom us all.

[lusty fossil]

Bagel store hooked me up. Doctor was unclear re egg vs milk test so I got an egg bagel and a milk laden but egg free turnover

[tardy badger]

Is that what caused covid (joking)

[burnt tendon]

I'm picturing the allergy challenge something like an episode of Dragonball Z.

I mean, we can't say for sure that the Cats movie did not cause COVID.

[tardy badger]

But it is definitely a coincidence that the cats movie came out and then the world shut down for covid

https://tenor.com/view/coincidence-i-think-not-coincidence-i-think-not-the-incredibles-gif-5096707

[burnt tendon]

I assume the next day, the members of the fursuit industrial complex met in a room that would have been a smoke filled room if they could figure out how to smoke cigars without lighting their fursuits on fire to talk about how disappointed they are that we were going to continue to be stuck way low on the rankings.

[tardy badger]

Something had to be done to erase people’s knowledge of how bad it was, for sure.

[wanton thistle]

It was Harambe or Bowie that did it all

[manic tide]

usb over cat5e, would this be useful?

Like a cheap 2 meter extender that you don't have to worry about

Mainly charging

[lusty fossil]

Long distances and charging can be harder

Especially if you're doing PD

[manic tide]

Power delivery?

[lusty fossil]

Yeah

USB PD

[manic tide]

We have an outlet some distance away from the nearest valid surface to rest a device on

I've had some experience with 2M micro usb cable from Belkin and other reliable manifacturers

[lusty fossil]

Amazon has A male to A female extenders

Could try that

I see 10 ft for 8.99

[manic tide]

Only issue that I've had is that they break near the ends

[manic tide]

I would like to learn more about difference between cat 5e cable and this off-the shelf solution

[lusty fossil]

I think 5e is smaller gauge and also twisted pair, no?

[manic tide]

Yes, it's twisted

I might as well bridge some cables together to divide the load

IMO these cables have standards far better than USB-C

[lusty fossil]

I'd do power/ground together in pairs

[manic tide]

I might as well just twist 4 power and 4 ground

Although... USB C is popular nowadays

I've never had a device that can be charged over usb c... Yeah that's whole another world.

[tardy badger]

Curious why not use a plug strip with a long cable?

Get more than just USB power delivered

[lusty fossil]

Yeah that was a question I had

[tardy badger]

You can get ones with like 3m cords

I’ve got a chonky one with a 2m cord myself

That uh.. i plug my hot plate/soldering iron into 🫣

I don’t use them at the same time though so no worries of issues. It’s a shop quality plug strip that can deliver 12.5 or 15A

Definitely only do this when you are always supervising the use of these hot element items.

[dusty citrus]

I was messing around with magnets when I accidentally made them violently combine
when doing so a spark came out
why?

[tardy badger]

Friction more than likely

[crystal ore]

Like striking flint rocks together...

[whole jacinth]

some rare earth metals ignite very easily from friction if powdered

[delicate stream]

AC extension > long USB cable; far more efficient. Long USB cables will definitely have losses, and some devices might actually not charge (I had a 10ft Micro cable that my Galaxy S4 would slowly discharge on while in use)

[tardy badger]

Out of the $120 per claimant that was promised for the Equifax breach, I got a whopping $5.20

Meanwhile the lawyers made off like bandits

[blissful roost]

That's not what I'd expect from lawyers... !!!

🤪

[tardy badger]

Lol

[hasty quarry]

In statistics, is the bell curve divided by sqrt(pi) to force the area under it to be 1?

Because I was having a conversation with a statistics student about the bell curve, and I told them the area under it is sqrt(pi) and I can prove it, and they seemed very confused, like "No, it's 1"

[tardy badger]

Bell curves represent a standard or Gaussian distribution, that’s about as much as I remember of it 🤣

The total area is 1 though since it must represent 100%

[hasty quarry]

Yeah, that's what I supposed. If that's the case, vertically compressing the curve in a convenient way would still preserve its shape, so it would make total sense to do so

[hasty quarry]

But that's not true for the function itself, e^(-x^2)

It is though, for e^(-x^2) / sqrt(pi)

[tardy badger]

Sure, but if your thinking in statistical analysis, it’s 1. Since it’s a distribution of a whole.

[hasty quarry]

I'm thinking about what function's graph statistical analysis uses in practice

I understand why it must be 1 to represent 100%

[tardy badger]

From a purely mathematical standpoint, you’re right. Statistics unfortunately is really convoluted math..

Let me go look at see if I wrote anything specific in my stochastic analysis notes from my undergrad

[delicate stream]

It was probably "up to", and you made out like a bandit XD the last class action lawsuit I was part of was "up to $250 per claimant", and I got 17 cents... I think it might also be "up to $x per claimant" before the lawyers, and then after the fees you get... whatever's left divided by number of claimants

[tardy badger]

Well, it originally was supposed to be $125. but so many people didn’t want the credit monitoring (and why would you, Equifax let them take your data in the first place) and a majority of people opted for money

So most people are getting less than $10

I did see some people get up to $21

[delicate stream]

I really do wanna know who, on the Equifax legal team, thought people would want credit monitoring from the company that was the problem in the first place... as if they'd ever be trusted again

[tardy badger]

The lawyers from my recollection got like $300m out of the deal

[delicate stream]

I just stopped bothering with the class action stuff because I feel like it ends up not being worth it for anyone but the lawyers

[tardy badger]

Okay, correction: it was $80m to the attorneys

Class action suits make sense if you’re an attorney

It’s a huge payday most times because companies will settle, attorneys will get a bulk of the settlement, and the actual claimants will get pennies

I did get like $50 for the takata airbag recall

[delicate stream]

Wow... I think most end up giving 100x less than that tho

But yeah, lawyers and attorneys live on that stuff

[ebon dew]

I'm taking a coursera course sponsored by Google for their I.T. program. Features google engineers, etc.. but I'm pretty sure the entire course was designed by someone in china.

[tardy badger]

I happened to get my car service inspection for registration during the replacement so for whatever reason the reimbursement me for that

[ebon dew]

the parts of a TCP header...

[tardy badger]

Probably a typo

[ebon dew]

this isn't some kind of low rent course, the video production is very high quality, studio built just for shooting it, etc.. like a tv show

a "google engineer" pointed to a CMOS battery on a motherboard and called it a CMOS chip.

and started describing how the chip saves all the CMOS settings

like he said it multiple times while pointing at the battery

and that was part of a "basic motherboard layout" guide

i'm failing the course because of the way things are described, like "what part of the layer model is an ethernet cable", i answered physical layer and it marked it as wrong then said "then network layer is made up of components for switching"

like i want to throw my keyboard at whoever designed these courses for coursera

[delicate stream]

They’re probably a software engineer. Asking a software engineer to give a hardware tour is like asking a psychologist to do an exploratory surgery… it does not end well

[ebon dew]

this is true

[fierce prawn]

Isn't cmos battery the one that powers the cmos chip
Then the cmos chip persist the settings?

[ebon dew]

yes but it was pretty obvious he thought the battery was the cmos chip

[lusty fossil]

Has anyone tried one of those portable monitors for sustained work day in and day out? The kind that do power and data over USBC from your PC

[haughty wave]

Hey yall! Sharing this along with everyone, enjoy!

https://youtu.be/KsaH9RxBetg

[delicate stream]

I’ve used a portable monitor every day for an extended period, but mine is HDMI or VGA

[lusty fossil]

Hmm ok. So it has a power supply?

[delicate stream]

Yeah, AC brick with a barrel jack connector, I think 12V?

[lusty fossil]

Cool

[delicate stream]

Many USB C ones get power from the host or have an external power option

[wooden schooner]

I think before one can meaningfully answer this question, you need to know that:

• the normal distribution is not made up, it actually occurs in the wild
• in a sense, the "real thing" is the distribution itself; the bell curve is just a certain kind of description of the distribution -- namely, it is a probability density function (pdf).
  I think if you unpack the relationship between the pdf and the probabilities associated with drawing from the described distribution (which is pretty subtle btw and involves calculus, and more generally, measure theory), this question might resolve itself. You won't get an explanation of why the normal distribution shows up in so many applications of interest, but you'll see that the requirement that the pdf integrate to 1 is a consequence of the fact that a pdf is a description of a probability distribution.

[hasty quarry]

Well, the thing is I was aware the distribution's behavior follows the shape of e^(-x^2)

But then I later found the area must be 1 for it to be statistically usable

[wooden schooner]

what do you mean by that?

do you have a precise version of the statement "the ditribution's behavior follows the shape of ..."?

[hasty quarry]

I mean the graph used in statistics is not e^(-x^2), but e^(-x^2)/sqrt(pi)

It's vertically compressed to be useful

[wooden schooner]

right but how is the graph used

[hasty quarry]

Statistics

[wooden schooner]

ha

well i think that's the missing piece that will satisfy you

[tardy badger]

Hence my statement that statistics tends to feel very convoluted 🙂

[wooden schooner]

if that is a joke about convolutions, 👏

[tardy badger]

It is in a way lol

[late fulcrum]

I got over $500 from a phone spammer once.

[lusty fossil]

How do you report that come April?

"Justice - $500"

[wooden schooner]

I got $5.21

[dusty citrus]

there's worse, I did purposely gave money to a fake woman knowingly that it was a scam.

idk it often happens that I'm sorta absent minded

[whole jacinth]

as in you knew at the time, or realized shortly afterwards?

[twin junco]

i got a rock

[dusty citrus]

if you are referring to that particular episode, idk tbh I was quite confused in three days in a row, I think?
weird stuff, not only I got scammed, but I also did some other random stuff,
although it might have been because I wasn't eating for a while, so I wasn't so lucid

wherears for the second part, dunno a while ago it was like if I was seeing myself from outside,
nowdays is more about finding myself in situations that I don't know what I'm doing,
but if I think about most of the times I can remember but I can't explain why
although it might be because of some deficit since I'm broke and anorexic

[whole jacinth]

i wouldn't sweat it too much. even experts find themselves caught in phishing or scam attempts, because some scammers are very good at it, and no amount of training will completely compensate for stuff like alert fatigue and emotional manipulation

[dusty citrus]

this maybe will make no sense, but I did not got in his scam per se, but I sent him money anyway for no reason

thinking about it makes me mad, it just doesnt make sense

[lusty fossil]

I have acquired some tools, but they don't fit perfectly in my storage arrangement. I'm very upset about it.

[wooden schooner]

this is the most relatable thing i have heard in my entire life

[lusty fossil]

It's not in budget yet to expand

I'm doing a portable, latching stackable, wall mountable thing. So it's pricey

[delicate stream]

I have similar… and yeah, the price hurts

[lusty fossil]

So gorgeous though

Milwaukee packout. I am going to have to add to it slowly

[delicate stream]

I have Craftsman

[lusty fossil]

The big trick will be to get my job to pay for the mounting hardware for my office/work space

[delicate stream]

Bed time… nini

[lusty fossil]

Night

[late fulcrum]

I ended up building an Adam Savage style tool ladder. I did, however, buy a wire reel holder intended to bolt onto a tool cart, and bolted it to my wall instead.

[tardy badger]

The Oak Watch Saga lives on

The screen is small in comparison, but it’s just telling time soooooo

[tardy badger]

TPU?

[late fulcrum]

That's what I had in mind when I designed that one

[tardy badger]

Very cool, I’m hoping to potentially get my case fabricated with Xometry

I thought anodized aluminum would be cool, or polished aluminum

[late fulcrum]

That would look sharp

[tardy badger]

My tolerances are 0.1-0.2mm so fairly tight

[late fulcrum]

I bought some equipment a while back, and the manufacturer gave me a choice of finishes. I went for anodized magenta. It looks great.

Heh, call it 100µm, it sounds more impressive 📏

[tardy badger]

I’m not sure how the wireless charging would work through aluminum, so I might still need to 3D print a bottom plug for that

But that’s not a huge issue overall

Just push through the bottom to make the hole and make a plug the same size and glue it in

[slim shard]

I jiggled some color knobs, probably could do better, but here a thing

[late fulcrum]

I suppose it depends on what flavour of wireless charging you have in mind. Some are going to work through aluminum better than others.

[tardy badger]

Using a ferrite mat inductor with a Qi charger IC

This coil specifically https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/TDK/WR282840-37K2-LR3?qs=hUaYk7HeIDi%2Fli%2FmHLVSRg%3D%3D&countryCode=US&currencyCode=USD

[late fulcrum]

That might work with an unusually shaped pole piece, but I'm dubious about it with the usual flat ferrite one(s).

[tardy badger]

My design will work for the 3D printed prototype since it’s PLA, but definitely a design consideration for the future

[tardy badger]

This is a really good fit

[lusty fossil]

Is that your watch design?

[tardy badger]

Yeah

Bezel for the display

The base is still printing yet

[lusty fossil]

nice looking!

good work!

[tardy badger]

I learned a lot from the first set of iterations

[lusty fossil]

that's always how it is

I always have to remind myself that the incredible engineers at Apple went thru tons of versions before they got the first iPhone, and even then there were problems and places to improve!

Or at least they convinced us all for 14 years, every year, that there were improvements to be made!

[tardy badger]

Yup, exactly. Iteration is the key to improvement

I have to remind myself often that if I take the time to learn the lessons, I can make things look better

[lusty fossil]

My dog has been iterating on the things she can drag into her crate while I'm away and destroy

Latest is a beaded microwaveable heat pack with, fortunately, seed beads.

[tardy badger]

😳

[lusty fossil]

She's a stinker!

[tardy badger]

Sounds like my corgi

He dive bombs nearly finished popcorn bowls and eats the unpopped kernels

[lusty fossil]

I'm just trying to get this windows install going so I can take her out

Oh she didn't eat any of it, just got it all over her bed

[tardy badger]

Double edged relief

[lusty fossil]

Yeah. I have a vacuum so it's all good. At the end of the day I need to play with her more so she's less restless

[tardy badger]

Yeah, my puppers just need a lot of attention during the day. It’s hard with the baby just now learning to get around. The dogs spend the day downstairs while I sit with my son in my office while I work

[lusty fossil]

I decided to cut costs elsewhere and get her a walker

I usually work from home but I'm strict about breaks and lunch so I can't take her on a 30 minute walk and make/heat/eat flld

Food

[tardy badger]

Makes sense

I have a smidge bit of flexibility as long as I’m productive. I usually eat and work at the same time though

[lusty fossil]

Yeah I mean I could get away with a 2 hour lunch, as long as I worked 8 hours and or got everything done. I just like my day to be over asap

[tardy badger]

Same

[lusty fossil]

Does anyone know a friendly tech support discord? The only one i know is full of insufferable people who are openly disdainful of anyone who isn't at IT professional of 10 years level and as such doesn't need their help.

Like imagine the exact opposite of this community

[tardy badger]

I mean, you could probably get most of the help here

[lusty fossil]

Yeah

Good point

I don't know why I'm punishing myself

[tardy badger]

IT like other areas of tech is heavily gate kept and for whatever reason the goal always seems to demean people for not knowing something even for beginner and intermediate learners

[lusty fossil]

Yeah, I've known some great IT professionals who were true professionals, so I won't demean the whole group but boy....those stereotypes are rooted in something for sure

I feel like a community can become toxic and self select for the kind of people who are giving free "help" not because they like helping other, but because they like to feel superior and rub noses in it. Just an observation after being on the internet for a few decades.

[tardy badger]

Yeah, agreed

I’ve met some great professionals in my time, but definitely had very sour tastes left by people I was supposed to learn from

Anyway, off to bed! 5am comes quick when it’s almost 11pm lol

Final iteration for the night of my watch design:

[lusty fossil]

nice!

[tardy badger]

Shortened up as I realized I didn’t need nearly as much space vertically

Added a lip for the PCB to set on and hopefully create a nice separation of space

38mm wide, 52mm or so long

Still working with the Apple Watch bands too

[fierce prawn]

what can i do to connect battery without solder

pogo pins?

[fierce prawn]

@delicate stream

[dusty citrus]

I'm unsure what you're asking...
with that board I doubt that you can be off of solder, unless you find some sort of tiny crimps
if you're asking for battery connectors then there's plenty of choices, just googling out battery connector should give you choices
if you want to avoid like a spot welder there are solderless cases that allows you to do that, I can't remember the naming right now though

[fierce prawn]

i want to connect battery without solder

[thick wind]

Those pad were intended for use with soldering, preferably a surface mount connector of some kind. Adafruit’s lipo bff connects a battery to the qtpy/xiao over vusb but even then I would assume some solder is required for the headers…

You could potentially press pogo pins onto those pads, but that would require a custom board with some sort of mounting solution…

Considering the price point of the Xiao, not exactly a viable product for its market…

[solar kindle]

Pogo pins or similar press-fit connectors would probably do. If it's just a temporary thing for testing, then J-clip jumpers would probably be OK.

[tardy badger]

Pretty darn close to what this will end up looking like 🤓

Just need a slight modification to the slots for the Apple Watch bands and to make a wee bit extra room at the bottom for the battery

[dusty citrus]

This .. is it. You're already here. ;) irc.freenode.net had a good rep when I was using it on IRC.

[blissful roost]

Ahh... Deadnode.

The memories... RIP.

[dusty citrus]

Some really great online communities still experienced a half-life. ;)

[blissful roost]

For sure.

IRC is dying, very slowly.. and it's hard to find a place that isn't toxic.

The best of Deadnode moved over to Libera: irc.libera.chat/6697

[fierce prawn]

Do the bff support charging

[dusty citrus]

I think I heard that LiveJournal was the place to be and is presently pretty different from its heyday (if it's even still up).

posterous was so good - you could upload posts via email. ;) (blogging though; same with LJ).

[whole jacinth]

isn’t LiveJournal still owned by the Russian government? i think most of the people i knew there migrated to Dreamwidth

[dusty citrus]

that's exactly what I heard - words to that effect, argon

[thick wind]

Yes? https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-qt-py-charger-bff

[dusty citrus]

(steampunk):
Microfiche images: Compressed air powered a piston-driven microfiche image selector that permitted colored images to be projected on the back of the screen under program control.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)#Multimedia_experiences_(PLATO_IV)

[tardy badger]

Cutting it close with this print lol

[dusty citrus]

weird scams

[blissful roost]

😂

That really is dumb AF

[tardy badger]

Lol

[wanton thistle]

I remember seeing something like that from the 90s when we had the brick phones

[tardy badger]

The antenna on those iPhones were the top and bottom bands lol

[blissful roost]

Hold on... "UP^SIDE"... But it's still the wrong way up..

[tardy badger]

And the iPod touch? Internal antenna

Hilarious

[blissful roost]

And taping a piece of metal to the device.. won't that cause signal reflections?

[tardy badger]

Sad part is people who don’t know better are buying these things

It’s why we need better stem/steam education in schools

[wanton thistle]

Id be curious if they actually are though.

[tardy badger]

Not any more than magnets for MagSafe or wireless charging

[blissful roost]

It certainly warrants testing, but not at the cost of giving money to these a-holes.

[tardy badger]

Most phones put the antenna on the side bumper

To actually improve the signal, they’d have to improve the antenna, tuning network, etc..

It’s not as simple as a metalized sticker like it is with RFID/NFC

[blissful roost]

Yuh huh

[tardy badger]

Lol

[whole jacinth]

if a working version of such a device did exist, it would almost certainly have to be different for every model of phone

[tardy badger]

Yeah, this is especially true because the same Wi-Fi IC implemented on different boards for instance has to have different matching/tuning networks because the entirety of the design affects antenna performance

Top two paragraphs

https://www.weboost.com/blog/5-myths-about-cell-phone-signal-boosters

[whole jacinth]

wireless device manufacturers have incentives to cram the best possible RF performance into the available volume, so it’s highly unlikely that a cheap sticker will improve on it (quite possibly the opposite)

[blissful roost]

Wouldn't it also have to be different depending on frequency?

Like.. 5G isn't the same as 4G

[tardy badger]

Yup

On another note, it’s my last day of the year and I’ve stared at my code more than I’ve done anything with it. And it has to do with the fact that I’m greatly looking forward to have next week off

[blissful roost]

Just downloaded the Win10 ISO and put it on USB.

Now I just have to wait for my new SSD. 🙂

[solar fjord]

Just wondering if it's me or is Make Code no longer supporting Mac OS?

[fair summit]

There is a UF2 uploading problem on Ventura 13.0, fixed on 13.1. Is that a problem you're having?

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/10/31/uploading-uf2-files-with-macos-13-0-ventura-apple-microbit_edu-raspberry_pi-circuitpython/

[solar fjord]

@fair summit No, I came across am older learn guide from John Park on making bumper bots with Cricut Playground and was programed via MakeCode. Make Code site no longer shows Mac support, at least from what I came across. Thanks

[fair summit]

I think it will still probably work fine, since it's mostly browser-based. There may not be a usable browser plugin, but you could try using Chrome on Mac, and just put the UF2's on the board manually. I can't remember if there was a plugin to do the UF2 moving automatically

[solar fjord]

@fair summit OK, I'll check it out. I am using Chrome on my MacBook and just checked that it is 13.0 so maybe that update will solve this issue as well.

[fair summit]

yes, you really need 13.1 or need to use the workarounds in the link above. But upgrading to 13.1 is easier.

[solar fjord]

@fair summit Seems I can get to Make Code editor via my Desktop Mac as it is running 12.6. I see 13 as more of a mess and 12 to be a lovely place.

[fair summit]

are you saying https://makecode.adafruit.com does not work in chrome on 13.x?

macOS major version upgrades always break things

[solar fjord]

@fair summit My MacBook using OS 13.0 does not load MC editor via Chrome but my desktop using 12.6 will load the editor. So I’m not sure what to make of it. I will update my MacBook but will keep desktop at it’s present OS.

[fair summit]

what is the URL you are using, and does Chrome itself need an update?

is your macbook an M1 or an Intel? I will try it as well

[moving discussion to #help-with-makecode]

[solar fjord]

@fair summit 👍🏽

[violet parcel]

unfortunately today when you try to help someone with such arguments they get defensive and it does the opposite and convince them there solution is even better

even logic/measurements don't work anymore

cant even assume someone has 10th century science level anymorr

[lusty fossil]

Are you trying to insult my potion brewing skills?!1!

[tardy badger]

The issue tends to come down to the lack of critical thinkings. The US education system has a problem where we prepare students for two things:

1. College entrance
2. Workforce entrance

But both require critical thinking skills. You can get into both without, but it’s hard to be adaptive and have a deep understanding without it.

We have a lot of push towards “accept this because I say it’s true” and not so much “I’m saying this is true, but you should conduct your own experiment and verify.”

Part of why I love this community is that there’s a strong emphasis on safe experimentation.

There’s tons of tribal and well documented knowledge here too, and it’s used as a means to encourage people to try it for themselves. That’s a really amazing thing.

[tardy badger]

https://tenor.com/view/oop-hocus-pocus-shook-whalk-back-gif-12496805

[lusty fossil]

lol

[fierce prawn]

Should I add battery to a Bluetooth peripheral or let user provide one

[lusty fossil]

personally I hate having to provide my own battery but it's all down to whether the benefit outweighs the financial cost

[tardy badger]

How big is your device?

[fierce prawn]

Just a small one key keyboard

[tardy badger]

And what kind of battery?

Like a CR2032?

Or like a small Lithium Polymer

[fierce prawn]

Rechargeable but I want to escape soldering it to the board
The connecter is under the board

[tardy badger]

Ah.. okay yeah probably include it, or maybe offer the option of both. Make less of the version with the battery and make it ever so slightly cost prohibitive

And by that, like add 1.5x the cost of the battery to the cost so it seems like it’s cheaper for them to buy their own lol..

Hashtag psychology

[violet parcel]

we did both in Canada but same phenomenon anyway

coolest experiment i did was spectroscopy

[tardy badger]

Well, we technically have it here in the US depending on where you go

[violet parcel]

the experiment instantly made me understand why high level physics is statistics much better than any text

[tardy badger]

The issue is school gets treated like a chore, parents treat it like daycare in many cases so they’re not as invested in ensuring their child’s success outside the classroom

[violet parcel]

unfortunately never any quantum superposition experiment:(

too expensive apparently

[tardy badger]

Maybe one day 🙂

[violet parcel]

for a class of 80

[tardy badger]

Super computer simulations would be neat

[violet parcel]

i can sorta experiment it with usb cables anyway

[tardy badger]

Yeah

Or by putting a cat in a different room

(Schrödinger’s cat lol)

[violet parcel]

or correctly made shoebox

[tardy badger]

Anyway, what I found was school really wasn’t all that exciting to me except for my architectural drafting class. I loved that class because I got to spend time designing houses and buildings and whatnot

I got to experiment

It’s what made me want to be an engineer

[violet parcel]

my physics teacher covered it for like 10 mins (qs in this exists but outside scope of the class) i told her i already knew because of usb cables but she didnt get the joke 😦

so she said i was wrong and it was awkward but it's even more to explain the joke...

love architecture but i cant gind a game that let me express myself with it only sims and minecraft comes close

[fierce prawn]

Make one yourselves?

[tardy badger]

I used cad software

My parents paid $120 one year for a DataCAD lite license for me

I absolutely loved it

[fierce prawn]

Then next year?

[tardy badger]

It was a disk and back in like 2009/2010

[fierce prawn]

And the modem that make high frequency squeaks as signals right?

[tardy badger]

Nah, we had DSL. No dialup 🙂

[violet parcel]

i looked at mit courseware but they seems to use old books and study cases i didnt find much theory

[tardy badger]

I only took up to Wave Physics

[violet parcel]

when i look at the state library free online books all they suggest me is computer architecturr like im from the 9th century

[tardy badger]

Which was my 2nd year calculus based physics class

[whole jacinth]

a lot of intro quantum physics stuff hasn't changed much for decades

[tardy badger]

Wave Physics only briefly covers quantum

At the end

[whole jacinth]

you can do basic wave interference experiments with a laser pointer. demonstrating single-photon interference might be doable but tricky on a hobbyist budget

[violet parcel]

like i tried to find sources in architecture of what materials to use to build an house in extremely cold climates as wood deems to be the worst

but then pretty much all greenland houses are painted wood...

[manic tide]

I'd like to continue exploring topic that I have asked a few days ago.

I wasn't confident enough in the information that I have got from this conversation

[violet parcel]

for a brand new one last time i just cced 6 video cards conpany and told them to make a sale speech like salesman would do if i spent 1000$ on a sofa so they dont get to get away from working to make a sale

also give a preview of rma if they are unresponsive when getting your money...

[terse estuary]

Worst in what way? Thermal resistance? Aerogel for example would be the best on that metric but wood beats it handily in terms of cost while still offering some resistance

[violet parcel]

keeping heat in so electricity consumption is as low as possible because it's a huge problem up in the arctic/sub-artic

I though they use stone outside and metal/stone inside so I was a bit surprised

[spark raven]

I regret trusting the dimensional accuracy on a round piece of wood I got from Michaels...

[terse estuary]

Stone could be better insulation wise but it’s also a lot more expensive to build with, so it may make more sense to spend more on electricity over years with how high the upfront cost would be for stone

And in countries like Iceland or Greenland there is a lot of cheap hydroelectricity

[lusty fossil]

Yeah a lot of people don't realize that Voltorb is native to Iceland and Greenland

[late fulcrum]

Bitcoin mining is popular in that part of the world due to both the cheap electricity and the basically-free cooling.

[dusty citrus]

for something like 5x5x3cm metal (aluminium or a lookalike cheapest as possible, finished), around 200 pz
what can I look at?
xometry and similar are expensive
electroplating I haven't seen anything in that low volume
diy electroplating, I didn't had good results

[wanton thistle]

🤔 Not my favorite pokemon, but you do you.

[lusty fossil]

I wanted to pick one that was prominent in the early days

[blissful roost]

For electric types... It has to be Pikachu/Raichu.

[lusty fossil]

Yeah that was the previous choice

Idk voltorb feels more industrial and power plant adjacent tho

[blissful roost]

True

And Magnemite/Magneton.

[lusty fossil]

Yeah

There's a third one now

I forget

[wanton thistle]

Trubbish?

or Koughing?

[lusty fossil]

No another evolution of magnemite

[wanton thistle]

or Klink, Klang And Klinklang

Magneton

[lusty fossil]

That's right

[wanton thistle]

what an odd pokemon if you look at it

[lusty fossil]

Yeah it's weird

But I was stoked to get it when I got it

[blissful roost]

I might play some Pokémon later, on my Odroid Go Advance.

[lusty fossil]

I keep trying to get back into gaming but I can't do it

[wanton thistle]

I think the magic of pokemon is gone lol.

I stopped playing around Black/White

[lusty fossil]

Oh yeah

[blissful roost]

PC gaming, or just general.. ?

[lusty fossil]

25 years of the same game with dated graphics will do that

[blissful roost]

Yarp

[wanton thistle]

Because it feels too repetitive and you get to a certain point where you can beat the final 4 anyway lol

[lusty fossil]

I have a switch and a pc.

Oh wait I have a ps4 too.

[blissful roost]

Do you have any Total War games on PC?

[lusty fossil]

Yeah love total war

[blissful roost]

😁

[lusty fossil]

I got the new Warhammer and only played 20 minutes

[blissful roost]

Shogun 2, or Warhammer 1/2...

..I don't have 3 yet.

[lusty fossil]

I can't leave a review because I didn't get past the tutorial before getting bored

[blissful roost]

Oof

The 3 I listed have co-op campaign mode. ☺️

[dusty citrus]

Megatron was quite good too

[tardy badger]

I was browsing Qi receiver ICs and realized not only could I increase my BOM cost, but I could enable the use of smaller batteries by using the MCP73831 as the charging IC and the BQ51013A as the wireless supply that feeds the charging IC.

Fun to know that I could put a smaller 350mAh battery in my watch and reduce the enclosure size too. This could be another respin lol...

it's getting just a wee bit crowded on this board lol..

[blissful roost]

Kinda sucks that the Total War multiplayer only allows 2-player co-op.

[tardy badger]

gonna try out the 6L service JLCPCB has with filled and capped via. See how my WLCSP footprint looks in a few weeks. (few weeks because I chose the slowest shipping method. lol)

[tidal flare]

Still more space than some of my old apartments, you probably still have room for a couch I think

[tardy badger]

lol, I still have most of the bottom side too but i like to avoid 2 sided assembly lol...

but yes, I could absolutely fit the couch

lol

[tidal flare]

That some tight packing though, nice!

[tardy badger]

and two layers to boot

I know many people who would have gone ahead and done 4 layers

[tidal flare]

I'm new to PCBs, I was scared to use just to use the front and back of a single one.

[tardy badger]

I am slowly getting to the LadyAda level of designing

she is one of the PCB designers I really look up to

along with all the people I follow that design with BGA parts and don't flinch

[tidal flare]

I'm going to design something with the ESP32-S2 and I'm just thrilled I get a ton of great reference material on GitHub from Adafruit

[tardy badger]

this is the first 6 layer board I designed. it uses an RP2040 and the WLCSP package of the nRF52811 (a bluetooh coprocessor)

my hope is that the 6L service JLCPCB with the filled and capped via will enable me to get this working well

[wanton thistle]

Did you do this in Kicad?

[tardy badger]

Eagle

[wanton thistle]

can you do 6 layers with the free version of eagle?

[lusty fossil]

no

2 only

[wanton thistle]

ahh sad boop

[lusty fossil]

neopixels consume 60mA at full brightness right?

I guess the uber guide says rule of thumb is 20 mA

oops wrong palce

[tardy badger]

60mA for the 5050 size, 49mA for the 3535 size, and ~38mA for 2020 and below

This is full brightness

[lusty fossil]

that's at white

yeah

I'll just not do that

[tardy badger]

Good idea

50 face down in a table full brightness generate enough heat to reach 150°C+ and melt low temp paste lol

If packed into a relatively small 5x10 array

[lusty fossil]

wow

[tardy badger]

If you’re wanting to make a hot plate, consider using neopixels 🤣

Disclaimer: don’t do this lol

[lusty fossil]

RGB Gaming Ready Hotplate, a steal at $900 US

[tardy badger]

a deal so hot it'll burn your house down

[lusty fossil]

The game? Will I lose my fingerprints using this?

[tardy badger]

the hotplate reaches critical temps if you lose

[lusty fossil]

Thermonuclear event

[tardy badger]

exactly, but instead of fission, it's fusion and creates a miniature black hole.

[lusty fossil]

your apartment becomes a dyson sphere

[tardy badger]

Brilliant

[wanton thistle]

physicists hate this one cool trick 😎

[lusty fossil]

PhD? More like PhDidn't Bother

[tardy badger]

Lol

[wooden schooner]

Is it reasonable / likely to succeed if I buy a flimsy but good dongle (the Apple A2049 DAC) and then try to reinforce it by putting it in a firm box or something? My current one seems to have worn to the point where one of the channels doesn't play, looking to get another one and prevent the issue from reoccurring.

[late fulcrum]

I've used a similar approach with other devices with some success.

[wooden schooner]

nice, thanks. before i do a dumb, did you have a better design than plastic box with holes drilled in?

I guess I could also do rubber slab with zip ties... ok, it's a big design space

thanks for the sanity check 🙂

[late fulcrum]

Mine have tended to be pretty trivial, like a splint style arrangement with a popsicle stick and zip ties. It seems that a few supports at each end are useful to keep torque and tension from the connectors.

[lusty fossil]

Dog owners. I could use a hand. My dog has always had a habit of grabbing anything edible that wasn't on a counter and dragging it to her crate and make a mess if I left the house for too long. Lately she's been grabbing all kinds of stuff, taking it to her crate, and shredding it on days that I have to be on site. I got her a dog walker to help with the energy and I assume upset from being alone. But it's getting worse. Is it bad to crate your dog for 9 hours if they get a break (walker) in the middle of it? It's only twice a week.

[wooden schooner]

what breed and weight?

[lusty fossil]

American bulldog mix, 65. She has a giant crate that she likes so it's not like she's crate averse

For reference: the face you make when you're in trouble.

[wooden schooner]

yeah. what amount of activity does she like to get?

awww

[lusty fossil]

She's pretty mellow. Realistically I need to walk her longer in the mornings. I have had a long issue with sleep so I haven't had time in the mornings. That said modern medicine seems to be saving the day so I should be able to walk her longer in the morning

[wooden schooner]

does she like to play in the park?

[lusty fossil]

She'd probably end up with 1.5-2miles of walking before I get back from work if I step it up

Also she's 9

[wooden schooner]

when I'm on pup care duty with a 1yo, 20lb Frenchie, the difference between "took her to the park in the morning" and "didn't" is like night and day

when i don't take her, she is way more barky and you can tell she really needs to get her wiggles out

[lusty fossil]

Yeah I'll step up my care

She's a wonderful dog and deserves better

[wooden schooner]

but when i take her to the park she generally is very chill for the rest of the day, so e.g. i would consider having her crated a lot that day to be ok

[wooden schooner]

from what i've seen, you are an excellent dog dad

[lusty fossil]

I could be better

[wooden schooner]

yep... classic paradox of parenting

i say your best is enough 🙂

[lusty fossil]

Thanks for your input

[wooden schooner]

yw, i'm very much a non-expert but i was hoping to get a pic of your little buddy and you did not disappoint 🐶

[eternal nebula]

I have a strange goal; trying to do the various adabox projects that are currently sitting in a box, but on bare metal C

For things like the circuit python play ground or the matrix portal or the magtag kit, how painful is it to stray from the nice IDEs into straight C? Are a lot of the microprocessors supported with C libraries floating around? Is there a channel on this disc which focuses on stuff like that?

[wanton thistle]

https://vivonomicon.com/2019/03/30/getting-started-with-bare-metal-esp32-programming/
This kind of goes through it for the ESP-32

It might not be worth it for ESP-32 devices, any thing that has a screen. But for arduino itself and subvariants? Id do bare metal.

[stable vapor]

Does anyone remember the name of that company that is making like a blackberry style keyboard for rb pi / arduino? I can't find it.

[tardy badger]

Solder party

[stable vapor]

@tardy badger thank you!

[tardy badger]

Fedex is ridiculous sometimes. I have a Digi-Key package coming but it hasn’t been scanned in 48 hours. It was last in Minnesota 3:41am on Wednesday

It’s supposed to be delivered today but that’s probably not gonna happen

[tardy badger]

I guess It’d be nice if they were like “hey, we’re having bad weather and can’t get our trucks out”

[wanton thistle]

I feel like half my order from mouser is all microcontrollers. Yea, do I have some in house, but its like "Oh hey, this is newer and it has cooler stuff like 16 bit PWM x 4 channels) and I end up filling my cart with 3-6 micros each, because hey, why not.

and this is how you end up with 40 Pin DIPs that will never get used.

[wanton thistle]

it seems that "supply chain issues" has become the catch all excuse for anything.

[violet parcel]

in ww2 they had much worse trucks than shipping companies do today and this didn't prevent them from getting accross europe in a blizzard. When there is a will there is a way

[lusty fossil]

Recursion? The covid test instructions tell you to read the instructions.

[tardy badger]

There certainly is not a will to get me my Digi-Key parts today

In other news, white and black make a great contrast

Still printing prototypes

[violet parcel]

Breaking news: someone found dead of old age over instructions for covid test. Authorities still wondering if they should list it as a death from covid or the first death in human history from recursion

[lusty fossil]

You gotta be ant man and go into the quantum realm to get to the last image of the instructions telling you to read the instructions

(Also got a negative result)

[wanton thistle]

Im not sure how I want to power my project:

Single Lithium batteries in parallel (so 1S 2P basically)
3S pack to avoid using a boost converter. Then I gotta figure out the charging/balancing situation.
Wall power? Then I have to run a cord.

Its an RGBW light. Meant to be a fun build 🤔

[tardy badger]

For RGBW I’d do a parallel pack

[wanton thistle]

ahh I have 4 in series 😅 and they are high efficiency types, so the Blue/white isnt your typical 3.6V, its 2.95V

Parallel pack might make sense. Dont need high discharge, so I can get 3000mAh batteries. Choices, choices...

[tardy badger]

I say parallel because of having a higher current draw than a series back

Essentially Kirchoff’s laws give us hints as to what’s a better setup.

I’d rather have a lower voltage and higher current capacity than higher voltage and be limited by the maximum discharge rate of the weakest cell in the pack.

[wanton thistle]

Easier to charge and design a charger around as well. Dont gotta worry about pesky balancing.

The cells balance themselves out in parallel

I forgot: The trade off is finding a boost converter that can handle at least 700mA constant draw. For that Im looking at an ext switch

Ive found some, but thats the trade off: not being able to find something quick and simple.

[tardy badger]

Polulu has some good boost converters with high current output

[wanton thistle]

🤔 those are nice! I'll probably poke around to see what IC's they use and go from there

I dont like soldering QFNs, but I can manage.

[late fulcrum]

Alas, Fedex seems more likely to claim they made a delivery attempt but no one was home, then just leave the package in the snow a couple of days later.

[tardy badger]

Wow

Amazon recently dumped a package in the snow outside my garage even though our door is right off the street

[late fulcrum]

Their drivers are famously hurried and overworked.

They claim it's not their fault, since the drivers are contracted with trucking companies, but they impose the requirements that lead to 14 hour days and delivery frequencies that result in drivers piling up boxes in front of their windshields. This has led to delivery trucks running over people several times so far.

[tardy badger]

Yuuuup

[wanton thistle]

Worth noting: UPS is unionized. Do what you will with that info.

[lusty fossil]

Just a heads up everyone, there's a man in this hardware store with a cockatoo.

[wanton thistle]

See what quest he gives out

I bet you get a legendary item from him

[wooden schooner]

Amazon's delivery frequencies should be illegal

[violet parcel]

cant wait for deliveries drones escorted by mq9 reapers drones in case you try to steal the delivery drone

[wanton thistle]

no need. I'll just use my sandivistan and move before they know what hit em.

[blissful roost]

Awhatortwo???

...sorry

[wooden schooner]

Doing the splint with some rubber padding to (hopefully) hold it in place.

[wanton thistle]

thats skookum material right there

needs more hot glue 🤔 (semi serious about this)

[wooden schooner]

The rubber is superglued on

[blissful roost]

Needs moar 3D printer.

[wooden schooner]

Idk, my dremel is pretty 3d

[wanton thistle]

s u b t r a c t i v e printing

[wooden schooner]

And yeah, if I have to do a more permanent attachment I'm open to that, but I'm hoping I can get away with this reversible attachment