Reddit refuge, escentric engineer and serial hobbyist.
Wild to see this posted. I worked for the guy that invented this at Sylvania, I have a bunch of photos of the early prototypes. They never figured out how to commercialize it and in the process of trying to manufacturer it in China the manufacturer stole the IP and started making them under their own brand and stole the market. They were called Icetron lamps. I worked in their R&D facilities and domestic manufacturing sites in the early 2000s.
I love this community, I used to rant about efficiency all the the time on reddits self hosting community and everyone thought I was insane. If the damn thing is going to run 24/7 for 5+ years then put a little thought into its power usage!
I personally love old Dell optiplex micros on eBay. Cheap, plentiful laptop hardware in a cute little box which allows modest upgrades. My primary server in a full sized case is just a laptop CPU, Ryzen 5600g. It brings me joy that my network has four servers and still is under 75w idle for everything including networking gear.
Ive been using a pi model B for the last four years as a wood stove monitor, data logger and web server for the landing page of said data. Is this a big deal?
Should do, yep, but obviously not well if dudes getting PR for doing it privately.
I was thinking more along the lines of “oh hey you’re building a water park, cool! By law it must be handicap accessible so please make a section easily accessible and here is a $1mil grant to make that possible, show us your plans before we issue the permit”. This feels fairy reasonable.
Its uplifiting but shouldn’t we value these things as a society and fund it accordingly? I hear we are a rich nation. Instead we depend on the charity of some rich guy who wanted to take care of his own daughter.
+the fact the pi is so darn cheap, has the IO and can emulate the game on the system not at all designed specifically for the task while also running a whole Linux stack and being online. Things have advanced tremendously.
My wife won’t leave the house without several water containers as it she is crossing the god damn Sahara. We live in the North East, its not even dry! I always ask her how she survied childhood without stupid fancy bottles that are marketed. Fortunately she is patient with my crap and loves me…
Indeed, hence my long winded ‘old man yells at clouds’ rant.
Its supposed to be a way for Jeep owners to ‘atta boy’ other Jeep owners for having a nice Jeep. Youre supposed to buy a bunch and keep them with you, if you see another Jeep you like youre supposed to leave a duck on their hood to let them know they did a good job buying a Jeep. Then the owner of said Jeep comes back and finds the duck from a stranger, feels good about themselves and puts the duck on their dashbaord as a trophy. The more ducks on your dash, the more alpha you are in the Jeep community.
The whole concept of dweebs buying an over priced SUV designed for off road use, then not using it off road and making it part of their persona. Then taking it a step further and buying plastic trash to leave said trash on other dweeb mobiles to high five other people whom identify with a stupid truck. Its bananas how easily manipulated people are. Every time you leave a duck on a Jeep a Chrysler executive gets another bonus…
No gpio but old centrino laptops make excellent low power servers. My primary server was a first gen centrino from 2011 up until recently and I think it only used 12w idle after putting a SSD in there. Had it’s own UPS built in.
As someone who was subjected to 9 years of Catholic schools, which made him an atheist, I need this shirt.
I was being dramatic, sorry, yes, this!
You would be the bad guy if you make him return it. Personally I would have a talk with your son about how unusual the act is and how his act could be used as leverage over him, nothing is free. Teach him healthy skepticism. Also call back those parents and tell them to fuck off, completly unacceptable they bought something connected and important for your son without checking with you first. They dont know your house or rules…
Edit: the phone isn’t on friends family plan, right?
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There are lots of vendors that just make simple, cheap project enclosures. Bud Industries is my favorite. I have one of these bolted to the back of my trailer with a USB camera in it that I use as a back up camera. Just use some RTV to seal the hole the wire comes in through. https://www.budind.com/product/nema-ip-rated-boxes/ptk-series-fiberglass-box/ptk-18240-2-2-2-2-2/#group=series-products&external_dimensions_group=0&internal_dimensions=0&cover_style_group=0
I would like to say it was on purpose but it was not :( I might do math, spelling is not my forte.
I guess remembering grade school order of operation means you’re a guinus now? Bar has gotten pretty low…
Likely. The coils only job is to ignite the lamp by whacking it with high voltage to strip some barium elections off the coil to induce plasma and therefore electrical flow. The plasma then excites the phosphorus to make light. After that the coils could just be stubs of wire so long as current keeps flowing through the excited plasma. If you did it inductively it would achieve the same means but I don’t think the plasma would be as dense so the lamp not as bright. My theory anyways.