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Vintage electronics, contraptions, Python, data, ESP32, mobile robots, ROS and so on...
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I will see you, and I will raise you! Although, I have to admit that those are more livable temperatures here in NJ.
Did you press Fire?
Is this at least accurate?
Yeah, for me 30 V is also high but this is relative π€£
Matrix... you can do only so much with 7 segments.
Here are two animations revealing time: SlotMachine and Matrix. Both of them require some fine tuning but I am not sure which one to pick.
Cool! Do you need to hold this wire at all times? π
DPROM
π€£ I am contacting the seller. This would be enough for two lives unless... I could make some sort of sculpture out of it π€
I love the 0x14 pattern! π
3. A picker was confused with a bag label "20 pcs" What else?
I ordered 20 of those connectors and received 280. I am trying to imagine how this might have happened. 1. Disgruntled employee packed the content of the entire bin. 2. One picker instead of taking one pack from a bin took entire bag and went for a lunch. Another one put the whole bag into a box..
Yes, I got them from a thrift store for pennies. Thanks to your question, I found one that is more affordable π
Luckily, I have a spare one but they are surprisingly expensive.
Now we are talking! After my manual initial test, Gemini "suggested" code with Adafriut LEDBackpack library, but the code did not work as the library 7segment class assumes only 4 digit display with a colon in the middle. It ended up generating more generic logick.
I am so entertained!
This Soviet-Style Clock Uses Homemade Nixie Tubes and Glowing Logic
Adafruit @adafruit.com is an absolute icon in providing not only fun parts but also education!
I am in love with 1970s calculator bubble LED displays. Cuteness overload! I am using HT16K33A breakout board because it is a damn common anode display. I will add an RTC this time, but this will require a level shifter. #esp32
"retirement in my twenties" sounds great! Too bad it is too late for that.
Sign of the age that compute is now a mass noun, like sand, rice, water, money. Too numerous to count, or to make plural.
Politics.
You forgot to mix the digits. Having them ordered makes it too easy, and someone may break the software if they type too fast.
How much improvisation did you build in?
I admit that the leading zeros are kind of cute, but visibly, they were eliminated later by manufacturers for a reason.
This better side then! Never show the other side!
I liked your thread, perhaps because it confirms my biases regarding Tesla. The problem is, I have no way of knowing if you're being sincere or if you're just a Chinese bot attacking an American company. What a time to be alive!
What is on the reverse side? "Slow"?
100% if you do not need to kill
I love watching machining YouTube videos. This is like magic for a guy who use wire snips and soldering gun... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CBT...
Better question is "how did you do it?" π
Based on images of other devices, unlikely. Could have been pretty π www.vintagebritishcalculators.info/assets/image...
The manufacturing started in 1979, but the question is, when it ended? Elektronika MK-42 share.google/Bnv0jWdDlhTM...
N8c3 find. This is probably a calculator, which Ruzzkis manufactured in the early 2000s π€£. I am talking about 1971.
Whatever he touches turns into gol...er...shit!
No, it is the other way around: buy one cat, get one tube free. Or... so confusing.
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Shorted!? I do not want to see the face of a guy who accidentally inserted it into a circuit. π«’
And you tune it by looking inside π
You know how to keep the audience on their tΔΊoes! What a great reality show!
What year is this? Looks like late 1990s
Posting the most beautiful rat picture from 1990s. I do not have an electronic copy of the original - just its imperfect printout scan
This is how humanity ends. Not through some evil robots killing us but by breaking social bonds. I do not feel sorry for humanity, though.
π«£ ouch!
Those glass ones on the right-hand side, correct? I had to order a whole bag from my multimeter but did not have trouble getting them.
"1971" kind of explains this. There are nearly 30 individual ICs inside π
why I do not believe you?
what is wrong with the fuses?
How can I like it? I know what you feel.
"The designers managed to get the IC count down to just 29." No wonder that it does not have leading zero suppression. Image credit: madrona.ca/e/eec/calcs/....
The keys produce this very satisfying click.
Unfortunately the case is damaged so it looks more like a display donor now...
Yesterday's thrift store find: Royal Digital I calculator with VFD display. The curious thing is the use of lowercase 'o' to display blanks and zeros. Technically, the blanks are zeros, but they are being suppressed in contemporary displays.
The conversation itself doesn't feel like a chat with a friend, but more like a Q&A session. Overall, I will try to use it more and will be watching for progress.
We were interrupted a few times by technical difficulties, and (network issue or the Gemini server), but I'd call those moments 'awkward' when you don't know what's going on. Interestingly, it retains memory of previous conversations, so 'technical interruptions' aren't a major problem.
I asked from the intersection between AGI and ASI, and it took me a few rounds of Q&A to understand the gist. We chatted a bit about chat architecture and the role of a router. Things cleared up a bit. Unfortunately, I couldn't get him to elaborate π€£
However, it's different than writing, where you can correct what you wrote before submitting your query. He was a bit too polite and kept telling me, "This is such a great question!" So I had to ask him to keep his enthusiasm to himself π
Today I had my first "voice chat" with Gemini (2.5 Pro). We chatted for half an hour while driving home from work. It wasn't bad, but nothing to write home about (imagine that kind of feedback on technology that's only a few years old).
forward? it looks front heavy...
congrats!
pretty
I like the power distribution on this. Will probably steal the idea.
DalΓ inspired?
which chat are you using?
- sometimes the chat goes sideways, and I need to start from scratch: load the source to a new chat and continue iterations.
There are several annoyances: - comments that explain changes rather than te functionality, e.g. "Now we are taking the first element of th list rather than the last"
Thank you for sharing. I find myself using LLM most of the time. I usually drop like 10 files of my old program to give it an idea of my coding style: use Pandas, use Logging rather than print, etc. Then comes the iterative coding, where I merge the changes manually to understand and approve them.
It would be a long tail distribution.
humidity 14%? is that right?
Google says that they will delete the account after two years of inactivity. I am sure that they will not delete the data. We will live forever anyway.
And this cute red switch! omg!
This is not about substitution. There are other beings that need help, and there is a space in your heart and your household. I didn't know that you had her brother. Do what is best for everyone, brother.
π’ Go to a shelter soon and help another soul. I know that this does not feel OK right now, but it will help. Do not take long, though.
Does the clock display weather?
In the end, everything is going to be OK. If it is not OK, then this is not the end yet!
ffs! you have each other! this is not the end!
you are getting better snd better did you consider selling it as NFT?
yummy!
Red or black?
it looks like it will need a lot of support. tricky print
did you mean caulk?
Did AT&T bail out on you and you cannot use email to text feature? @finnleydolfin.dolphinhome.net just created a GitHub repo with a step-by-step instruction on how to set up texting with API (paid but it seems inexpensive) from VoIP.ms: github.com/FinnleyDolfi...
I am somehow missing a modem sound π«‘
2001 !!? Archeology is interesting and has a value if we can learn something from it π. I vote for moving forward.
Cool! How are you planning to use it?
Most of the red flags this guy lists as identifying AI writing are just the boring, banal, and pointless extra-wordiness that we were taught to do in high school and college level English classes in the USA. ChatGPT must've been trained on a fuckton of college English papers. youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY
Looks like a beginning of a nuclear power plant control panel π
Gods are real. My uni buddy just gave it to me since he is losing his vision.
I'm old enough to remember when our #1 concern about the veracity of online information was that anyone could edit Wikipedia
I miss World of Tanks. I do not have any Win box to run it anyway...
Added printf statements in hardware
Too bad that contemporary computers do not have any blinkenlights. #belllabsslides
About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085
which row? Di you prefer orchestra or balcony?
do you have fire extinguisher handy?
This likely was some sales slide show from Bell Labs. #belllabsslides
one day you will have aluminum 3d printer π
