cmos
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Comment · 4 months ago
The perfect alarm clock would start lighting your life dreams on fire if you didn't wake up, cause that's whats happening anyway.
Comment · 6 months ago
What if we regulate batteries even more? i.e. what if, in some magical perfect world, the world get's together and agrees on batteries for phones like how we agree on AA,AAA,D,C batteries? Even more though.. a standard connector, a standard comms bus, a variety of sizes, and they were designed for reuse as efficiently as possible.
Now we can scale up volume, swap them out, be free to purchase from a different manufacturer, and have scaled up recycling services.
Comment · 6 months ago
As is the Ocean.
Comment · 6 months ago
Booked a time!
Comment · 6 months ago
My mother is living alone in her house and we are getting to the point where she might not be able to live alone. I built "Still Kicking", a picture frame that monitors her motion and sends back basic reports and can detect falls and sleep quality to a phone app, to help give her more time at home.
It's just an mmWave sensor connected to an ESP32. But it works nicely, and I'm thinking of starting a company making them, though I'm not clear if the elderly would be ok with this minimal (no camera) intrusion.
It would just work out of the box.. the real one would have a small cell modem so it wouldn't need any networking setup, and it would act as a gateway if you have more than one in a house. There are industrial versions of this for nursing homes. This would be a bit more warm and fuzzy for home use.
Comment · 6 months ago
What a trip. They must all be so excited!
I hope they will come back as ambassadors of peace.
Comment · 7 months ago
<private prison owners enter the chat>
Comment · 7 months ago
I always talked with the people I managed about their career goals, and always tried to adapt their job to be a closer fit to those goals. When I couldn't do that I would acknowledge that and even help them find a different job that did fit.
How else can we expect to get the best out of people?
Comment · 8 months ago
51 year old electrical engineer here, same thing! (minus the retiring part cause finances)
It's given me the guts to be a solo-founder (for now). I
Comment · 9 months ago
Building a faster and more accurate replacement for the BOD5 (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) 5 day test used in wastewater.
Comment · 10 months ago
Great.
But make climate control 3 knobs: Fan speed + off, temperature and output ports. Put the AC button inside the temperature knob, and the 'recirculate' button inside the output ports knob.
With the radio have a push on/off volume knob that starts up at the SAME volume as always (i.e. relative, not absolute) and NOT the previous volume. The volume knob should have some resistance to it. Opposite that have a tune knob for precise tuning, and pressing that gets you into setup and navigates you through it. This should have the same resistance, but the outside has some indents so you know it's not the volume knob. Have 6 preset buttons and 3 'banks' with a single 'next bank' button. pressing and holding a preset will save it with a beep for confirmation. On the steering wheel: up/dn for radio should be seek, not next/previous preset. There are 6 nice big buttons for presets but when traveling seek up/dn is the main way we change music.
On the door have the rear view mirror controls, and above that have a knob for dashboard light brightness.
2008 Honda Fit was close to a perfect car. https://www.carsdirect.com/honda/fit/2008/pictures/interior
Comment · 10 months ago
I loved this game. I want to make it into a mud.
Comment · 11 months ago
Same with "Odie" in Garfield.. kindof.
Comment · 11 months ago
A good start, but let's see more.
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