remembering now, the trigger on my bubble duck is mechanical, so it activates the fan and pump circuits but also moves a soap wiper to prime the wand rather than having a rotary wand. Between trying to mount that and getting a rope/cable pull scheme together, I could probably more easily find a more e-bike compatible bubble dispenser to wire-in and remote button / switch... The quacking is fun though. cc #KiddicalMass
@lkanies@marcprecipice@ascentale@trouble seems a bit overpowered though, as bubble-making goes, I clicked through expecting to see something much much less serious like the device would be a clown holding a pinwheel of bubble wands, mine is a duck and it quacks while dispensing bubbles, I never quite got the mounting and remote activation worked out on the xtracycle though, someone should make one with a 7/8-ish clamp and wire to a remote button. #BikeNite
@Karstan I hate the long-ass candybar form-factor of this pixel so much that I can't be bothered, maybe I should get one with a better size and do some work on it and then switch over. Bricking a thing is one thing but bricking the thing is 😞
should we be concerned about 11% turnout the week before the Tuesday where you can drop your ballot in a box at the last minute? I mean is that procrastination a progressive thing? Or is it like a strategy, waiting for one of the campaigns to crack like they often do when they think they have it in the bag?
I can't believe how #Portland voters keep electing the right-wing candidates, maybe the progressives moved out to Beaverton. Schmidt has gotten nothing but bad faith from the police and the republican city council isn't doing us much good either.
low turnout is always a win for reactionary conservatives who want to sic the government on certain other people, so I guess that's why I feel like the majority might make better decisions if they would bother to vote.
The Street Trust Action Fund endorsements seem pretty good, but Jayapal is the reason a bunch of GOP/dark money is getting thrown at Dexter's campaign, why endorse both?
lmao wweek in May 2020 "But the district attorney in the state's largest county is a thought leader and a policy leader." endorsing the candidate that was not endorsed by the police union, vs now "a technician, not a politician. That’s what this office needs"
@TransitBiker the alt text maybe. Cable has the same plug on both ends, device has the same socket as computer. It's like USB C, but just wrong. IDK if that cable can break stuff or also work for host to host comm. 😂
This hub motor wheel, controller and fancy two-way throttle are supposed to end up as an auxiliary motor on one of our Bosch bikes…but I bought the wrong adapter for a GSD and the brakes didn’t line up very wheel on the Packster. So for a week or so, the vintage CAT Long Haul has turbo boost and magic regenerative anti-boost.
@kevinschaper 😕 mine gave up after about a minute of 500W braking, it wouldn't brake any more until I reset the baserunner. I don't have any vibration issues though.
@lkanies I should have done the same but Barnes Rd and 217 is a hellish place to ride. Still, driving back from Beaverton took 15-20 min longer than it would have on a bike.
@lkanies it was nice today, indeed. I'll often ride from Hillsdale to Beaverton (either on BH-Hwy or Multnomah + fanno creek trail), where I have house and tree maintenance to do, but had other errands with it today and everything in that part of the metro is a shitshow of stroads and freeway offramps. I'm also low on cargo bike battery capacity for that 20-ish miles, and there's the issue of how to lock a bike full of tools outside home depot, I tend to just roll it in and use as the cart.
@whack the only free water comes from above you, and it only stays free if you have something clean up there to keep it in. Also whatever you come up with will get algae or some other nature trying to take it from you.
