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jarkman

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Roboticist, maker, software engineer. Mostly making giant joyful soft robots with Air Giants.

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jarkman, to random
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Trying that flexure again with TPU. The staking process works just fine!

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jarkman,
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blinry, to random
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Sooo, @rash's recent toot makes me want to put all my stuff in Euro containers! :D

So, I'm curious – what experiences have y'all made with Euroboxes? Which sizes do you like? Where do you put them? How do you label them? What has worked well for you? 🤓

jarkman,
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@blinry @rash I use these at home
https://www.solentplastics.co.uk/20-ltr-euronorm-clear-plastic-stacking-container/
along with the 300x200 ones, but they don't have those in clear.

Smaller stuff goes in A4 and A5 polypropylene boxes.

I label them with a Brother handheld labeller, a laminating one not a thermal one.

At work, we use grey Euroboxes up to half pallet size for basically everything, and rack them on pallets on pallet racking.

We don't use many lids.

The only exception is camping, where I use Really Useful Boxes, which are rainproof.

davidho, to random
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Mutual assured destruction is clearly the motivation for car buying these days.

Ultimately, we're all going to have cars that fire missiles.

jarkman,
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@davidho I'm holding out for reactive armour.

dyani, to zerowaste
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How does your country handle ?

It is a very convoluted and captilism-cursed system here in the US.

My government colleagues surprised me today when they said they had never looked into how recycling was run in other countries 🙈

So I'd like to know the ins and outs.

How does the pipeline work from home bin to finished recycled product, if you know?

Boosts appreciated! 🔁

jarkman,
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@dyani In this bit of the UK, we have kerbside pickup provided by the council for 4 bins:
Food waste
Cardboard
Glass, metal, plastic food packaging
Landfill

Not sure where it goes after it leaves the kerb, though.

jonty, to random
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Had a Freedom of Information request rejected because all the documents are "in a packing case", and accessing them would exceed the cost limit.

They invited me to the archives in person. Should I pack my crowbar. I am so excited.

The warehouse scene from the end of raiders of the lost ark, showing packing cases in stacks far into the distance.

jarkman,
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@jonty I would probably pack two or three.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Very excited to announce I’ll be moving to Staffordshire University in the new year as a Professor of Ethics and Games Technology!

jarkman,
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@CatherineFlick congrats!

bobjmsn, to ocean
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Mysterious ‘skin-like’ golden orb found on floor off Alaska coast

Scientists analysing DNA of object that could be an egg from an unknown or a
A mysterious golden orb that may be an egg laid by an unknown sea creature has been discovered on the ocean floor off the coast of Alaska.

The smooth object with an intriguing hole at the centre was found at a depth of about two miles by a remote-controlled explorer.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/mysterious-skin-like-golden-orb-found-on-ocean-floor-off-alaska-coast

jarkman,
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@bobjmsn @jonty - orb news.

jarkman,
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@jonty @bobjmsn They ripped it. Seems unwise.

jarkman, to random
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Do I know anyone who knows anyone at Korg Berlin ?

mjg59, to random
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Say I have line of sight to a river and would like to monitor how its height is changing over time, is there anything that'll just bounce some sort of signal off it to tell me distance?

jarkman,
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@mjg59 How far away is it, and what's the angle to the horizontal, and what's the height range ?

I'd try a lidar first, but I have no idea if you'd get enough signal return off the water surface.

mattgrayyes, to random
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People at :
World’O’Techno has been missing for over a day.
If you see it on site please return it to Milliways village, or call DECT 3018.

It looks like this but entirely covered in stickers:

jarkman,
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@mattgrayyes oh, I hope so too! I'm very happy for it to have adventures without me, I just want to know it is OK.

jarkman,
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@fbr @nihunde @mattgrayyes Amazing! @russss - still about?

jarkman,
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@fbr @nihunde @mattgrayyes @russss Where on the site is it ?

jarkman,
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@russss @fbr @nihunde @mattgrayyes I am very relieved and quite happy.

Many thanks, all.

jarkman, to random
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@bleeptrack Hello! Are you at CCCamp?

jarkman,
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@bleeptrack hurrah!

bleeptrack, to random
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New batch of generative fabric: each flower is unique 🥰🌼

jarkman,
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@bleeptrack fabulous! What's the plan for it ?

Dtl, to random
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So, if for the sake of some art, you wanted to get a 4m high inflatable made from a custom patten, who would you ask? Basically a giant inflatable anatomically accurate tooth.

jarkman,
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@rc2014 @Dtl There's a whole industry around custom advertising inflatables. Big companies https://www.digital-inflatables.ch/en/ and little ones https://studiosouffle.com/ and a lot of Chinese ones. I don't know the market well enough to recommend one. If you wanted it to be robotic, moving and interactive, we (http://airgiants.co.uk) would be happy to chat about it.

blinry, to random
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I've always wanted to build a compass belt, which indicates where north is using vibrations!

Today, I got the very first prototype working: A setup that vibrates when you point your smartphone north! 🧭

I point my smartphone in different directions – when it is in a 1/8th range of north, an attached microcontroller activates a vibration motor. A magnetic compass is shown for reference.

jarkman,
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@blinry Nice I built something similar in a hat once, but it turns out having vibrate motors on your head is maddening. A belt feels much more sensible.

rc2014, to random

As promised, I'm going to do a thread on the aviation tape recorder today and see if it works.

I'll try to add hashtag, so feel free to mute it if this isn't your bag.

Note that I know nothing about aviation equipment, or even anything much about analog tape stuff, so please correct me if I get things wrong. I'd particularly like to hear if you are a .

jarkman,
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@rc2014 Transparent leader ? So it can be done optically.

biglesp, to random
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Happy to say that after nine weeks of issues (leak from next door, drainage, water etc) we have managed to sort the downstairs out and we have a working living room again :)

jarkman,
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@biglesp Hurrah!

mattgrayyes, to random
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I got my first ever pair of glasses, and omg my computer screen now looks like it's in HD!

The optician said my prescription was so minor it wasn't worth bothering with unless I had a load of eye strain. I didn't notice any eye strain but I have been increasing text sizes a little over the last few years, so I thought I'd give it a try with a £20 pair. I'm so glad I did.

I can still see my screen perfectly fine without, but I'm definitely less headachey after wearing them!

jarkman,
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@mattgrayyes Welcome to the highly predictable aging curve of the human eyeball works.

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jarkman,
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@_thegeoff @antinomy @diyelectromusic @Maker_of_Things @makershour You can buy great big lumps of germanium on eBay. I made jewellery from one once.

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Computer draws my birthday cake

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@bleeptrack Happy birthday!

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