I'm trying to test thermal shutdown on an IC: if it gets hot enough, does its thermal regulation work? It has: an ADC measuring die temp via bandgap, a hardware bandgap that cuts function at a specific temperature, and a write register that you can set a value into so when it exceeds that value it shuts down. The important one, the hardware that should cut the power section, is way off. It hasn't tripped at 200C.
So today I talked to a running chip through liquid solder. That's a first.
@smellsofbikes heat gun? thats how i once tried to reproduce field failures of a product that kept letting its smoke out. never could reproduce. The conditions were way over whatever they experienced in the field.
Kaman k-max helicopter with dual intermeshed blades and no tail rotor. It sounded really weird when it flew over, more whoosh whoosh than chop chop. #weirdhelicoptermastodon
A dubious idea I have about cutting curved dovetails so a box would look like an impossible dovetail box, but would in fact have the top open on an arc rather than a diagonal slide like most impossible dovetails.
The axis of rotation is the left corner, where there's a green line.
@smellsofbikes@GustavinoBevilacqua Linear translation being a rotation with axis at infinity is the part of screw theory that always leaves me with the feeling that reality is a joke and nobody will explain the punchline to me because it'll make it un-funny
The power requirements for an air resistance of 0.5 and frontal area of about half a square meter are 117 million horsepower to go this speed.
For reference, I can produce 1.2 horsepower for about 4 seconds max on a good day.
A good friend just found out that genetic material she stored 5 years ago before starting to transition was destroyed 4 years ago by the company, Legacy, and they kept charging her for storage until they notified her last week about what they'd done, and in the meantime told her that everything was fine and being handled correctly. Just in case any y'all were thinking about this.
@smellsofbikes Trashing that company in particular also seems fair though. Considering not everyone could afford even one storage option, let alone two.
Explosions In The Sky released what I thought was a two record set but it is in fact 1.5 records. I'd not seen a picture side before. I bet it would sound awful.
@vi@smellsofbikes Erosteric CanCon comment: is that by any chance the same outline as the naked statues in Westmount (/Montreal) that wound up with metal flowers welded on top, which (said flowers) people randomly remove and steal all the time?
Engraving kanji in some junk wood and with a v tip cutter. This setup, using z axis depth to produce a varying cut width, makes representing the varying brush stroke width really easy. (It can even make square corners at the intersection plane.)
There's a little tear out because it's junk wood.
The tool path is image -> inkscape, bit-trace, inkscape crashes a dozen times, finally completes the trace, export as R14 dxf, import into scorchworks' f-carve utility, convert to gcode, run on linuxcnc.
Thanks to @MLE_online for producing a good dxf that let me figure out what was wrong with the stuff I was making in inkscape and giving me ideas about how to reduce rasterization artifacts.
@Allie_Bilbao oh that is so cool. I love volunteer plants.
..... except that at Mom's house, her sewage line cracked and was leaking, and wow is there a lush tomato plant growing there, and that's a volunteer I'm not so into.
@smellsofbikes I drove a friends' US left-drive Corolla in the UK, including everything from major motorways to cities to rural single-track roads with intermittent passing areas, and that was legally licensed. Turn about is fair play, right?
Also messing about with brazing using similarly weird settings and again I sure love how brazing looks but this isn't a good setup for getting it to flow out well. It's ok if you like chunky welds. But the colors...
The whackadoodle settings: 0.5 pulse per second (because I'm slooowwwww), background current 5(!!!)%, and duty cycle 20%. This is like taking a small hammer and beating the hell out of the steel very slowly rather than welding it.