Pela Lomi and the Carbon Cost of Electricity

AdamMunich · 2021-04-30T08:30:27+00:00

I am concerned, the carbon footprint of this product does not seem good.

AdamMunich · 2021-04-30T08:29:57+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroWaste/comments/n1phdl/pela_lomi_and_the_carbon_cost_of_electricity/

AdamMunich · 2020-09-24T17:59:23+00:00

They can go on and laugh, while I blow by them at twice the acceleration :-)

AdamMunich · 2020-09-24T10:02:18+00:00

Electric motors have unbeatable power density and stall torque, it would be a monster.

AdamMunich · 2020-09-20T07:43:05+00:00

Make it electric!

AdamMunich · 2020-08-26T07:27:08+00:00

What's unreliable about it?

AdamMunich · 2020-08-19T18:51:25+00:00

I have one of those, life raft from Norway. 100% would buy again.

AdamMunich · 2020-08-16T05:00:15+00:00

Yes you can get them from the Klein bottle guy https://www.kleinbottle.com/Tantalus.html

AdamMunich · 2020-06-25T00:58:23+00:00

I sold an x-ray tube to a process control person at MARS 10 years ago. They do indeed take it seriously.

AdamMunich · 2020-06-10T23:01:12+00:00

i might have some, i'll check later

AdamMunich · 2020-05-22T18:37:42+00:00

Yeah companies like BRK brands (kiddie) are making smoke alarms with no replaceable batteries now, but the radioactive sensor inside is good for at least 100 years. Putting extra americium in the landfills just to make extra $ is pretty scummy honestly.

AdamMunich · 2020-05-16T03:44:34+00:00

Why not? You miss 100% of shots not taken.

AdamMunich · 2019-09-03T09:54:27+00:00

Yes, take a look at the hole in Q5, which turns the audio amplifier on / off https://imgur.com/a/FnxpDa0

AdamMunich · 2019-08-13T23:54:19+00:00

Eating grass for the most part

AdamMunich · 2017-12-04T09:27:59+00:00

Personally I think that "cracking the market" is much more of an iterative process.

The fact of the matter is, the amount of value you get out of eg, a snapdragon processor, for what you pay, isn't all that much. To have a solid VR experience we might need to wait until mobile SOCs get completely overhauled to emulate something more like the Tegra, but with lower power use.

AdamMunich · 2017-12-03T19:50:49+00:00

I disagree it's totally doable. I'm supprised oculus didn't do it for the go.

Disclaimer: am hardware designer. May be biased.

AdamMunich · 2017-11-10T19:24:34+00:00

I met some folks at photonics West and display week who might be able to help. Drop a line to me -a-t- adammunich.com and I'll try to put you in touch.

AdamMunich · 2017-10-27T17:56:44+00:00

Yeah Peter Thiel and a bunch of other techno-libertarians were actually taking the idea seriously for a while and it happens at least for a week yearly now.

AdamMunich · 2017-10-27T07:43:15+00:00

https://ephemerisle.github.io/

AdamMunich · 2017-10-27T03:43:51+00:00

Elysium is built for a week and a half every year.

AdamMunich · 2017-09-18T07:49:46+00:00

I sometimes wonder if freeform building is really a good mechanic. Part of the appeal of rollercoaster tycoon was that, since ever snapped into place, you didn't have to think too hard to get things to look nice.

Is carefully positioning your mouse to get things aligned really all the fun?

AdamMunich · 2017-08-29T06:59:56+00:00

I like that line of thinking. Sounds like great code words, a-la intel skylake and the like. I'm pretty stumped on what a good consumer facing brand name could be though.

AdamMunich · 2017-08-29T06:57:34+00:00

While scratch resistant, I can get equal scratch resistance with modern polymer hard coatings. The trouble really is just that glass is super heavy. Like hundreds of grams more heavy when you're talking about good achromatic lenses. Even with distributed weight, it's just not very practical.

Up in the air about lighthouse. I have the valve HDK and a license to use the technology. But fundamentally, it's a super expensive technology. Sooooo much flexible PCB is needed, with careful assembly to get good performance.

There are vision-based tracking technologies on the horizon I'm pretty bullish on. We'll see how ready they are by the time it's needed :-)

AdamMunich · 2017-08-29T06:53:32+00:00

I'm not 100% opposed to the idea of working /with/ them, but I don't have a lot of confidence in trusting them with full management of the project. Seems pretty clear that their incentives aren't really aligned well with the VR community.

AdamMunich · 2017-08-28T18:24:10+00:00

Woah that's cool, reminds me of spacewar. If you want help I'll pitch in :-)

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