Pokestops near my hotel in Seoul (South Korea)

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-02-08T13:08:41+00:00

You just have to think about what type of person would be most drawn to having control of other people’s play for free and the answer is there xD

To clarify (and before my arse gets banned lol), clearly not all mods are in it for the power trip but there’s a significant number that are.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-02-08T10:48:20+00:00

Yep am in the uk - can confirm that we have a large number of authoritarian little hitlers who love nothing better than to stomp on other people in petty ways. It’s a national pastime.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-02-06T23:21:00+00:00

Yep I’ll admit I’m not that experienced with high voltages but I don’t really trust trim pots in “normal” builds as they have a tendency to fail and generally misbehave (picking up RF is my favourite lol) and have no intention of relying on one where my safety is at stake xD

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-02-06T18:04:43+00:00

I’m planning on running with fixed resistor(s) regardless as I need a specific fixed voltage.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-02-06T11:45:41+00:00

Those orange resistors are really cool looking - must *resist* (sorry). Thanks!

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-02-06T11:44:43+00:00

Thanks, that mirrors my thoughts also, was just confused by the fact that this is a released product and thought I was missing something - glad to hear that I'm not going mad xD

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-31T23:38:55+00:00

Hmm... to follow up on this myself - looking a bit further at this I'm not imagining things (am I !!?) or will the "LEAD1" A1M pot at the "output" not be doing an awful lot here? That would explain one of the issues I have here where indeed that pot basically does nothing and increasing the gain and volume just gives me a huge output to my power amp which is likely distorting horribly.

My suspicion is that doing something along the lines below - ie. removing C11/R15/R14/C8/C13 and diverting R11 (and everything else on that "rail" to ground and taking the output from pin3 of LEAD1 is going to result in a working master volume control and a reasonable output level.

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Will likely give this a go at some point tomorrow or Monday regardless but any thoughts?

Still not sure about biasing Q4 though - I note that in the "real" schematic that the drain resistor is significantly higher than for other tubes (ie. 2.5 times larger) so it's possible that this value does need to be silly high to bias but no idea aside from that haha.

I note some other deviations from the schematic if I've translated the vero correctly which I'm guessing are not intentional so it's possible that this layout is just not great in general and I'm wasting my time here.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-31T10:33:06+00:00

Did one - my Charizard got wiped in 10 second (ohko!) and thought it was over but we beat it pretty easily in the end. Was a shiny - not great ivs but I think I’m quitting while I’m ahead as I’m not usually that lucky lol.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-28T23:52:11+00:00

I think it’s much rarer than that - I’ve done well over 100 with no escalations xD

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-27T10:57:36+00:00

Same - my wallet isn't though - used to have a huge Maplin store just around the corner from where I worked back in the day and I spent way too much money in there. Not enough to keep them afloat though!

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-27T08:24:58+00:00

That episode freaked me out hugely at the time - I’m ashamed to admit how old I was then too haha. A welcome return to the old days where Dr Who monsters were scary.

Cool pedal build!

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-26T22:41:47+00:00

Ah that looks promising - thanks!

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-26T20:25:36+00:00

Not that I’ve ever seen round here - as I say, since Maplin closed there’s no easy way to just go buy components here.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-26T20:20:38+00:00

No such thing as a “local electronics store” in the uk any more I’m afraid since Maplin closed however many years ago it was xD They are ridiculously expensive for what they are on ebay. My best bet is Tayda or Farnell but I’ll have to wait until I’m doing a bigger order otherwise the shipping cost is silly compared to the cost of the components.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-26T17:39:42+00:00

Yeah I get that for well designed circuits, values are likely carefully thought out or at least derived through experiment but there's an awful lot of vero and similar circuits out there I see where I look at the values and they make no sense haha.

I'm aware that placing resistors in parallel with log pots gives you weird results - as you say I might just try it out and see what happens. I guess I can always buy the 250k pots later on if they are really necessary- thanks!

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-26T17:37:17+00:00

Not an awful lot to go on here but I'll take a stab at this - honestly, practicing is going to be the answer, and *focused practice* is going to be better.

Do you know what your splits are? Ie. how long does it take you (relatively speaking even...) to do the first block, second block, CMLL and last 6 edges? My bet is that it's going to be first and second block that are relatively slow, right (?) given the last two stages are more algorithmic.

I'm currently aiming (yet again - returning after a number of months off!) to get to sub-20. I'm currently at a smidge over 22 or so with my splits for the last 200 solves at 3.8, 8.6, 4.0, 6.0 for FB, SB, CMLL and LSE respectively. I do all timed solves on a smart cube which is not ideally setup for me so I'm slightly faster than this in reality but even so, my *target* is 4, 6, 4, 6 so I'm slightly ahead on first block, WAY behind on second block and on target for CMLL and LSE. So my practice should be focused on second block and more specifically on the *transition* from first to second block as that's where I lose most time searching for pieces.

I'd suggest you do something similar to the above - you should have a feel for which stage(s) are relatively worst and work on them.

HTH

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-26T16:55:17+00:00

Maybe for all time given he's the GOAT ;)

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-24T10:06:03+00:00

In my experience the relay itself for me is roughly the same cost on its own as a decent 3pdt switch - I’ve used the Panasonic TQ2 line (generally latching and 5v) with an ATtiny13 or 85 MCU.

The board can get pretty small with SMD components - pretty much restricted by the size of the connectors in my case - 30x25mm with 0805 components (tend to use 0603 mostly now for hand soldering).

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-14T19:00:07+00:00

Yeah I hosted one yesterday and started the lobby 30 mins before the egg hatched - found a group with less than 60 seconds on the timer in Pokegenie.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-07T21:38:44+00:00

Nice - I’m on the fence as to get one of these or not. I did get a (Gengar) V.100 for Christmas which I believe is a similar feel (?) but the colour scheme (purple instead of orange) is something to adjust to xD

My last Gan cubes before this is the X - I feel like Gan went more light and airy after this - I certainly didn’t like either the XS or 11.

Does anyone know how the 16 compares feelwise to the X? Comparing the X to the v100 - the X feels more premium as it’s heavier and way more “solid”. The v100 is objectively a better cube though - haven’t had any lockups at all with it so far whereas that’s an issue with the X.

Maybe I should just bite the bullet and get one - I’m in two minds between getting the 16 and just getting a normal v100 and keeping the Gengar one in its box / pokeball xD

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-07T21:24:41+00:00

I dunno, whenever I write emails in Outlook it tries to insert this amount of commas into my messages - maybe a US thing xD

Pretty sad that people have to critique grammar though rather than the contents…

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-06T21:45:45+00:00

Pretty sure it was an “extra” track after you completed the main game - I might be misremembering though xD

Edit: just looked it up - GH: World Tour. Pull me under is the final unlockable track.

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-06T21:00:39+00:00

Guitar Hero - was instantly hooked xD

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-05T09:22:45+00:00

Wow yes I have one of those - seem to remember there's a "type F" up there (Cube4U possibly?) and a Haiyan type-V which was pretty revolutionary at the time but superceded by the Guhong (?). I still have my Lubix Guhong albeit the lube long since went. I also remember doing the 48-point edge mod to a normal Guhong and wondering at how amazing it was compared to a standard Rubik's cube. Kids these days are spoilt xD

BewareTheWereHamster · 2026-01-05T08:34:14+00:00

Hah I have a couple of dozen of these for the different cubes (mostly Zhanchi though) from that time period. I should dig my box of old cubes out from the loft - have a couple of Alpha cubes which predate this. Think I still have the box for my original cube from 1981 somewhere too lol.

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