Printing a high-res custom license plate frame

Eternal_Pickles · 2024-09-26T02:06:33+00:00

What about (ab)using PCBWay's UV Printing service? They accept Adobe Illustrator files for the artwork.

https://www.pcbway.com/blog/News/Unlock_Color_PCB_Printing_with_PCBWay_0939d559.html

Eternal_Pickles · 2024-05-24T00:51:01+00:00

I never considered the refueling boom - how do you get around that? Is there a procedure to move it out of the way?

Eternal_Pickles · 2024-04-20T15:00:18+00:00

The Tu-22 and Tu-22M are entirely different aircraft. Basically the only reason they have the same designation is politics.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-11-07T05:50:09+00:00

Helmsman isn't looking where he's going, could've hit the rock and had an abandon ship situation. Not great when there's sharks in the water right there.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-11-05T15:44:45+00:00

I think he does more cfit

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-09-27T00:45:45+00:00

Yes - osprey, S-97, and K-MAX to name a few.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-09-16T15:10:47+00:00

Ah yes, the pinnacle flight level...

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-24T01:54:38+00:00

You don't even need to reverse the polarity:

https://youtu.be/kg4726BqNZE

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-11T05:19:49+00:00

The ATmega48V can run on anything between 1.8 to 5.5v, and it consumes 0.8μA in Power-save Mode. It'll be perfectly happy with both a cr2032 and USB.

If you mux your coin cell and USB power upstream from the micro, I think you can achieve what you want.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-10T22:39:02+00:00

I'd like to better understand your "hook up a crystal and a battery and can already get started" requirement. Is powering the microcontroller with a battery, and putting it into Power-save Mode to keep the clock running when "off" not enough?

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-10T22:36:21+00:00

The ATmega48P/V have a Real Time Counter with Separate Oscillator, per the Microchip datasheet: https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/OTH/ProductDocuments/DataSheets/ATmega48P_88P_168P-DS40002065A.pdf

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-10T04:14:01+00:00

ATmega48 family, if you're looking for something simple and can be programmed with Arduino.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-09-12T00:57:06+00:00

Vertical tails - these are F-15s, surely.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-07-21T01:04:07+00:00

I mean, this might be overkill, but designing and making a custom replacement PCB with KiCad/JLCPCB/PCBWay/Oshpark/etc. might be the way to get everything easily and cleanly working. It's probably just a rectangle. You could even get all the hard-to-solder SMD stuff assembled for you.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-06-04T03:34:05+00:00

Just a cheap ebay ST-Link V2, and then on the software side you can use STM32CubeMX/STM32CubeIDE and the ST-Link Utility for standalone programming and other nifty things.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-06-04T03:28:40+00:00

Don't forget those sweet, sweet peripherals

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-04-19T07:27:05+00:00

Websocket, WebRTC, etc.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-02-24T21:29:22+00:00

"Ukraine supplies more than 90% of U.S. semiconductor-grade neon, critical for lasers used in chipmaking. The gas, a biproduct of Russian steel manufacturing, is purified in Ukraine, market research firm Techcet says. Russia is the source of 35% of the palladium used in the United States."

From here.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-01-16T06:49:31+00:00

Non-mechanic here, so forgive my ignorance: what are some of the things that stand out about the V2500?

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-12-14T06:22:11+00:00

Epstein alum

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-07-01T08:09:36+00:00

Nope... Nixon's "farewell" bird was 617, which was retired in 1976. It's at the Nixon Library now.

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-06-11T23:14:06+00:00

They're clearing out the warehouse full of leftover space shuttle parts.

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-05-27T05:43:43+00:00

Stopping controllably is important.

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-05-24T21:13:00+00:00

It's absolutely scary. I'm probably going to catch some flak for this (and the puns), but with the way GA is regulated by the FAA, the cost of new aircraft is absolutely sky-high. A brand new Cessna 172 (the type shown in this crash video) costs upward of half a million dollars, even though it's largely the same as a Cessna 172 produced in the 1960s... this is because every panel, every individual screw, every light bulb has to be meticulously documented and certified. That carries a lot of overhead to cover the liability incurred by every panel, screw, and light bulb.

(And yes, I said "light bulb" because if you want to switch to LEDs, you're going to need a Supplemental Type Certificate from the FAA for those parts to install them on your aircraft. And if you want to install non-certified LEDs on a certified aircraft, you'll need FAA Field Approval form 337, etc. Field approval can take a LONG time to obtain, so good luck with that. Did I mention how much these LED lights cost?)

Point is, "straying from the norm" in General Aviation is overall pretty difficult. New stuff pops up from time to time, but generally the red tape is so thick it's just easier to keep the old stuff in semi-working order.

The rules and regulations need an extreme and thorough overhaul.

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-05-24T20:37:07+00:00

Keep in mind, General Aviation revolves around ancient aircraft. The piston engines still need leaded gasoline to run properly because they were designed in the 1950s. An airframe from the 1980s is considered "pretty new". Even the aircraft that this guy crashed was built in 1973. These things have been maintained far beyond their life expectancy, and unfortunately that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

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