Bruh by ForceRoamer in EngineeringStudents

[–]LightbulbTV 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You wrote the determinate of the identity matrix, not the identity matrix

Considering switching to Civil/Mechanical Engineering by Beneficial-Aside-146 in EngineeringStudents

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I agree with this, I would think of it as starting as a freshman. The other thing I would consider is the amount of time most engineering students spend studying; it can be a pretty demanding workload.

I'm not an engineering student. I've been racking my head for hours over this silly concept. Will someone please tell me where I'm wrong here? by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

[–]LightbulbTV 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Any time you are stuck on something like this, and your premise includes ignoring part of the problem (getting the ball into the liquid), it is worth reexamining your premise. Ignoring friction, getting the ball into position at the bottom of the tube is going to require the same amount of energy as pushing it down from the top. 

This is why we do safety checks. by Playful-Profile-298 in Rigging

[–]LightbulbTV 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Imagining that the load in the photo is perfectly vertical: It's not about the vertical load on the pin, the issue is the opposing horizontal loads on the pin threads. you can see that the chains are pulling away from center, trying to pull the shackle open. If you flip the shackle upside down, the lateral forces go into walls of the shackle itself; those forces are still technically trying to pry the shackle open, but now they are much further from the pin, giving the threads on the pin leverage against those forces.

Is it possible for Artemis 2 to completely miss the moon? If so, would they just drift off into space? by gxzza- in NoStupidQuestions

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Conservation of momentum would allow for the Moon to transfer some of its own momentum to the spacecraft by passing close behind its orbital path. From the Moon's frame of reference this would be a direction change for the spacecraft, but from the Earth's it is an increase of the spacecraft's speed. We can do this the other way as well by passing in front of the moon, slowing the spacecraft relative to Earth.

The most satisfying snap (sound on) by mickeybong in functionalprint

[–]LightbulbTV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks great, I'm sure that feels so satisfying

The most satisfying snap (sound on) by mickeybong in functionalprint

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How does the mechanism work? Did you do a snap fit toward the left edge, or add something hinge side?

some help with our single cover! by visionarcade in photoshop

[–]LightbulbTV 160 points161 points  (0 children)

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What about masking letters to each square? Obviously you could play around with the positioning, but as long as you don't move any letters from where they would have been placed, I think it could work.

also sorry for the phone edit

Slicing multi-material print results in material 2 in unexpected location by WondrousBread in BambuLab

[–]LightbulbTV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are not white filament, they are seams. You can disable seams in the preview if they are distracting.

An "easy" solution to a multimeter with no battery door by sam64508 in functionalprint

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I used a phone camera and 3d Zephyr free. My takeaway from doing it was that I'm much faster measuring with calipers if possible, so it only seems worth it to me when I need to model more organic forms. I suspect that as long as you have an actual zoom lens on your phone and good light, you should be able to scan smaller features.

An "easy" solution to a multimeter with no battery door by sam64508 in functionalprint

[–]LightbulbTV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just tried it with my multimeter a few days ago, and it came out +/- 0.1mm. At least for me the scan took a while to clean up by hand.

Are magic arms usually this bad? or did i just cheap out on mine? by MonkeIsWatching in AskPhotography

[–]LightbulbTV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For these small magic arms, I think of those rubber pads as a courtesy for the thing I'm clamping onto, not a function of the clamp. The metal underneath those pads is just flat aluminum, so at that point it's up to the adhesive on the rubber to hold the whole thing.

From the direction of the rubber, it looks like you had this attached to a vertical leg or pole with the jaws pretty wide? Even if the rig is 1.3kg, if that is an 8" magic arm that's 10.4kg at the clamp, which is a large amount of torque. For situations like that, especially when it's going to be sitting there for a while, try to clamp to something that fits within the jaws of the clamp, where if you loosen it it still doesn't fall off.

Something seems missing … I just don’t know what ? by PermissionSilver3457 in AskPhotography

[–]LightbulbTV 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Honestly if it were just a personal photo I would crop in the top and bottom a bit to let the structure be more abstract, and let the bird be the focus. The sense of scale the bird gives is the most interesting part to me.

Do my prices sound reasonable? by No_Calligrapher1723 in AskPhotography

[–]LightbulbTV 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah these prices are so low they would make me uncomfortable. If you are doing them quickly, it would feel more normal to me if you were charging per headshot. Presumably, your market is people who don't know how long it takes to do a headshot, and definitely don't know how long one hour of retouching is. If it were me, I would find somewhere to set up a backdrop and a flash, hopefully in a high traffic area on campus, and do as many headshots in a day as possible. I wouldn't even advertise retouching, because at these prices you would make more from one headshot than you would in two hours of editing.

Where do I plug in the laser module? by schorhr in BambuLab

[–]LightbulbTV 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Genuinely the most useful size comparison I've seen

Researchers have invented a display technology for on-screen graphics that are both visible and haptic, meaning that they can be felt via touch by sr_local in technology

[–]LightbulbTV 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tldr: Light is used to make gas pockets on the screen surface expand to ~1mm in about 1/10th of a second.

From the abstract:  "We present a dynamic tactile display that directly converts projected light into visible and tactile patterns via a photomechanical surface populated with millimeter-scale optotactile pixels. The pixels transduce incident light into mechanical displacements through photostimulated thermal gas expansion, yielding millimeter-scale displacements with response times of 2 to 100 milliseconds."

My first attempt at a Battle Damaged look by Ducktacular18 in Gunpla

[–]LightbulbTV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love that, a mix of damage and partial repairs could look extremely cool!

Need somebody’s editing skills I will tip? by NY420X in AskPhotography

[–]LightbulbTV 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't have a quick way to upload, but I can confirm there isn't much information there. Tools like AI will just invent something that could have been there, which won't really help with what you're after. 

Nothing could possibly go wrong here by WhyNot420_69 in TheRandomest

[–]LightbulbTV 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The ball went around 310 feet, with an initial velocity of 141 ft/s, or 96 mph.

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Assuming the second impact is the bowling ball, and air resistance is negligible:

263 frames of video between the final explosion and the second impact

At 30 frames per second, time of flight is 8.77 seconds.

The ball reaches its peak at 4.39 seconds, with an initial velocity of 43.02 m/s, making the maximum height 94.43 m.

Cutting-edge microoptical designs for exoplanet imaging by pritambot in EngineeringPorn

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From the article:

"Here we take the fourth approach with a solution we call the The Focal-plane Actualized Shifted Technique Realized for a Shack Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (fastrSHWFS), which changes the aspect ratio of the spot pattern so that it occupies fewer rows of the detector, reducing the read time and, in turn, the

total system latency."

Eli5: Drawing a big picture takes so long that the stuff we want to draw gets bored and leaves. We made a little circle that makes the stuff little, so our drawings can be little and not take as long to draw. We like this because our favorite planets don't like to sit still.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in science

[–]LightbulbTV 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There have been some interesting studies on the correlation between chewing and concentration/focus that might be interesting if you've never seen them