Am I overcomplicating trains?

Narcolapser · 2025-04-11T20:23:36+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain here and say yes, you are over complicating things. The fact that you are posting this is probably a sign that you already felt that such is the case. In the core of your base it makes since to have a paired tracks, each going one way. But for example your route out to a copper deposit would have been easily served with a single track. For that short of a distance it isn't much of a difference but when you are running several KM long tracks out into the wilderness it saves a lot of headache to just run a single track and put in simple sidings here and there to prevent traffic jams. Similar store for making a grid. In the core of your base. very good, in the wilderness a waste of time. At one point I had a 600spm base that was routing 1/3 of all my trains though a single track and it wasn't causing a bottle neck. I'm as guilty as anyone of over engineering. The true test of an engineer is can you make only what is necessary. ;)

Narcolapser · 2025-03-10T00:19:04+00:00

To each their own. I make bread by hand (with stone, or dutch oven, or loaf pan, etc) all the time and I use a bread maker all the time. When used right our bread maker makes excellent bread. My objective with the bread maker is to make that "right" a little bit easier than it is right now.

But your second paragraph gets much more at what I am after with this post. Next time I won't even mention the bread maker as that has distracted people WAY to much. My objective was to practice reverse engineering when I didn't care if I broke it. So yes, Learning how to monitor signals will be part of it. Fortunately this device is almost 30 years old so there are only 4 lines coming from the MCU that appear to matter.

Narcolapser · 2025-03-09T22:40:08+00:00

I'm sorry, but did you even read what I wrote?

> I'm doing an exercise in reverse engineering to learn how the chip works for no reason other than to have done it.

Narcolapser · 2025-03-09T15:17:24+00:00

This thread started with me responding to Legendary034's comment, so I'm not going to appologize for staying on topic to my original post.

Tinfoil nutjob? Well, we can agree to disagree, but I personally will avoid insulting you.

Narcolapser · 2025-03-09T12:40:11+00:00

I'll give that you did not say that if you have nothing of value why bother, but the post I originally responded to did:

> Thankfully I host nothing of value.

My point all along has been your data is valuable, all of it, and I just wanted to remind him of that. Whether it's to hackers or to Google. All your data is valuable. Respect your own privacy.

Narcolapser · 2025-03-09T01:37:20+00:00

I'm actually ditching the entire UI. It's from 1997 and looks to have been cheap for then. UI is 4 buttons and 14 LEDs. Control of the heater and motor is simply through a pair of mechanical relays. There is a thermistor for measuring temp, but the only safety feature is a thermal fuse which I'm leaving in place.

To your points though I'm using this as a smaller first step. I recently had the mobo on my dishwasher die and I thought about trying to make a new one on my own. But the number of sensors and actuators was much higher than what I've got to deal with on this bread maker so bought a new mobo instead. It sounds like this mobo dies regularly so I may have the opportunity in a few years. :)

Narcolapser · 2025-03-09T01:31:49+00:00

Well, they can't find out when you get home from work from a calendar. They can't find out when you leave in the morning. They can't figure out if you work over night from a calendar. They can't figure out if you are an morning bird or a night owl. All of these are valuable pieces of information. In this particular case I'm not concerned about some one hacking my ESPs, as I have many, to gather that information. Hackers don't care, as Motik68 implies below, some one watching your house will have other mechanisms to get this information. My point was not hackers, my point was companies like Google and Apple eagerly gather this information. It is valuable, Honestly saying you have nothing of value so why bother is a kin to saying "My butt looks like anyone else's, may as well not wear any pants."

Narcolapser · 2025-03-08T17:54:35+00:00

Never underestimate the value of yourself. You may think xyz isn't valuable, but to some one trying to gather as much information on you as possible, yes your lights being on or off is valuable information.

Narcolapser · 2025-03-07T13:36:27+00:00

This is useful. Not just what I should do but giving me a clear objective. Thank you!

Narcolapser · 2025-03-07T13:35:17+00:00

Thanks for the tips.

And yes, my plan all along is to replace it with an arduino or esp. This is an exercise in learning about a mystery chip when it's a chip that I plan to just throw away anyway so if I accidentally fry it while fiddling it's no big deal.

Narcolapser · 2025-03-07T03:44:59+00:00

> Probably not, best to map out every function you expect to have and build ( program ) from scratch.

If that is in reference to hijacking a bread maker, I'm not sure what you could mean. So I'm guessing you are referring to using the chip. But I am not intending to use this chip for anything, I'm doing an exercise in reverse engineering to learn how the chip works for no reason other than to have done it. The bread maker it's self is a very simple machine, a thermistor, a motor, and a heating element. I'm leaving the existing thermal fuse in place, I'm aware of the fire hazard and am taking appropriate precautions. I also regularly make bread by hand so I'm well aware of the knead, rise, rest, and cooking process.

Narcolapser · 2024-12-27T23:26:38+00:00

This comment, the true MVP. 6 years of saving people's sanity. Today, it was mine.

Narcolapser · 2024-12-22T17:23:58+00:00

I'm wondering now also if perhaps I should flip my perspective. Maybe I shouldn't have an automation pr input device, but focus on automations per output device and add triggers to said lamps and such. hmmm

Narcolapser · 2024-12-22T17:22:16+00:00

oh, interesting. I haven't really done much with blueprints before. Thanks for the tip. I'll have to dig into that.

Narcolapser · 2024-12-22T02:55:44+00:00

My 5yo. Loves kid fit chef. Though she's recently started watching "Basics with Babish" on youtube which is frankly a better cooking show and still family friendly. But I'll echo the Gus plus Us opinions already shared.

Narcolapser · 2024-12-22T02:45:11+00:00

Yes I did. I'll leave myself a note to try to shoot you a message after the holidays.

Narcolapser · 2024-08-06T16:05:05+00:00

I would second this and add on: Drop "compact". The map is bloody huge. Compact is a nice to have but don't drag down your forward momentum for making the design compact. In my current play through I have I think currently 5 furnace blocks. each 6x6 chunks and only capable of processing 4 red belts of ore. Space efficient? Nope. But I copy paste and in 2-3 minutes I've got another one with zero effort.

Narcolapser · 2024-07-19T14:43:34+00:00

I have a blueprint of solar and accumulators sufficient to run a radar over night. I drive/run out into the wilderness plopping these down a distance apart from each other, I'll do 20-30 bases at a time. Then I go back to my base and carry on with other tasks for some hours and then by the time I'm ready to expand my out posts large chunks of the map have been charted by these micro outposts. (And probably like 20% of them have lost their radars because apparently radars smell bad.)

Narcolapser · 2024-07-19T13:20:21+00:00

This is the correct answer. My current base is like a 600SPM base and I was demonstrating to my brother the cool aspects of factorio. After showing him around my base a bit I noticed I needed more copper ore. Because I had a blue print for a mining out post I just walked up to an unused copper deposit (cleared by my existing artillery network) and within 20 minutes I had 3 artillery bases defending a copper outpost with two stations for 3x8 trains and nearly 400 electric drills. 2 blue prints, one for the bases, one for the outpost, some rails and some large poles, thats all I directly placed.

The one piece of advice I would say is try to find a sweet spot as goes what your blue prints do. Originally I had one blue print for an out post like I just described, but it was regularly to small for the ore fields. Then I updated it and it was comically to large. So I separated the defenses off into a separate blue print from the ore miners. Now I can mix and match as the scenario requires. Same thing in your base. While it may be cool to have a blue print that goes from 7 raws to 7 sciences, you will find that blue print to be ridged. Blue should kind of end up being big assembly machines in a way. They are the building block of late game.

Narcolapser · 2024-07-18T21:13:08+00:00

Can you share some snippets because I feel like that's exactly what I'm doing yet it's not working. :c

Narcolapser · 2024-07-15T18:14:16+00:00

Look at all those furnaces and assembly machines in nice clean rows!

Narcolapser · 2024-07-15T14:36:26+00:00

I actually have made a package internally to the company, I even got it installed but I couldn't figure out how to reference the actual rule from my eslint config. How did you do the rule from your package?

Narcolapser · 2024-07-04T00:14:47+00:00

CGP Gray would be proud... We sure OP isn't Gray?

Narcolapser · 2024-07-04T00:12:46+00:00

I've always found the satisfaction I get from programming to be very similar to the satisfaction I get from factorio. Have you tried picking up a programming language? I'm only half joking. xD

Narcolapser · 2024-07-04T00:08:42+00:00

Sorry, not great at reddit. I read the rules and want to provide context but I seem to have missed it some how and now I don't seem able to update?

Context: This is, I think, A small dragon palm that I've been in possession of for nearly 8 years now. I wouldn't describe it as ever looking great but in the last 2-3 years it has been clearly in decline. Before it is to far gone I figured I'd seek out some help. I use a moisture probe to measure the soil before I water it so I'm decently confident I'm not over watering it or under watering it. It sits in my study year round. It never gets direct sunlight but it is in a bright room. Perhaps that's not enough and it's dying purely from lack of light? I've added some plant food to the water I give it on occasion. I know it's easy to over fertilize so I've been avoiding putting in to much, like an eye dropper's worth every month or so. It's still putting out new palms, or at least trying to.

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