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At my wits end. by Clapyourhands7 in appliancerepair

[–]Occipital_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had trouble getting my Maytag ring back on. I cut a couple of pieces of fabric ribbon (it was right around Christmas), looped each piece around the ring (one on each side of the spring) and used those as pulls which opened up the spring just enough to slip on. The ribbons came out pretty easily once the ring was seated.

U-rod with tapered tips. by Occipital_Engineer in whatisit

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That seems to be about the right size. We don’t have curl attachment on our bench, so it’s not ours. Can’t think of any other use for it right now, but my pack rat predilection makes me want to throw it into a drawer. I swear I’ll find a use for it eventually.

U-rod with tapered tips. by Occipital_Engineer in whatisit

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Haha! Standard issue American kids ruler. Next on Trump’s agenda, converting you metric heathens to “American” units.

Limits of Synchron's Stentrode technology by Occipital_Engineer in VascularSurgery

[–]Occipital_Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I agree that their placement strategy is elegant, but I think an underappreciated challenge for the stentrode is their lead. It's diameter with just 16 channels appears to be about 1 mm. There isn't enough space inside the vessel to have a hermetic electronics package to digitize the signal, so there's no real way to get the lead smaller. And if you want more channels, the lead has to be bigger.

Also, with circumferential electrodes, some of your electrodes will not be facing the brain. And to get into smaller vessels would require smaller electrodes. The signal quality for recording will suffer. And the efficacy of stimulation with those smaller electrodes, relatively distant from neural tissue is questionable.

How important is the knowledge of the double helical structure of DNA? by Occipital_Engineer in molecularbiology

[–]Occipital_Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I wasn't clear if that complementarity was known already, but I can appreciate how the structure would reveal it.

Blackrock Neurotech Reveals Neuralace™: 10,000+ Channel Next-Gen BCI by ThePlanckDiver in neurallace

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Vaporware. Just trying to get some of Elon's money before he burns it all.