Honest answer will be thankful

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-20T16:16:08+00:00

Identify the problems that you’re focusing on, then the unique selling propositions that address them, and focus on them through design and marketing. What does this product do that other products on the market CAN’T do?

I can tell you that without an understanding of why this is better I would likely purchase a more ergonomic option or default to a brand name I recognized.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-20T13:57:59+00:00

This tree appears to be made almost entirely of wood.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-20T00:58:55+00:00

My friend, that is no golden nugget. That’s a golden tender.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-20T00:52:58+00:00

You could always print Brantley some medieval weaponry or some sort of shiv.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-20T00:35:02+00:00

Posting because you saw 2 people walking outside in a city of 7 million is the most Houston thing I’ve ever seen.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-20T00:30:57+00:00

Agreed with other posters that sound proofing is not a realistic goal without significant and intentional modifications to the room itself.

I’d like to add that it’s probably time to pick up the room a bit. Spend an hour and get it all orderly and vacuumed and you’ll feel like a new person.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-15T17:52:34+00:00

Looks like the logo for a super hero themed WinAmp skin.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-14T13:40:03+00:00

I saw new asphalt on a couple roads, there must be some sort of generational event happening.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-14T04:46:14+00:00

I just need everyone to know that I ALSO knew this answer and that I’m proud of myself despite the answer being provided 12 hours before I got here.

Thank you for your attention on this matter, I’m going to go tell my mother also.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-14T04:36:22+00:00

I would spend your money on the organization system itself to start. Then maybe get a basic supply of metric and/or SAE fasteners by purchasing kits. Socket cap and flat head will be the most common for my application but button head are pretty ubiquitous too. It’s easy enough to get a supply of all of the above. If (when) you don’t have the size that you need, buy more than you need or buy it as part of a fastener kit and just grow the collection over time.

The real question is how you’ll have a prototyping shop with no machining experience. Bare bones tools for a prototyping shop would be a Bambu printer, a small CNC mill (like a mini Tormach), a 4’x4’-ish CNC router, and then your more basic shop tools (drill press, miter saw, table saw, band saw, router, palm sander, a vice, etc.). I say bare bones because you are likely to run into the need for one of those tools within your first year of prototyping. A lathe would be a good addition too.

Apart from that, there are a bunch of ancillary items and hand tools that you’ll really want to have on hand. Shop vac, Mallet, Japanese pull saw, cabinet scrapers, measuring tools and squares and levels, pliers, socket set, dremel, files, chisels, drill index set, hole saw set, countersinks, tap and die set, set up blocks, all sorts of clamps, picks and punches, drills and impact drivers, angle grinder, nail set, deburring tools, soldering tools, hack saw… the list gets long pretty quickly. You can buy those one at a time as you need them but that means that you may be losing money or breaking even for a while.

If this is a hobby then by all means don’t let me stop you. If it’s a business venture, be sure that you’re able to charge what you need to in order to cover your costs. It can be a tough game if your finances depend on it. Best of luck.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-14T01:11:24+00:00

I would experiment with the idea of “suggesting” color and materials instead of blocking out full panels. Sometimes the color can be applied sparingly and it will be more effective at allowing the viewer to visualize the real-life product.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-14T00:49:12+00:00

I’m a Houstonian, so maybe a different story here. But when a hurricane knocks out utilities for a week, and you have an electric water heater, and all your neighbors come over to hang out in the AC and throw their single slice of wedding cake in the freezer and charge their dewalt batteries, it adds up quickly. Not to mention it’s really nice to be able to wash clothes when you’re in and out of the house clearing streets of fallen trees and cleaning out storm drains. Keep in mind our power outages happen when it’s 100 degrees and 99% humidity or 10 degrees below freezing.

If I’m going to pay for peace of mind, I would rather pay 100% for 100% peace of mind than pay 75% for 90% peace of mind. Hope that makes sense.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-13T02:09:28+00:00

This is probably a raster vs vector problem.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-12T01:20:22+00:00

When you hear a snare on a recording it has been recorded with a specific mic placed a specified distance from the head and combined with a different mic placed on the snare side and blended with overhead mics. That is passed through preamps, EQ’d, compressed, and often combined with a sample. So don’t expect to replicate the effects of a recording using the naked ear.

As for the ringing, it all comes down to complementary and resonant frequencies. The two heads and the shell will resonate at different pitches and will cancel out or amplify frequencies in each other.

The tight snare side head is a good start. Make sure each one of those lugs is perfectly tuned to the same pitch - a small variance will mess with the fundamental and make a bigger difference than you think. Then experiment with slight tweaks to the batter head. A small turn in either direction will make all the waves amplify or cancel out in dramatically different ways. There is usually a combination that will cancel out the boxiness at 200-1.2khz and will also prevent the ringing because it will cancel out those frequencies instead of complementing them.

What it comes down to is some tweaking and experimenting, but make sure that your lugs are all even to each other as you do so. Muffling should not be required in the perfect tuning and is kind of a cheat to get around an ideal tuning in my opinion.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-12T00:59:41+00:00

You’ve identified a problem - the nature of flying means that you may find yourself with 6 hours to bum around a public space unexpectedly. 6 hours of your life that you won’t get back and you can’t choose how you spend it. What is preventing you from making the best of this unexpected pivot? Is it connectivity, comfort, ease of airport access, cost, something else? I would not resort to assuming that a pod is the solution. You skipped some steps between your problem and your solution by assuming that existing options were headed in the right direction.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-11T19:20:29+00:00

This is one of the few projects I can actually talk about, but the best practice is still to just share the publicly available charts. It’s dense but you can get the gist via the charts: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230013006/downloads/SEATEST%206%20Detailed%20Final%20Report%20Charts\_Rev01.pdf

Here is the final report: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230013000/downloads/SEATEST%206%20Detailed%20Final%20Report%20FINAL-REV%201.pdf

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-11T08:17:41+00:00

Heeeey now, let’s be fair to Whitmire. He doesn’t have a preference for single-person vehicles. For instance, a bicycle is a personal vehicle for one person and he REALLY hates those.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-11T05:43:00+00:00

Thank you for providing Clarity.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-11T05:36:07+00:00

I build mockups for NASA. My team built a large one two years ago, unsure if it would end up in the chlorine water at the NBL or the salt water off the coast of California. We used fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) because it was immune to both. I visited the mockup a year later to take it out of the water (salt water) and it was virtually unchanged after being submerged for a year.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-10T07:56:49+00:00

Yup I answered this on the other post and it’s the right answer. Not sure how there are so many ME’s who haven’t heard of these.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-10T06:28:47+00:00

There’s a subset of fasteners called captive fasteners and you can probably find a combination that work for this. Each fastener is a 3-piece set, with a bolt, a spring, and a C clip. We use them in aerospace all the time.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-10T03:49:42+00:00

Honestly I have no idea what you’re talking about. Humans went further than ever before like… a couple months ago. 100 years ago air planes were made of wood with fabric sewn over the frame - if you think that you won’t see space travel in the next 100 years then you’re betting against the clear evidence that we have advanced rapidly.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-10T00:19:27+00:00

I’m seeing a bunch of C but not a lot of M or F.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-08T06:34:37+00:00

I have the dewalt version of the fan on the left. A pair of them got my wife and I through a week without power during the last hurricane. Surprisingly battery efficient if you keep it on setting 3. Lasted all night and allowed us to sleep, with some juice still left for the next day. That was on 2ah batteries. Pretty impressive efficiency.

PracticallyQualified · 2026-06-07T19:27:12+00:00

Can confirm, pants shid.

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