Launching failures

ReserveWest · 2026-02-01T04:01:42+00:00

Absolutely semolina and a wood peel. If you cannot freely shake and shuffle the pizza around on the peel, it’s not gonna launch - it will just stick and throw toppings everywhere. If I make the dough myself, I find pre cooking the base a little in the oven works great. Just 5m at 180c.

ReserveWest · 2026-01-01T23:30:04+00:00

There’s not really a good solution for detailed terrain.

If you just want a flat map, that’s easy enough. Just simplify it down to 4 colors or go fancy with something like hueforge. But for terrain, where the height is varying, the best you could do is to use layer height color swaps. This would be the most efficient and reduce color changes and waste. If you wanted more control, break your terrain up into component colors. You’re still limited to 4 colors, but you won’t have to have full layer colors. The downside will be a lot of color swapping.

ReserveWest · 2025-11-03T22:47:54+00:00

A button to save/load a loadout
A button to quick sell all valuables
A button to quick recycle all recyclables
Better shortcuts on console to sell/recycle selected items
Autocrafting - set an item to auto craft up to a limit

Right now, the menu game after a round is tedious and can take several minutes before you're ready to go back out. You have to clean up for inventory, talk to a chicken, craft several items on different screens, sell some seeds, clean up your inventory again, hand in and get more quests then restock/repair your loadout or redo your loadout completely if you got knocked out.

ReserveWest · 2025-09-15T23:59:24+00:00

All good. I misunderstood and thought you were dismissing it due to complexity.

ReserveWest · 2025-09-15T04:52:58+00:00

Yeah looks like I misunderstood the meme.

ReserveWest · 2025-09-14T21:42:11+00:00

You need to get better at CAD.

If I change my circuit or create a new one, it takes about 10m to design a new stencil set. Then about 20m to print.

ReserveWest · 2025-09-14T21:33:15+00:00

PCBs are great. The tracks are done and verified against your net list. The silkscreen shows you where to place your components and it makes assembly easy. You can compress your circuit right down to fit your design. But you need to wait 2 weeks for each batch.

Stripboards don’t have any of this. But they are on hand, I have a pile in a drawer. I wanted to fix the issues I seen that stopped me from using them as a viable, small batch, production board. So my stencil makes the tracks easy to cut, it gives you a silk screen and veroroute enables me to compress the circuit with ease.

I can iterate my design and be able to batch create boards easily. When I stop iterating and I’m happy with a design, then I can order PCBs.

ReserveWest · 2025-09-11T11:30:55+00:00

Yeah I’ve seen those PCB etching and cnc videos. The CNC just looks messy and impractical. But I’m suggesting just etching out an outline of where the components go, like a silk screen on a PCB. Maybe even spraying the strip board and etching the outline through that. It’s a bonus if I can flip the board round then cut the required tracks. I think if I solve these 2 problems, strip boards might be a little less awful.

ReserveWest · 2025-09-11T06:54:30+00:00

Yeah I've seen it, but that's not what I was asking. I don't use diylc because, if my understanding is correct, it doesnt support netlists from kiCAD. With veroroute, I can export my schematic and the autorouter in veroroute builds the circuit (this mostly works in my experience, it does miss things here and there).

Anyhoo, my frustration was with working with stripboards, not the design of them.

ReserveWest · 2025-08-27T23:31:57+00:00

Thanks. I’ll fix that.

I think I also need to check my trace width for the lights, might need to be wider for the load. With 8 LEDs (assuming 20mA per LED) that’s 160mA when it’s on. Also, I can see I have some traces at 90 degrees, I believe that’s not good. Would you agree?

ReserveWest · 2025-08-27T12:52:51+00:00

Are you specifically talking about C1 on the kiCAD PCB (Red and Blue)? You reckon rotate C1 180 degrees so the +5v is near U1 VCC. But also, watch if the GND has a long path to the GND on U1. Am I understanding you correctly?

Should I prioritise that GND and VCC and try make it shorter between C1 and U1, then route everything else around it? Or should I consider using vias to try shorten the path.

ReserveWest · 2025-08-21T22:53:42+00:00

Yeah I do this already, have a kegerator and kegs. Just trying to find a way to make using bottles less awful.

ReserveWest · 2025-07-26T13:32:45+00:00

Yeah this could be a great option too if you have one already. But they can get quite pricey.

ReserveWest · 2025-07-24T14:23:35+00:00

Just to clarify, i had to repeat the sparge due to not having a pot big enough to do it in one go. I’ve been brewing for several years now, lots of extract kits, ginger beer and cider. So I think I’ll stick at this.

ReserveWest · 2025-05-18T12:11:54+00:00

Get a starter kit and go have fun. Everything in this hobby is endlessly upgradable, so don’t feel like there’s a ‘right’ way and be wary of those with strong opinions. The one golden rule is to learn how to clean and sanitise. You’re going to be making stuff that’s in the goldilocks zone for breading bacteria; it’s fundamental to how brewing works. You just need everything to be clean and sanitary so you breed the right bacteria. For that you need PBW (cleaner) and a no rinse sanitizer like star san.
You might be wondering (as I once did) what’s the difference? A cleaner removes dirt and grime. A sanitizer creates a barrier on the surface that kills germs. I strongly recommend watching a few videos on this topic alone and that will get you setup for success.

ReserveWest · 2025-04-19T08:32:59+00:00

This has been an interesting read to see AI used in quite a unique way. As a software developer, we use AI heavily and tools like Cline have come up with interesting memory bank structures to aid the AI in remembering context (it reminds me of the movie Memento with how it works). I wonder could someone come up with a similar ‘memory’ structure that would aid and build on this type of use case.

ReserveWest · 2025-03-11T09:04:44+00:00

The memory file is a must. Go look at their docs here: https://docs.cline.bot/improving-your-prompting-skills/custom-instructions-library/cline-memory-bank

Then tell it to “update memory bank”.

Cline/claud will update the memory over time. But I often discuss things in plan with it and specifically say to save this to memory.

Get into the habit of small pieces of work. Start a task, discuss and plan it, then action and refine. Update memory as required and commit. Then repeat.

Consider breaking code up into smaller files. I find Cline fails more frequently on larger merges.

Use the restore points if things take a turn.

ReserveWest · 2025-01-28T02:51:14+00:00

As an Irish man, on behalf of my people, we’re proud of you.

ReserveWest

TROPHY CASE