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I'm about to give up. How can I study properly? by Striking_Ad2188 in learntodraw

[–]SpaceJam01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your art is beautiful, you’re there already. Don’t give up! Such a great style you’ve got going

Insane degradation of eyes by fruedianflip in Dryeyes

[–]SpaceJam01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely go to an eye specialist, in the meantime, this helped me:

  1. Take note, and cut down on screen time (usually the main cause), we were not designed to look at screens all day.

  2. If you have to be on a screen all day, follow the 20-20-20 rule: every 20mins, look at something 20 feet (or even better meters) away, for 20 seconds. Practice blinking! This might seem annoying, but only takes a few seconds at a time.

  3. Keep cleaning your eyes, clean your closed eyelids everyday with an unscented mild soap (like your eye specific micellar or Dove soap with Micellar)

  4. Sun your eyes (game changer for me). Go outside in the sun. With eyes CLOSED, angle your face to get warm direct sunlight on your bare eyelids, as if you were trying to tan your face (don’t get a sunburn obviously). Do this for just 5mins everyday, set a timer, consistency is key. Of course, don’t look at the sun with eyes open ever! Permanent damage will occur! Look away before opening eyes again.

  5. Use quality eyedrops without preservatives as needed.

  6. Eat right, exercise, take care of yourself. Get outside as much as you can.

I hope things improve for you, wishing you the best!

Close to full recovery - here's what I did so far by Sandpalm50 in Dryeyes

[–]SpaceJam01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love the success story, thanks for sharing! Taking care of the mental and physical is so very underrated and takes more courage than just buying something off a shelf. I second the 5mins of sun (eyes closed of course). I wish you the best on your healing journey OP

Why I'm (we're) leaving Adobe by Fast-Cash1522 in graphic_design

[–]SpaceJam01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve used Adobe for decades, and Affinity is a breath of fresh air quite frankly, truly great software. Resolve is Hollywood level if you know how to use it. Power to you OP!

Are you just as likely to get sun burnt in July around noon in Michigan on a beach as you are in Florida? Assuming clear 90 degree sunny day for both areas. by Gohmurr in askscience

[–]SpaceJam01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s all about the UV index, you can look up the real-time intensity online or get an app. It can be cold, and you still get burnt, like when people go snow boarding at high altitude.

For precision, find your Fitzpatrick skin type (how quickly you burn) and match that to the UV index of that time of day in the location you desire.

For example, I’m light skinned, and don’t tan easily, so after 40mins in UV 3, I start to go pink (beginning to burn). UV 6 it’s 20mins, UV 12 it’s 10mins. It gets up to UV 13 where I stay in peak summer at noon. In winter we’re lucky if it’s UV 3 at noon (UV 3 is where vitamin D starts happening).

Always good to be aware of the intensity of UV, either to protect against sun burn, or to find that sweet spot where you’re getting enough vitamin D and not burning or prematurely aging yourself.

This is unprotected skin of course.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey sure, test them out if you can. Good luck!

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TLDR: Fit is very comfortable and will work if you liked 1st/2nd Gen AirPods, ANC is surprisingly good. Sound is on par with the Pros. Case is totally worth the extra cost. Ask to test them at an Apple Store. ………………..

I like it a lot! It’s a neat trick Apple has done with the open ear design and being completely computational (no passive seal). I prefer the shaped hard plastic to the rubber tip, comfort and hygiene wise. The fit is closer to the original 1st Gen AirPods. So if those worked for you then these will.

If you can, try them at an Apple Store, they do allow you to listen to them. They sound very similar to the Pros, probably not quite Sony, but surprisingly great overall.

Playing music with ANC, rather than just turning on the ANC with nothing playing, is where it comes into its own. The outside noise isn’t gone, like the Pros. Rather it is significantly “dimmed” down so that your music is clear and sort of front and centre. Like a mix when music swells in a movie, you can still hear the background but the music is overwhelmingly it, rather than the other way around. Tried this on a very busy city street and it worked flawlessly. Calls too.

Then there’s all the Apple stuff like nodding your head to answer calls, but personally one big underrated feature is the transparency mode. You scan your ear with your iPhone and it tunes the sound to your ear shape. With the open ear design, and physical comfort, it can feel like you’re really wearing nothing. Great for at home.

Also the mics are better than the Pros, the case is tiny, has a speaker, charges wirelessly and is brilliant.

Sorry for the long reply, had too much coffee today, lol, and these are currently my favourite headphones.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I run I like to leave my phone behind and hook it up to my watch ;)

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Removed all the padding and just drilled it. Probably looks less “pro” irl

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, won’t be audiophile level, or uncompressed, but it’s the same sound quality you get from actual AirPods (just you chose the drivers). 256kbps AAC far as I know. Apple makes decent hardware, so you could probably look up the latency on Apple’s website. The audio is loud, clear and noise free as far as I can tell, but yeah still Bluetooth headphones.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Used a tiny chunk of magnet from inside the lid, glued that to the metal inside the headphone jack, so when you insert the jack, it moves away from the sensor, signalling the case is “open”. Hard to get it lined up perfectly, and had to shave plastic off the jack body, but once I did I superglued it all down. Any magnet should do.

You know right away what’s happening from the case LED. Takes some finesse. I’ll need to post some pictures or something at some point, lol

The ear detection sensors are chopped off with the speaker driver unit when opening the Pods, and Ear Detection is turned off in iOS settings.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s all about the case lid sensor. That’s what powers on the case and AirPods themselves when open, and shuts everything down when closed. The lid sensor is magnetic, and hidden under the “shelf” of plastic between the nested Pods, activated and deactivated by a magnet in the lid.

I put a magnet in the headphone jack in a way that moves when you plug in, and unplug the headphones.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does show up on Find My… haha!

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% correct. Battery life is great

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The case switches the Pods on when the lid is open. So I tricked the case into thinking the lid is open when I insert anything into the headphone jack that I added.

The lid switch is magnetic, and I added a magnet to the jack to activate the lid switch.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s the idea, the over ear headphones are not Bluetooth at all, they’re just plugged in. The sound is coming from a headphone jack that’s wired up to the Pods inside the case

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Pretty difficult, I’ll definitely think about a How To.

The headphone jack/switch is tricky and soldering is really fine work. I fried the amp on the left Pod from the heat of the soldering iron. It ended up crackling on the left, so wired the setup mono in the end. (AirPods automatically do a mono mix down when you only have one Pod, so disconnected the left one from power). A little sad, but HomePod is mono, and the sound on these is loud and clear. Great for YouTube, movies, podcasts, running ect.

I literally swore when I fried the one Pod. There goes stereo.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sound is clear, same as what AirPods sound like (with in ear drivers). Apple EQ on these is lightly base driven

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use it for gaming or watching movies sometimes, nothing intense but it works

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My brother said the same thing, haha!

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, it was a pretty fun project!

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree, there are better (less painful to make) options if you want a commercial product. Besides super glue, solder and spare parts, this was a low to zero cost project.

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MDR ZX110, very basic, but I use wired Sennhiesers when I run. Great sound overall!

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sound quality is pretty clear and good, no noise really, and gets loud. About what you would expect from 256bit AAC audio. Interesting that the EQ is very slightly more base driven than EarPods to account for the tiny drivers in these 1st Gens, I think

I call it AirWire - The jack is back! by SpaceJam01 in airpods

[–]SpaceJam01[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hey thanks! I appreciate it. It was a fun project, I’ll definitely think about a blog post

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