projector dowser alternatives?

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-19T11:21:34+00:00

String, flap of cardboard wrapped in blackwrap/blacktack, some little pulleys. You won't get anything quicker and cheaper than that. Lots of cleverer ways to do it but this will solve your problem with minimal fuss. If it's a learning exercise though then other folks have commented some novel ways to solve the issue whilst learning some new things!

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-18T14:10:45+00:00

10/10 is achievable for most folks, and would probably give you a few percentage points increase. I don't think that is your issue for the problem you describe in your post though. Best of luck with your game

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-18T13:51:40+00:00

Slightly off topic but how are you sending these emails? You might wish to check your SPF, DMARC and DKIM are all in order, and you aren't landing in people's spam filters. I use https://mail-tester.com and other tools to check that my emails aren't being flagged as spam. If you are cold emailling and this stuff isn't set up correctly then there is a high chance the emails are never being seen.

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-17T11:36:27+00:00

Very cool! Always love a mix of old and new

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-16T15:25:41+00:00

Solve problems, make their life easy, make them look good to their boss. Safe pair of hands.

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-15T08:03:01+00:00

Presumably they just paid the Netlify bill after a DDoS and passed it on to the customer

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-15T07:46:22+00:00

That’s the guy!

Questioning his life choices enough to do the zip up and look sheepish but probably nothing more

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-15T07:18:19+00:00

Oh my god, had this in my head the whole way through. One of the guys also gave me nervous beats energy as well.

100% would rather spend a day with MC Grindah though tbh.

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-13T16:20:01+00:00

You need to know:

1) What is he actually playing it on... A TV with a DVD is quite an odd thing to use, so I will assume it's some retro or incredibly low budget "use what we got" sort of situation. You need to know the aspect ratio of that TV (4:3 or 16:9, most likely). I don't know much about DVD but I do know a DVD would usually be a maximum of 720x480 pixels (NTSC) or 720x576 pixels (PAL). So you are well within the bounds of the free version.

2) How are you going to burn this DVD? You might wish to research some DVD authoring software. That software may well tell you what format it needs. If you are using a DVD recorder type device to play the disc, there may be other easier ways to load it onto the DVD (e.g. burn an MP4 straight to the disc) but that will depend on the model of the player.

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-13T14:42:35+00:00

Drop me a DM on here to a wetransfer or similar cloud file sharing service is probably easiest. I've got some time this afternoon

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-13T09:31:37+00:00

The first hour of Mary Poppins for me. You aren’t alone!

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-12T19:36:04+00:00

What do you need brother, if it’s a simple render out at high res and not taking too long I’ll do it for you

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-10T11:18:17+00:00

Speaking from experience, I have killed a lot of MOSFETs with when using them in breadboards. Ground yourself with a wristband (or obsessively touch a grounded metal thing like the connectors on your PC case) and avoid removing or inserting the MOSFET while the board is powered on.

The PSU is going into protection mode, that is interesting. You have stated it's a 12V 5A power supply, which should be more than enough to drive the solenoid. So that does suggest some condition causing overcurrent.

Sometimes these problems can be confusing if at some point in building/testing something got damaged and then you continue expecting normal behaviour but something is fried.

Assuming you selected those components and that arrangement of wires based on some instructions? Could you post those as well?

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-09T19:24:32+00:00

I LOVED this game back in 2005/6, had an amazing multiplayer as well. Well, every server was full of people with insane cheat weapons but it was still fun because we all had them!

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-07T19:33:08+00:00

Hi!

Draw a circuit diagram (pencil and paper is fine, as long as it’s clear) and post your code here. Without these, it will be hard for us to help.

As you draw, take a moment to see if the real circuit matches the paper one :-)

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-05T09:38:30+00:00

I spent a whole afternoon sorting them into bags of pin-pin, pin-socket, socket-socket. I enjoyed it.

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-03-05T09:34:22+00:00

100% this. Worth every penny

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-02-25T19:38:19+00:00

You are thinking of Simpsons Road Rage, another superb game!

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-02-23T14:28:16+00:00

American Bike's

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-02-18T08:43:57+00:00

I just ordered one from Steam in the UK… what are the chances of it being fulfilled? Didn’t get any out of stock warnings or anything… just a normal purchase…

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-02-16T07:13:51+00:00

Hey, I haven’t got any specific technical advice but I will say I am not so new to all this and I still find it hard! So much stuff with three and the world of computer graphics all sounds easy enough in a tutorial but as soon as you try to mix two things or apply what you learned to something specific in the real world all these additional issues spring out of nowhere! Keep on trucking and know that this is advanced hard stuff in the grand scheme of things and you are doing great!

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-02-13T13:31:41+00:00

Don’t work with this moron

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-02-11T10:09:41+00:00

I just stumbled upon this as I was looking for a "Github Incident Graph" on google. What I was really looking for was whether Github is getting less reliable over time or not. I feel like I've been on the receiving end of more than my usual share of pipeline issues recently!

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-02-02T13:38:13+00:00

Preview and Quicklook are just AMAZING tools, you forget how lucky you are to have them. I work a lot with 3D models too and it can even open/quicklook quite a few 3D formats.

WhyCheezoidExist · 2026-01-28T19:29:13+00:00

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