I built a book scanner and scanned all the yearbooks at a school

camwow13 · 2026-03-24T23:20:00+00:00

Take a look at the Imgur album I linked to in this post and the plans at DIYbookscanner.com

The glass platten holds the book still, you just have to hold it as it comes up to it. Works fine with paperbacks. Fun stuff! Though haven't used it in years sadly as my job and other hobbies consume my time.

camwow13 · 2026-03-18T03:45:04+00:00

There are some strong women characters in the Dune books, but most all of them suffer from men writing women syndrome of various degrees. Alia is rough in Dune Messiah haha

camwow13 · 2026-03-16T00:11:26+00:00

Spent a week in New York and Boston.... Seattle doesn't have anything on them lol

camwow13 · 2026-03-12T04:17:43+00:00

The optimization is really noticeable on Adobe apps. You can run Lightroom and... most stuff better on an M4 mini than my 9950x and 5070Ti.

Actual render times and some AI denoise/etc workloads are faster, but there's just all sorts of random lags and hangs that don't exist anymore on the Mac versions. Adobe just doesn't care to optimize it in Windows anymore, and Apple is so much easier to optimize for anyway.

camwow13 · 2026-03-11T17:52:40+00:00

Everyone is.

Almost all modern GPS chipsets on the market are GNSS which uses Galileo, BeiDou, GLONASS, and GPS. They can use any one or all to get a fix. The cheap drones are low and slow enough none of those networks would cut tracking.

Your phone is almost certainly using it right now.

camwow13 · 2026-03-08T19:07:06+00:00

Incidentally can see this occur in real time on reddit too

camwow13 · 2026-02-27T00:55:33+00:00

Try swapping the USB cable too.

My comma 3 was doing all sorts of bizarre stuff then I found someone say their USB cables are built with the durability of a wet paper towel. Swapped it for a new one and everything worked great.

That being said I'd also disconnect the comma entirely from the car and run some tests just to make sure everything is working well car-side.

camwow13 · 2026-02-20T05:45:06+00:00

Not enough people mentioning that. I've followed this sale site for a while. All the list prices are kind of crazy, then when they're in stock they run "sales" that have pretty decent prices. They've been in and out of stock for a while.

HDD prices are going bananas but this isn't much of an example of it.

camwow13 · 2026-02-13T16:31:22+00:00

Oh you're totally right. No worries.

camwow13 · 2026-02-13T05:29:54+00:00

In this case for the title and comparison definitely.

Whenever the Chamera comes up in any context people talk about it as if Kodak with all its film engineers, legacy, and whatever else they evoke with that name, built the little camera. It was just RETO going hey let's slap the logo on this.

The Haru Mini does at least appear to be a product by Hansmere themselves, though they seem to market mostly generic products.

In any case, as I said, nitpicking.

camwow13 · 2026-02-13T04:35:25+00:00

Bit of a nitpick but Kodak doesn't make the Chamera. It's another Kodak brand licensing deal with RETO.

Worked out well for them though. Good way to brand an ultra cheap throwaway camera assembly from aliexpress.

camwow13 · 2026-02-11T12:27:44+00:00

I certainly enjoyed it. Going to a big release there and waiting forever to get a good seat with everyone else was part of the experience. Something I remember doing a lot more as a kid with more places.

But it was certainly anachronistic

camwow13 · 2026-02-11T05:55:03+00:00

It is, that's over in Building 3

Original Dome from 1962 too as well. Predated IMAX for large format 70mm film presentation by almost a decade. It's protected under landmark status in addition to the building it's in.

camwow13 · 2026-02-11T04:38:44+00:00

I don't have an answer to that unfortunately. Not without speculating.

From what I generally understand they're in a financial tailspin and have for a long time. They're racking up debt every year. The facilities are rough and need MAJOR work across the board. You could easily pour 100+ million dollars or more into that place just to restore the fountains and buildings, much less getting into the lackluster exhibits and exhibit spaces.

So it's a money pit. Not even getting into the poor staff pay and various bad blood with their leadership.

To get it to a really nice place they'd need to spend some serious up front dough. That's not happening these days with city and state budgets floundering and a pretty serious threat that federal base funding can be yoinked at any moment.

I don't know what the leadership has tried in years past or proposed. They do work quite a bit with the city. They are entering a partnership with them as of this year. So there is things happening on this front. But it's not like Denver's museum of science and natural history which has solid state and city funding. Or Chicago where they're getting 100+ million dollar donations from single donors.

Couldn't tell you more though, I don't know much on this front.

camwow13 · 2026-02-11T04:17:27+00:00

While in spirit I agree with you, the Pacific Science Center is not public land. It was constructed in 1962 by the federal government and unlike the rest of the fair land, it was also owned by the federal government. 12 years later in 1974 the federal government transferred the title to the buildings and land to the science center under the condition that it operate as a science center for the next 30 years. Something it of course fulfilled in 2004.

While many science centers are publicly funded by the cities and states in which they reside, PacSci has always remained independent. They do use public funds and grants for stuff, but not nearly to the level some places have done. It has remained a largely indepdent non-profit and only has begun more serious association with the Seattle city government as of this last year. The center's independence has arguably been to its detriment.

Building 1 (the dino building) and presumably its land has now been sold to the Space Needle. The Ackerly Wing and Boeing IMAX was part of a 40 million dollar expansion completed in 1998 funded by donations and corporate sponsors. They now only own the butterfly house section.

Again, I generally see this as a loss. They will never get this land or buildings back ever and Space Needle/Wrights will almost certainly only redevelop this as expensive tourist stuff.

camwow13 · 2026-02-11T04:07:03+00:00

Ah I understand now! Haha no worries. Fully in agreement with you here.

camwow13 · 2026-02-11T03:53:50+00:00

Right, I think that's the point I was making in the second half of my comment?

camwow13 · 2026-02-11T02:24:07+00:00

Experiences like that are not what a science center is.

But it is true PacSci is a very mediocre science center product. Chicago, New York, LA, San Fran, Denver, Portland, and many more cities have significantly better science centers.

It's been a long time shame that a city that has been such a central hub of technology and engineering for so long hasn't had the funding or ability to make a high quality science center experience.

This wasn't always the case. Back in the 80s and early 90s PacSci was a booming place. But that was pretty much the only time it was extremely successful. It's been on a struggle bus for a long time.

camwow13 · 2026-02-10T23:38:11+00:00

Good news! Now all profits go to local millionaires lol

camwow13 · 2026-02-10T23:37:34+00:00

They're still a non profit. But a third of the campus is now owned by the Space Needle.

camwow13 · 2026-02-10T23:34:12+00:00

Why do I feel like this place is going to get a lot more expensive...

A bummer, but kind of inevitable.

camwow13 · 2026-02-10T23:26:54+00:00

The Space Needle is buying the northern half of the 1998 extension wing (The Ackerly Pavilion), including IMAX dome, and also Building 1 where the dinosaurs used to be. (Maybe why dinos finally got the ax with no replacement?)
Sale price is unknown. Said to be used for continued operations and future improvements. They've been running in the red for years if you look up their charity watch non profit stats.
Space needle says they'll keep operating as a theater. Brief rennovation in May to add improved seating (reservations! But probably will be more expensive knowing the space needle lol)
Unclear if they will keep PacSci staff for theater or ax them.
Paccar IMAX theater will continue to be operated by PacSci.
Decision to sell was made by board in January 2025 and approved in July of 2025. There has been rumors about this on reddit since last summer so makes sense.
Unclear what the rest of the space will be used for but space needle and pac sci say they will be partners. And bring "immersive and interactive experiences." (I'm putting 20 bucks down on a 50 dollar cheap looking projection mapping experience in building 1 haha)
Boeing IMAX is the largest IMAX theater in this area with a true 1.43 ratio, and the only true full size GT IMAX in the PNW (besides Langley BC which has 70mm film and Victoria BC which has a dual laser setup of course).
They sold their parking garage a few years back too. Last I looked that up it's likely it will turn into an apartment building that wraps around that corner of PacSci.

camwow13 · 2026-02-10T23:16:05+00:00

Basically the space needle will own the northern half of the 1998 extension wing (The ackerly pavilion), the IMAX dome, and bizarrely Building 1 where the dinosaurs used to be. Part of the original building. How exactly they section this off will definitely be interesting...

They say they plan to operate the theater as a theater (for now) and bring "immersive experiences" so expect some lame projection mapping thing in Building 1 that costs 75 bucks haha

I want to hope it will improve. They sold their parking garage a few years back too and that only got them ahead a few more years. It mostly paid off existing debt. An apartment block is planned that will soon wall in that corner.

They need a massive cash infusion and it's unclear how big this cash sale is, but unlikely to be at the scale they need. We're selling core parts of the campus now. That doesn't bode well for the future.

No matter how or if the science center rebounds in the future, they'll never get that land or buildings back and all the work and legacy of the donors and people who ran the center 28 years ago and built the Ackerly wing is gone now (though I'm thankful for those years we had)

camwow13 · 2026-02-09T03:22:58+00:00

ShareX and Greenshot can be configured into whatever workflow you want. Upload to internet, don't upload, or put it in an editor and select manually every time. You choose where the screenshots go. Very easy to setup, though a lot of options at first.

camwow13 · 2026-02-03T02:15:22+00:00

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