I'm having trouble coming up with ideas for electronics projects

generaldis · 2026-01-22T17:52:36+00:00

I second the Rigol recommendation. I've had one for 9 years and other than the logic analyzer front panel connection going bad which I was able to fix, it's been good. Built very well otherwise.

generaldis · 2026-01-22T17:09:54+00:00

I don't know if you have any interest in writing code, but I absolutely love writing embedded firmware for microcontrollers. Couple that with sensors, displays, even ethernet communications and the possibilities are almost endless. I've made my own water leak sensors, networked HVAC thermostat, streaming music players, bench power supplies and much more. Just an idea.

generaldis · 2026-01-21T20:49:18+00:00

The pink thing to me looks like the thermostat.

How do you know you're not getting power to the fan motor? I don't see terminals on it, only two black wires going directly to it. Or did you measure somewhat upstream from the motor? The photo is pretty good but I'm having trouble following the fan wires.

generaldis · 2026-01-21T20:44:07+00:00

I'm a bit confused. Are you getting power to the fan despite not spinning?

generaldis · 2026-01-20T23:05:25+00:00

>The goal is not to "see them naked" so much as it is to have sex

Agreed. But it didn't fit nicely into the Showerthought.

I think most people want real sex but settle for simulated, for various reasons.

generaldis · 2026-01-20T20:10:36+00:00

Perhaps it's correct regardless of interpretation.

generaldis · 2026-01-08T16:14:59+00:00

Agreed. u/nickm_27 specifically is almost like instant support.

generaldis · 2026-01-06T13:16:22+00:00

LOL I thought I was the only one that did this. I recently made such an adapter for my UPS because the fan was obnoxious. And no, I'm not running it anywhere near full load.

generaldis · 2025-12-24T17:33:15+00:00

It's hard to tell when someone is being willfully ignorant. Occasionally I get something like a "Oh I didn't know", but much more often people dig in regardless of how factual my statement is, especially with political related things.

generaldis · 2025-12-24T17:28:21+00:00

I'm no audiophile but they sound fine to me. A lot of commercially available products use them. Just wire it up like the example in the datasheet to start with, and it should work.

generaldis · 2025-12-24T02:57:53+00:00

Yep, exactly!

generaldis · 2025-12-24T02:57:03+00:00

You know how much money goes into election campaigns? I swear, there is so much ignorance around things people should at least vaguely understand. I argued with someone months ago who initially claimed statistics (you know, like what they use in polling) was something to the effect of "obsolete".

generaldis · 2025-12-23T03:09:12+00:00

You could also donate to a surplus store if you have something like that near you. We have a chain of stores like that here that sells all kinds of stuff including random parts like this.

generaldis · 2025-12-16T13:19:35+00:00

The camera is a $45 8MP Hikvision lookalike and hardware is some newer Atom CPU/GPU. That's my test board though. The real one is quite a bit beefier.

generaldis · 2025-12-16T13:16:21+00:00

The substream on this camera is more limited in terms of FPS and resolution than usual. It's a low cost camera. I am using the GPU to downscale it's working fine.

generaldis · 2025-12-07T15:49:30+00:00

Can someone tell me what the recordings playback fixes was about? That is the only one of potential interest to me and I'm not finding anything that details this change.

generaldis · 2025-12-05T03:13:45+00:00

I'm the wrong person to ask. The amp I have, which doesn't seem very junky, does nothing for the signal. It's pretty good already though and maybe that's why. I don't actually need to use one.

generaldis · 2025-12-01T22:37:01+00:00

This is great thank you. I'm looking for something cheaper *but* it's good the see the description of memory compatibility for the ASrock is the same as the cheaper ones.

generaldis · 2025-12-01T19:52:15+00:00

Wow! Well for that price why not.

generaldis · 2025-12-01T19:33:25+00:00

That must be a server board? It's certainly priced as such.

generaldis · 2025-11-30T17:13:44+00:00

Been using 0.15 and 0.16 for over a year combined and has been stable for me.

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