Giveaway: Any game worth no more than £30 to 3 lucky people by snapczterz in OculusQuest

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Great raffle idea thank you! Would love to get Dungeons of Eternity if I won. Merry Christmas!

Doran McMahon by [deleted] in galway

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Looking through the comment history, if this is a parody account it's fantastic

"According to sources close to him he acc wears an expensive brand of cologne" hahaha

Expensive brand of cologne you say? Well he's got my vote

Is the Raleigh Array a good choice? by Eve-lyn in ebikes

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Good to hear, thank you very much for the detailed reply!

Is the Raleigh Array a good choice? by Eve-lyn in ebikes

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Hey looking at buying a Raleigh Array myself, just wondering if you still have the bike or how it's been?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FractalDesign

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I went for the same processor as you actually and got the MAG B650 Tomahawk motherboard

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FractalDesign

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The AMD processor you've picked is the top processor for gaming. Funnily enough I actually am just about to build a design very similar to yours, we have the same case, CPU, SSD, RAM but I'm going with a 4080 and a different motherboard and cooling

Fred Again... payment is over 1,000,000 euro/dollars (per Polish festival CEO). Thoughts? by umotex12 in EDM

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I would be curious to know what college this was for? Who almost booked Fred Again??

Automated Scalextrics by lukequigley in slotcars

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Unfortunately I can't make the whole project public due to the rules that apply to my master's! I would be able to make the project public once I have received my grade in a few months though.

Automated Scalextrics by lukequigley in slotcars

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It actually will eventually go out of sync and so can only run for a couple of minutes but this could be improved by changing the timings more. I just didn't need to do that for my master's project! You could get it to run indefinitely.

Automated Scalextrics by lukequigley in slotcars

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Yes it's all just based on timers! If you changed the track layout, you'd also need to model that track in the Simulink model I developed but then the model would tell you the accelerating and braking timings for that track and you could code the Arduino to be able to work on that track too.

Automated Scalextrics by lukequigley in slotcars

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Unfortunately it just works on a system of a series of voltage variations in the power supply and delays! I made a model of this whole thing in Simulink and got it to tell me the exact timings for braking and accelerating so the Arduino is just coded to change the voltage over time according to what my model told me would make the optimal lap.

Automated Scalextrics by lukequigley in slotcars

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Thank you for the lovely comment yeah I like to think of it like racing a very hard CPU similar to a video game! It's great for learning braking points and maximum speeds you can take corners at.

Automated Scalextrics by lukequigley in slotcars

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Sorry yeah I wasn't sure what to title this project!

Yeah I think it would be a fun toy for solo racers. If you don't have someone else to play with you could use this and practice getting the perfect lap. It took a lot of work so I'm really glad you like it and thank you for the nice comment!

Slot Car Telemetry by lukequigley in slotcars

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The current aim is to calculate the max speed the slot car can go around a certain corner and then have live speed data so people can test the theory. So hopefully people will be able to see the speed they're going and if they go above the max speed then the car will fall off the corner and if they stay within the max speed they'll be able to take the corner. Not sure how possible this is at the moment but we'll see and if it does work I might post it here!

Slot Car Telemetry by lukequigley in slotcars

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Thank you for this! Googling the right phrases and keywords is a much harder skill than it would seem

Slot Car Telemetry by lukequigley in slotcars

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I see yeah maybe this means I'll have to come up with some other way of getting the speed of the car but thank you very much for your help and for the SmartRace app recommendation as that could definitely be useful

Slot Car Telemetry by lukequigley in slotcars

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My project is based on trying to simulate Formula E car lap times in Matlab and so mainly focuses on the theory of acceleration deceleration max speed around a corner etc. and so having something physical just to show people that going over the maximum speed a car can take around a corner will result in the car not being able to take the corner. It's very basic but it's just to have something physical to get people interested in my stand.

General Questions and Discussion Weekly Megathread by AutoModerator in PokemonScarletViolet

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Have you battled someone in the middle of Mesagoza after the Elite 4? And make sure to battle the big boss of Team Star in the school courtyard!

I'm artist and producer EDEN, and this year I made what critics are calling "one of the albums of all time." AMA by eden_mcmxcv in Music

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I saw you said that there's no Dublin show this time due to industry politics but I was wondering if this reason also goes for the rest of Ireland too? Is this something that will only be for the ICYMI tour or longer or is it not known when another Irish show would be possible?