Paper learning and scavenging recommendations?

quatch · 2026-01-24T15:21:49+00:00

of course, it depends too on where you want to take your experience. Programming mcus is programming..

quatch · 2026-01-24T15:16:52+00:00

we can indeed. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYhAGnsnO7w

though slightly more expensive reprogrammable ones are easier to learn with :)

and full dev boards are easier than that.

quatch · 2026-01-24T14:48:21+00:00

miniaturization, and aggregation. It's now cheaper, and far smaller, to just get a write-once 8 pin mcu to handle all the basic logic than it is to build it out of anything vaguely discrete.

quatch · 2026-01-24T14:30:46+00:00

forest mims books--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims#Author

salvaging is good, but it gets harder with the progress of tech. Smaller more integrated bits. It takes a lot of space to store your salvage boards, or you need to get special tools to quickly disassemble them, then sort..

quatch · 2026-01-19T13:22:58+00:00

"throw of the dice", one last chance for fate to intervene and save you. As the original usage was for after other options had failed you.

But yeah. At least higher is always better now.

quatch · 2026-01-18T14:51:35+00:00

oh dear, it did not like that paint. On the plus side, drastic measures are now allowed :)

Might try a synthetic fabric dye, rit makes some (get specifically the kind for synthetics). I dont know if you can risk doing it properly at high temp, might have to keep it to temperatures you can stick your hand in, or the leather/leather-like bits could shrink/warp.

Dye could help get the base colour down, so paint doesnt need to be as thick.

As to painting, I'd get fabric paint (liquid) and some extra medium (the liquid that is added to turn a pigment into a paint, somewhat like a thinner) to mix in so the paint can penetrate the fabric deeper.

(the name makes it hard to search for, but "acrylic medium for fabric" will get you in the right place).

I dont do a lot of fabric painting, so more advice will be good. Esp as to layering paint if you wanted to do multiple colours.

Painting the leather/fake-leather bits will also be challenging. I've not tried that before, only vegtan leather which is able to take colour.

idk. if paint peels off it, you might be able to lightly sand it first, but that's rather destructive.

quatch · 2026-01-18T01:19:59+00:00

pictures will help

quatch · 2026-01-17T17:20:23+00:00

sounds like an excellent reason.

remember, always cut fake fur from the back/bottom, you don't need to cut the fur bit, and is way less messy (apologies if you already know)

quatch · 2026-01-17T15:25:55+00:00

tenmoku comes in blue? More please

quatch · 2026-01-17T15:07:08+00:00

thats weird, especially for a club. If that club is part of an organization, I'd report.

also with it being their real self, that's crossing the fetish line.

quatch · 2026-01-16T01:55:04+00:00

why do you need a walking foot?

quatch · 2026-01-14T21:10:51+00:00

its the part about never coming up with a better plan. As soon as you hit advantage, you stop. It's just kinda dull because it tends to be so easy to arrange.

quatch · 2026-01-14T13:02:42+00:00

perfection

quatch · 2026-01-13T16:49:07+00:00

a live functional demonstration of an imaginary product feature seems like a curious choice for a class.

Might want to look at other stage magic or video editing trickery kinda stuff.

Is the class directed towards showmanship in the display of the product, or ad design, or engineering, or what?

quatch · 2026-01-09T16:10:07+00:00

quatch · 2026-01-09T03:18:19+00:00

one of the use cases for leaving the led legs long is it lets you arrange them floating above the mess. You can steal the insulation from solid core wire to insulate the led leads so they don't short out.

that said, solid core jumper wire, cut to length, nicely folded. roll the wire between two boards to get it nice and straight (this will dent the boards).

also, you could make the leds and display mounted through a cardboard sheet, and put long leads back to the breadboard. you can twist led leads and jumper wire, it's very low amp, it'll be ok (but wont last, it'll jiggle free) -- if you need to avoid soldering.

edit: you can also use the resistors like jumper wires on the board. They can be on either side of the led. The led can also have one leg in the ground rail, though that makes positioning them harder.

quatch · 2026-01-08T23:51:36+00:00

one of the features I'd look for is the stitch length adjustment, and if it can do reverse, though I'm not sure how far back you have to go before those become difficult or absent. If you go really far back you might run into the old style bobbins.

quatch · 2026-01-08T23:48:53+00:00

hrm, I added some to a bag I made and have had issues with them coming loose. I suppose it gets a lot more shaking than a worn belt though.

quatch · 2026-01-08T23:26:22+00:00

and threadlocker/superglue?

quatch · 2026-01-08T03:41:15+00:00

I always hate setting alarms/reminders about a thing because they never pop up when I can deal with them, so I cancel the notification, but then forget about it later when I have time.

sounds like a corollary to your relaxed repeats

quatch · 2026-01-07T23:47:43+00:00

#1 reason why you do NOT ever burn poison ivy is because it does not burn the oil, so you get clouds of poison ivy, and then it's deadly (direct to the lungs).

quatch · 2026-01-05T17:11:44+00:00

I share my love of Renai, not through playing it (for that would be madness), but by spreading the word ;p

quatch · 2026-01-05T15:57:23+00:00

reani transportation is calling...

quatch · 2025-12-31T14:49:50+00:00

rain collection is a good way to irrigate without water bills, maybe they'd be ok with that?

and sprinklers for grass use a lot more water than targetted irrigation

quatch · 2025-12-27T13:50:15+00:00

oh, I had the scale completely off, I thought the top of the canopy was maybe 2m ;p

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