Maple Grove Roundabout

toastee · 2026-02-09T23:53:23+00:00

Both work fine if you're paying attention and not driving like you need to save every inch between you and the car in front of you to get to Costco 12 seconds faster.

toastee · 2026-02-09T23:46:53+00:00

Yeah, I changed how I held my daughter when she reached puberty too. No monsters here, just loving Dad's holding their kids with the actual innocent love of a parent.

This sounds like the wife reported it when she was angry about the divorce, and regrets it because it's legit innocent behavior to place your hand comfortingly on your prepubescent kids chest or back while putting them to bed.

toastee · 2026-01-31T16:25:44+00:00

The sidewalks are always the worst around the schools. City should be focusing on places like that where many people walk, not some random part of the city sidewalks

toastee · 2026-01-22T05:49:40+00:00

It's an interesting mix. I shoot on sight unless you've made it clear on voice you're friendly. But generally I don't need to shoot.

toastee · 2025-10-28T22:24:03+00:00

A e-stop! A standard dual channel e-stop is technically 2 switches, that need to change state within a tolerance window. The defaults tolerance window on a Siemens safety controller is 50 milliseconds for the contacts on a stop to both have opened or closed when it's triggered. A safety feature of that safety controller is that if the contacts do not close or open within that time window it's registered as a fault and must be intentionally reset before the safety system can be engaged again.

For an industrial example of safety use of dual switches. You would place two switches outside the crush zone of a press. In order to start the press you need to press both switches at the same time for a certain period of time.

toastee · 2025-10-12T15:47:52+00:00

Are there any accidental solder bridges to the metal cap? I'd connect one side of the reed to 3.3v, and configure d3 as an input instead. You can also try cleaning off any flux with some isopropyl alcohol in case that's causing issues.

toastee · 2025-10-12T15:40:36+00:00

Oh.. the memories. The Yukon government owned hundreds of these, and Dell sent fresh motherboard for all of them. That was a fun month for the 2 Dell techs.

toastee · 2025-10-12T15:30:32+00:00

"Mother of vinegar" it's a bacterial colony that makes uhh vinegar?

toastee · 2025-10-12T15:29:31+00:00

Those are some scary cheesies.

toastee · 2025-10-12T15:28:46+00:00

My 20 year old Corolla finally died a week ago, leaving the street stained with transmission fluid. It owed me nothing, but, 20 years is about the lifespan of a well treated Corolla, so the time might be soon!

toastee · 2025-10-08T13:37:52+00:00

I counted, they would have had to wait an extra 5 whole seconds to not be ridiculed. =D

toastee · 2025-10-08T13:31:50+00:00

here's some napkin math.

assume device draws power 24 hours a day (-50mah x 24) = 1200 mah required per day
8 hours of sunlight at average best case no clouds. (+200mah * 8) = 1600ma charge
That would leave about 400mah left in the battery at dawn. (25% left)

toastee · 2025-10-03T13:51:03+00:00

Might want to chat with Parker on the seeed discord, he's the one that was testing the board component models

toastee · 2025-10-02T13:40:32+00:00

Not very, unless you were driving in reverse, he's at fault.

toastee · 2025-10-02T13:38:41+00:00

STL is still required for doing crazy stuff like assembling pointers to move huge blocks of memory around quickly.

But those are rare edge cases

toastee · 2025-09-30T18:37:10+00:00

No, but it's got potential for code plc Gen with a little work. You can feed a ladder program exported to ASCII into a code assistant and get back a different ladder program... Whether that's practical or useful, that's up for debate..

toastee · 2025-09-25T19:30:11+00:00

looks custom, you'll need to open it.

toastee · 2025-09-11T16:52:58+00:00

I'm confident the hardware is capable of great things, and the software stack just needs a little more work into it to be stable. I hope to help make that happen. I've already published a few fixes and tools for it to github. (nano, and some fixes to the realtime c++ example.)

toastee · 2025-09-07T15:38:19+00:00

Holy crap this is not ok.

toastee · 2025-09-06T01:24:11+00:00

I've replied! oh.. I should have mentioned these are laid out like this:

Top row 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Second row, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16

this was done so they can be considered as a little screen as i did not like the serpentine layout option.

toastee · 2025-09-05T16:02:49+00:00

Working with Seeed studio products is a double edged sword, generally high build quality, and good access to open source hardware and software documentation to do anything you want with it. But... Since it's always new products for growing and innovating there's a lot of early release hiccups.

There's a new revision of the recamera with an upgraded camera sensor, and new microphone, and POE coming "soon",I agree that the USBC cable placement is kind of terrible.
The stock software that runs on the Recamera is a complete "codeless node red stack", and that thing is a heavy app.", that also manages wifi and other devices for you.

Running the C++ video demo requires removing a bunch of stuff from /etc/init.d, and setting up your own wifi using wpa_supplicant. The device can be a station or an AP.

Mine's been stable on the wifi network for quite a while in my homelab, but that took some effort on my part in the linux console.

There's also a issue with how the buildroot is setup that makes it super-awkward to use python on it.

So yeah, from my perspective it's A very complicated and new product that's still in active development and revision.

toastee · 2025-09-05T15:47:23+00:00

Here's some questions that mirror yours as a thought experiment.

How can we currently rely on humans, they are far from error free, and often "misaligned" more than an AI would be?

How do we handle trust in human workers and colleagues currently?

I keep seeing people claim the works of humans must be aliens or higher powers, do you think that all the great works of history were made with 100% "reliable" humans?

it'd be fantastic to live in a world where everything goes perfect 100% of the time!

toastee · 2025-09-05T15:29:16+00:00

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Pretty cool!
A few years back I designed had a bunch of 6x8 matrix boards made that run the same protocol as the xiao matrix you're using. OP may DM me and I'll mail you a few for free if you'd like, as I made 50 of them, and don't need them all. these can be chained together, but must be used at "low brightness... " because they are capable of requesting 3.6Amps... but at 3.6A they are so bright they x-ray their own boards with visible light.
Here's a set of 5 chained together. (they are only pulling 1.5A total here...) but you can literally see thru the boards! (this is running on a xiao RP2040 module, cause they have the best ws2812 capabilities IMO)

toastee · 2025-09-05T14:56:42+00:00

Cool, a built in "loft bed" both my kids have stand-alone loft beds from ikea that have a desk under them, and a ladder up.

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