Sickma

5701 pts ยท November 11, 2012


sarcastic nihilistic antisocial nerd, bit of a kook, rarely shares things or talks, 90s kid, D&D, and pc gamer 10+ years of robotic experience and 3D printing, MS in electrical engineering in everything from ASICs, General analog and digital design, and RF and microwave tech. Fire safety and forensic engineer. novice chippy and woodworking. if this is seen and goes to FP, the I guess I'll say hi and share some of my past work/current hobby project. expect to be whelmed. I don't mind helping with any EE stuff, but of I don't reply its because of my social anxiety extends to ppl online, not because I'm being a arse. you'll know when I am being one.

I don't think much to any of that was "cooked". At most just boiled or thawed.
I see canned sardines, imitation Louis Kemp crab, canned or frozen mussels/clams. Frozen bargain brand prepeeled shrimp, ???, and possibility pickled quail eggs.

Would i still eat this? Yes. would i have criticized a few things? Yes, especially if I was sold something of a fresher quality.
If this is a special meal made given a negative budget, I'd be happily shitting myself all the way to the emergency vet clinic.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can't wait for the "eye"ds of March comic.

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I remember seeing "milk will give you autism".
The "logical" jumps being made were drinking milk from cows vaccinated from common diseases and sickness due to the extremely tight quarters the live in, the vaccine would transfer thru the milk to you or whomever would drink the milk and cause autism...

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Another thing to consider is the efficiency difference between a vehicle's engine and a centralized power plant. As you throw in more and more renewable energy resources, the electrical power grids efficiency gets better per unit of fossil fuels burned compared between the 2 systems. Hence the above map.

Plus the emission capturing capabilities a fossil fuel plant has over a average car keeps the pollutants more centralized and contained.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I'm guessing this might be an event/staff account that takes photos of or from teams to be used in media later and doesn't know that hidden photos will still work when linked to and it dosen't need to be set to public to be viewed.

@op if you don't want random ppl like me commenting on photos or run into issues with fake internet points being too negative to post more pictures, go ahead and change all posts to hidden. You can still share the link later ppl can still see it.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

FIRST Robotics highschool competition robots.
Tldr educational battles bots.
Each year FIRST gives a new game and high-schooler build a new robot in 3 or so months to compete with.

It seems they are using imgur to host team's robot pics and don't realize imgur has a "interesting" community.
I ain't gonna downvote because I was a founding member of one of the teams (2393) and still support FIRST. But without much more context it's a "huh, neat" and move on.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My guess is it's a step in farming natural rubber/ latex.
But I haven't looked up anything to support that past what I've seen in other posts or online research.

2 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 0

It helps protect against accidental shorts and prevents the copper from oxidizing over time. So it is important to have. Thing may not last as long without it.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Clear acrylic nail polish. Used it all the time for re-work and electrical isolation

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I wouldn't worry about it being harmful. Just might cause discomfort. Still insulate your return paths to GND.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

EL uses high AC voltage and your body has a lower impedance than the capacitive EL circuit. touch the GNDed usb housing = getting shocked2/2

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Coat the usb housing w/ acrylic nail polish or other electrical conformal coating products. The housing is connected to its common GND. 1/?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've had the same problem. Fixed it by deleting the app and reinstalling it.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'd say old extrusion nozzles from the 3d printer they used to make the tops.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I justs took mine out of the garage and burned it today. caused a ~7 foot fire ball in my pit for about 15 sec. Would not suggest doing it.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world" - Genius of the Crowd by Charles Bukowski 2/2

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art...1/2

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My work had a come to work in costume day on Halloween. I went as the invisible man and stayed home.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I would also put a high-value resistor between output and ground in case it's just a floating value

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you have access to an O-Scope I'd measure the output with that to se if you have any waveform. if not try Vac mode on your dmm.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd start there, yes. use a 10k ohm resistor to do it incase it's driven high by vcc. Guessing you have a multimeter so test between in &gnd

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Input is the trigger signal, output is the light/speaker. I'm guessing the 8pin IC is a 555 timer, so what controls the flashing/sound pitch

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Input signal is what triggers the alarm, outputs is what controls the light/speaker.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Output on and off. Probably a speaker or light. Hence the alarm. Bought all I could say based off of pics.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Morbid curiosity got the better of me, I was able to make out one pn on the gray chip. Looks like it's input is 12v and it oscillates an 1/?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Google the part numbers on the IC chips to get a bit more info. Should pull up a data sheet with on digikey w/ info. Prob a buck converter

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0