Maybe I'm just daft, but why does an RC truck need the same sort of stuff? They're using it so people don't have to get close to IEDs and stuff, right? Yes, I realize that unexpected explosions have more potential for damage than expected ones, but this thing is for detecting and blowing up (I'm assuming that's what the charge is for) ordnance so people don't have to get close to it. And a bunch of these things are a heck of a lot cheaper than one robot.
Radio Shack has noticed this too, and stores with a good parts selection are getting harder to find.
You can say that again. Though I haven't really noticed the store selection deteriorating that much, they used to have a big fat 'Commercial Catalog' with loads of parts. Still not as good a selection as DigiKey or Mouser, but similar prices, and I could go into the store, give the guy at the counter the numbers, and they'd ship it to your house within a week. No minimum order, either, and shipping was never more than a couple bucks. Though it beats my why the called it the 'Commercial' catalog, they had no problem with a twelve year old kid walking in with one.:^)
Now, I go into Rip-of...er, Radio Shack and ask if they have something like *heat shrink tubing*, and people give me blank looks.
You unseat the chip, weave a bent paperclip around the pins, and reseat the chip. providing a loop for a key ring without excessive damage or hassle.
I did something like that, but for a zipper pull on my winter coat - got tired of fumbling for the little string with my heavy gloves on. I cut out the chip from a dead NIC (hacksaws work great on circuit boards) soldered a piece of straigtened out paper clip (a big one) in under the legs on one side, looped it through the zipper, and then soldered the other side in. Kind of a pain, but it hasn't come out yet, and I've been yanking on it a couple years at least.
On a similar note, I also make keychain tags out of ciruit boards from dead hard drives and stuff. I pick a chip, usually, cut around it leaving enough space to drill a hole in one corner, and hang it from my keyring with a 2-2.5" piece of pull-chain. Whatever you call it. The stuff one sees on lamps with a pull switch. Looks like small metal beads.
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And seriously, that has got to be the coolest washer I've seen. Forget all the fancy-smancy new machines with touchscreen LCDs, it's way cooler to do it yourself.:^)
...but then again, I'm more of a surface-transportation noise-guy than an aero/astro noise guy
My sentiments precisely.:^) Actually I'm more of a transportation-through-a-gaseous-medium noise-guy (I'm a musician/audio techie), but that's beside the point.
Just my 2c on special pieces. I'm not a model builder in a big way, I've mostly done vehicles and equipment and stuff (trucks, cars etc.) and usually normal lego scale. Car windows and wheels aside, details like grills and headlights go a long way towards the mental perception of something being what you want it to be.:^)
I've actually made a couple custom parts, one of them made it possible to build a flatbed tow-truck (the ones that tilt and slide back to pick up a car). The tilt part is pretty easy but to get the slide I had to use a 4x1 plate with the middle two bumps cut off so it could slide long the underside of another plate without taking up way too much space to implement and looking horribly unporportional. If anyone wants to know more about it contact me and I'll find stuff to put on my website.
But of course, my models are clearly very inferior to the huge ones that take multi-Ks of pieces since I only go for looking realistic, functionality and do it to the scale of a normal LEGO guy. Don't get me wrong, I've got a lot of respect for the people who can make stuff like Han Solo, but I like the challenge of doing as much as I possibly can, making it believable, and make it work (decently realistically) with the best pieces possible. I built a decent Mack dump truck yesterday, cab offset and all. I guess I value ingenuity and elegance more than what the heck you use for pieces. As long as it looks like I want it to I don't care. But then again, if your pieces are so special they aren't useful most of the time, um, verstility is good for a piece's use, too, I guess.
I want to annoy my friends (yeah... ok... friend) by making a boot floppy for my Mac Classic that just shows a linux penguin (i put linux on everything i can), or maybe a Mac Logo, for a tribute. How would one go about doing that?
Dunno, but you could try putting an actual Linux install on it.:^) Debian has an m68k port that might work, I not sure if there are others. Only reason I haven't run it is because my SE/30 is needed as an Ethernet/localtalk network bridge, but anyway, if you can find (or happen to have) a NIC for it it would make a cool terminal at the very least.:^)
Suicide Bombers. No, wait, then they wouldn't be suicide bombers. And that's not funny anyway.
Or, on a more constructive note, full sized radio controlled cars would be good for, say, a (ahem) demolition derby. Or the military, like ground based drones. (If they don't already have them.)
But other than that, I don't see a point, and naturally some danger, with these things, I would not want to see one driving down my street. I don't think I'd even want to drive one, even with cameras you don't have the same sensory information and feedback on what the vehicle is doing and how it's moving in relation to your control. But, if you do crash it, at least you're not inside.:^)
Also, the duct-tape reeks of a DIY (do-it-yourself) hack. I'm not sure what options you have here, but you simply gotta clean this up.
Plexiglass! You could probably make a decent looking bezel for this thing with a few bucks and some dremeling - and if you don't go for the "Transparent-see-my-innards" look, spraypaint the _inside_ of the plexi black or silver or something. (If appicable, make sure the paint is non conductive.) Hey, you could even go for the brushed plexiglass look!;^) (Those spongy-looking abrasive wheels you mount in a drill work really well for a cool brushed brushed/crosshatch pattern.)
14.4? Geez, what do you need all that bandwidth for? 9600 oughta be enough for anybody. Gosh, when I was a kid, we sent our telnet requests with the postman...oh wait, I'm still a kid. Never mind.
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Nah, probably sliced bread.
Does anyone else think it's funny that the fortune quote on the bottom of this page is "You humans are all alike"?
And I'm not sure I'd want to run Kaffiene on that box...
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But why is 0 for 02?
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You can say that again. Though I haven't really noticed the store selection deteriorating that much, they used to have a big fat 'Commercial Catalog' with loads of parts. Still not as good a selection as DigiKey or Mouser, but similar prices, and I could go into the store, give the guy at the counter the numbers, and they'd ship it to your house within a week. No minimum order, either, and shipping was never more than a couple bucks. Though it beats my why the called it the 'Commercial' catalog, they had no problem with a twelve year old kid walking in with one. :^)
Now, I go into Rip-of...er, Radio Shack and ask if they have something like *heat shrink tubing*, and people give me blank looks.
Somehow, the intimate relationship between 'geeks' and 'chic' in this statement does not compute.
Maybe the projects were chic after they were commercialized?
JtM
So, what if the bad luck was something like, um, a satellite falling through your roof?
JtM
Awe, shucks. Does this mean I have to upgrade now? I just got Myst today. Anyway, at least my PII 266 can still play Commander Keen all right...
I did something like that, but for a zipper pull on my winter coat - got tired of fumbling for the little string with my heavy gloves on. I cut out the chip from a dead NIC (hacksaws work great on circuit boards) soldered a piece of straigtened out paper clip (a big one) in under the legs on one side, looped it through the zipper, and then soldered the other side in. Kind of a pain, but it hasn't come out yet, and I've been yanking on it a couple years at least.
On a similar note, I also make keychain tags out of ciruit boards from dead hard drives and stuff. I pick a chip, usually, cut around it leaving enough space to drill a hole in one corner, and hang it from my keyring with a 2-2.5" piece of pull-chain. Whatever you call it. The stuff one sees on lamps with a pull switch. Looks like small metal beads.
And seriously, that has got to be the coolest washer I've seen. Forget all the fancy-smancy new machines with touchscreen LCDs, it's way cooler to do it yourself. :^)
My sentiments precisely. :^) Actually I'm more of a transportation-through-a-gaseous-medium noise-guy (I'm a musician/audio techie), but that's beside the point.
JtM
I've actually made a couple custom parts, one of them made it possible to build a flatbed tow-truck (the ones that tilt and slide back to pick up a car). The tilt part is pretty easy but to get the slide I had to use a 4x1 plate with the middle two bumps cut off so it could slide long the underside of another plate without taking up way too much space to implement and looking horribly unporportional. If anyone wants to know more about it contact me and I'll find stuff to put on my website.
But of course, my models are clearly very inferior to the huge ones that take multi-Ks of pieces since I only go for looking realistic, functionality and do it to the scale of a normal LEGO guy. Don't get me wrong, I've got a lot of respect for the people who can make stuff like Han Solo, but I like the challenge of doing as much as I possibly can, making it believable, and make it work (decently realistically) with the best pieces possible. I built a decent Mack dump truck yesterday, cab offset and all. I guess I value ingenuity and elegance more than what the heck you use for pieces. As long as it looks like I want it to I don't care. But then again, if your pieces are so special they aren't useful most of the time, um, verstility is good for a piece's use, too, I guess.
JTM
Dunno, but you could try putting an actual Linux install on it. :^) Debian has an m68k port that might work, I not sure if there are others. Only reason I haven't run it is because my SE/30 is needed as an Ethernet/localtalk network bridge, but anyway, if you can find (or happen to have) a NIC for it it would make a cool terminal at the very least. :^)
JTM
If they were Aibogenic, wouldn't that mean the origins just looked like robotic dogs?
Suicide Bombers. No, wait, then they wouldn't be suicide bombers. And that's not funny anyway.
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Or, on a more constructive note, full sized radio controlled cars would be good for, say, a (ahem) demolition derby. Or the military, like ground based drones. (If they don't already have them.)
But other than that, I don't see a point, and naturally some danger, with these things, I would not want to see one driving down my street. I don't think I'd even want to drive one, even with cameras you don't have the same sensory information and feedback on what the vehicle is doing and how it's moving in relation to your control. But, if you do crash it, at least you're not inside.
JtM
Plexiglass! You could probably make a decent looking bezel for this thing with a few bucks and some dremeling - and if you don't go for the "Transparent-see-my-innards" look, spraypaint the _inside_ of the plexi black or silver or something. (If appicable, make sure the paint is non conductive.) Hey, you could even go for the brushed plexiglass look! ;^) (Those spongy-looking abrasive wheels you mount in a drill work really well for a cool brushed brushed/crosshatch pattern.)
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14.4? Geez, what do you need all that bandwidth for? 9600 oughta be enough for anybody. Gosh, when I was a kid, we sent our telnet requests with the postman...oh wait, I'm still a kid. Never mind.