I remember seeing him (or someone claiming to be him) here on lemmy after the big migration from the-place-we-don’t-talk-about. Someone was not impressed by him and told that to his face, politely. Never noticed him around since.
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MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Man, I fucking love watching this guy. He’ll talk about the most niche things and I love learning about it. He inspired a presentation I gave on how rice cookers work
DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He was on Mastodon for a bit but I think he didn’t like the culture
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This morning, I told my brother I was watching YouTube. He said “what are you watching and, if it’s not Technology Connections, why not?”
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lmao. I have a brother who’s a lot like me and loves to tinker (not too young that this is irresponsible though), so when i need to throw something on to keep him occupied while i work, i know Technology Connections is a safe bet.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s awesome. With what does he tinker? Some sort of screenshot technology?
I’m the youngest in my family, so I’ve never really had the chance to guide someone’s growth until relatively recently. I take a great amount of pride in directing my kid toward things that will expand their creativity and curiosity. Hopefully you enjoy doing the same for your younger brother!
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I try to encourage him since all my tinkering was self taught. I know I’d appreciate having a guide or even just a friend to talk to about those ideas. And he definitely comes up with some ideas that help my own tinkering.
Right now he’s really into engineering and has this box that comes monthly that I paid for him that teaches him Engineering principles. I think it’s done by Mark Rober? Not really tinkering but He also likes making models for 3D printing and he’s been trying to get into Programming, unfortunately I think that curiosity keeps distracting him though.
einkorn@feddit.org 2 months ago
And how do they work?
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They do the thing until the thingymajogger flips, obvs.
WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Funny you should ask youtu.be/RSTNhvDGbYI
Yaztromo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Short answer — the internal “switch” is held in the on position by a magnet. Magnets become much less effective when they get hot, and while there is still water in the cooker the maximum temperature will be 100C. Once all the water boils off the temperature quickly rises — but the magnets stop being able to attract the switch when they hit around 102 - 103C or so and release the switch, turning the machine off.
So all has is a switch connected to a magnet next to the bottom of the pot. That’s it. Physics does the rest.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature I doubt they’re using magnets, especially considering how hot they have to get to lose their magnetism as you suggest.
Most thermostats in electronics such as kettles and cookers use a bi-metallic strip inside, where the two metal layers expand at different rates. The contacts in the switch are physically pulled apart by the strip bending when the desired temperature is reached. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallic_strip
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
responding to someone going “i researced and did an enhire presentation on this thing” with “well wikipedia says you’re wrong” is peak internet.