DontNoodles

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] How to build from ground up solar led/optic fiber lightning? [Hardware][Electronics][Coding]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That Mason Jar light looks like a good project to dip your toes into. You can always tinker and improve/modify, for example by adding the microcontroller into the mix. In the initial stages you can use jumper wires and breadboards which are great for learning. When you know you have it right, you can go for soldering the circuit. Trying to solder everything in the beginning can be a little frustrating if you want to change things and experiment. That’s not to say you can’t do it that way though. If you think you’ll have more fun learning to solder, then go for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] How to build from ground up solar led/optic fiber lightning? [Hardware][Electronics][Coding]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll respond since no one has commented yet. Maybe it’ll trigger more responses. I’ve seen these lamps and they are super cool to look at.

  I’m not sure where one could find these optic fiber strands but if the lights on your previously working lamps have failed, you can look at replacing the existing circuit with a microcontroller based one. Look for nodemcu (ESP8266) or ESP32 ones. They are super cheap and super easy to program (connect to computer over USB) and can run RGB LEDs to create colors of your choice. You can also find GitHub repositories for code you can directly use to let you control the light and color over WiFi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really sad VR went the way it did over the past decade. I was blown away with the simplicity and affordability of it when Google Cardboard launched. The standalone VR devices of today could have been just our current phones put inside head mounted brackets: easily available for most of us for cheap.

  Besides gaming, VR has loads of cool educational uses. I find myself repeatedly going back to Google Earth VR on my Vive just to explore (both in 3D and street view mode) random places that I might never visit in real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for USB-C/ Thunderbolt 3 meter cable recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You may also look into Link cables that are sold for VR headsets like Quest/Oculus. I had one at office for a VR project and while I did not use it for charging phones specifically, the build quality is great and takes physical abuses quite well, besides being not all that expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m looking for is a way to take backup of Docker containers so I can restore them in case things go wrong. Doing so with VMs is so easy. If nothing works, I’ll make an image of my OS disk. Unless some benevolent self hoster tells me a simple way, which was my hope when posting here :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Homelab goals for 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last year I wanted to set up a budget media PC and got enamored by this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDmHljsinY

  I got a 600 G3 with the 4560 processor, installed Debian onto it and hooked it to my 4k TV mainly to run immich and stremio.

  Immich runs just fine, though I have gotten too fast behind its upgrades and having less knowledge about Docker, I’m afraid to update immich. Need to figure that out.

  But what disappointed me was that my good quality videos (even the downloaded ones) are choppy to run (unlike the fluid expectations from the video above) and I don’t really know what I should look into to make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m surprised at the irony. Maybe an ‘‽’ would have been better than the ‘?’ I put at the end of my comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t their prime minister recently use a VPN to congratulate Trump on X, which is blocked from access by the same govt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mechanical engineering uni project⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure if this will pique your interest but I find kinetic sand tables really fascinating. Sisyphus came up with it first and there have been a number of open source implementations in due course. One way is to implement it using a scara arm mechanism but they have the problem of load weight in the case of long arms.

  I came across this design that rethinks the design using an elegant rack and pinion arm but still needs a belt that may go out of calibration over time. This looks to be improved further using [two, concentric rings] (frew.io/work/sisyphish) but this design is not available to explore/copy.

  I have no idea about 3D designing, but I would love to create a table one day: something that will not need constant adjustment. If you get around to taking this up, I would love to see what design improvements you can come up with.