bytex64

foone , vor 3 Tagen an Random Englisch

Interesting reusability designed into this Sony remote.
The front metal bit looks like this.
but the plastic is just a bunch of generic holes which can have sliders placed/not placed at different locations.

The inside of the same remote. The buttons are laid out in a grid, and there's holes for every possible button placement, but unused placements don't have sliders in them

foone , vor 19 Tagen an Random Englisch

every time I need to design a PCB I'm like "this'll be quick and easy, I won't need to design any footprints or symbols at all!"

and then an hour later I'm staring into the Kicad footprint editor and crying

foone , vor 23 Tagen an Random Englisch

I wonder how well your average computer motherboard would handle being in a pressurized air environment.
Like your sea level pressure is like 14 PSI, and inside a car tire is like 30 PSI.
I wonder if any components would fail at the latter pressure?

foone , vor 26 Tagen an Random Englisch

I love mid-80s Sony consumer AV tech design language.

A grey metallic Sony remote. Close up in on the buttons, which to 2-13, muting, sleep, power, picture +/-, volume +/-, channel +/-
A grey metallic Sony remote. It's flipped facing the camera at an angle, so you can see the two tone metallic grey/dark grey plastic case, and the dark red (almost black) IR window

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Bad idea for a scifi story:
In 1860, a paranormal investigator discovers that there's a sun-worshiping cult that sacrifices a virgin to The Sun every year. It turns out last year, they messed up the ritual, and the victim escaped at the last moment.

Cue the Carrington event. A massive geomagnetic storm that caused auroras as far south as Colombia.

The investigator is then paid to infiltrate the cult and disrupt their ritual every time, as it saves Western Union a lot on electrical costs.

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I was trying to talk about omegaverse on Tumblr and my phone's autocorrect coined the word "usb gender" which I think is something we should do more with.

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

this electrical device is a special sort of terrible: They labeled the polarity of the DC power jack, but not the voltage (or current, for that matter)

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I wonder if anyone has proposed a PNG/EXIF extension to let you embed an image description in an image file. It'd live with the image so as you upload it to different sites, the description stays with it

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Wasn't there some browser that let you have bottom-tabs instead of the top-tabs?