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sourcerer @ SmugMug, photo geek, dad, licensed rocket scientist (L2 w/ NAR and Tripoli).

This is MY stream of consciousness. I don’t speak for my employer, club, or hobby.

Fiscally conservative, socially liberal; he/him

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foone , an Random Englisch
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Fun fact: it turns out it doesn't matter if you have a 2.4 gigapixel camera if you LEAVE THE LENSCAP ON

cabbey ,
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@foone it’s like that scene near the end of contact. “What’s impressive is not that the image is all black, it’s that it is 2.4 gigapixels of all black.”

foone , an Random Englisch
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if redbox is going bankrupt, hopefully I can finally get my hands on one of their kiosks.

I want to repurpose it to dispense floppy disks

cabbey ,
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@foone we used to have a vending machine on my college campus with floppies, both sizes, with 3 1/2 formatted either dos or mac and printout claim cards. I’m sure these days it sells usb memory sticks and charging cables.

cabbey ,
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@foone it was just a beat up old snack vending machine, nothing fancy.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Copying a megabyte of files onto an eeprom takes a while. Maybe next time I should bring a USB flash drive that isn't a joke

cabbey ,
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@foone I may have a couple of that same unit. 320kb total. Iirc it had 5 64kb flash chips on it and pads for 8 total on the pcb. Super cheap branded trade show swag just big enough for a pdf brochure or a flash app. I was surprised they were actually writeable, rather than requiring off board prom flashers.

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Does anyone know if the US has recently changed the law involving pseudoephedrine or have pharmacies just shrinkflationed their packages to the point where it's no longer possible to actually get enough meds per month to last a full month?

cabbey ,
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@foone funnily enough, just this weekend I was pondering if I wanted to make a website to track which states had the crazier laws around that. Eventually decided I didn’t want to run afoul of the DEA from those crazy Nancy Reagan “Just Say No” era rules.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

cabbey ,
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@foone should be easy: two mirrors, one for the front, one for the back, the edge is directly exposed to the camera. Both sides are then the same distance away. With enough light and a good lens you should be able to get enough depth of field to cover the length to both sides and the edge. Worst case the edge is slightly out of focus. It’s probably the least relevant anyway.

TechConnectify , an Random Englisch
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OK, this place. I've been pretty heady lately and not very technology-y.

So to make up for it, you can have this picture. As a treat.

cabbey ,
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@TechConnectify was this from simmerstat explorations and testing?

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