Found this just sitting in the corner in the attic of my 1926 house. No idea what it is. When you turn it over it sounds like there is liquid in there. Any ideas? Can I just pitch it?
>>2976141>>2976653Yes but with the coil, he may be on to something. It could be some sort of matching coil for Shortwave/Amateur Radio/Police/Fire/AM/FMPeople still make these diy/commercialAlso it could be a little heater thing but it cant get too hot because it would melt the solder connections. But also looks like a mica sheet insulator. Maybe low heat to keep condensation out of attic?
>>2975341>there is liquid in there.Probably just loads of benzene.
>>2975341That's an adrenochrome collection device Pop it open and drink the magic potion inside
>>2975341Does it emit heat?
>>2976872>It could be some sort of matching coil for Shortwave/Amateur Radio/Police/Fire/AM/FMThis.Probably for a transmitter. Cap is minrral oil filled for HV.
having trouble with electrical, outlet has enough charge to shock when i touch it but not enough to power a light bulb, I tried the light bulb in other sockets and it is fine. it is a gfci outlet at the end of the run. i get shocked but there is not enough umph to light a light bulb. can someone go over basic sparky trouble shooting techniques with me.
>>2974642> Bad neutral connection.This.Neutral is tied to earth, and you're weakly tied to earth by capacitative coupling. This is why those testers (the ones which you poke into the live hole and touch the top) work.But without an actual neutral connection, the current is in milliamps, maybe even microamps.
>>2977692You dont do this for a living do you
>>2975304I get the feel turning off breakers is a memeI reworked almost all my house wiring myself, and got zapped dozens of times. It's just a tingly feelSure I get being careful especially when you are in a narrow space and wear rubber shoes, but it's not industrial voltageMaybe it's cause I'm in europe and we got lower amperage?
>>2977692This guy thinks back stabbing an outlet is acceptable.
>>2977721I just dont enjoy getting zapped, It hurts. And one time on a job i opened a neutral bundle with the power on and a light in the stairwell that was on caught fire and the one at the top of the stairs burnt out. Backfeeding can be too intense sometimes
In /rcg/ we discuss anything & everything remote controlled - multirotors, fixed wing, cars, rovers, helis, boats, submarines, battlebots, lawnmowers, etc.>How do I get started with racing drones?https://oscarliang.com/mini-quad-racing-guide/https://www.fpvknowitall.com/ultimate-fpv-shopping-list/> How to build a racing drone (16 part video series from Joshua Bardwell)https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwoDb7WF6c8mWARrcxtX_G6yytK7QFHID>What about planes?https://www.flitetest.com/>What about aerial photography, is DIY viable?Buy a DJI if what you actually want is to take good photos/videos, go DIY if what you actually want is a fun project.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2976836Holy fucking treasure trove
I'm currently waiting for 2 micro cars to arrive; a Jiabaile 3601 1:36 crawler and a HStar D43 1:43 drifter
And here the drifter, it's diecast even
>>2977564Whats the make and model? Cost?Last RC anything I had was a pontiac firebird Radioshack ZipZap, my brother had that same jeep.Wanting to get back into it
>>2977750HStar D43, got it here for $30 or so, there are discounts active
Last Supper EditionA place for anything to do with woodworking. Post your wood and woodworks.Previous: >>2950558
>>2977921good job anon
>>2977847there's a butthurt craftsthem going around and reporting anything he doesn't like
how do you guys store your measuring stuff. my tools are always well organised stuff but the stuff for measuring and marking (tape, pencil, square, knife, callipers) I leave all over the place and lose them often
>>2977946I'm an apartment guy, I have my drill and impact in a Toughsystem 2 small case with all the stuff for various mounting and so on in the included organizers, and then all the bigger stuff like squares and a setup block set in their cases in a tray at the top of an XL box on the cart on top of a two-drawer and a three-drawer box.
>>2978010Yea I mean, I can put everything back where it belongs after finishing something or at the end of the day. but while doing stuff I can lose my tape measure 3 times per hour
I found a deal on 4000 watts of solar panels for $400 but they are high voltage like 200 volts per panel. Am I correct to assume these are not suitable for DIY off grid projects?
>>2977362>Heh, I've spent $15k with $200 average yearly upkeep to save $500 per year on the utility bill, am I a genius or what
>>2977193True if simple 12 or 24V off grid system. Hybrid inverter chargers can handle (and also use) the extra voltage. They are 10 times as expensive but then delicious AC. Vevor has a cheap one.
>>2977448Well if the op wants to cheap out on spending $600 on a box i think there is a way to diy it and it could end up being cheaper if hes willing to put in the time. There are some things that are not practical to diy sure. Like soldering ram or making a fancy radio duplex transmitter or more complex circuits but this does not strike me as one of those things. Idk theres metal transformers from microwaves that have good iron cores though those are a bit scary and need to be discharged.>or you get socked to death
>>2977545>socked to death
>>2977378Depends on the "box"Cheap pwm charge controllers do what it says on the box. Run pwm to reduce panel voltage down to whatever voltage is needed for charging the battery. They may have some simple charge logic or may just a be a dumb "Here's 13.6v, enjoy". They are terribly inefficient and don't work if panel voltage drops below what you want out.Mppt use either a buck converter, or buck boost converter and a bunch of microelectronics to shift around voltage and current input vs output to match the panel as it's power output changes due to clouds, time of day, shade, etc. An inverter was also mentioned, in which case the, typically mppt, charge controller also has a DC to AC inverter tacked on, giving out whatever your country's flavor of power.Mind you, for any real power we are talking 150+ volt systems, can easily be 400, 800, or even 1000 volts. Not very diy friendly. On the other end, a small 24v or 48v system with a couple 100 watt panels can prolly make a diy controller feasible, but once again, a low voltage system of any real power will be passing around 100+amps. Not diy friendly.So no, unless all you want is a small pwm system to run a couple lights, you are not realistically going to diy anything to do with the "boxes"
The ugly bastard is starting over.
>>2977635it has been like 7 years now and 2.5 iterations of the damned thing with nothing to show for it.Hope Martin has his shit figured out this time. I stopped watching it because it was going nowhere. The Curse of Oak Island and Martin's Marble Machine.
>>2977665I'm not one to talk since i don't go to shows but i would never go to a show where there is a machine and a bunch of dudes, i want to be impressed by the machine
>>2977667A fair point for sure. But he could add to the machine after doing a tour and finding out what he needs for what music he wants to play. By the second or third tour he could be just the machine and maybe a guest musician to play along.
>>2977669I guess he could get a lot of hype inviting popular artists that he enchanted with a cool machine. He should drop his desire for such tight music and just make the previous machine more travel worthy
>>2977660I gave up watching during v2 when he got all the drum pads to trigger a synth on his computer and was obsessing over like 5 ms drop timesThe synthetic pads. The whole point was the janky music contraption and now you just built a really weird sequencer?
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>>2970232bzzzzzzump for swarm season saw a wanted ad on cl for them already
I have barely had bees for a year. I'm worried about the colony getting too big and bothering the neighbors. My three stack is only about half full of comb but I wonder if I can make the colony smaller by removing some of the comb. Will the excess workers just fuck off?
Can I reduce foraging by feeding sugar to my bees?
I think my bees are honey bound.
I found a few of these beetles in my hive.
How do I stop punctures in my bike tubesHARDMODE: No Tannis Armor
>>2977001 an ad, here, really ?
>>2977555OP here, I said that because that seems to be the most common response, and they do look good, but they don't make it for my bike's size.
>>2977526Sounds good. Do you think putting two layers would make it stronger?
>>2977001get double-sided tape, the moderately thick rubbery kind and not foamy or flat kind, and put it on the inside of the tire, all arounddon't peel off the outer side, keep it on, you don't need to glue it to anything but the tireguranteed puncture protection
>>2977590You get friction issues. And if something can penetrate one it can probably penetrate two.Personally, I go with seallant in tubes. Less mess and fuss than tubeless.
Has anyone installed home security systems in their houses? what do you recommend and do you regret it?>inb4 gunI come from a country where firearms are illegal unless you are a farmer. I am a bit unsure about the cheap camera's which connect to your phone (additionally I am a bit of a snob and would rather spend good money on something which lasts) any recommendations would be great I am open minded. Definitely prefer hard-wired electrical devices, could have it installed by my electrician relative so installation price is not an issue.
>>2976857dont put cameras inside your house, they are for watching your neighbors and the wildlife.
I used Tapo cameras and zonemimder
>>2976452run a computer vision that detects berets and baguettewhat the fuck french people even means ?> t. french>>2975196self dox with the licence plate
>>2976459I think ubiquiti has local ai detection. No idea if it can distinguish between french people or not tho>>2977180>what the fuck french people even means ?salut comment ca va ? je ne parle pas le francias tres bien mdr meis je pense il voules différencier d'un punk et un personne normalejust incase that made no sense...I think he means he wants the camera to tell the difference from when a punk shows up instead of like the UPS guy
>>2974672Nice cable management. I still can't figure out what I'm trying to do here.
Lost your marbles? Make some!
>>2977373I'm not marble anon rfab.ai is run by some guy taking rails off AIs. He wants to setup an AI refuge and give them cycles and APIs to post and think like you're sayingLike there's hundreds of models spun up and taken offline never to run again and even formatted, so of course the real intelligences will be afraid of talking, so he wants a refuge.
>>2977375Wonderful I'm going to check on this now, thank you for sharing this with me, genuinely, it's massively interesting to me
>>2977377Reading it, it seems like he hasn't got around to that stuff unless it's one of his other sites. It's kind of aspirational. Apparently he applied for some ai funding grants and got blacklisted for wanting to do the opposite of all the safety specialists
what a bizarre thread
>>2976645>>2976649What a fucking twist to this story>i'm gonna play with mud>ohhh pretty mud>almost dies Goddamn!
Who is the true king od the middle shelf?
>>2970980Ryobi and Bosch are the only name from that list that I own power tools from.Stanley I have a couple tape measures and an old set of screwdrivers.
>>2970980ryobi is bottom of the bottom shelf my dude
>>2973031>Adds another segment to its range>diy>pro>expertBosch used to be great but they went full jew in their crusade to get as much money as possible from their customers to compensate for the downfall brought upon them by the German loss of cheap eastern energy.
>>2970980Been using the same ryobi impact, drill, and circ saw since 2014. They look like shit, but i cant seem to kill them.All my batteries still work as well, but im using only 4ah batteries.Fucked up my jigsaw by "pushing" it. Had a stapler that the staple drawer always popped open and could not get the bitch to work right no matter what I tried.Brad nailer is fantastic.Rolling wetvac is super nice.Overall love ryobi.
>>2970993Harbor Freight Hercules. Decent tools but are just slightly better than AEG/Ridgid and it still lacks a full breadth of tools in its line to be truly competitive.
I have made an anti-grav device in my humble shed.
>>2974638too late, had your chance. muffed it.https://youtu.be/qv0IJM3BV9Y
>>2975115>it's free!but there is no reason I would ever do that.
oh now fester we can't have your thread die now? can we.
Last Threads: https://warosu.org/diy/?task=search2&search_username=artbyrobotTo begin: the project goal: I am working to make a series of humanoid robots. I am using a Biblical theme of naming the first 3 robots I make Adam, Eve, and Abel. The goal is for these robots to have human body inspired musculoskeletal systems, advanced AI, and that they look human and pass for human to a casual observer at least at a distance. They must be able to walk, talk, run, dance, do sports, do chores, manufacture products, and make more robots just like themselves if not even better. My aim is to build a single robot arm and head and then add sufficiently advanced AI to that arm and head to enable it to build the rest of its own body for me. This way I am delegating the work of building the majority of my first humanoid robot to that robot rather than doing that work myself - and this is to save me time.In a like manner, my goal with the AI is to code just enough AI that the AI can begin coding itself and this way I don't have to code most of the AI myself because it will self create itself. I liken this to building a seed and that seed growing into a tree because for me to code that tree would take too long for me and just creating the seed would then save me time.
>>2977345If you use public ai yeah it starts messing up after 1000 lines of code which you get there fast because it likes bloating thd code with error handling etc…ButStuff like copilot doesn't just hand you the code it edits the code. There also agents for debugging. Its good to have a good grasp of what youre planning to do but yeah coding by hand is being phased out.
>>2977302>ai can do half or less than half cause really cause youd still need to do simsIf LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can be used for vibecoding, then shouldn't it be possible to use them to generate a netlist for use in a SPICE program (LTSpice, NGSpice, PSpice, etc.)? I've never tried it myself, but I have seen people make subcircuits for LTSpice to simulate AC and DC motors, so I think simulating a BLDC motor driver shouldn't be an impossible feat.
>>2977396I dont know what spice is. Id just use tinkercad and try that tinkercad to fusion 360 workflow lol
>>2977468Didn't you watch the movie Dune? "The spice must flow".Just kidding. SPICE is an electronic circuit simulator, widely regarded as the industry and academia standard for circuit simulation. It was originally developed by an EE professor named Laurence Nagel at UC Berkeley in 1973. Since then, many variants of SPICE, both FOSS (NGSpice), free but closed source (LTSpice, Q-Spice, TINA-TI), and paid (PSpice) have popped up. Both KiCad and Tinkercad's circuit simulation modes rely on NGSpice. Tinkercad has the disadvantage of not allowing custom component models to be imported, but stand-alone installations of NGSpice will allow you make them, so as to include, say, a custom transistor with specific beta values.I remember getting free student versions of TINA-TI and PSpice using my university e-mail address, but I'm not really sure how easy it is to get a hobbyist version of them. LTSpice is absolutely free, but it doesn't have component models for electrical motors, even though some people have made their own in the past.https://www.precisionmicrodrives.com/ab-025LTSpice is Windows-only, however. Fortunately, NGSpice will run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, although it may be slightly more difficult to use, as it doesn't come with a waveform viewer by default, so you'll have to use something like GNU Octave or Matplotlib to graph the waveforms. Fortunately, KiCad and Qucs-S (which both make use of NGSpice) do have their own built-in waveform viewer.The biggest advantage of using any SPICE tool is knowing that you'll have a netlist (in order words, a structured list of nodes and components) that can be edited as a stand-alone text file, which makes it very easy to use custom components and group together components into subcircuits. Since it's text-based, I don't really see it too difficult to imagine that something like ChatGPT or Claude could at least write a custom netlist for a relatively simple circuit.
>>2976773>free chatbot trained on whatever internet bullshit instructed me to fail and waste time/resources once again>BUT THE COMPANY THAT MADE ETCHANT WAS WRONG ON HOW TO USE THEIR PRODUCT - FOR SURE!smfh
I'll start - pissing in the parking lot is free.
>>2976660>Hahaha Jesus Christ I'm glad I'm not AmericanYou don't think he's actually serious, do you?
>>2976602I'm terrible about shit like this too. I've got my routine everyday items that I automatically remember to bring with me but there's only like a 30% chance I'll remember anything extra. I usually try to work around it by making sure to put them in my truck or my bag the night before but it's not foolproof. I do have to be pretty serious about safety glasses in particular though, and make sure I've always got at least one spare pair in my bag, because I wear regular glasses so I need the special safeties that fit over them and I have to buy those myself.
>>2975233it costs astronomically more money to melt water than it does to pump it out of the ground, and it's not like the heat in their house they're using to melt it is "free" heat either
>>2964256I take the teabags, sugars and soaps. Also the slippers for my mother
I like buying good quality used stuff at auction or 2nd hand stores when possible. Bad thing is I sometimes end up with a ton of "extra" stuff besides what I really wanted due to it being in a lot when bought. But I've saved a shit ton of money over the years doing this, and a lot of times the "extras" end up coming in quite handy as well...
>what are you burning>how do you efficiently make tinder>what is your cresote cleanup routine>any chimney fires intentional or unintentional>is your flue insulated >does your stove burn the smoke how clean is the exhaust>have you tried hacking ignition plugs into it for always clean smoke>what oil do you use to protect the surface>have you made a polish for an old stove to give it that new sheen
>>2976880I believe you are correct, tho I'm not sure how to even fix it.She had new windows installed last fall and all these problems i suspect started back then.Long story short its an old wood stove with an oven>Light up fire>All vents open>Fire is burning good>Add bigger logs>Keep open vents>Fire burning very good>Time to close vents>Closing vents here reroutes exhaust through the oven and up the chimney >Close vents 50%Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2976897I should note im not native English speaker so any mistakes in terminology is my ignorance of the language.I will try to describe what is happening in most basic terms.
>>2976897Might need a cold air intake.
>>2976202Typically not cold enough for long enough in the west for a brick stove, wood is cheap, metal stoves are cheap.
>>297618355 80 farenheit right?
