don’t worry about it

reaches for flamethrower and glyphosate

Had no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it’s a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.

I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!

Cycads? Disgusting.

As a Magnolia man I’m feeling left out.

EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. “Tell them I’m on the warpath and I’m coming after you”

PSA: Perfect dark (original n64) has a community-made PC port that’s beyond excellent.

https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

I hated the original because the low framerate gave me bad motion sickness. The PC port is like magic by comparison.

The ringing comp is interesting: it’s completely synthetic (sensorless). The chip models what it thinks the ringing should be based off some physical parameters (that can be configured over I2C), then drives the coil in a way that it hopes would counteract the ringing, but never actually knows if it has succeeded.

Similar to how you can do current sensing in motors

I do not think there are not enough variables here to make this work. Reading coil current won’t give you any information you don’t already know if you’re already controlling coil current. You need to be reading at least one more variable that is somehow related to coil position.

Turning off the coil drive and shorting the coil temporarily to measure current is unlikely to give you anything but the same current you were driving it with (minus some losses). Ie still not an extra variable.

you can send and receive with the same coil in a metal detector.

This introduces new variables! Reflected signal magnitudes (and distortions & phase delays) that depend on distance to a nearby metal object that you intentionally install near the coil (eg the metal casing).

Not sure how easy or reliable this would be to do in practice. I have my doubts but I could be wrong :)

Woah. I thought it was 3mm, not 3cm. This this is huge.

Maybe you could also use it for laser experiments, not just cameras? Variable laser focus or for tuning distances to match.

+/-1 least significant digit at a minimum.

“I’m sorry frog, but you might actually weigh 0”. Little buddy noooo

I suspect that you need to think of the 3 B->E voltages as inputs (OR’d with each other) and the C->lowestvoltageE path as the output. All of them are operating in linear mode too, I think one of them is a low-gain follower whilst others have a lot more gain. Maybe.

Nope, bottom right and top middle >:D

Oh my god I’ve forgotten what a base is. This transistor is doing my head in.

I don’t want my children influenced by this. “Dad why does your transistor only have 3 legs?”. And I had only just rid the house of dual-gate mosfets too!

I only know what wikipedia tells me about these things, I’ve never played with one. I also have no clue yet what it does in this circuit.

3 emitters and 2 collectors.

There are some youtube videos of people machining them (sadly my browser does not support smell). Looks like you treat it like any other solid material: hobb or mill the teeth. This is much more expensive than 3d printing.

You might be surprised by your 3d printed gears. If you keep the detail size large they work really well, but backlash is definitely an issue.

Welcome to security news theatre :(

I don’t think espressif would bother suing, these kind of misshapen claims get constantly made against popular projects all of the time. It’s just unusual to see so much coverage about this particular one.

Not so say that externally attackable vulnerabilities in an ESP32 don’t exist, they might. Bluetooth devices have an awful track record. But making them up doesn’t help the world.

I happily ran THUGPRO under wine, so I assume rethawed would be the same. Dunno.

Where am I even supposed to buy it if I wanted to, which I don’t really,

Looks like it’s abandonware. Yeah, publisher dropped the ball.

Bleepingcomputer’s title and article are very misleading, the presentation did NOT reveal a backdoor into an ESP32. It looks like Bleepingcomputer completely misunderstood what was presented (EDIT: and tarlogic isn’t helping with the first sentence on their site).

Instead the presentation was about using an ESP32 as a tool to attack other devices. Additionally they discovered some undocumented commands that you can send from the ESP32 processor to the ESP32 radio peripheral that let you take control of it and potentially send some extra forms of traffic that could be useful. They did NOT present anything about the ESP32 bluetooth radio being externally attackable.

Another perspective that might help: imagine you have a cheap bluetooth chipset that is open source and well documented. That would give you more than what the presentation just found. Would Bleepingcomputer then be reporting it’s a backdoor threatening millions of devices?

Might be worth checking out ReThawed.. You can choose the physics models, UI, characters, tricks and maps from all of the old THPS games.

I tried THUGPRO previously (another community mod in similar vein) and it was fun, especially the mods to the park editor (overlapping objects!) and Sonic Adventure maps.

If you end up buying some flux then I’d recommend you also buy and try a block of violinist rosin:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/315948528490

You break it up and then dab chunks onto your joint whilst soldering. Some will melt off and then burn. From there it acts just like any flux: reduces the metal oxides, makes the solder suddenly flow (behave) a lot better and provides some level of temporary oxygen shielding with its off-gassing products.

Pros:

• Cheap
• Doesn’t smell awful
• Long working time (easy to use)
• Very simple ingredient (distilled pine tree sap) made by many manufacturers, so it will never go out of stock.
• Residues are non-conductive and can be safely left on your boards
• Residues are reasonably easy to clean (isopropyl & most board cleaners work; ethanol also works but tends to leave ugly white streaks)

Cons:

• Smoke is still harmful (smoke = incomplete combustion compounds)
• Residue is dark, unlike the transparent residue of many no-clean fluxes, so it can hamper inspectability for mass manufacture.
• Best handled with tweezers, otherwise your fingers end up feeling sticky (pine resin compounds are slightly sticky)
• Not Modern or youtube popular, so people will tell you that it’s therefore bad or worse than other products.

I use it often, it’s my favourite for both big joints and fixing smd work. Grab some and try it :) The worst you will be out of pocket is a few dollars.

I’ve had some issues with other flux products I’ve used because of their alcohol content boiling off & cooling my board whilst I’m trying to heat a region up to work on it. Solid rosin doesn’t have that problem, you can dab it on whilst the iron is still covering some SMD joints (eg QFP pins) on your board and it will work instantly.

It looks identical to me. Same size before clicking, same size after right clicking -> Open image in new tab.

GNOME 2 was fun and easy. It felt like they were trying to learn from the mistakes of Windows and Mac UIs.