I've slowly come to realize I'm turning into a "3d printer guy", kinda like the "car guy" who doesn't have much else to talk about except his car. In my case it's my printer, and the things I make in it. Hopefully my friends don't get tired of it too quickly.
I’ve attempted to post these pics for weeks but I keep forgetting that the mobile tumblr is terrible for anything but text. 3d Printer things! Specifically, pieces for a Settlers of Catan set and a dice tower.
Hollow rock turns into a router full of survival info when you build a fire beside it
Keepalive is Aram Bartholl’s fake hollow boulder in the woods of Neuenkirchen, Germany. It conceals a thermoelectric generator that powers a router configured to serve documents related to wilderness survival. The router switches on if the rock is sufficiently warmed, say by a blazing campfire adjacent to it.
It’s based on Piratebox, a standalone Internet router project for file-sharing.
It’s not the only art/artificial boulder project, though: Ed Ruscha claims to have made an artificial boulder called “Rocky II” and hidden it somewhere in the Mojave, where it is visually indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks, making it all but impossible to find.
that magic rock in the Mojave is going to confuse the fuck out of our descendants one day.
probably not. it’s just a rock. most rocks go unregarded
most rocks aren’t wifi access points!
you need to regard a rock to find out if it is a wifi access point.
w hat the fuck. did the world’s most sadistic text adventure game writer make this rock
You are lost in a woodland clearing. There is a large boulder and a pile of firewood nearby. > check cell phone You open your cell phone to google wilderness survival tips, but you don’t have any service. > make campfire with firewood You could light a fire here, but you’d still be lost. > regard rock It’s a large rock. The underside of the rock appears slightly charred. > light campfire under rock Pretty soon you have a blazing campfire going underneath the boulder. > regard rock The strange boulder, now warmed, has begun to emit a faint mechanical hum. > check cell phone You open your cell phone. There is one wifi network available, named “KeepAlive.” > connect to rock wifi The wifi router opens a webpage full of documents on wilderness survival. > ????? Invalid command. > why Invalid command. > who hides secrets in a magic heat-activated rock Invalid command.
#this is the most hilariously improbable use case i’ve ever seen#you’ve got to be dying in the wilderness#you’ve gotta have a device that can browse the internet#it’s gotta be charged#it has to not have phone service for some reason even though the rock does#(unless the rock has cable???)#you’ve got to build a fire directly next to this specific rock#you need to then try to use your internet device despite there being no indication that it’ll suddenly work now#you’ve got to search for a wifi hotspot in the middle of nowhere#the improbabilities multiply
You can configure a wifi Hotspot to serve landing pages when a connecting device attempts to access any unknown page (in this case, any page that isn't hosted on the device). Still an incredibly specific use case, however, but at least one of those problems is solvable, the rock doesn't have to have an Internet connection.
So Dell just overnight shipped me a new hard drive for my laptop.
What I did know is that mine was at risk of failing because of their little support assist thing and that any request I made to figure it out was eeror’d.
What I didn’t know was that it auto requested the new part. Now I have to deal I with replacing it
It's quite easy, there will be a screwed-shut access hatch on the bottom or side of your computer, usually marked with a picture of a cylinder or disc. Unscrew that, maybe unscrew the old hard drive inside, and put the new one in in the same way. If you look up your computer model in YouTube, I'm sure someone has a video tutorial.
You know what would be interesting to see? An rpg in which, if you don't strike a contract with a quest giver, you don't get paid or you only get paid a pittance. Essentially, a very capitalist rpg where a lot of important people will not give you anything more than you specifically agree on. Some people might give the player things no matter what you say, because they have a more stringent moral code, but I want this hypothetical game to really force the player to strike contacts and maybe ruffle someone's feathers in the process, because the normal rpg progression is to blindly accept challenges in the expectation that you will always be rewarded.
Liz has a better job now! Yay publix!
And in celebration, she finally bought herself some alcohol. Granted, it’s Mike’s Hard Lemonade, but it’s a good starter for those who haven’t actually had anything to drink before… and I like it uvu
Mike’s hards are great, don’t let anyone make fun of your choices in alcohol. The active ingredient’s the same no matter what the delivery method!
The nights that you can feel your regrets crawling on your back
Y’know, I’m not a huge fan of grits
But there’s one thing that’ll get me to eat ‘em and that’s SHRIMP.
Because shrimp and grits are good -O-
For a second I was misreading grits as girls, and I was really confused.
So I think I might have to abandon the ALU project. I tried testing out the multiplexer a few days ago and turning on more than one bit slowed the game down to a slideshow. That multiplexer is an integral part of the ALU, and the circuitry would only get more complex from there. It's unfortunate but there's just no way around it. I'll have to think of some other big project to accomplish instead.
If you haven't read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, and you want a glimpse into the massive changes the post scarcity age will bring, I highly recommend it. It has some odd parts but it's quite excellent. I wish I could read it again to recapture the wonder I experienced when reading it and thinking about the world that Neal showed me. Snowcrash is also excellent but much more groady fit the squeamish. If you can handle some yuck, I also highly recommend it.
Riskylew - Commission - by StrawberryNeko
Furry trash >:O
CUTE furry trash. *purrs*
Oh, behave. Calm thy hormones, perv :p
Riskylew - Commission - by StrawberryNeko
Furry trash >:O
The unfortunate fact of building this giant thing: I have to spend a good five hours figuring out how to get all the inputs into it.
Mostly completed the big mux that will select the proper answer from the operations.
The plan is, the inputs will be given to every operation the ALU supports, and then the outputs will go to this big block of circuitry. The opcode will then select which outputs should be shown using the selector bits, and route those to the output display.
While I was in the process of making this I remembered that I could have just used a demuxer to select where the inputs should go, buuuut it came a little late. I had already made a bunch of the thing, and Project Red doesn’t have a single-block demuxer like it does a mux, soooo yeah.
Multiplexer (mux/muxer): A circuit that takes n inputs and converts it to just one using a selector input. Usually stated as x bit n:1 muxer, to indicate it takes n inputs of x bits and outputs x bits.
Demultiplexer (demux/demuxer): A circuit that takes one input and outputs it to one of n inputs using a selector input. Take a mux and reverse it, essentially, though only one of the outputs will be active at any one time; a mux can have all inputs containing data, and will ignore everything except the selected input.
Finished the display! One part down, only three hundred more to go...
The amount of contortion I have to do is getting ridiculous.