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Mon Nov 07, 2016 8:01 pm

dudes, , gun freaks, potato gun hoarders : please pray for my aunt we just got the word she has 4 months to live, i just saw her a week ago joking around with me not one problem and she just got some simple tests done...and now this! please pray brothers and dudes!
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Wed Nov 09, 2016 12:37 pm

I'll be in the US during winter break, if anyone wants to meet up I'll be around Boston or New York.
CpTn_lAw wrote: :D "yay, me wanna make big multishot pnoob with 1000 psi foot pump compressor using diamond as main material. Do you think wet bread make good sealant? " :D
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Wed Nov 09, 2016 12:45 pm

let me know dude im only in pa
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Sat Nov 12, 2016 9:28 am

jsefcik wrote:dudes, , gun freaks, potato gun hoarders : please pray for my aunt we just got the word she has 4 months to live, i just saw her a week ago joking around with me not one problem and she just got some simple tests done...and now this! please pray brothers and dudes!
My sympathies go to you first and foremost, sorry I didn't see this earlier.

Secondly, I know we have a few photo-hobbyists here, does this look like a good beginner's kit? I plan on mostly using the prime lens, the telephoto is just a backup/for rare occasions.
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Sat Nov 12, 2016 10:10 am

Looks fine, though I'd suggest a wide angle prime for landscape shots?
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Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:05 am

I'm trying to limit my cost at the moment, do you think a wide angle is really that critical? I mostly want to focus on subjects and not landscapes, is it a good idea to just wait to buy that?

Thanks for the (fast) input!
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Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:39 pm

joined 2013 never made a proper gun :scratch:
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Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:46 pm

For a moment I thought Jack was famous: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016 ... -zip-guns/
CpTn_lAw wrote: :D "yay, me wanna make big multishot pnoob with 1000 psi foot pump compressor using diamond as main material. Do you think wet bread make good sealant? " :D
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Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:22 pm

This is the second "amazon order screenshot" trope I've posted on this same page, but they are quite far apart chronologically. :P

I'm getting back into my electronics hobby. I don't have any of my old supplies/tools, so this order is a little expensive/extensive, but should be capable of some projects I've had in mind for a couple of years now.

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Blurred out prices, but I'll put the price in the ballpark of "doable with a tax return", lol.
Blurred out prices, but I'll put the price in the ballpark of "doable with a tax return", lol.
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Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:58 pm

Sounds interesting.

I've sort of forgotten many electronics projects over the years. The last thing I really did was pretty basic - just a slightly spiced up 555/4017 chase LED circuit for a wargaming project. The only real challenge was getting it all to fit:

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I think the overall project* is a subconscious attempt to get myself certified insane though, so that might count for something.

* A 1/32 scale scratch-build of a 400-tonne mech (for those of you who know Warhammer 40,000, specifically a Mars-pattern Warhound Titan), including interior, lighting, sound and articulated joints. Mostly a display project, although it might occasionally get used in games.
Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?
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Tue Feb 28, 2017 12:18 am

Nice, I have a few 555 projects planned as well, but mainly plan on playing with Arduino for a while.
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Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:22 pm

Well, I finally caved in and made a modest investment in test equipment:
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(The trace is the output of a circuit I built to control a brushless ESC with a normal 10k pot)
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Sat Mar 25, 2017 4:25 am

Do people still read this topic? :D

I made a thing.
Looking like a bomb on the breadboard.
Looking like a bomb on the breadboard.
Soldered up.
Soldered up.
Shitty soldering job.
Shitty soldering job.
Bonus points if you can figure out what it is by the oscilloscope traces.
Intermediate signal
Intermediate signal
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Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:30 am

@JSR, It's a circuit. :P
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Sat Mar 25, 2017 9:41 am

Hey...some of those are epoxy encapsulated... :lol:

Likely before Marks time, but bet jrrdw remembers...

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Servo tester?? Would say square wave generator but wouldn't need the second IC for that....IR guessing. :wink:

Playing around with anodizing of late...

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