SpacemanSpiff

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by SpacemanSpiff 9y ago
Hey, any chance your hardware developer friend could spare a few minutes to talk about his/her work? I'm a freelance hardware+software developer and there's not many of us out there it seems. It would be great to get some fee
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by SpacemanSpiff 9y ago
I just ordered my book. Here's a 37% off discount code: fccpicheta courtesey of /r/nim and /u/psychotic_primes
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
HP 32SII scientific calculator. I had one in high school (not sure what happened to it), recently picked one up on ebay and haven't regretted it!
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
I've recently started using Syncthing to synchronize files between different machines. I'm super impressed at the quality of the application, its stability, and the documentation. Syncthing is written in go and open source. https
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
This article was linked on HN last fall I believe: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-... Basically the airlines are outsourcing maintenance to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and Ch
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
wow, with all due respect, to me this vision of the future sounds horrifying. My refrigerator on Facebook? No thank you.
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
About Mises The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, teaches the scholarship of Austrian economics, freedom, and peace. The liberal intellectual tradition of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) guides us. Accordingl
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
Hi, I'm quite new to the community myself, so I don't have any established contacts to share at the moment. I recommend checking here: http://www.meetup.com/Elixir-Berlin/ This company also has an office in B
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by SpacemanSpiff 10y ago
Embedded systems programmer here. I'm learning Elixir and am very excited about the nerves project: http://nerves-project.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpzQrFC55q4 Edit: There also seems to be a
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
I've been a print subscriber since May 2011 and I just wanted to say that my monthly issue of Hacker Monthly has consistently been a wonderful experience. The articles, the art, everything was very enjoyable. Thanks so much for having
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Ask HN: Financial startup asks for private info via email. Where do I complain?
2 points by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago|0 comments
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
I totally agree. It seems birds are not dumb enough to do this: https://youtu.be/F4ml61jI5ow?t=207 (at 3:42)
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
This is simply not true in my experience. I have personally seen birds perform significant aerial maneuvers to avoid collision with my aircraft, going very close to 130MPH. By the time I see the bird it is often in a very steep dive, the bi
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
Birds are very different from drones in the sense that birds often practice active collision avoidance, at least in the case of encounters with a small aircraft. I have often seen birds take evasive maneuvers when a collision is imminent, m
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
The accelerometer/gyroscope IC I am using is this one: http://www.murata.com/en-global/products/sensor/gyro/scc2000 It is an avionics-grade 3-axis accelerometer + Z axis gyro.
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Watch me layout a 4-layer gyro+accelerometer+AVR sensor circuit board(livestream.com)
2 points by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago|1 comments
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
We're thinking approximately $2500/month for basic use of the hangar and house. Please contact me directly for more details.
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
The Paradise Valley generally receives less snow than other places in Montana. My wife and I drive a Prius year round and typically a grocery store trip is ~40 minutes round trip. We're able to take the Prius on 95% of our winter drive
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
Hello, thanks for your feedback. I posted this because I feel like it is a very unique space/opportunity and is in the spirit of fostering startup progress. I guess many Show HN posts could be considered to be an advertisement. Usually
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
sounds like an awesome project :)
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Rent my private airport for your hardware startup(app.box.com)
61 points by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago|24 comments
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by SpacemanSpiff 11y ago
I believe this to be true in other aspects of professional life as well. When I was learning to fly to become a commercial pilot having a mentor who was himself an accomplished pilot and mechanic helped tremendously. I was able to advance t
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by SpacemanSpiff 12y ago
Frankly, as a new parent who lives in the US I am worried that my family would be punished for an action such as what is described in the article. I think that the climate of irrational fear combined with exuberant supervision lead to an en
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by SpacemanSpiff 12y ago
Thankfully, the general aviation industry in the US is moving away from leaded avgas. http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2014/September/0...
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by SpacemanSpiff 12y ago
Yeah, that whole section read like something from 2002 to me as well.
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Build an RFID Tag Detector [video](youtube.com)
3 points by SpacemanSpiff 12y ago|0 comments
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by SpacemanSpiff 12y ago
Take a look at http://files.wizkid057.com/teslapack/update2/Tesla%20BMS%20M... For cell #1, my guess is that the 4 parallel resistors (R3) are the balancing resistors and that Q1 is a small logic level MOSFET whic
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by SpacemanSpiff 12y ago
From page 2 of the discussion: "Anyway, back to some figues; at Mach 2, 50,000', the typical fuel burn per engine would be around 5 tonnes/hour, falling to around 4.2 tonnes/hour at 60,000'." So at 60,000 feet,
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by SpacemanSpiff 13y ago
And every year there are numerous incidents where a bird strike inflicts significant damage to a manned aircraft. Just because a risk already exists doesn't mean that it's acceptable or wise to increase this risk arbitrarily IMO.

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