leon_sbt

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by leon_sbt 3y ago
I saw Span a few times. It is a nice idea, but I'm personally not a fan. Doing switching at the panel level seems very clunky. In reality, switching should be done at the device level. Ie per fan , light etc. If they had a self contain
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by leon_sbt 3y ago
Another vote for IotAWatt . I installed one a few months ago. No cloud app. visit an IP to view the local webserver. Has a neat graphing functions, and can pipe data to InfluxDB. + Home Assistant intergration. Love it. I wish they had a 30
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by leon_sbt 4y ago
I was close to this exact situation. I regret it. I'm assuming your in your 20's. Find a well paying job in an area you want to live in, and moonlight your business. When your business pays more than your day job, decisions and ri
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by leon_sbt 4y ago
Also employed self-taught developer here. Learned to code through launching a software-oriented business. It took about 1.5 years for me to figure out the basics of (Frontend,Backend,AI). Hands down have a project in mind, and start buildin
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by leon_sbt 4y ago
You have two options. Call up a local machine shop (check Google), ask if they do one-off parts. (They probably won't); then ask them if they have any solid recommendation for a local small-time machinist that enjoys one-off work. They
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by leon_sbt 4y ago
I've dealt pretty heavily in this area (Bought and operated several CNCs over the years) Your price point is going to limit your machines to almost exclusively Chinese imports Lasers: Boss laser imports machines from China and provides
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by leon_sbt 5y ago
OP here: I was looking for a way to search people's interesting personal projects on the internet. I realized the a huge common denominator was many people hosted it with Blogspot. I found this random site that provides search on Blogs
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Finding content like the old internet(searchblogspot.com)
2 points by leon_sbt 5y ago|1 comments
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by leon_sbt 5y ago
I'm happy to do so! I also heavily participated in Formula SAE. Don't get too distracted by the Auto sport connectors. They are top-tier hardware, but use Deutsch DT/DTM connectors for everything. They work quite well if you&
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Constructing motorsport grade wiring harnesses(rbracing-rsr.com)
45 points by leon_sbt 5y ago|5 comments
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by leon_sbt 5y ago
Not necessarily modern technique based hacks, but my personal hacks boil down to 3 things. 1. Composition matters. Alot. Move yourself,your camera, and your subjects around. 2. Control your light naturally. Pay attention to directionality o
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by leon_sbt 5y ago
Exactly like jogging with CNC controls; but with force feedback. I have done some cuts with the Haas in handjog mode. I always feel iffy doing it, since I can't feel the feedback from the cutting forces.
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by leon_sbt 5y ago
I was about to recommend the exact same thing. Epoxy granite is used by some world class machine tool builders. I think an interesting modern take on the Gingery machine, would be a homebuilt machine tool; built from epoxy-concrete. Linear
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by leon_sbt 5y ago
You have a very valid point. I'm 5'11" so getting my foot down at stop lights has never been an issue; unless I'm dealing with a 450cc dirt bike. My GF is about 5'2 and stopping a motorcycle in traffic is actually a
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by leon_sbt 5y ago
Really interesting concept. I like the general lines of the bike. Looks really well thought out/clean sheet mechanical design. Two points of contention: 1) After putting over 40k+ miles on various bikes, I never once wished there was
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
Thank you for the extra photos and info! It really helps. Especially with the notes on the motor mounting. Have you spec'd out Linear motors for your machine? I have been eyeing Yaksawas's product. But I'm scared to RFQ the p
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
The machine you built is very professional looking! Great job! I wish more people did high quality "last mile" integration" on their machines. Energy chain and powder coat makes a huge difference in perceived quality. Couple
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
The most simple answer: Because people are willing to buy them. It also supports typical human behavior. If you're neighbor has a 400hp car, to "one up" them you buy a 500hp car. Childish? Yes. Are adults with childish behavi
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
Hi Dave, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'll send an email now.
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
It boils down to two things currently. 1.I spent all the money so far on buying machines and hardware infrastructure. I can slow down on hardware purchases now. 2. The fulfillment side of things is a bit of a mess, its a mix of my SQL datab
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
Hi Rob, Thanks for chiming in. I can keep my dayjob for a while. Which in theory gives me unlimited burn rate. But I'm worried that I should just cashout everything. I won't lose any money. Then move to Saas,where the overhead and
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Ask HN: Should I shutdown my solo startup with $120k sales the past 24 months?
6 points by leon_sbt 6y ago|6 comments
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
I ordered from Sparkfun multiple times and everything worked out great. I wonder if they are slowly going to expand their reach to be a la protolabs for all the B2B PCB design/prototype deals. Protolabs did a quarter billion sales la
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
You're 100% right! There are a couple of pet peeves that McMaster Carr does that I wished they fixed. Cough, cough,public API access. But I assume most of these points are used to prevent scraping of their site.
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
Sometimes I spend close to $2k a month at McMaster for work things. They are literally a modern marvel. I order something at 6pm . It's there at 9am the next day. I buy things from them even if it's double price, since I know ther
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
Thanks for digging that up! I actually remember reading that thread a while back. Most of that thread is "my computer is broken", but their are a couple nuggets of gold in there.
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
Got a link to that thread? A few of my buddies are machine shop owners, and I would love to see what they said.
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
Great points you brought up! Only have experience with the Prusa's and it's been great. I never operated the a belt bed printer. It seems like another way to solve the problem is to stack hundreds of the steel sheets in a magazin
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
This is really interesting. In my opinion, Prusa is the best in class printer to purchase for a turnkey machine. If you want to scale up a printfarm. Add more Prusa's and some humans to tend them. But there was never really a way to ru
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by leon_sbt 6y ago
If you're targeting a browser based solution. Three JS and Babylon.js gives you the building blocks. If you're looking more of a Constructive Solid Geometry based web solution jscad/CSG.js. If you want something more turnkey

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