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Sagebrush posted:i read this as "home brewing rov" and thought of a big boiler on wheels that chugs around your property brewing and dispensing beer first is a massive autism hugbox full of really really REALLY smelly children and manchildren
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madeupfred posted:i dont know if they still do this but if you go to an elementary school book fair they sell a box full of electric bits for like $10, looks exactly like what's in that indiegogo, plus you give an elementary school two dollars. woah i didn't know you could go to an elementary school book fair if you weren't in elementary school
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Oct 9, 2013 21:33
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Werthog 95 posted:woah i didn't know you could go to an elementary school book fair if you weren't in elementary school i havent been to one since i was in elementary school. not a lot changes in a week but w/e
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Oct 9, 2013 21:36
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today would be a good day to eat some cactus
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Oct 9, 2013 21:36
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Bloody posted:first is a massive autism hugbox full of really really REALLY smelly children and manchildren i'll grant you the autism but like, dude, it's a competition for high school students. a lot of high schoolers smell, oh well it happens. and every high school event is going to be surrounded by awful manchildren parents living through their kids -- unavoidable. but when everything is working right it's awesome i think it's a ton of fun and i like showing the high school kids something like tig welding and they go "woowwaaow that's the coolest thing i've ever seen." v rewarding
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Oct 9, 2013 21:43
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and then they decide to make a career poisoning themselves
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Oct 9, 2013 21:51
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I'd love to be a mentor/teacher, but sadly as a nonchildhaver I have learned to pick my battles, and parents are too helicoptery to understand that type of thing any more
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Oct 9, 2013 22:03
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hey not all of us are concerned for our child's wellbeinf
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Oct 9, 2013 22:04
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echinopsis posted:and then they decide to make a career poisoning themselves nah most of them are strongarmed by their parents into going to whatever brand-name engineering school they can get into. of course then instead of poisoning the body with metal fumes they're poisoning the mind with toxic engineers' opinions and attitudes Jonny 290 posted:I'd love to be a mentor/teacher, but sadly as a nonchildhaver I have learned to pick my battles, and parents are too helicoptery to understand that type of thing any more eh? you mean the parents would be upset that you don't have any kids? you're married, that's good enough for most, and you're not going to be allowed to be alone with the kids without getting fingerprinted anyway so
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Oct 9, 2013 22:11
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Sagebrush posted:nah most of them are strongarmed by their parents into going to whatever brand-name engineering school they can get into. of course then instead of poisoning the body with metal fumes they're poisoning the mind with toxic engineers' opinions and attitude that's all good though things like welding are better hobbies than jobs, better to make more money doing less physical things. I trained to be a welder out of high school and gently caress looking back now if I ha succeeded doing that instead of going into health sector I would hate myself right now so much
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Oct 9, 2013 23:42
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Sagebrush posted:i'll grant you the autism but like, dude, it's a competition for high school students. a lot of high schoolers smell, oh well it happens. and every high school event is going to be surrounded by awful manchildren parents living through their kids -- unavoidable. but when everything is working right it's awesome oh nah im harshing on the kids in my college who """mentored""" the high schoolers. by mentor i mean "do every loving thing for" of course. those kids were nasty the high schoolers yeah who cares theyre children
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Oct 10, 2013 01:06
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ah yeah a lot of the mentors are pretty awful that way. i haven't met too many serious spergs though, mostly the horrible engineer know everything about everything types. but its always great to walk around the pits at a competition and see the teams that are like five dads working on the robot and one kid standing there handing them tools. theres a team in texas that apparently designs the whole thing in solidworks in a week, then sends it out to various water jet dads and welder dads and cnc dads and powder coating dads and eventually gets their robot back with everything but the electronics package professionally assembled and ready to go. our robot wasn't pretty but it was clearly primarily hacked together by a bunch of 15 year olds out of home depot extrusions and plywood. the only "professionally" made parts were some critical frame welds and one cnc'd mechanism i'm going to teach them to do carbon fiber layup this year 
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Sagebrush posted:ah yeah a lot of the mentors are pretty awful that way. i haven't met too many serious spergs though, mostly the horrible engineer know everything about everything types. those are spergs fyi
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Oct 10, 2013 04:32
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not really. they're not especially obsessive about anything and in social settings they're more likely to be creepy egotistical mras than unsettlingly autistic. everyone knows at least one engineer who thinks that because he has an undergraduate engineering degree he's automatically the smartest person in the room and, lacking any other particular defining skills or features beyond "went to engineering school", that inflated sense of superiority defines his person. FIRST has a lot of those, yes
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i actually did make a point to complain to the parents last year that the creepier boys on the team were scaring off the girls and we needed to get that poo poo stamped out so they would grow up to be upstanding young men instead of terrible sperg mras. it seems to have worked so far cause we have a lot more girls now and the boys have quit using terms like "feminazi", thank god just making a difference in my little corner
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Oct 10, 2013 05:41
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we had a guy who mentored FIRST working in our lab he had clearly decided that college meant he didnt have to shower or cut his hair anymore
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Oct 10, 2013 07:00
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i live on a toxin free diet and don't have to bathe more than once a week or wear deodorant
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CamH posted:i live on a toxin free diet and don't have to bathe more than once a week or wear deodorant here's one weird tip: yes you loving do
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Oct 10, 2013 07:06
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Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up. - Alfred Pennyworth
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Sagebrush posted:i actually did make a point to complain to the parents last year that the creepier boys on the team were scaring off the girls and we needed to get that poo poo stamped out so they would grow up to be upstanding young men instead of terrible sperg mras. it seems to have worked so far cause we have a lot more girls now and the boys have quit using terms like "feminazi", thank god you're doing the lords work sagebrush how old are these boys and why are they slinging terms like "feminazi" around? i know, reddit etc but still. also gently caress you rush limbaugh for coining that phrase and giving rise to all of this stupidity in the first place
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Oct 10, 2013 12:12
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CamH posted:i live on a toxin free diet and don't have to bathe more than once a week or wear deodorant same that smell is just my alpha endorphins pheremones
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Oct 10, 2013 12:54
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madeupfred posted:i dont know if they still do this but if you go to an elementary school book fair they sell a box full of electric bits for like $10, looks exactly like what's in that indiegogo, plus you give an elementary school two dollars. thge entire point of that indiegogo is that a lot of educators can't afford to buy arduino lemonardos for all the kids. what this guy basically did was to rejig the lemmonardo a bit (its open source) and get enough orders from people to be able to drop the price of the lemonardo from about $25 to below $10, as a not for profit venture. note that i'm specifically talking about the lemonardo, not the uno, not the nano, not the duedecimilliardobongo, not any of the other ones. it's easy and cheap, often free, to get hold of random electronic poo poo - this is not the point. in fact getting the lemonardos, for me, was secondary - i was primarily backing the guy's neat idea. BLUB BLUB YOU CAN BUY A THING AT FASTTECH or BLIB BLOB PAY A MONEY TO A SCHOOL AND GET JUNK is not quite the goal here.  fuk u lemonardo
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spankmeister posted:here's one weird tip: fine. ill compromise and bath every third day and put on a dab of cologne on off days
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Detroit Q. Spider posted:you're doing the lords work sagebrush they're mostly 15 to 17 years old and they use those terms 100% because reddit. when they don't get along with another boy they say he's an idiot or whatever, but when it's a girl out comes the "feminazi" and "get back on the kitchen make sandwiches lol". i think that most of it originally comes from two or three really unpleasant rear end in a top hat kids who are already fat bully creeps but it rubs off on the others because they're 15 year old nerds who have no other experience interacting with girls normally. so anyway because I think at least some of them look up to me I try to emphasize that every mature person is just grossed out by sexism and in fact the girls will like you a lot better if you treat them like a normal person and don't try to belittle them etc when it works, feels good man
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Sagebrush posted:they're mostly 15 to 17 years old and they use those terms 100% because reddit. when they don't get along with another boy they say he's an idiot or whatever, but when it's a girl out comes the "feminazi" and "get back on the kitchen make sandwiches lol". ok this kind of garbage alternately makes me want to sally forth and actually try to teach some, and run loving screaming into the hills so torn
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Jonny 290 posted:ok this kind of garbage alternately makes me want to sally forth and actually try to teach some, and run loving screaming into the hills children just reflect the most accessible pieces of our culture back at us it turns out our accessible culture is hosed to poo poo: MRAs, creeping sexism, rape culture triumphant. thanks internet
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Dr. Honked posted:thge entire point of that indiegogo is that a lot of educators can't afford to buy arduino lemonardos for all the kids. what this guy basically did was to rejig the lemmonardo a bit (its open source) and get enough orders from people to be able to drop the price of the lemonardo from about $25 to below $10, as a not for profit venture. note that i'm specifically talking about the lemonardo, not the uno, not the nano, not the duedecimilliardobongo, not any of the other ones. it's easy and cheap, often free, to get hold of random electronic poo poo - this is not the point. in fact getting the lemonardos, for me, was secondary - i was primarily backing the guy's neat idea. BLUB BLUB YOU CAN BUY A THING AT FASTTECH or BLIB BLOB PAY A MONEY TO A SCHOOL AND GET JUNK is not quite the goal here. oh dang sorry i confused you with my wording. it wasnt a random box of poo poo, it was a perforated box that you could turn into a breadboard that was full up with electric bits the included book explained. again this happened a while ago so im not sure if the prices are comparable, im just saying that this kind of existed already. but yeah its a cool idea sorry again.
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madeupfred posted:oh dang sorry i confused you with my wording. it wasnt a random box of poo poo, it was a perforated box that you could turn into a breadboard that was full up with electric bits the included book explained. again this happened a while ago so im not sure if the prices are comparable, im just saying that this kind of existed already. but yeah its a cool idea sorry again. gently caress YUO that sounds really cool actually
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Oct 10, 2013 17:14
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   the moment i saw this in nickelodeon magazine i knew it had to be mine
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so incredibly triggered This is the one I grew up with. I worked it until the cardboard disintegrated, and then I ripped the variable capacitor out of it and built a shortwave antenna tuner with it  http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-200-In-1-Electronic-Built-In-Out-Front/dp/B0057M168Q
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Werthog 95 posted:
aw yeah i had this one 
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i had a bigger radio shack one too but not one with op amps. could have used a head start on those :I fun with electronics board was pretty sparse in comparison but the fuckin cd-rom with cartoon components teaching u poo poo thru wacky hijinks made up for it
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children are the future
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Jonny 290 posted:so incredibly triggered and here you are making teh yosvape truly an inspiration 
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when i was a kid, i had a pile of junk, that i scavenged parts from. i used to make radios and things by soldering components directly together. stripboard was incredibly precious, i had a small piece but it was too precious to use. one day someone gave me a breadboard, it was the best thing
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Dr. Honked posted:when i was a kid, i had a pile of junk, that i scavenged parts from. i used to make radios and things by soldering components directly together. stripboard was incredibly precious, i had a small piece but it was too precious to use. one day someone gave me a breadboard, it was the best thing i remember marveling at my first purchase of raw one-sided PCBs, on which I could actually etch circuits. no more projects done on hammered nails in a piece of wood
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Jonny 290 posted:so incredibly triggered i also had this one when i was a kid i was just playing around with it trying to do things and had no real idea what i was doing and i think i managed to burn one led and a transistor once i also got one where it was just a small microcontroller and a keyboard, a bunch of leds, a 7 digit display and a speaker (you had to wire the things up together with spring just like the above) and you could make small programs in machine code on it i actually had more fun with that one, i was always more a software guy than a hardware guy i guess
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I fumbled and hosed about with electronics for the past 20 years, but only in the last five have I been really excited, mainly due to the explosion in physical computing and microcontrollers. Hardware is cool but it's a different animal than software, and blending the two is MAXIMUM POWER
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