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Zeruel
Mar 27, 2010

Alert: bad post spotted.
I'm glad 3D Printer's mom is cool. 100 bucks a month is good rent.

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Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

I like you Purin but whenever you talk about the singularity I can't help but think that Serufu has a better grasp on reality. AI becomes self-aware 🡆 ~*~paradigm shift~*~ 🡆 ??? 🡆 all issues that have arisen from cultural and philosophical issues will be resolved at once.

I like all the enthusiastic thumbs up in this show. Purin's mom seems cool.

Xelkelvos posted:

That AR room decoration app seems cool. While one that figures out the optimal place to put furniture seems a bit out of reach, one that let's you place them and see them seems a bit more fasible.

When I moved into my current place I was so nervous about all our stuff fitting, so I took measurements of absolutely every dimension, and then of all my stuff. I Did It Myself by putting it all into a CAD file where I could play around with placement and layout. It was incredibly helpful not just for putting my mind at ease knowing that it'd be all good, but it makes testing out different layouts and interior design a breeze on top of being fun.

I had my cousin moved into my spare room while he goes to university so before losing my office I took the opportunity to upgrade my template from SweetHome3D to Sketchup, since the former is getting a bit long in the tooth. It's so nice to be able to get the experimentation of cramming my office into my bedroom out of the way without having to actually move anything, and that you can just plop everything into place when the time comes and be done with it.

I was happy enough with walking around in first-person view in the program, but apparently you can hook up a VR headset and check things out that way. A friend offered but it seemed like a lot of work. If you want to give CAD a try, a home floorplan can be a lot of fun on top of being useful.

super-redguy
Jan 24, 2019
DIY trying to get us to watch The Orbital Children and it's true we should watch that.

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
Anyway these apps for example allegedly lets you use AR to view furniture in rooms. https://www.techgadgetscanada.com/use-augmented-reality-iphone-redecorate-home/

Probably doesn't work as well as the thing in the anime, but hey

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Fangz posted:

Probably doesn't work as well as the thing in the anime, but hey

Well duh it doesn't work as well, Jobko even said her's was so cutting edge it wasn't even out yet.

Amstrad
Apr 4, 2007

To destroy evil you must become an even greater evil.
I've for sure seen someone use full room VR to build themselves a virtual room complete with virtual couches/chairs/desks/tables in place over the real world furniture so they could actually sit on their virtual chair and whatnot. An interesting newer development is going to be the Mixed Reality Passthrough that Oculus and other headsets are adding which will uses cameras on the headset to capture the realtime surroundings and pass them to the headset, which will make doing stuff like that even easier.

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



That part with Serufu riding her bike sure was pretty, but also pretty low framerate.
Did some animator enjoy doing that scene by themselves, and the in-betweeners couldn't keep up?

Popo
Apr 24, 2008

Homestuck is a true work of art surpassing all of Shakespeare's works.

nielsm posted:

That part with Serufu riding her bike sure was pretty, but also pretty low framerate.
Did some animator enjoy doing that scene by themselves, and the in-betweeners couldn't keep up?

Couldn't be certain but seems like a style choice to to make it feels especially gentle/relaxed though 4's is getting silly low.

Going to need a super cut at the end of this for all the excellent English. Jobu-ko is a great character.
Pudding and Serufu are #1 though, unquestionably.

Zeruel
Mar 27, 2010

Alert: bad post spotted.
gonna have to wait and see how this cat grows on me

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Fangz posted:

Someone pointed out to me all the trophies and certificates in Serufu's room. Interesting...
Judging from this episode it might be art. That tree house was beautiful.

Thank god for edible crayons.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

extreme lol if the series ends with Serufu leaving to join the art club instead

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
Can't believe serufu didn't get hurt, and meat didn't get traumatised

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


Sindai posted:

Judging from this episode it might be art. That tree house was beautiful.

That was what I guessed based on the episode, she fits the mold of an artist what with being a scatterbrained dreamer. It's kind of fun that Serufu isn't actually dumb, she's just distracted and careless.


Fangz posted:

Can't believe serufu didn't get hurt, and meat didn't get traumatised

My headcanon is that they had their planning meeting in the nurse's office instead of the club room because Serufu bonked herself and everyone was there, so why not just get started?

mutantIke
Oct 24, 2022

Born in '04
Certified Zoomer
https://twitter.com/momaleph/status/1587925751537356801

Detheros
Apr 11, 2010

I want to die.



No way they got that much usable wood off of used pallets, dropped :colbert:


:v:

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


Purin going on all out attack on Shii...just join the club with your girlfriend!

Edit: I wonder if Yua isn't super open about her Art cause of Purin being focused on the sciences (which Purin focused on cause she doesn't want Yua to get hurt)

SatoshiMiwa fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Nov 3, 2022

DurosKlav
Jun 13, 2003

Enter your name pilot!

Detheros posted:

No way they got that much usable wood off of used pallets, dropped :colbert:


:v:

No kidding. Those were some crazy rear end pallets, no way a company would just get rid of them for free like that.

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001



I'm really happy that they addressed the money thing head on. So much of the fun I have is from repurposing stuff I have lying around and finding creative uses for things. Saving money is always great, but the challenge of DIYing something or having just the right part for some weird use kicking around feels so good. I'm excited to see how inventive they get later on. If they just bought their way out of any jams it'd be pretty lame.

~~~~~~

Around five years ago I got into handloading (which is its own rabbit whole of interesting DIY solutions), and to start I had thousands of brass casings I had amassed since I first started shooting. To clean used brass they sell rock tumbler dealies, but those cost a lot of money and can only do a few hundred cases at a time. I started thinking of what common machines could be used to make a large, heavy drum rotate for hours and it was so obvious.



Found a dude giving it away for free because it was broken so I rushed over with some friends to grab it before anyone else did.



Wasn't turning on at first, looked at the main power board and nothing obviously broken. I just reseated all the connectors and the main fuse at the top left and wouldn't you know it was running perfectly. Let's see how our proof of concept test goes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yRQ5txXgQ

Very promising! Now all the treadmill bits need to be stripped off, like the running belt, the impact surface, the plastic covers, and so on. The frame was also taken down as far as possible, removing the handrail frame, the foldy bits, and the incline motor.



The tumbler is controlled by the same interface. The enclosure could probably be slimmed down a bit, but there hasn't been a pressing need for it. It easily connects and disconnects from the mainboard for storage, and I think it can be switched over to an RJ45 connection for a thinner wire. But, again, no pressing need since it works fine now.



For a drum I used an empty protein powder jug, and to keep water from leaking everywhere I cut a huge sealing gasket from an old fatbike inner tube and put it under the lid (keep some of your old, busted bicycle tubes, there are so many little uses for them). The way it works is you fill the drum with soap, water, brass and stainless steel pins and let it tumble for a few hours. It does a real good job cleaning things and the pins are forever reusable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBPwqb9R94

Another test run, since when it was loaded down there was a bunch of slippage. Moved the rear roller way to the front and bolted it to the frame (with threaded bolts that can be used to adjust the roller-to-roller distance back and forth), and wrapped it with more inner tube for grip. It's working well, but with the slight issue that the drum sometimes wants to walk off of the rollers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqkWcFlecNI

Fixed with a bearing surface on the end of the roller where it wants to jump off. I used a water bottle and a Gatorade cap because it's all I had, but I've since replaced it with a caster wheel and metal arm from elsewhere on the treadmill which can be adjusted depending on how much push is needed to keep thinks stable. We also chopped off all the extra unnecessary frame with a reciprocating saw to make it easier to transport, since I intended for this to be a communal piece of equipment for all my reloader friends.



Nice and shiny. It can definitely handle a larger container, but that requires a larger sealed drum and steel media. I don't have a garage and a mishap with a 20 gallon drum would be nothing short of catastrophic. As it is now I can do 1k-2k rounds at a time, which I'm happy with. Currently it's living at a friend's place who's an IPSC grandmaster that shoots nationally, so he goes through tens of thousands of rounds a year so I'm glad he's able to really put it to work.

The main improvement I keep failing at is adding agitators in the drum to mix things up, instead of just sliding along the inner walls. I have a feeling once I crack that nut the brass will come out super shiny, but even the strongest glue I use for adding agitators doesn't work, and I can't use mechanical fasteners because it needs to be completely air-right, so it feels like I'm limited to jamming something in there with the geometry to fit through the mouth and then get stuck. I've been thinking up some 3D printed designs that unfold once in the interior, but I haven't been able to do any testing.

Coxswain Balls fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Nov 3, 2022

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.

Coxswain Balls posted:

I like you Purin but whenever you talk about the singularity I can't help but think that Serufu has a better grasp on reality. AI becomes self-aware 🡆 ~*~paradigm shift~*~ 🡆 ??? 🡆 all issues that have arisen from cultural and philosophical issues will be resolved at once.

It’s why the only characters who believe it are an rear end in a top hat and a child :smuggo:

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

https://www.treehousesupplies.com/collections/bolts

Holy crap, I didn't realize how expensive the proper attachment hardware for treehouses is. When Rei said the bolts alone would be over a grand I was wondering why, and it turns out there's a lot more engineering involved compared to standard lag bolts to deal with wind stresses and the tree's growth. They're also way bigger than I was expecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRDiUgL8S3s

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime

the mess of screws on the wall and around it are extremely triggering please spoiler


i wonder if japan has similar laws for pallet treatments or if it's largely untreated wood? also curious what type of wood they use. here in the US it's mostly pine which i don't think is a great choice for something like a tree house that will have the majority of it's stress directly in the frame

Tabletops fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Nov 3, 2022

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

Tabletops posted:

the mess of screws on the wall and around it are extremely triggering please spoiler

Most of it is either in a bag or reused for other stuff. The running surfaces ended up being the perfect size for a workbench so I sketched out some dimensions and just bolted it to some 2x4s. The bottom shelf is for storage so I didn't bother attaching it. I was originally thinking of putting a plywood surface on top for added durability, but it hasn't been a huge issue yet and that would have cost money.



Find a use for anything and everything is what I say.

Elfface
Nov 14, 2010

Da-na-na-na-na-na-na
IRON JONAH
Wooden pallets are serious business, built to international standards and treated with fungicides and insecticides so they can pass through border controls without needing to be inspected.

They did say some of the parts were rotten, so the ones the club claimed were probably going to be broken down for parts anyway, but probably reassembled into new pallets and re-sold for £20 (Aprox 3,300Y) each not including transport. So if they claim that whole big stack, they may have doubled their club budget.

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


Yeah most warehouses has either a guy who breaks down and rebuilds pallets or an arrangement with a shop who does the same.

goblin week
Jan 26, 2019

Absolute clown.
I was about to say that getting pallets for free was easily the most unrealistic parts, warehouses are fiercely protective :v:

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

It might depend on local standards and what the market for them is like. Around here there's lots of places that give them away or just throw them out. There's more than one place that has a big pile of them next to a sign that says "free firewood".

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime
I hope people aren’t burning treated pallets for firewood

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


Tabletops posted:

I hope people aren’t burning treated pallets for firewood

Yeah that's a bad idea. Your average layman doesn't know that pallets are treated with toxic chemicals.

Doodles
Apr 14, 2001
I've seen things like high school football teams using them as part of a bonfire, so yeah, the average layman is pretty loving stupid. Then again, it's not like burning the wrong wood is the dumbest thing these clowns do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9BSS1Nxe_g

Retail places sometimes just toss out pallets, depending on circumstances. A lot of places use the plastic ones so those get reused while any wood ones that show up and dumped. And they are made up of whatever scraps the lumberyard couldn't turn into saleable boards, nailed together with twist nails which are a bitch to pry off. But I'm willing to suspend a little disbelief for something that relatively minor.

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
Maybe they are throwing out good pallets because they are switching over to quadrocopters or robots or whatever high tech solution doesn't require them any more.

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

Fangz posted:

Maybe they are throwing out good pallets because they are switching over to quadrocopters or robots or whatever high tech solution doesn't require them any more.

Standardized pallets and shipping containers are already high tech solutions that have revolutionized logistics and the transport of goods in the modern world. I saw a good video about it from some channel like Practical Engineering, but I'm having trouble finding it right now.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

Coxswain Balls posted:

Standardized pallets and shipping containers are already high tech solutions that have revolutionized logistics and the transport of goods in the modern world. I saw a good video about it from some channel like Practical Engineering, but I'm having trouble finding it right now.

ya but they don't have vocal processors or pretty lights

Omnicrom
Aug 3, 2007
Snorlax Afficionado


symbolic posted:

ya but they don't have vocal processors or pretty lights

And they aren't weird mushroom bots that bug you about the new OS.

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

Omnicrom posted:

And they aren't weird mushroom bots that bug you about the new OS.

Excuse me Kurage-san is very clearly a jellyfish.

I want to know what Purin's deal is with that, she's very clearly got a motif going on with the posters on her walls and I think the wind chimes she made are also jellyfish. I'd be fine with it being as simple as "yeah I like jellies they're cool and cute as heck".

SatoshiMiwa
May 6, 2007


The place could of also just given the palettes away cause a high school asked for them and they just wanted to help out

Zeruel
Mar 27, 2010

Alert: bad post spotted.
ridiculous.

DurosKlav
Jun 13, 2003

Enter your name pilot!

Coxswain Balls posted:

Standardized pallets and shipping containers are already high tech solutions that have revolutionized logistics and the transport of goods in the modern world. I saw a good video about it from some channel like Practical Engineering, but I'm having trouble finding it right now.

Just look at Russia trying to fight a war without having pallets for its logistics.

Coxswain Balls
Jun 4, 2001

I think that actually might be where I got the video/article from. Russia refuses to palletize their goods because it allows for proper inventory control. Being able to easily track your goods creates a paper trail that makes it harder for stuff to "disappear". There's nothing worse in a kleptocracy than something getting in the way of lining your pockets with the spoils of corruption.

Meanwhile in Ukraine, I think the CAF sent supply chain management specialists after 2014 while the UAF was in the process of modernizing. Spreadsheets and inventory management aren't sexy, but it goes a long way in keeping your army in fighting condition. When you actually have all the supplies and materiel you have on paper, it makes killing the other guy much easier, especially when they're using Aliexpress body armor and all the ERA on your tank was sold years ago, if it even existed at all.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Palletizing is basically just an extension of logistics and quartermastering that generals even before Napoleon understood was important.

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GloomMouse
Mar 6, 2007

the coming Purin Singularity has no need for pallets

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