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Comment on One of my favorite egg-based robots by David

David — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:19:27 +0000

If there’s no play button, I don’t know. Must be your browser doesn’t like my video plugin. That’s completely possible, since I’m actually kind of surprised my browser still likes it…

Comment on One of my favorite egg-based robots by iggr

iggr — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:14:56 +0000

Hey, how can I activate the video, anyway?

Comment on Or Maybe It Won’t! by The Really Real Lathe | Project Potpourri

The Really Real Lathe | Project Potpourri — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:06:24 +0000

[...] about 9 months ago I still had this tiny lathe. It was so underpowered I couldn’t do much with it. I’ve also heard it described in [...]

Comment on Now the Serious Spending can begin by Or Maybe It Won’t! | Project Potpourri

Or Maybe It Won’t! | Project Potpourri — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:01:46 +0000

[...] I said that now the serious spending could begin. And it kind of has, since I bought supplies for the countershaft, some measuring tools, a toolbox to put them in, a drill chuck, a tailstock spindle and a replacement carriage gib stock that I cleft in twain. HOWEVER. [...]

Comment on Non-Working Fluidyne by David

David — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:54:54 +0000

Yes, you are probably right about the pressure. Although there have been times when I’ve had the check valves out of the line that the oscillations have been very strong. But maybe not strong enough or frequent enough.

I’ve actually had an all-metal version since this post. I’m trying to get consistent oscillation and map out some of the parameters before I jump all the way into check valves.

Thanks for the tip on return valves, but I think “host stop” and “gardena” must be European things, because I can’t find a local reference. Maybe we have a different term for it in the US?

I’m not really clear how it works from the picture.

Comment on Non-Working Fluidyne by Kris

Kris — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:08:48 +0000

garden hose stops (“Gardena type”) can be tinkered with to become a very good and cheap non-return valve.
But i am wondering about the pressure (your pumping height) and not just the power. If the pressure is not heigh enough you won’t get any pumping going on

Comment on Non-Working Fluidyne by Moris Dovey

Moris Dovey — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:12:18 +0000

Hmm – just remember that discouragement is a /choice/.

I’ve seen this problem elsewhere – most often with spring-loaded valves that required more power to open than the engine could provide. There are two ways to deal with this: coax more power from the engine and/or replace the check valves with others that require less power to open.

Comment on …But No Simpler! by Minkie

Minkie — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:24:17 +0000

I taped a piece of paper underneath my matress with what I did last (After many years of forgetting) – turns out that the take stays sticky enough to be moved to the other side when I flip it over – that has worked for a couple of years now though the paper is getting a bit tatty.

I do like the emergent multi-agent flipping thing

Comment on Putting the “ow” in “browser” by David

David — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:39:01 +0000

Update:

Finding the mozilla source code is pretty hard. The Firefox pages seem to do everything in their power to avoid saying “source code” or “open source” (even the Mozilla pages seem to prefer “organic software”).

But once you do find the code, actually getting and building it is pretty easy.

Comment on Putting the “ow” in “browser” by David

David — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:35:37 +0000

I'd look pretty silly using Chrome after this tirade but you are right that I could definitely check out some other browsers. Some other Firefox/Gecko-based browser that's been compiled 64-bit. For that matter, maybe someone has compiled Firefox 64-bit themselves already. Maybe even 65-bit! That's a bit better!