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 No.1335[Reply]

We can have a thread how to live out of grid.

picture merely illustrative.
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 No.1336

It's mostly quitting elctricity.
A cousin of mine who lives in Rapa Nui had a quarrel with his wife,and h had to literally live on a cave for two weeks.

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 No.1340

I want to know more about this, I'm working to get my life together first but once I get some money and stability I want to make a run from society.

Did live a week in a luxury tent once, with flowing water but no electricity or gas.
Was very enjoyable, especially if you can focus on actually living like gathering wood, keeping the place warm and preparing food without having to worry about other things.

There are a lot of difficulties that I'm probably not aware of but I try to read as much into it as possible.

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 No.1341

>>1340
For more information look survivalism videos, bushcraft, electronics, sustainability and search for blogs with a focus on the environment.



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 No.1312[Reply]

Does anyone want to make a MUD?

Lets do it.

We can start off in an office building and just go from there. Anything goes, but must be explained by general logic (faulty logic ok) and physics (bad physics ok as well).
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 No.1313

>>1312
>make a MUD
What exactly does this mean? What is a MUD?

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 No.1314

Moved to >>>/rpg/2917.



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 No.1301[Reply]

So I've gotten my hands on 5 meters of RGB 12V LED tape. I want to install it into my room. How can I get more than 7 solid colors (red, green, blue, r+g, r+b, b+g, white) without an Adruino? Do I need to make three 0-12V regulators? Any advice?
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 No.1302

>>1301
There is too little information available to give an exact answer. It depends on what the electrical circuit that makes up the led tape looks like.
0-12V regulators are probably not what you want anyway, leds are not like incandescent bulbs in the way that the light output can be easily regulated with a variable voltage.

If it's just something like leds and resistors you might be able to dim the colours by e.g. individually PWM-ing the r/g/b power connections. If you want to string together a few 555's and passives, or go full arduino is up to you.

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 No.1303

>>1302
Actually there is no reason you can't do it via varied voltage, that's just not true. The brightness to voltage might not be linear but you can certainly do it.

Though it is probably easier to do it with a PWM. If you want to use 555s use one as a an astable oscillator and have another one set up as a one shot. By varying the resistance on the one shot via a potentiometer, you can change the duty cycle.


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 No.1306

>>1303
I did not claim it to be impossible, what I meant is that due to the diode I-V "knee" it is not as easy as regulating an incandescent lamp, especially if the datasheet for the diodes are not available as I would guess is the case for a ropelight.

I do wish that linear dimming of led lights were more common though, or at least done using /high/ frequence pwm. I've seen too many car back/brake lights that appear as multiple lights during eye saccades.



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 No.1266[Reply]

Hi lainons. I need a device that can play a music file stored in a SD card/USB key(I already have the amplifier, just need an audio exit) depending on an Arduino output. The MP3 shield costs as much as a Raspberry, so which should I choose? There are cheaper alternatives? Also, I never used a Raspberry before. Thanks.
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 No.1280

>>1266
I saw cheap chinese screenless mp3 for $10. You can pipe into button connections with transistor and use arduino for control. Alternatively, you can buy more expensive chip, make DAC and play .wav off SD card:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/SimpleAudioPlayer
But personally, I prefer simple, brain-dead solutions.

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 No.1281

If it's between those two, you should get the Raspberry pi. It's very easy to use and multipurpose.


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 No.1285

>>1282
Why not? If you can make it to work. Also, I saw an article about making SD card logger. You might want to do a search.

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 No.1304

>>1280
There's a library for arduino that plays .wav files from an SD card, only requires a transistor, a resistor for pulldown and the speaker.
https://github.com/TMRh20/TMRpcm

It depends on what you need it for, if you want to play one sound for something, then this is good, but you have to convert the files to have a specific bitrate or they will sound like shit, I don't remember exactly because I've only used it once last year.
You'll also have to look carefully at what pins you use.



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 No.1290[Reply]

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

I was reading about graphene found quite interesting. I saw this video and I was quite excited how these circuits work but did not find much information, I am a layman on electronic'd like to know more about it.
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 No.1291

>>1290
The video looks really cool! I just looked at parts of it; I will watch it more in-depth later.

Does it have no noise, or am I going deaf in Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA! ?

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 No.1292

Video's cool, but graphite is conductive too. I don't see graphene being worth it if you can just do the same thing with an ordinary pencil.
It is cool that you can use it on transparent materials though, I can already think of some uses for that.

Also, why is the guy wearing a respirator and gloves? Is this stuff unsafe?

>>1291
nope, no sound.

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 No.1293

>>1292
graphite has more layers and different conductivity in different directions relatively to those layers, it is much lower of graphene which is just one layer of graphite.
This means that you can carry more current (or have much thinner tracks) using graphene instead of tracing it with a pencil which would result in random layer orientation.

Though I don't know how this printing method works.



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 No.451[Reply]

Lets learn\practice Riceing DE's together.

I personally want to build a really lightweight DE that matches the cyberpunk CSS on here and have it on an sd card\USB converter so i can plug in to computers so i browse in a safe environment. Public\friends computers are filled with spyware.
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 No.1257

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>>493
Or you can just do...

art=filepath screenfetch

or

screenfetch -a filepath

I just export the "art" environmental variable in my .zshrc for this beauty:

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 No.1258

>>1257
Dark Bum is cute! Cute!

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 No.1259

>>1258
Yess. I kept seeing cool scrot art and I wasn't sure what I should set mine as then I finally settled on Dark Bum and I love it.

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 No.1261

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my current setup

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 No.1287

>>451
Beautiful! I love it! :333

What is it?



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 No.229[Reply]

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 No.868

>>528
If you can make a mouse live for over 5 years, you can claim some sweet prize $$$

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 No.872

>>868
Really? details plz?
(I Think there are probably those who already have 4 years old mice, but it would be interesting to know.)

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 No.1222

>>229
Biohacking is super schway. I'm studying biology right now, so I might be interested in doing some of this in the future (as in, either helping others get it, or getting it for myself if enough documentation exists.)

Think about what would happen... The technology is either already here, or is not too far off (depending on what you want, that is.)





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 No.113[Reply]

Alright so i was wondering if its possible to wire my laptops fan to a potentiometer and mount it to the side of the thing so i would have complete manual fan control. is this possible? how would i go about finding a place to get power for the fan?
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 No.116

>>115
running nullcpupowermanagement.kext on a laptop with a horrible dsdt thats beyond being patched from HP. they couldn't even spell "Hewlett-Packard" right in their own dsdt.

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 No.120

Computer fans typically use a control method a little different from just a DC motor. Usually a fan contains at least three signals: PWR, GND, and PWM. PWR and GND are usually 12 and 0 volts, though I think there are 5V fans. The PWM signal is set at a constant frequency around 20 kHz and the duty cycle determines the fan speed.

So break out a 555 chip if you want to build a fan control circuit, or you could use another method of generating a high speed PWM signal.


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 No.1275

>>116
pain incarnate

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 No.1276

>how would i go about finding a place to get power for the fan
What's wrong with the original plug? Cut the PWM wire and splice your power and ground from your controller board into the power and ground wires.
>>120
555s aren't ideal for that because they don't go past 50% duty cycle. You can do it with an opamp and some passives if you can find the circuit on the tubes. Alternately use a microcontroller and you could even splice it into an i2c bus if you can find one for automated control.



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 No.1033[Reply]

I intend on building a small NAS for the purpose of file storage and backups. I have two questions, the first regarding the computer being used for the server. I was looking at getting the HP G1610T ProLiant Micro Server and also another 8GB of ram to go with it. Is this a good choice or should I go the whitebox route or with some other pre-built computer?

My second question is in regards the storage. I'm thinking using ZFS, and having 3 1TB hard drives set up in RAIDZ (so 2TB of usable storage). I was then going to have another 3 TB HDD installed to maintain a backup of the zpool (probably using rsync). Is this a good way to go about doing this or is there anything crucial I'm missing?
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 No.1034

use HAMMERFS (zfs is fine actually but I love wage slave ing for dragonflybsd, they are good guys and hammer is a work of art)

also you don't need that much RAM for a NAS to be honest. it wont hurt but no need to spend extra on it

also why would you need a backup when you could just use a more redundant raid setup?

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 No.1035

>>1034
Thanks for your reply.

I'll look into Hammerfs, a quick Google makes it sound interesting.

Regarding the additional ram, I was thinking of running a couple of VMs on the server in addition to using it as a NAS for a couple of other computers (I was thinking of getting an NIC and running PFSense, but I haven't really done my homework on this and I don't know how feasible it is). In regards to the additional drive to backup the RAID, my rationale was to have some kind of revision control in place: in case something gets deleted accidentally or whatever this drive will have backups of the system from different points in time.

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 No.1263

>>1034
RAID is not a backup...
If raid fails (especialy the host controler) all data goes. I personaly had a raid 6 go through drives untill it killed the raid! (4 drives 3 got rejected over space of 2 days), failed rebuild!

RAID only protects for physical disk wear at best.

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 No.1264

>>1263
>RAID is not a backup...
>RAID only protects for physical disk wear at best.
untrue. i'm not sure what happened to yours and i'm not an expert but ZFS (RAIDZ!) does a LOT of things to prevent scenarios such as the one you describe and can always recover barring massive human error and fire burning ALL the discs.

http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/05/26/zfs-raid-levels/



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 No.726[Reply]

Lains.

Over the last few years I've saved a number of interesting projects from across the web. Some I've found interesting, some I plan on eventually doing.

I'll try to share about one a day or so. Contribute if you want or don't.
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 No.786

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>>785
I meant there's no electronic design in there, they've just assembled things together and made a small program, at the end it is like using an excavator to dig a small hole instead of using a shovel, it all ends being highly inefficient in many aspects: power, space, cost...
What many people don't seem to understand is Arduinos and similar boards are mostly meant for prototyping, but if they want to spend >$30 to make a clap controlled lamp I'm won't stop them.

I'll contribute with some projects instead of just complaining about them.

http://www.rmcybernetics.com/projects/DIY_Devices/diy-induction-heater.htm
http://hackaday.com/2015/03/23/3d-spectrum-analyzer-uses-1280-leds/#comments
http://www.megavolts.nl/en/projects/tesla-coils/175-audio-modulated-solid-state-teslacoil-v2-0
uzzors2k.4hv.org/index.php?page=drsstc1
http://www.easytreasure.co.uk/bfo.htm
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-X-Ray/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWNhVWEF0Ho

Pic related is a lightening detector, might be useful for photography and other interesting things like a lightening counter. I can confirm it works.

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 No.817

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>>816
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-TV-B-Gone-SHP-And-Save-45/
http://www.instructables.com/id/350-DIY-TV-B-Gone-Mico/

If you have an spare Attiny85 and anything to program it you can make your own TV-B gone.
I did one a long time ago.
>no resistor for each LED
I know.

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 No.1030

Build a Wartime Kitteh and DDOS Dog; Defcon 22

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

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 No.1260

>>726
heres a collection of projects; some interesting, some terrible, some cringy. A few good ones. Old site.

http://www.rtmark.com/featured.html



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