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here's a video that shows a machine at Berkeley lab that makes a high-performance magnet wire, not sure if it's related to this project but still pretty interesting to see how complex just the wire is- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmmNRaKpBTI&t=2138s


"It looks a bit Rube Goldberg esque coming out the back"

Yes it does indeed. Amazing amount of trial and error to build such a machine.


Well, Goldberg was an engineer and supposedly did construct his drawings to be 'technically' feasible.


Beaver dams are a good example of this too. Beavers were building bioswales everywhere in North America for free and we killed almost all of them and wore them for hats.

https://www.ewu.edu/cstem/stories/the-ecological-benefits-of...


Which makes me wonder how much carbon we can sequester per reintroduced beaver. Wetlands are apparently very good carbon sinks.


This guy Les put together a piece of software to view/calibrate a spectrum[0]. He also has a YT channel[1] where he builds a couple RasPi spectrometers using pre-made spectroscopes that run $50-100, but the whole package is a lot more compact.

There are also a number of spectroscope enclosures on thingiverse, but it's always so hard to gauge if any of the projects are actually worth printing. The most dead-simple and cheap example I found used the same slit/CD plastic combo capped onto the ends of a paper towel tube.

Some other stuff[2,3,4]

https://github.com/leswright1977/PySpectrometer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAV7bnNrE-M

https://physicsopenlab.org/2021/06/19/absorption-spectroscop...

https://www.effemm2.de/spectragryph/about.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_spectroscopy


Generally, Public Lab builds and 3d print plans are worth your time. Everything they list is well-considered and well-maintained. When the stodgy old magazine The Economist wrote a "Punk Science" article about DIY science, they actually got them include a cut-out page to build a spectrometer :)

https://publiclab.org/wiki/economist


how about a blacklist browser extension, and like pi-hole, simply share lists of bad domains to omit from search returns.


If that is being done on the client side, then server sends results but extension blocks all of them resulting in an empty results page for viewer.

This needs to be done server side so that blank result pages are avoided. It would improve service for all as it'd be a better product all around.


I was able to take a screenshot of GAuth backups on iPhone using the button hotkeys(IE: Power+Volume up). I setup a container that runs a go version of GAuth and used a python script to decrypt the (decrypted QR code) backup keys. Then I backed up the encrypted keyfile to offline disk, encrypted the container backup and deleted it from the hypervisor.

https://github.com/pcarrier/gauth

https://github.com/scito/extract_otp_secret_keys


I really like the new containers feature in firefox for this- I have a trash container so my main youtube container doesn't get polluted.


I think the main target is ML applications that depend on GPU access and being able to run a WM is just a side-benefit.


I've found that tacking 'pdf' onto search queries gets through some of the SEO garbage. For instance I did 'home dust filtration pdf' and found this pdf:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/documents/re...

which cites this paper about deposition rates of different particle sizes:

https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=86094...


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