The Official Cool Stuff Thread
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Castle Wolfenstein would have been more appropriate ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DmtUrYeoE&ab_channel=PSXMicha
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@Zecc Well at least it's a real use of the computing capacities inside a pregnancy test, as opposed to their normal use:
(edit: actually that could go in the IoT thread or some other ... basically you have a regular paper strip and some electronics and processor to shine some light on that and process the results to show the result, so not only it's a waste of electronics but it's likely adding a layer of potential and weird failures in the process...)
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@remi said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Zecc Well at least it's a real use of the computing capacities inside a pregnancy test, as opposed to their normal use:
(edit: actually that could go in the IoT thread or some other ... basically you have a regular paper strip and some electronics and processor to shine some light on that and process the results to show the result, so not only it's a waste of electronics but it's likely adding a layer of potential and weird failures in the process...)
The sad part is the people defending it.
The only legit argument they have could be accomplished with reusable electronics.
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@xaade said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
The sad part is the people defending it.
Does it play the Doom music? If not, there's no point really.
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@Dragoon said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
The number of "here's an image I like, let's plop the template ui on top like it's garbage" skins there really brings me back.
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Oh, they're interactive!
I thought it was just a picture.
Cool.
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Sorry, it's a facebook link, but du-yam! A helicopter lands on a trailer attached to a pickup truck.
https://www.facebook.com/1344350325/videos/10223752280738711/?extid=n4JJWzgNumBeR02S
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@dcon said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
A helicopter lands on a trailer attached to a pickup truck.
Bah, the truck wasn't moving. :unimpressed:
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@boomzilla said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
First thought from reading that: I wonder how high a Paladin can elevate its barrel. 'Cause a ballistic missile will come from straight up. And I doubt the "precision hyper-velocity" ammunition can do a 45 degree turn upwards.
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@acrow said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
First thought from reading that: I wonder how high a Paladin can elevate its barrel. 'Cause a ballistic missile will come from straight up. And I doubt the "precision hyper-velocity" ammunition can do a 45 degree turn upwards.
And a ballistic missile is a lot faster than a cruise missile.
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@boomzilla And shooting down a tom cruise missile is an impossible mission.
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@acrow said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
First thought from reading that: I wonder how high a Paladin can elevate its barrel. 'Cause a ballistic missile will come from straight up. And I doubt the "precision hyper-velocity" ammunition can do a 45 degree turn upwards.
The trick is in part that it can be a different gun battery (perhaps 50 miles away!) that targets that missile. Also, typical ballistic missile trajectories use an angle more like 22° than 45° (I looked this up; TIL!) and you'd probably build a different gun platform for that use anyway.
I still think it's amazingly cool that we've managed to make railguns work for real (without destroying themselves in the process) at all.
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@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@boomzilla And shooting down a tom cruise missile is an impossible mission.
I hate you.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@boomzilla And shooting down a tom cruise missile is an impossible mission.
I hate you.
Should have made a top gun joke, huh?
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@Zecc I think you just need a higher OT level
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@hungrier at this point you've jumped the couch.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I've been there, it's more interesting than I thought it would be. Looks like some stuff's been added since I was there.
It's also next door to Bletchley Park which is another worthwhile trip if you're ever in that part of the UK looking for something to do.
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@Zecc
E_WOOD_APPEARS_TO_BE_FLOOR_NOT_TABLE
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Lots of great videos by these guys after spotting one in the Dumb And Random Videos Thread, but here's one using mechanical light shuttering to generate bass sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omgbhGirTtY
The comment puns are great too of course.
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Say hello to the anti-porch-pirate glitter / stink bomb Mark 3:
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Winner of the 2020 "Traditional" contest:
Second place:
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@JBert That reminds me of:
Nice one box... here's the stolen pic:
https://mymodernmet.com/koi-pond-jelly-cake/ says:
Grace’s cake comprises a base of black sesame chiffon cake, followed by layers of white chocolate mousse and blueberry mousse. The top, semi-transparent layer is made from agar almond jelly (a plant-based gelatin). It might look just like a real pond, but each and every part of the delectable dessert is edible—even the koi, lily pads, and bamboo cattail stems can be enjoyed!
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Completely pointless and very likely to lose count somewhere along the way, but cool nonetheless:
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Marble machine with clockwise and counter-clockwise gravity well:
https://imgur.com/gallery/G1dZ49r
Sadly there's no information about who constructed it and how.
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@JBert said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Sadly there's no information about who constructed it and how.
(googles) Looks like that's Larry Marley (Gravitywell No. 8)
Available Date: July 3, 2021
Quantity Available: 1
Price: $4900
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@dcon Aaah, your Google-fu is strong. I didn't think to use "bidirectional gravity well" and I could only find pictures of other designs on Google Images (and then didn't bother to click through to each result in turn).
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@JBert I just used
wooden marble gravity well
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@boomzilla That is cool, but the clickbait headline really oversells the one aspect of it that I thought was the least impressive
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@boomzilla Hey, so that's what Microsoft's Hololens is going into! They had been hinting at it for a while..
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@loopback0 said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
Microsoft's Hololens
Is that still a thing?
They have a version 2 that's being targeted specifically to businesses, so, kinda?
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This has been showing up a number of times in YouTube's Recommended sidebar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT7Nq9hM_HY
Build video is linked in its description.
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@JBert high tech etch-a-sketch!
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@boomzilla still not as fun as ferrofluid on a skeletonized speaker.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
A good start. Needs a less boring explosive imo. Something more detonaceous than exflammatory.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
I've seen that article before but I was curious how it worked so I looked up a video.
It seems to require manual loading with blank cartridges, although it does offer them in a little strip: