[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sure, I'll work off that copper coin lad's dimensions and try and make it adjustable like the smelter. Could you point me towards an example of the little coffee can forge?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Very cool stuff. I might have to look a bit more into this. There's a chap melting copper here with a 13 square foot lens - looks like a pretty small beam, not sure if usable for your purposes. But cool idea, have you got some lens dimensions in mind?

Also, definitely not guaranteeing any safety, but think i'll give it a shot.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I think I'll see what I can do with this, Does something like this look suitable? From my back-of-envelope calculations, this gives 17000N force (about 1750kg-force like they've said).

And then the challenge is to release the pellet, and refill from a hopper containing more biomass material. Can you tell me what biomass material you would be using?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Any material, the software i'll be using has some basic material properties built-in, but theres room for customisation.

Size limitations - any sort of dimensions. Complexity - i could probably do a few mechanisms that are less than maybe 5-10 parts. Or else one large, say less than 50.

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I'm a mechanical engineering student with a fairly open brief for a short project. Have to draw a 3D cad model of a mechanism and do some motion analysis. So i thought i'd ask the fine folk of slrpnk if they had any projects that need a bit of ironing out.

Probably best suited if you have an idea and want see how the parts might move in 3 dimensions. I'd be able to tell you stuff like how much force/torque is in a particular part, letting you know how strong bits need to be.

Has to be a mechanism of some sort that i draw from scratch - let me know what dimensions i need to accomodate. And i have to present it to the class.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

CCS should be SCC (State Capture by Carbon worshippers)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Just heard Madeleine King on abc AM.

This is fucked.

If we absolutely must jeopardise our precious artesian basin (the life source of the australian interior) to get some gas out of beetaloo, I'd much rather reimbursement in sweet cash (like taxes), rather than the possibility of maybe potentially getting slightly cheaper gas to burn later on.

Further money thrown to Chevron for CCS, a company that consistantly misses all of its targets, and a tech that isn't ready.

Why not invest in proven policys/tech to reduce emissions? Why not give money to government owned research departments? Or at that very least, not be actively sabotaging CSIRO?

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These two potential candidates want to try become the first job-sharing parliamentarians. I can see the benefits of opening up possibilities for people with kids/dependents. I think a broader range of perspectives in parliament would be great. And these people would be there to do the job, rather than career politic-ing. The linked article mentions how they'd both have to be sworn in as MP's, essentially giving their electorate 2 votes, but I don't think that'd necessarily be the case. However, you would have the power of two people's voices when lobbying.

But I'm also wary of how much easier it would be shirk responsibility to "the other person". Assuming it would work as a shared office rather than a representative person, would a line be drawn between 2 people and a group of people?

Delving into the speculative fantasy, suddenly the 2 mums with kids at home who couldn't commit to full-time parliamenting were pioneers for rotational council representatives, getting rid of politicians altogether.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Type "12ft.io/" in front of the url to get around paywalls

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I'm a big fan of stremio, just wondering if there's been development of an open source desktop app. I'd like to avoid the ads and the login component. https://blog.stremio.com/announcing-stremio-core-embracing-open-source-and-rust/

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Have a look at Perplexity.ai for replacing Chatgpt. It provides sources for the information it gives you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for that, i expected something a bit more lightweight, but i suppose its a fairly niche use case.

Will put out some feelers for a code

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I'm trying to learn to play some folk tunes on mandolin. I'm looking for some software that will let me loop sections and change tempo (without changing pitch). To help learn by ear, i want repetition and then slowly build up speed.

I thought Audacity would do it but it looks like it is lacking the real-time component (or at least seems to be in its infancy) unless there's something i'm missing?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That sounds great! I hadn't even considered capturing human waste. Do you rely on that entirely? or are you hooked into the mains?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A potential solution could be having a larger central community plant taking the scraps from several households. But again it won't be enough to provide cooking power for all, maybe it could give back some other type of community benefit.

Spitballing here but that slurry could go to community gardens.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I've looked at these before, really cool idea. I think one issue is the amount of waste needed. How does the author get 2kg a day? I reckon my house (of 4 people) chuck about 4kg a week into the compost.

A good way to supplement it would be with yer chook droppings, but still not enough to cook for a household.

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The Australien Labor Party has made an ad and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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Getting a ridiculous amount of avo's on the tree this year. In a rental so i'm not knowledgable about this. What's a good way to make the most of the season? Theyre staying green on the tree, and taking 1-2 weeks to ripen once picked atm. How long will they stay like this? I presume they start dropping off eventually, is that likely to happen all at once? Do they freeze well?

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