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I would guess there is photocell next to the LED and comparing the amount of light to the ambient light the cameras get. They might also be doing something clever and using the LED itself as a photo diode.

https://nadav.ca

It's a bit of a mishmash of things I might find useful in the future, and silly/mostly useless personal projects. :)

It looks like the connector just happens to fit so it's only being used to make the electrical connection. The 4 pins are actually power, ground and I2C data and clock.

Edit: Here https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder/blob/mast... you can see the white and red wires coming from the USB connector labelled as SDA and SCL.

This is awesome, thanks for the interesting rabbit hole!

This looks almost identical (though maybe a bit more stripped down, haven't looked closely) to the Orange Pi Zero which has been on sale for a few years at a similar price.

http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/

If you're not already familiar with Soft White Underbelly (interviews and portraits of the human condition), I highly recommend checking out Mark's other videos. I particularly enjoyed the recent series of folks from Appalachia.

https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly

It does, here's a great video by Ben at Applied Science showing some examples of the effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4Fk3VNZqs

It seems to go to as many characters as you can fit in the URL. Each new character after /bot-dungeon/ is a new level.

Pretty clever!

I've been really happy with a similar Cannon printer (Cannon G3200).

The print quality is quite good, it comes with an insane amount of ink, and you literally buy full replacement bottles of ink and pour them in the tanks.

No artificial page limits, no checks for non-oem ink.

Incredibly, here is it running on an Atmega32U2. https://youtube.com/watch?v=YNrFOClrzTA

Looks like anyone can add them right next to the tag cloud...

It seems like the status page just came back up.

The major credit card companies have a service where they can notify the merchant of the new details when the card expires. I believe Visa calls it Account Updater.

https://articles.braintreepayments.com/guides/account-update...

Interesting! I got a different result for "crowdsourced". https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/crowdsourced/eyJ3Ijog...

Same issue on Firefox 68.0.2

I live in a major Canadian city it’s still somewhat common to see, though usually more for budget brands. Packages usually are capped at 200 GB and the next tier will be unlimited.

I’d say the shift to more unlimited offerings happened about 5 years ago.

About half of that cost ($40) is the 5 breadboards needed to connect the circuit together. Building it on something more permanent like veroboard would cut that cost down significantly.

I used to share the exact same feeling. Two weeks ago, I finally made the jump and switched to an iPhone. The first thing I did was go back through and take more time in selecting the Google services that are actually important to me and adjusting them tracking levels i'm more comfortable with.

Having spent a few weeks on the phone (from a Samsung S7 before), the biggest difference I feel is that the iPhone is no longer nagging me to interact with it the same way my old one did. No blinking notification light, no Samsung pestering me to accept some changes to their terms and conditions etc.

I'm surprised.

I have the exact same headset (Jabra Evolve 75) at work and have had no issues at all using it on my 2018 MacBook Pro.

I use it daily for Slack and other VoIP calls as well as to listen to music. I usually have it paired to my phone as well, but it works just as well connected solely to the Mac.

That said, I did have an issue once with it when trying to play a game on Steam. I couldn't hear the in-game audio, only other players speaking.

I've started adding some posts about the CNC upgrades here: https://nadav.ca/2019/01/18/list-of-3018-cnc-upgrades/

It's still a little bare, but I'm hoping to add more detail as I can. Feedback is also very much appreciated!

They're not, I wasn't focused on documenting when I created them. I'll be sure to add that to the list of things to share :) But here is an image of an SOIC-20 I milled. https://pasteboard.co/HX2z3EN.jpg

The short version of the workflow is: FlatCAM to convert gerbers to gcode then CNCjs on an orange pi zero to stream the gcode to the CNC.

Absolutely! I recently got a 3D printer as well and the feeling of being able to create something "out of thin air" is amazing.

Hopefully I'll have something initial up this weekend, i'll post the link here when I do.

I've been using a 3018 CNC with pretty good results. They're fairly inexpensive machines (about $300 I believe) and are decently accurate.

I still order boards from China, but for a quick breakout board it's incredibly handy!

I also decided to get a 5W laser which is also pretty fun to engrave with.

I'm planning on writing a series of blog posts about it if you're interested!

As a last note, if you like tinkering, these little machines are money and time sinks.. So far, I've added limit switches, a pi, more bits, 3D printed a tool holder etc etc

Unrelated, but am I the only one surprised that bbc.com is not not served over https?

I just want to preface this saying that most of the JavaScript I do is on the backend.

What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?

1. Start with plain JS. Before jumping picking and learning frameworks, helper libraries (like lodash) make sure you understand what the language in it's current form can do.

2. Make sure your resources are current. Like @flaviocopes says, JavaScript has changed a lot since 2015. If something seems ugly or messy check to see if a cleaner syntax has been introduced in ES6+

3. Pick a style and stick with it. JS is quite flexible in its syntax, I'd recommend using a linter from the beginning. I personally enjoy using Standard, but anything that is widely adopted will do.

To be fair those customers were reaching out online via Twitter.

Yes, browser support is listed at the bottom of the page.

This is a really good one to remember, and it's also implemented in node which can be handy for making little CLI tools.

The other main way would be using a constant current driver[1]. By adjusting the amount of current to the LED, you can control the brightness.

[1] https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/256336/does-...

This makes me think of userbinator's comment from yesterday's Google Memory Loss post.

To add insult to injury, if you do try to make complex and slightly varying queries and exhaust its result pages in an effort to find something you know exists, very often it will think you're a robot and present you with a CAPTCHA, or just ban you completely (solving the CAPTCHA just gives you another, and no matter how many you solve it keeps refusing to search; but they probably benefit from all the AI help you just gave them, what bastards...) for a few hours.

Edit: I wonder if Google is using this as a sort of income source for pages that bring little to no ad revenue.