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by jack
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1207702

Re: A little light humour

Car exhaust device Renault Forums.jpg To be fair, this is just an application of the Venturi effect. Thanks Nick, but can't help feeling there must be better ways. Hence the joke. :lol: Good grief ... :lol: It's cute, but actually quite clever. Personally, I would class it as a curiosity rather tha...
by jack
Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:50 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16488
Views: 4837501

Re: Nothing In Particular

Also you can generated a hex IP address that looks like a four part DNS name. De.ad.be.ef Ah! 0xDEADBEEF - the absolute favourite for poisoning stacks and pool memory... used it loads of times... an alternative to 0xBADCAFE. Here's an example I wrote about 10 years ago for stack checking on MSP430s...
by jack
Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1207702

Re: A little light humour

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by jack
Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:17 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6163
Views: 1906708

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Recently been listening to a bit of Gabriella Laberge. The first video below is not the best recording - a bit sharp for me - but her delivery & interpretation is great (IMHO). The second is from 7 years ago, but I still love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVrJpC0D7w https://www.youtube.co...
by jack
Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:40 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Free schematic/board tools...
Replies: 16
Views: 4936

Re: Free schematic/board tools...

I'll report on 1.1 in the next few days hopefully.

LibrePCB has direct links to PCBWay amongst others - they are a sponsor of the project.
by jack
Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:25 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16488
Views: 4837501

Re: Nothing In Particular

Interesting/left-field use of a turntable to calibrate an anemometer!!!

https://www.edn.com/a-groovy-apparatus- ... anemometer
by jack
Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:10 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Free schematic/board tools...
Replies: 16
Views: 4936

Re: Free schematic/board tools...

LibrePCB 1.1.0 was released on 3rd April and is looking like a HUGE improvement. Massive improvements, including Eagle whole project import and many other goodies. https://librepcb.org/blog/2024-04-03_release_1.1.0/ https://librepcb.org/download/ The beta 64-bit version uses Qt6 and is definitely th...
by jack
Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16488
Views: 4837501

Re: Nothing In Particular

Old news, but still worth repeating for those still using Eagle:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusio ... ectronics/

Time to move on
by jack
Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:34 pm
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1207702

Re: A little light humour

Mike H wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:36 pm Car exhaust device Renault Forums.jpg
To be fair, this is just an application of the Venturi effect.
by jack
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:11 am
Forum: New Users
Topic: Howdy
Replies: 2
Views: 621

Re: Howdy

Morning!
by jack
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:22 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: what are you doing ?
Replies: 1308
Views: 471160

Re: what are you doing ?

if you try to play back recordings, are they easily audible? With the mic I used (which has now packed up) they were recorded at such a low level they were virtually inaudible, although it seemed to be able to make identifications ok. I was using one of these with the same Ugreen sound card: https:...
by jack
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:21 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: what are you doing ?
Replies: 1308
Views: 471160

Re: what are you doing ?

What mic are you using? Mine packed up a while ago, and seemed to have insufficient gain as well. A Clippy Mono EM272 Omni microphone (FC047) from FEL Communications https://micbooster.com/clippy-and-pluggy-microphones/65-1084-clippy-em272-microphone.html#/36-single_2_4_matched_capsules-single/202-...
by jack
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:14 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: what are you doing ?
Replies: 1308
Views: 471160

Re: what are you doing ?

So, every week the BirdNET-Pi setup in my office sends us a recap showing the changes week-by-week in what's been heard - for week 11 (last week): Total Detections: 8645 (-5%) Unique Species Detected: 50 (-2%) = Top 10 Species = European Robin - 2297 (+38%) Eurasian Blackbird - 1750 (+83%) Great Tit...
by jack
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2710
Views: 1207702

Re: A little light humour

One for Max !!

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by jack
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:40 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16488
Views: 4837501

Re: Nothing In Particular

Just have to post this lovely photo of a Firecrest, the UK's smallest bird at just 5g. The photo is from the Marden Wildlife group - that's the next village to us and where I keep my bees - they do a lot of ringing and recording of migrant birds and have some super photographers... the photo below i...