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kaiden
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Happy birthday, idkfa! I think this makes you 14 years old.
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Congrats! You're getting into pro uncle territory!
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago: (root)
Breadboards and Arduino microcontrollers are a lot of fun.
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
A little context, if you're curious: http://idkfa.com/ec/2010/08/26/when-config-files-have-dire-consequences/
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MrFood in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
neat, though I've always wanted to do a more simple bike electical generator. For the same purpose so that if I wanted to watch something I'd have to keep riding to supply the power, I
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
Pretty much everyone suggested that as a more serious punishment for not biking enough. Dealing with computers, for which sudden power loss can have catastrophic effects, it didn't seem like a
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MrFood in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
Well in my case it would not be anything important like a computer but more like a crappy tv or even a radio. Something where the suddent power loss wouldn't do damage.
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kitacek in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
Maybe instead of a generator powering the device you're paying attention to, the generator sends an analog signal to a multimeter that sends signals to your arduino. You'd have to teach the system
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
Well, if we're just communicating how fast I'm going or how much power I'm outputting, the magnet seems to be doing the trick. Was this what you were referring to?
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Scrotor in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
That is some sweet ass shit. I was wondering what you were doing with the lack of frisbee and all. I seriously need to make my record cleaning device. But Kwajalein approaches oh so soon.
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
A brief update: Discovered adhesive to the underside of the breadboard. Mounted breadboard (crookedly) to the "fork" of the exercise bike. Made wiring slightly more complicated,
...after which +3 days passed until...
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
Another update: Added an LED to the breadboard, making the closed circuit visible, or at least, visible in a darkened room. Modified microcontroller code to check the length of time
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
Further progress: Got another computer downstairs, configured it with the Perl script, and had it controlling another computer hooked up to the TV. Seemed to work as expected. A big
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
I'm running across a problem.  I have a 10 millisecond poll cycle on the device. This means in a given second, I will check the state of the sensor 100 times. This might not be
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +15Y ago:
Well. It appears that I'm not the biking machine I thought I was. Or the programmer. After some careful rewiring, poring over some documentation, and some recreational coding, I found that
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
I found a way to keep a simple log of activity for each workout. Will report once I have a decent data set.  
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
  Oh man. Spent $700 on a new computer then spent $30 on a lengthy HDMI cable so I could get all the computer, cables, and signals going where they needed to go and needed to
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
So here's my new problem. In addition to the bike, I've got a rowing machine that I like a lot. I've thought about figuring out how to hook it up to the system I've got here, but
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
I'm... I'm angry and frustrated. I want to be angry at something. At someone. At people who use Windows to get anything done. It took me four hours to get my exercise bike setup
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kitacek in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
so.....let's hope windows 7 works easier than vista? vista is hellspawn, i assure you. windows 7 is what vista was supposed to be.
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
I have zero confidence in it being any easier.
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
In addition: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#12 Where a comment says: Note: Using Windows XP both administrators/standard accounts don't require
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Scrotor in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."  
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWKMgJs_Gs#t=3m56s
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Scrotor in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
"I think he had too much gin..."
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
So, my laptop died, either due to total battery failure cascading into the power supply refusing to boot the computer. I like to think that this is because I forced my laptop to run Windows for an
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kaiden in Cognitive Surplus, about +14Y ago:
Had a few hours to kill. Started looking at the rowing machine. Already part of the rowing machine is a small LCD clock/computer. I never got it to work, for the reason that it had a few
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