I created something like this a long time ago, using X-10 modules, a Linux server, and a CM-11a (serial interface). I could ssh into my home machine and instruct it to close the garage door if I forgot to do it when leaving the house (there was a command line utility called heyu that sends X-10 commands through the…

The Photon is also WiFi based (and is cheaper). You can create a REST interface to read from or write to the I/O pins, so it is fairly easy to have it energize a relay and open / close the garage door. What worries me is the security, since it all goes through Particle’s servers. I don’t know if it works with Blynk…

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I got the headphones separately, and don’t particularly care for it. It’s not as comfortable as earbuds, and it falls out easily. On the plus side, it sounds OK, and the flat cable + magnetic clasp is nice. I’d take a cheap pair of earbuds from Monoprice over it.

I got the headphones separately, and don’t particularly care for it. It’s not as comfortable as earbuds, and it…

When I went into a T-Mo store in San Francisco to get a micro SIM, they just used a punch to cut down my SIM to size, gratis.

When you point your finger at a bruh, there are 4 fingers pointing back at the bruh that is you.

Once I encountered 3 motorcycle cops working together. One is in front writing a ticket for a car. Hidden from view by that car, another cop stood by the side of the road stopping cars that are speeding past (this is a local road, 25 mph), so that they will be ticketed by a 3rd cop. There was a line of 5 cars stopped…

No, they might screw it up to the point where they will cancel your service. It has happened to me before, called to change something in the service, and they end up cutting off service because someone entered the wrong work order.

But there’s no 747s there to be blown around. So take THAT, Neptune. Ha!

Curious - why are a lot of them changing hands if it is a solid headphone amp? Switching to a more portable amp? Or upgrading? If upgrading, to what?

I wish this had come out 2 weeks ago. Massdrop had a group buy for the O2 for $70, and JDS dropped their price to $100 and added batteries to match.

Electric cars will not allow you to drive off when it is plugged in.

Unless you have information about this exact situation that the rest of us don’t have, it is rather pointless debating about what the pilot should have done.

The KLM landing is crazy. The SIA (?) 747 in the beginning of the second video showed a beautiful crosswind landing.

I saw Dr Benton demonstrate this some years ago at a National Wildlife Refuge (he had special permission to fly a kite in order to take aerial photos of the salt evaporation ponds). His website : http://kap.ced.berkeley.edu/

On one hand, I want to say that with thinking like that, we’ll probably still be flying better versions of propeller planes today.

Me too. And I also had fun wondering if the person was a fan of professional wrestling, or a professional fan of wresting :)

Unless the source article was edited since your comment, they were both acknowledged in the first paragraph. The “professional wrestling fan” and the “ardent communist” are two different people.

I’m typing this on an Acer C720. Not sure how it compares, but I bought mine a couple of years back and suspects it is even slower than this one. It is way more useful than I expected it to be. On vacation I’d leave the laptop at home and bring this instead.

I’m typing this on an Acer C720. Not sure how it compares, but I bought mine a couple of years back and suspects it…

You mean the TSA hasn’t yet?