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Almost? Does that count?
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A LANDING!
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1 minute ago, mikegarrison said:
One of those engines is burning orange and the other burning blue
That got me worried as well. And that was far before shutdown as well.
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The cameras are very engine-focused, though. Something may happen?
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Liftoff!
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Countdown stopped?
No... it's going again.
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Would be amazing if they stuck the landing today... assuming they lift off.
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Okay, but what's a "conservative thrust limit"? A margin of 2%? 1?
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New attempt in 2 hours!
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1 minute ago, JIMMY_the_DOG said:
like was thrust limiter basically above the recommended max?
That's what they're trying to figure out right now.
ninja'd.
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2 minutes ago, Flying dutchman said:
does this count as a succesfull landing?
You can't fail the landing if you never took off!
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On the bright side - yet another proof that the abort system works.
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Less than 30 seconds to go!
...and there's an abort!
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2 hours ago, Lewie said:
Man, it was nuts....couldn't remember where I was and what year it was. Took an ambulance to the ER, got a CT scan and all that jazz. Everything has been very....'scattered' every since.
Man, that sucks. Hope you feel better soon!
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Last year of school, so I'm not doing much. I do want to study math and informatics/computer science, though.
I couldn't offer much else as well, frankly. Not to imply I don't enjoy these subjects but they are the only three (+ physics) I get 14/15 points in on exams, everything else is in the single digits.
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I have managed to desolder an SMD capacitor!
But there's no way that, if I cared about the board, it wasn't damaged. For one, I broke the cap off its leads more than I desoldered them (I had to remove those separately), and secondly the cap didn't look so good afterwards. Kinda looked like I melted some of the material, so I'm sure there are a lot of things I'm not exactly doing right.
Not touching my N64 if that's the result.
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11 hours ago, tater said:
Face to face contact with your fellow humans is substantially more impactful for a long life than exercise, vaccination against flu, etc...
More impactful for a long life? Time to get (and survive) Ebola, then.
Note that it says "vaccination against flu", not "contracting the flu". That can still end your life regardless of how many social contacts you have because the flu doesn't care about that.
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Onto SN 10!
I mean, let's be honest - it would have been fantastic if the landing worked after just two attempts, but that's simply not a realistic goal right now.
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And that didn't quite work out in the end...
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Shocking news (and tl;dr): Cheap push buttons suck and break quickly.
Right, so a while ago I bought an Arduino as part of some larger set of parts. One of them was an 8x8 LED matrix that was driven via an IC, along with 5 buttons. I decided to code a small, simply and very known game for it - Snake.
That was quite fun, since it was the first time I used a datasheet for a chip I actually had and a chip had a use for. It's simple serial communication, but I was glad when it worked flawlessly on the first attempt. Then I had some problems setting up the buttons because they worked a bit differently to what I expected and I wondered why three of the four didn't break the circuit. And I thought I made a mistake in the code first, checked the function numerous times and couldn't find anything wrong.
Anyways, I got the buttons working in the end and around a day and corrections of minor brain farts later I had everything running as well as I had hoped.
The controls are still just on a breadboard and the display on its own, premade pcb, but I genuinely want to solder this onto a perfboard or something. I'm proud of this and I really want to keep it. This was the first time I technically developed a game!However, not even a full day after I had everything working, the buttons started breaking. I know it's them and not the wires (i.e. not the breadboard's fault) because they sometimes work depending on where I press. And that's incredibly annoying, especially if you want to test a "winning" state you just implemented to prevent a softlock if the snake gets too long and can't get that far in the game because the damn thing doesn't turn left!
I need some better buttons for this. Ones that don't break after a week of use.
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8 hours ago, Mirror World said:
Noooooooooooooooooo.1.11.1 has lived.I neglecteed not to stop steam from updating my game.
Modded installs should be copied out of Steam to be independent from it. There are no problems with that, everything will still function fine.
But in the meantime, Steam allows you to back to earlier versions of the game, under the "Betas" (I think that's what it was) option in the launch settings. Simply select the earlier version and redownload it.
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8 hours ago, richfiles said:
If the crashing gets more frequent, you might find it's not necessarily overheating.
30 or so minutes before I closed the windows on turned the heater up, which is only around 1 meter away from the console. Adding to that, the cooling is at the bottom, which is also kinda where the ground is.
So, no circulation of air, heat coming from right next to the thing, generally humid air in my room and (apparently) very sensitive hardware. I wouldn't exactly be surprised if that contributed to a system reset.
But I might look around a bit, if things still look okay. Just looking for now.
The problem is that I really don't want to make it worse. I still want the console to work fine after I'm done messing with it!Edit: I'm all over the place right now. Sorry.
Anyways, I opened up and took apart an old computer my dad for some reason kept. I want to practice soldering on/off that before even thinking about touching the N64 with that.
So... what am I looking for? Like, this is obviously a capacitor and it's not looking so good anymore:
But then, when I look up "smd capacitor" on Google, I get that pictures of these things:
...which the N64's PCB has quite a few of.
I'm not entire sure what I would look for when I do eventually open up the console.
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I think my N64 overheated. I've been playing SM64 for around 6 hours (hence I think overheat) and it suddenly reset itself, which is apparently common.
...but could the console have picked any worse time to crash than the third stage of the final Bowser fight? -
10 hours ago, Shpaget said:
Oh that sucks. Some sort of inflamation?
Everybody, type on this side so Delay can't hear us.
Well, no. In fact it was nothing particularly major (in terms of cause, at least). The ear felt so blocked because that's what it was.
I'm just glad it wasn't something worse. Had an appointment today and cleaning the ear was literally all that was done.So, in total, everything is okay again, actually a lot better than before. I should have done that much earlier.
But that was indeed the worst. That night was terrible with so much pressure on the eardrum.
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"Starship 10 looks too intense for me"
If you don't get it, play some RollerCoaster Tycoon. You'll see that message pop up a lot.