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I’d rather watch TK do the workout in her dress. :wink:

Just over a meter, and just under a kilogram. It’s a machined aluminum hilt with electronics inside, and a really hard thick plastic tube for a blade. The balance point is about where the two pieces meet. It’s like a heavier version of a kendo shinai, and the warranty covers a year of full-force combat.

Broken bones are indeed a valid concern. I managed to break a finger the first week I had it, due to sparring without armor. Also kinda lost an arm that day, or I would have if it had been a real plasma blade. This was only about 10 minutes after getting hit, before the bruise had a chance to really develop:

… Timbuktu?

Tom E, in the next version of Narsil you should add a Marco Polo mode so we can find missing lights.

Your firmware is so amazing sometimes you say things like that and I’m not 100% sure whether you’re joking or not :smiley:

So tell us, is this part of your training as a minor deity, or are you preparing for some sort of light saber exhibition/competition, perhaps part of a Cosplay convention, if such things exist?

Ouch! That'll hurt.

Those new fangled tag locator things would do the trick - TrackR as one example. Funny - I know a guy who's got a west coast company who came out with locator tags years ago for luggage - think he was ahead of his time, or at least ahead of the curve of the better tech/cost/marketing. GPS or audio and visual queues, or both.

Hmm driver update with gsm slot, antenna pads, GPS chip
Design new package with antenna connections, design big shipping box with antenna connections
Adds a few cents in shipping and simcard with data, but you could really see where it is then :slight_smile:
Unless it is rejected for a box with tons on outbound communication probably is not something shippers want :smiley:

And TK that is quite the damage for a goddess :wink:
Auch

Looks like TK have been a misplaced fighter ( lightsaber ) in the just over world championship in medevil fighting held here in Denmark this year.

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Thanks for sharing that SparkyDK! :slight_smile:

If at all possible, please put me down for 1 Q8.

Thanks!

Can I please be put in for a second item. I am 1066 on list. Thanks Miller.

Sign me up for a second one please! I’m #704.

GPS is tricky. It is, quite literally, the world’s biggest clock. It takes the form of a bunch of satellites orbiting in known paths, all going “TICK… TICK… TICK…” very loudly in perfect unison as they broadcast individually-identifiable pings with timestamps. If you know exactly what time it is and very precisely how much time elapsed between receiving each copy of a single “tick” due to the limited speed of light, you can figure out where you are.

But I wouldn’t expect anyone to do realtime orbital mechanics calculations on dozens of satellites simultaneously, with corrections for general relativity, on a cheap 8-bit integer-only single-core processor, and still remain responsive enough to measure microsecond differences in lag between the visible signals, and then use that lag measurement to triangulate the device’s location precisely.

Okay, maybe I knew a guy who once did exactly that (Lightman, funny how things always seem to revolve around light)… but most sane people instead buy a chip with all the relevant parts already implemented. Because GPS is almost as much of a pain as date math.

If anyone needs a reminder…

  • The first rule of Date Math is: You don’t do your own date math.
  • The second rule of Date Math is: YOU DON’T DO YOUR OWN DATE MATH.

See this video if you want to know why. Programmer Barbie says “Date math is hard!”

In any case, GPS is a similar story… especially on cheap, under-powered processors. You really don’t want to do your own realtime relativistic orbital mechanics and micro-lag triangulation calculations. It’s like that long lonely winter down at the South Pole when you got really drunk one night and decided to run around the pole wearing only boots in –75 C weather — it may seem like a good idea at the time, but after a few days of coughing up blood you realize you were horribly, disastrously wrong.

BTW, does anyone know where to get boots with built-in heaters? Asking for a friend.

Do you Does your friend prefer 26650s or 32650s?

GPS capabilities are similar to 3D graphics… they come in a nicely packaged specialized processor that does the job lightning fast - way faster then software on the cpu.

BTW: i’m still scratching my head about how much of a signal can be induced in a tiny antenna, 14.000Km away, inside a cell phone in a very noisy environment… The GPS satellites can’t broadcast that loud, do they? They are running on solar power…? Kind of puzzles me…

Have them check with the persons family of the person who ran around outside at –75°C. It’s much less expensive to just sell them than ship them home.

Check local snow machine dealers. That is where I found mine. :stuck_out_tongue:

I will see if I can find my picture of me at the north pole with the temp of negative 62 Degrees. :slight_smile:

Hmmmm, personally I have never found any that are worth a flip. But I have been checking out THESE , but at this point I know nothing more about them than what I have read.

But, I am thinking; put them in a pair of Boots Like This and your probably good to go pretty far into the negative Fahrenheit numbers. .

My experience with the boots have been positive. They are not much to look at, but they do keep my feet warm. :+1:
18 below zero F is the coldest I have been in and my feet stayed warm.

Mission accomplished. :+1: :smiley:

See post 7897 for more on that.



I’m not much of a fighter, and I’m not the least bit competitive; I’m more of a process junkie. I do things because I enjoy the road, not because I want to get to the destination. Those who don’t enjoy the process rarely survive past a couple centuries, so you can generally assume that those of us who remain are here because we’re having a good time.

That is to say… I’m not doing this for any particular goal. I enjoy it for its own sake.

As seen a couple pages ago, this doesn’t tend to go over well with people who are impatient to get where we’re going. So I apologize for that… but I hope I can at least make the ride a bit more interesting.