The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

[Pilgrimsmaster]

[enginerd]

[amal]

Dude. Smooth this out and speed up the actuators and look the fuck out cuz imma be robostompin 'round town hahah

[Not]

Glow powder mini feedback:

Love the packaging. Split in half baggies will be real nice when I redo my arm in a few days.

Also good heavens this is bright.

[DeeWoo]

Triboelectric nanogenerator - when we can make something like that that’ll be powered by movement, (like a watch), just think of all the usecases with implants.

[Not]

If I install a flexsecure, do I now run on java?

[amal]

I’ve run on java since 2012!

[amal]

@DeeWoo

Triboelectric nanogenerator - when we can make something like that that’ll be powered by movement, (like a watch), just think of all the usecases with implants

It’s definitely awesome technology. Unfortunately it’s very low power (pacemakers require almost no power), yet requires constant movement (hearts don’t stop beating), and they don’t really store any power so storage is still a big issue if you want to do any “real work”.

Basically this technology is perfectly suited for powering pacemakers and not much else.

When it comes to energy harvesting, regardless of the generation method, there are two basic approaches. First, generate enough power for the sensor or apparatus to use directly. Second, generate power over time and store it so that higher current applications can periodically use the stored power. The problem with powered implants and energy harvesting has always been safe energy storage. Even simple, low energy Bluetooth requires orders of magnitude more power than a pacemaker does.

[amal]

This own nothing economy is barreling at our faces faster than I’m comfortable with. Now you can’t even open your own car hood.

[Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha]

[amal]

haha wtf did i just watch..

[enginerd]

Fuck Mercedes for that! But at least their average customer doesn’t know how to open the hood on a regular car…

And apparently it’s limited to EVs and there’s a release latch hidden behind a trim panel.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@amal

haha wtf did i just watch..

That gave me Aeon Flux vibes

[amal]

Haha it gave me Duke Nuke vibes.

[amal]

[Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha]

Would a resin encapsulated module be theoretically possible?

[tac0s]

Attempts have been made–it would need to be a brick to not be brittle AF. Are you concerned about durability?

[Aoxhwjfoavdlhsvfpzha]

Not concerned exactly, but I do like the idea of the extra protection

[amal]

just fyi.. to date i don’t think we’ve had a single module failure in biopolymer

[tac0s]

I have my module on a stiffener with the chip down for that reason. If folks are interested, this is something we could offer.