can we create an AI that has knowledge of the size, shape, color and name of each lego brick ever made??? We then feed it 3d renders and select a desired model scale (ex: 1:4 scale), and it prints out a lists of each piece you will need, as well as instruction/brick location to assemble an item that looks similar from lego parts.
my uncle bought one an it stayed at my grandmothers house for years. i played with my brothers and cousins a ton. when she passed it went to my aunts house. they may move soon and i said i would come pick it up and keep it in my basement to play with my son.
screen is very dark and has a ton of burn in. it might be a nice project to repair and restore. residual crt voltage scares me to this day. gotta get some rubber gloves or something.
(The photo for step 9 is a bit confusing, as it doesn't show the alligator clip attached to the screwdriver shaft.)
I grew up in the era of tube TVs (not just the CRT, the entire circuit was tubes). One of my earliest memories was being the family TV repairman, which meant pulling out all the tubes, going to the corner grocery with my dad to test them, bringing home the replacement for the bad tube, plugging them back in and the TV worked!
Dad showed me how to discharge the CRT, and we used the same tools and technique described in the WikiHow article. The loud "pop" it makes is really cool.
how about this. lets assume a sphere or egg shape is strongest and hardest to crush. create a bunch of ultralight tubes that are 12-18 inched long and crescent shaped. they are grouped in sets of 6 or more and are all connected at top and bottom by a small plastic ring. you slide them into a party balloon. and then give it air pressure, allowing you to spread them out with 60 degrees in between each crescent like an orange with all the slices. then you slowly let out the pressure so the rubber conforms against the 6 curves an makes a sphere at atmospheric pressure. then you pull vacuum, or simply place a bunch in a vacuum chamber and tie them off or glue the opening using something that wont react with latex
The rubber membrane between the spars will not withstand the atmospheric forces.
14 pounds per square inch is a lot of force. A reference example, when planing a nuclear detonation(a grim task to be sure) the 5 pounds per square inch isoline covers the area where all non hardened structures(houses) are assumed destroyed.
In short, you construct a shape made of inflatable cells which, when pressurized, contort in such a way that a vacuum is formed in the space within the collection of cells.
The problem, though, is that the additional air needed to make the cells stretch away from the center (and thus make a vacuum) is greater than than the air ‘missing’ from the vacuum part.
In any case, it’s been tried before:
“Vacuum/heat formed cushion with pyramidal, inflatable cells”:
do you need to store them away from the vehicle when you park? i could imagine parking a car next to your stacked up winter tires in a garage would cause issues
The article also mentions this, many (most?) TPMS sensors to to sleep and wake up on movement. So as long as the other set of wheels isn't moving it should probably be fine.
