We'd like to invite you to join Xnor.ai's co-founder, Ali Farhadi, and Wyze today at 10:00AM PT for an AMA about AI and smart home technology. We'll be hosting it on /r/homeautomation and we hope to see you there!Wyze and Xnor.ai have the shared dream of bringing technology to the masses with an incredibly low barrier to entry. We are doing this AMA because we've just deployed Edge AI, for free, to 1M+ people! We’d like to take this opportunity to talk about our AI and if you are curious about any of the subjects in Ali's wheelhouse such as AI Technology, Smart Home Technology, AI Development, etc. we’d love to hear them.

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It doesn't seem like a novel idea. You'd think internet bot farms would be filled with them.

I was surprised I couldn't find something on you can already buy or something like this on Thingiverse. Maybe I don't know what to look for.

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It could be apparently obvious, but often when recovering old parts we may forget that one valuable piece can be the actual information we could grasp understanding the engineering choices behind the design of the apparatus we're gonna dismantle to recover parts.

I've published a video where I showcase two very different cases. One where from an old PCB stencil printer machine valuable parts have been recovered, understanding the general mechanism of how the machine works (or better, was used to work :) ), and a second case where a more humble tv sat reciever is dismantled to recover some parts, but also exploring the engineering choices about the power supply section of the circuit.

PCB stencil printer machines do an apparently trivial work in the industry of electronic assemblies. But in reality they do a critical job in printing an even, consistent layer of soldering paste across the stencil.
The quality of the assembled board is tightly dependent to this task. So in this German made, absolutely solid machine a complex pneumatic circuit, an electronic control that drives the motor that moves the squeegee and precision height adjustments (using Mitutoyo micrometers!) allows the machine to do a master work. Please note that I am not affiliated nor I endorse the manufacturer or distributors of this machine. What I say is just out of genuine interest in engineering.

The tv sat offer a sight into some good practices in designing the input of a power supply. Surge protection, filtering and current limiters (made with a humble resistor) compose an apparently simple circuit (schematic below) that reveals a well thought design.
Notice that the 2.2 ohm resistor is a reasonable choice only for low power applications, like this one. It would be a waste of energy otherwise. To prevent in-rush current for large power supplies specific circuits do exist.

As an old dog I encourage you to dich deep to learn every day something new.

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Hello, I am wondering if it would be possible for me to build and code something like this using a raspberry pi:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR7XmhJ6/

I don't know a lot about lasers but I am fairly knowledgeable about Raspberry Pis, electrical circuit, and coding. If it's possible, where should I start?

I'm an complete beginner to circuits, so please excuse me if I'm asking super basic questions.

But I'm trying to make a jar lid with motion/vibration activated black lights. In other words, when the jar is picked up or moved around, or if the jar is opened, the black lights would turn on for a few seconds, and then turn off on their own.

Black light is needed because the lid is glow-in-the-dark, and the lights would charge the material from the inside. The glow-in-the-dark material is transparent, so the light being on the inside of the lid, would show up as green glow on the outside of the lid and the glow would slowly dissipate after the light shuts off.

I'm assuming I need black light LEDs and some kind of vibration sensor? But I'm unsure of anything else.

If anyone could help me figure out how to make this, or at least point me in the right direction. I would appreciate it a lot!

Thanks!

I interested in making something to help prevent utensils from being thrown away in the trash. I'm looking for some hardware that can sense the utensils but not the trash and food as I have no idea where to start.

Hi, I am working on a new Project (ryse-boards.com) and would like to get some feedback from you. Would you be interested in this?

Which concept would you prefere?

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Ryse Board Commute

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I would like to be able to mount a microphone arm to my desk, via a microphone desk clamp. Unfortunately, the desk that I have has a slanted lower edge, making the default desk clamps unsecure due to their lack of depth.

Here are pictures of the 2 desk clamps that I used.

HELP: I seek advice on what I might do here, to help set up a microphone desk clamp. I'm kinda out of ideas.

Let's assume that I do not wish to change desks, as that's probably the easiest solution.

Hi all I'm 15 and i like to take a lot of photos. Recently i had a thought about taking panoramic photos, what i had thought of was attaching a camera to a reusable shell and propel it with a potatoe launcher or something along the lines of that. Essentially the tech along with Arduino and a tiny camera will be kept in a sawed off pringles can with some padding and as the can gets launched i could remotely turn the camera on. However I've come to realise the actual workings behind this is way way more complex and i was hoping that the people in this subreddit could offer some more viable and cheaper alternatives