NerdNinja

I could use some help finding and killing the buzzing coming from a receiver I found at Goodwill. The unit is a  TENNA HL-3105. I'm not sure where to start, the buzzing isn't bad when using the speakers but terrible with headphones

I picked it up! Does anyone know if there's a mount on the market for GPU's that works with this cooler?

Hey guys!

It's been a while since I've posted...but I just want to share my video entry for Ultra Wide Festival! Also I didn't realize top 50 was based on shares and likes so with about 1 day left please share and like it if you think I could win! Thanks

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So, I'm trying to figure out what university I would want to go to. Looking to Major in Film/VFX work but maybe also taking some engineering stuff.

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So I've done a little research and have found a few, horror stories I guess. Not that they might scare me away but I really want to understand every aspect of studying abroad and to really know what I'm getting myself into.

I've seen that Berlin is tourist central but the local economy is broken, where as Munich has great schools but more of a housing and job issue. 

Also saw some articles about terrible execution of education being very stressful for students but these are only personal experiences and not many different schools.

 Obviously not all of this is a complete turn down but I really want to make sure I make the right decision the first time.....

I also need to consider what's best for me and my girlfriend whom I'll be traveling with and would rather not have to be stuck in separate homes/dorms

Please help 

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1 minute ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

I have 25mbit/s

About what I had at home once. After we had dial up. Internet speed ain't too important, it doesn't have to be fast. Just unlimited and moderately quick. 

1 minute ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

The statutory minimum wage is I think at 8,50€ / h.

Ok. Not much different then what I get payed now. I think  There's a lot to take into account, but in the time I'm still here I think I can save up enough money to last me a month or so, maybe more

1 minute ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

Well, since i'm a pupil myself, i can't really say much about that. But i can tell you: it isn't quite cheap living here, since we took so many refugees to us.

And partially because of this, theres housing shortage in many cities, which makes Apartments and houses more expensive.

 

And just that you know: The Internet Connection in over 50% of the german households is under 50mbit/s

Yikes! But I guess that makes sense. I'll probably look for Universities with dorms then.

Just now, Praesi said:

What do you mean, uneducated? 

The average costs depends on where you wanna live and whats your living standart.

Like out of High school. No higher education type stuff, I'm pretty experienced in the restaurant business but like, what's minimum wage there? and how easy is it to find a job?

5 minutes ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

Was genau möchtest du über das Leben in Deutschland wissen?

 

What exactly do you want to know about living in germany?

Mostly about living expenses and jobs. At least for the average, uneducated individual. I read online that average cost of living is ~800 Euros /month?

5 minutes ago, Praesi said:

Hello again.

 

Ask what ever you like.

 

But Google Translate got something wrong here. 

 

Eingeborene:

 

German Native:

Haha When does google get it right?

2 hours ago, Praesi said:

Hi.

 

 

Danke!

Hallo! In ein paar Jahren plane ich nach Deutschland zu gehen. Ich hoffte, mit einigen Eingeborenen sprechen, um eine Vorstellung von Leben zu bekommen. Meistens in Bezug auf die Ausgaben.
~ Dies geschah mit Google Translate, weil mein Deutsch ist einfach.

original

Hello! In a few years I plan on going to Germany for University. I was hoping to talk with some natives to get an idea of living. Mostly in terms of expenses.
~This was done with Google Translate because my German is basic.

Hey guys! 

So, as of right now I'm going to school in America, but it's just a tech school. However in a little over a year I plan to head overseas to Germany to study in a university.

I was hoping that any Germans here on LTT would be willing to chat! Mostly just to get a better idea of things like culture, living expenses, jobs and things like that!

~NN

19 hours ago, Corwin111 said:

 

 

In a sense, it's still going, though, @NerdNinja. We meet up every Saturday at the same time (9PM BST). I see you are already on our Discord server, so just feel free to join the voice chat and play with us when it's on.

 

For anyone else, we no longer use TS, you can find us on Discord @ http://discord.uoltt.org

lol nice pic there! Ah, that's 3PM for me. I might be able to if I can get out of cleaning at 11 at my job  Unlikely except for holidays but we'll see!

19 minutes ago, colt92 said:

@NerdNinja

However, we now have, at the same time we did this, universe meetups. Sometimes AC too.

Join us (almost) every Saturday at 9PM GMT over at our Discord server in discord.uoltt.org

 

Or... join us now. You don't have to wait 'til saturday to get in our Discord server

Ah darn, I work all day saturday's  But I joined the discord, so I'll keep watch  Thanks!

5 minutes ago, Gyre-Taenn said:

Holy Necro, Batman!

 

No

3 minutes ago, Gyre-Taenn said:

Advice: If you want to git gud, don't waste your time with VS. It trains you in all the wrong ways. Throw yourself into the deep end with Battle Royale and Squadron Battle. It'll teach you much faster and better.

 

Also, if anything, the PU's NPCs are the easiest of the bunch.

Hmmm, noted. I still have a ton to figure out about most of the game. I've been out of the development loop for a while and I don't know much  

1 minute ago, Gyre-Taenn said:

If you want, I could send you my .xml. It is more versatile for gimbal/fixed. The setup you linked only works for gimbal setups, which I wouldn't suggest for the Gladius. It is more difficult to learn though.

 

I would really suggest learning to manouver better with kb/m before buying anything. The top on the leaderboards actually do use kb/m.

Hey that'd be awesome! I'm willing to give it a try  I'll probably spend a lot of time doing vandal and free flight before doing anything with the PU

2 minutes ago, Gyre-Taenn said:

I use HOJAM on occasion. It's useful if you want extra analog control for stranding and thrust. But, if you have trouble flying now, it'll be long before you could get used to it.

Ah but still, I think trying to learn it from the start will be better than trying to switch later on. Plus my mouse is the Corsair M95! All those buttons will come in handy!  

Is this still a thing guys?

Has anyone tried this?

https://www.systemsunitednavy.com/threads/joystick-or-mouse-why-not-both.4486/

Looks like an awesome way to fly! I'm gonna order a T16000M and give it a try!

Upgraded my 300i to a Gladius today!

Now I just need to learn how to fly.......

On 10/19/2016 at 8:48 PM, Scheer said:

23 hours ago, corrado33 said:

I'm confused. First off, why do the parts need to be food safe? The food is cooked inside a plastic bag... It's not like it's directly touching the water.

 

Secondly, why is this hard? Just attach a 110V heater to a relay controlled by a thermistor. Drop a metal pump in there and be done... Heck, you can do this with discrete logic extremely easy.

 

In actuality, you really don't even need all of that. They have temperature controllers built exactly for this kind of thing that people in industry use every day. No programming required. Super easy to build. Literally has all of the connections in the back for the 1: heating element, 2: thermocouple and 3: power. No need to build one yourself. Just make it so that there are external plugs for both the heater coil and thermocouple and you're done. Easy peasy.

 

 

EDIT: Even easier.

 

 Literally find a 110V heater and drop it into a bucket of water. Set your temp and you're done. 

 

I know these devices are fancy and what not, but jeeze, all we're doing is heating up a bit of water...

Quote thing is bugged....uhm, sorry Scheer didn't meant to quote you 

1 reason I've seen for food safe materials is eggs. You don't bag the eggs when cooking sous vide.

And I get what your saying. This definitely isn't the easiest way to accomplish this task. And if all I wanted was a simple cut and dry method I wouldn't have made this post.

I mean just look at what I said before.

On 10/19/2016 at 10:01 PM, NerdNinja said:

 

Well, I'm not sure what the app is like for that one, and the Joule one just looks cool. I'm just trying to get control from my phone.

 

For my use case, I'd be using the cooker the most when I'm miles from home. And I want something to be cooked and ready when I get back. 

I'd like to be able to check up on my unit for any potential mishaps, start it when I'm not around, and get notified when the meal is finished for say when I'm working on something elsewhere in the house but don't want to have to set a timer on my phone.

And there's also the learning part, and I think it's fun to try to do all this. Plus trying to fit it in a elegant design will be a challenge that I am more than willing to accept.

1 hour ago, Scheer said:

I used the app the first time I used my Anova cooker out of curiosity, and haven't used it since. Its not a great as it is played off to be, I found it much easier to just set the temp on the unit, then start a timer on my Echo. Speaking of, the older Bluetooth only Anova (new one also has WiFi) is $130 at Target.

 

 And while on the topic of sous vide, it really is amazing... I always hated porkchops because of how dry they usually are. Just made some tonight by sous vide and it literally falls apart it is so tender and moist. I'm still working on getting the seering part figured out though...

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Well, I'm not sure what the app is like for that one, and the Joule one just looks cool. I'm just trying to get control from my phone.

For my use case, I'd be using the cooker the most when I'm miles from home. And I want something to be cooked and ready when I get back. 

I'd like to be able to check up on my unit for any potential mishaps, start it when I'm not around, and get notified when the meal is finished for say when I'm working on something elsewhere in the house but don't want to have to set a timer on my phone.

2 hours ago, Huntsman said:

First of all, an Arduino by itself would provide enough processing power for this.

 

Secondly, the hardest part of this entire project is not the programming. Those can be easily done with existing libraries and copy pasting from around the web. The electronics too isn't too challenging neither.

 

The only hard part is the physical device itself. How would the pumps, heaters, casing etc go together? Are they food safe? Are they easy to clean after use?

Can the Arduino still interface with the web to both send data and be controlled remotely? Like say I want to turn it on after I've set everything up, but I'm not near the device.

And I still have no idea what I'm doing with the programming. I've seen bits of code that can do one thing or another but I don't know how to combine them  

My thought right now about the parts is the following:

Pump: little 5V motor I have lying around, wouldn't be submerged. I'd have a impeller that goes down and constantly mixes the water

Heating element: I'm really hoping this would work. It has the wattage and it's food save but I'm worried about the shape, I want the impeller to be under the unit and the shaft would have to pass through the heating element.

Casing: not too sure. In order to make it fit in the form factor I want I imagine I'd want to use PVC pipe. If not I'll make something that hangs outside of the container. 

Food safe and cleaning aren't really a big issue. But I will keep them in mind, but the food never touches the water or elements due to the nature of Sous Vide.

36 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

I'm thinking a fountain pump for flow and a shit load of neochrome wire for heat. 3d printer heater cartridges are also an option, but I don't know if those guys have enough power. For monitoring temperature, use a thermistor. 

Look above, I got the parts pretty much figured out.  Just need help with the wiring....

But for the both of you, let's say I build this guy: https://learn.adafruit.com/sous-vide-powered-by-arduino-the-sous-viduino/sous-vide Step for step and just plug in the before mentioned heating element and pump instead of a crock pot.

How would I go about enabling it with WAN control and monitoring??

Hello guys,

After @Slick did the awesome video on the Joule, I decided I wanted one!

Now 200 USD isn't that bad of a price, especially considering what one will spend on PC parts 

But to a 18 year old in college, with a average paid job as a cook, It's just...not as appealing 

But the concept is pretty simple! There's got to be someone who's made one right? Well, yeah! I've found a bunch of well documented

build logs where people have made the same thing for less than 75 USD!

But all of the solutions I've found still lack what IMO makes the Joule so appealing! And that's the ability to control from the app on your phone!

Now, I've found a few builds where a web interface for monitoring was made, but I also want to be able to control my cooker remotely!

What I'm looking for, isn't difficult. But I have no experience with either a Pi, or and Arduino  

What I want to do is combine this tutorial I found. But add some features.

Like using a heating element instead of a crock pot to make the unit portable and usable in different containers.

Adding a circulation Pump.

And linking up a Pi to be used as a web interface that will allow monitoring and control of the temperature from a remote location or just adding code and a WiFi enabled board to the Arduino.

Basically a BrewPi I guess, but I want to be able to build it in a elegant looking container like the Joule.

But, I don't know where to start  I would like someone who knows the in's and out's of these control boards to help me out!

Or maybe we can get Luke and Linus to take their best shot at it for our entertainment! 

Hopefully I can find help here!

~NerdNinja

TL;DR

I need help making a feature rich DIY Sous Vide Cooker with Arduino and/or Rasberry Pi