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Cake day: July 10th, 2025

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  • zerodawn
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    OPAtoMeshtastic@mander.xyzAdvice for height/range
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    1 month ago

    Unfortunately i think i know the local ham guy and his tower is a lower elevation than my back yard. I’d debated asking him if he wanted to move the tower to my house but i’m not interested in being responsible for somebody else’s gear on my lot, at least not gear that expensive.






  • When i say that imagination is the limit i mean it. I ordered some car seat pressure sensors and soldered them to either end of a door contact sensor and put them under our couch cushions. Now i have a battery powered, zigbee based, way to override the motion based automation if we’re on the couch. The lights stay on if we’re too still or they stay off if we’re napping and a pet walks in.

    I watched a video where a guy used meshtastic to reach the back of his property and those radios can run on solar.


  • I don’t doubt thread is getting better and could be the more future proof of them all but i bought some zigbee motion sensors for less than $10 and haven’t changed the battery in them in nearly two years. When thread devices are that cheap and can run on battery that long i’ll gladly recommend them too. For now, for beginners, i like to recommend zigbee for it’s low cost in both money and power usage.









  • zerodawn
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    Atomemes@lemmy.worldI like trains
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    4 months ago

    The first few things that jump out to me are, the smoke isn’t coming out of the front stack, instead it’s coming out of a second stack thats more in the style of an older steam tractor. The second stack and subsequent second smaller steam engine are where a tender box should be. Worst of all is the illustration of the connecting rods/tie rods, i don’t think even a lazy human who’d gone so far as to make the whole image would get that sloppy drawing them so non uniform.

    Even if you didn’t know much about steam locomotives spending more than 5 second absorbing and processing the contents of the image would tell you the smoke is in the wrong spot and the rods that make it go look bad. That is assuming you’ve seen a steam locomotive, which i imagine is the bulk of anyone with access to the internet.


  • The opposite of scared me, i’m more interested than ever but i think that antenna would put the whole project out of my price range at this time. Whatever i pick will be out in rural country side, rolling hills and plenty of trees, and will be mounted up on a decommissioned wooden telephone pole. Would a beefy antenna make enough of a different to justify being added?





  • I picked up a steam deck just before the holidays and this was one of the first few games i played on it and across 4-5 weeks i put nearly 50 hours into it. It’s so fun/addicting i couldn’t put it down.

    One of the best parts, for me, is under accessibility settings you can turn off damage and magic drain making you immortal wth endless magic in the combat side of things. As someone who isn’t the biggest rogue-like fan this was perfect. As couple stress free dives for resources and advancing the story then right back to my silly little farm for hours.