#electronics sorting

[solder4]

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[growingwildgardens]

Good news: you can fix many electronics by taking them apart and cleaning them of dust and grime!

But!

Bad news: you have to put it back together again

[lazzincats]

Maria on the leapfrog tablet

Close up on the poorly drawn thing

👍

[moggettt]

Over the past few years, I've put together an album of songs I've made called Space Cadet. The album is intended to be sort of a soundtrack to life on a vibrant, melting pot of a space station in a space-faring future.

Check it out on SoundCloud if you'd like!

[puppetmaster13u]

Slowly rotating Oracle in the Meat Marionette Au...

Au is a combo of mine & @phoenixcatch7 so go check out their Possessed Doll Au

[colcon]

thoughts in a colcon might function similarly to how electricity moves through metal

[the-midnight-stage]

SEES Vs the shadow IT after a bad ending where the shadows and fog took over Inaba, is this anything

[creaturefeaster]

I'm not sure how to word this so forgive me if it sounds odd but would the mimes be considered parasites from a more scientific standpoint? Considering they look for living hosts and such. I hope I conveyed that right I don't want to sound rude ^ ^;

Not quite, but I understand what you're asking.

Mimes can-- but do not need to if they do not want to-- seek out a host that is capable of life, but currently is not alive. Life in this instance means capable of functioning through an energy source, and not alive means not actively receiving the required energy in order to function.

So this includes: the recently but vitally intact deceased as well as animals, dying plants, unpowered electronics, dead but undamaged electrical grids.

I believe from a scientific point of view, they would be participating in some form of forceful mutualism, especially in organic hosts where they prevent further decay of the body by providing energy and reviving dead cells. In return, mimes gain near-complete control of the mind and body of the host, and are the only thing that can ensure the body continues to thrive as intended.

[violasmirabiles]

dear diary im going to my parents house for christmas today and i was so focused on remembering to pack my laptop and clothes and meds and taking out the trash that i forgot to take my lunch with me to work and only realized this when i arrived at the archives so basically im running on break room gingerbread and chocolates which is not great but luckily sorting documents alphabetically with my music on IS still great so hey theres that

[sibyl-of-space]

Troubleshooting & repair of an old camcorder as a distraction from some life stuff: installment 1

So a close friend gifted me some broken old camcorder that doesn't work anymore because their mom was like "do you know anyone who would want this garbage" and they rightfully said "yes" and shipped it to me.

Don't yell at me about testing electronics on carpet, the actual electronic things are on a rubber mat, and also nothing is plugged in right now, I am grounded when I work on it, and also yeah ok I have terrible habits too bad.

Camcorder in question: Canon ES8400V 8mm VIDEO CAMCORDER

Symptoms: doesn't turn on at all. However, this could just be because the AC adapter that's supposed to charge it is dead. I'm hoping that's the case because that's a way easier fix than the camcorder itself.

Steps to troubleshoot:

Well in an ideal world I would have a different AC adapter to try and hook it up to. The manufacturer one has an output of 8.4V 1.5A and I don't seem to have anything remotely close to that lying around. Like the connector looks proprietary but I could pretty easily just solder the connector to a different one just to prove that it works, but I didn't have anything like that.

Next up was of course to open it up because I like opening things up. I wanted to look for any obvious signs of like blown capacitors or broken solder joints or whatever. Really obvious physical issues.

Nothing like that showed up, it looks very normal on the inside and there weren't any obvious symptoms of which parts may have failed over the years. That very obviously does not mean it still works but sometimes you can open something and immediately spot the problem, not the case here though.

But here's a picture just because it's always fun to see what the insides of things look like.

So I finally bought a multimeter which is something that I probably should have done a million years ago. I bought the cheapest crappiest one from home depot. Any electrician on Reddit would probably go off for five paragraphs about how terrible this multimeter is. For my janky DIY purposes, I can't really be fucked to spend more when this one probably works fine for what I'm doing.

Anyway I plugged the adapter back in and hooked up my multimeter and it read... 5V.

Decidedly not 8.4V or remotely close. My hunch is that this is the problem, it's literally impossible to charge this thing on the adapter I was given so for all we know the camcorder itself works fine.

The #safe and recommended thing to do at this point would be to buy another AC adapter at the given rating, but that's boring and I want to learn more about circuit boards so I want to see if I can at least learn to figure out what failed components may be the problem here. Which means my next step is actually going to be a lot of research and learning.

Some very quick duckduckgo searching brought me to the following resource, so I'm going to dive into this and see if it helps: https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/aapsfaq.htm

Will update again after I've either learned something, found something, or given up.

(If it turns out that the camcorder works fine and all I have to fix here is the AC adapter don't worry I still get to try and fix a camcorder later because I have a different old camcorder that has an audio issue I'd like to troubleshoot. But that's for another day)

[kalosian-woods]

Oh yes please, more Clemont lore where you at🙏

Arghhh, where do I even begin?? ^^'

Clemont is pretty interesting as a guy when you consider what the anime decided to give us (very little). When he was a wee lad he got sent to the academy (is it caps? is it a uni? idk) by his father, and presumably Bonnie was pretty young at that time with the whole way that Ms Eclair was talking about her. I personally want to believe that Clemont didn't make as much friends as he claimed in-canon, because, I mean, look at him! He's a young little kid walking around with the big kids and having a vocabulary set wider than most of these people combined. While they're learning about circuits he's creating laser rays. And with his disposition and introverted personality I doubt he went out of his way to socialise, which is why I feel like he clicked with Shinx a whole bunch. Rare Electric Type who likes to play around? That's best friend material to baby Clemont right there, no questions asked. Why would he need anyone else?

Before then, though, I'm totally going with what the teraleak gave us about Clemont and Bonnie's mother about how she died with childbirth. Gonna be real with you here, I didn't think about the mother much while I was watching through the first time-- so many anipoke kids just don't have full sets of parents, if any, that it's hard to see it as a glaring absence. But the mother being gone in such a way really casts a very interesting light on the family's dynamics and the way they interact with the world around them (even if it is morbid): with Meyer being very hands-free with the kids and letting them grow however they want to (and not relying on him...), Bonnie asking out those girls for Clemont to have a support system and find someone who he can connect to, Clemont just being a worrywart in and of itself and trying to plan for every eventuality... it all stacks up heh. Going to go a little further with this and say that the mother might even have a connection with the Gym, which can explain why Clemont and Bonnie stay there more than, idk, their actual family home and Clemont taking up the position as early as he did. As a last place of connection, if anything else.

I also love love love the idea of Clemont being first interested in springs and that's how his father kinda started him on the path of ✨ inventions and science ✨ lol. Just imagine a little Clem just wandering around the shop getting a bunch of tools and holing himself up in his room. After the twenty-third time, Meyer had to stop Ampharos from being in charge of the toolbox for the next few years because clearly it was being biased (and couldn't resist baby eyes) (who was he kidding, he was the same way too). It was a really good father-and-son bonding activity except that of course Meyer had to mind the shop and the finances and a crying baby Bonnie, and he didn't want Clemont to be left alone or hamper his creativity or make him rely on his old man for too long.

And that's how, after some time, he had to make the decision to send that kid to a school that can help expand his horizons. After some searching the academy seemed to be the perfect place, and, well, Clemont seemed to really enjoy it. He looked so happy, in his element, away from home.

Meyer just wanted his kids to live a good life.

Clemont on the other hand was initially very scared and didn't know what to do, especially since the academy was pretty out there and nothing like busy and formal Lumiose. People gossiped, natural treelines existed and the closest people to him were his instructors. But, of course, Shinx made it a ton easier and he learnt to have fun and got all absorbed in the whole thing; he still had frequent video calls to home and missed his family, but he was growing here as well. And people seemed to think he was good, better, greater than, so he had to live up to those expectations.

Yadda yadda the whole ceremony problem and Clemont lost Shinx, got grand but ultimately empty accolades, and was (to his own perception at least) forced out of the academy and back into Lumiose. And that whole culture shock along with losing his only friend along with finally seeing his family again but they're older, it's different now that he can touch them, might've really startled Clemont a lot. He goes and retreats into himself and his room, building inventions day after day because that's what he's supposed to do, and catches his own Electric Pokemon as soon as he possibly could.

Bonnie doesn't really know any better because her memories are sort of hazy with the pre-academy life, but she knows that something is up, at least a little. She endeavours to make her big bro smile and laugh and get all chatty again and her first choice is getting him hooked up. What? He clearly needs a ladies touch to get him outside, that's what all the boys and girls are about (Lilia a few seasons away from shaking up that worldview lol). And Meyer? Well, he just thinks that it's the cost of growing up. Who is he to say that it's wrong? It's Clemont's choice, no matter what it is. As long as he's not, oh, I don't know, hanging off Prism Tower then everything is all right.

And speaking off, moving into Prism Tower looked like a pretty easy affair considering how most of the time the gang sleeps over at Meyer's when they're in Lumiose City. I feel like there isn't much space for beds around there but Clemont can sleep on anything (/deg) and he gave Bonnie the good bed and the good room. Prism Tower just looks very minimalist to me, if you catch my drift. Like how does he have room for the Gym (one whole level), the lab and all of his gear?? And not offer his friends space here?? Eh that's a question for another time. But yeah, I lost my point here lol. But we know the rest anyways with what happened at the Gym after a while...

Of course, I'm going to expand on this as I go through this series and rewatch XY like 10 more times + some ideas I want to keep to myself until the fics pop up, but for now these are pretty good starting points heh. My brain is fuzzy so there might be more ideas?? But I wanted to get these out and let you have some fun while waiting for the next fics (taking forever with my workload as it is). Thanks a lot for the question though, I've got to do a Clem appreciation/analysis post one day <33 :D

[solarichor]

x

[vraska-theunseen]

thinking about octet again dude. the acapella arrangements are so beautiful and haunting their voices are so soaring i've never heard anything like it even listening to songs that aren't my favorite off the album like candy i get chills at the harmonies music is so cool im watching all the videos i can find of it

[infinitycarrot1]

I randomly decided to downloaded music software, gonna attempt to make something. I have no knowledge on anything music related outside of random stuff i picked up from rhythm games. lets see if I make it out alive ₍₍ ᕕ( ･᷄ὢ･᷅ )ᕗ⁾⁾

[spockvarietyhour]

I guess we know who's the sponsor of this week's episode

[chytilovian-daisy]

big stretch but does anyone know much about female-fronted jrock from like... before 2012/probably mainly the 00s but the 90s wouldnt be a stretch? I've had my own personal lost media for years now and every so often I try and resume the search...