The geometry is really beautiful and the 3D print work and Led placement is also really good. Thanks for sharing the project, it's inspiring. I too have a sense of enjoyment from pulsating LEDs. I'm not so interested in the audio component though, I always struggle to link the audio to the lights.
I really enjoyed reading about this. As a tourist, it's really easy to drive into Colorado and forget to check your route for huge altitude changes. I live in a flat place, I check roads for things like high speeds of traffic and flooding potential but it's easy to forget that sometimes I might end up driving on a cliffs edge.
Then there is also the puzzle of locals driving fast to get through the avalanche risk, while terrified tourists like myself are crawling along worried I'll go around an unknown turn too fast and shoot over the cliffs edge.
In summary I have to say it's been helpful for me to paste directions into AI tools and ask them to tell me how the drive would be during the days I'm planning to make it. Just for good measure I also ask to find local dog friendly stops along the way for food and rest room breaks.
I'm not sure if this is something work spending hundreds of millions of dollars fixing when the risks can be mitigated with some additional planning. They should probably board up that tempting cave mentioned at the bottom of the article though and improve their avalanche guns.
I was thinking the same thing. Why not just sell the grapes straight to us grape loving people? They do have a short shelf life though, and as a lover of concord grapes I do go bananas during concord grape season but I really can only eat so many before they start to spoil and I do eat large amounts of them. The concord grape dealers know me and flag me down to give me deals.
There is a small paragraph about a CEO both moving to slow and to fast with AI at the same time. I can't help but laugh when reading that description, I feel like it's something I see and hear about daily, but I've never quite been able to characterize it.
To slow, using AI to make all sorts of prototypes but none actually the ones needed, and too fast outsourcing code reviews to more AI, blasting in with a 60k line PR. Meanwhile the CTO is striving for a balance that will never come.
There are specialty chainsaws used for cutting mortises and so forth when timber framing, and some folks will rough up beams using just a chainsaw, to say nothing of the expedient lumber/board cutting jigs/fixtures.
There are all sorts of circumstances you will find that having and LLC is a chance to go through the easier/faster door. The whole article starts off with a painful javajoke and the punchline is sometimes you need to go really fast. That's what already having an LLC handy for helps with.
Recent personal discovery about an LLC, useful for gaining PDK access to proprietary fabs, so I can finally try touching lower process nodes again that are not open source, despite being out of university and not having a job that gives me the PDK access.
Interesting, I've thought of setting up something like this. I would agree with the other comments I want to know more about what is inside the box. Also waiting 12 months for them to start shipping sounds like a long lead time. Is it still a personal computer without a screen and an operating system? How many watts is the Panda?
By the end of the read I was wondering why I can't setup a few vending machines, sit back and watch the profits roll in. I know it's likely more complicated that I imagine, but it seems like such a hands off way to manage commerce. It wraps up inventory management and sales into one convenient package and takes out the daily responsibilities.
I know people who have vending machines. It's a very nice business but like almost everything else you need experience to do it right. It's not easy to find good locations, you need to stock the right stuff, you need to deal with repairs. It's not as hands off as you may think.
I have a relative with several vending machines. He is also in a position of power at the location where they're placed. So yeah you'd be competing with a guy like that.
I'd always heard, at least here in the Midwest US, that vending machines are run by organized crime (being historically cash-based) and vending routes and locations involve a certain amount of "protection". Maybe cashless vending machines are changing the landscape. Maybe it's all hokum.
For a while I seemed to end up on a YouTube algorithm that was full of people doing just that - a good few found success, but there seems to be a good chunk of work to do looking after the machines and stock.
Which then led me to people who do up washing machines/driers that are dumped at the side of the road, and resell them, which led me to a guy that bought a laundrette - I still watch him, he has a car wash too now...
I'd imagine that the property owner where you're placing the vending machine is going to want to cut, and probably some sort of rent payment and lease agreement signed.
They must really love their security cameras to have decided to start decorating them. The bedazzled cameras are lovely to see. My inner 90's child can't wait to apply sparkly plastic rhinestone to their naked exteriors. What's next? Some fake braids and perhaps a troll doll or two?
Also have to commend whoever is in charge of acronyms for this project. I thought I was the most excessive acronym user, but now having read this article, I'm not!
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