MapleEngineer

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[–] MapleEngineer 2 points 1 year ago

Like the mega corporations that have children cleaning equipment at night in abattoirs?

[–] MapleEngineer -1 points 1 year ago (16 children)

You seem really dedicated to being miserable. That really sucks for you.

[–] MapleEngineer 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (26 children)

I started working full time during the summer the year I turned 13. I was working for my family's company and my safety was always the most important thing.

In the current environment of the exploration of workers I feel that it is unacceptable for children to work for any company other than a family company or a small company that will not exploit them and that will protect them.

[–] MapleEngineer 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did delete them. They were marked with the garbage can but didn't delete so I edited them to say they were deleted.

[–] MapleEngineer 5 points 1 year ago

This is the only way they could extract the value of the site and pass it on to wealthy donors.

[–] MapleEngineer 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry...I was getting an error and didn't think it was posting.

I deleted the posts and they were marked with the garbage can but they were hanging around and people were upvoting them. I decided to edit them to deleted to avoid confusion.

[–] MapleEngineer 3 points 1 year ago

If you're going to be colourful you might as well be fuck you colourful.

[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 1 year ago

I love roundabouts. There are a lot of them near where I live. I really hate people who live near them and mover bother to learn to use them properly. It should be part of the driving test along with merging onto major highways and 4-way stop rules. Traffic works really well if everyone follows the rules.

[–] MapleEngineer 1 points 1 year ago

I have held a security clearance for decades, am multiply indoctrinated, and sworn to secrecy for life under threat of prison. The only people crowing about this are ignoramuses and the bad faith politicians using grievance politics to manipulate them.

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AVRs on BOBs (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by MapleEngineer to c/avr
 
 

I built these a few years ago to let me use UNO shields with Pro Minis to speed up prototyping. This was an early version. Later versions had more and more features added until I didn't need the shields anymore. That's when my Pro Mini Backplane was born.

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Daylily (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by MapleEngineer to c/homestead
 

One of the more than 120 varieties of dailies planted around our house and gardens.

 

My wife ran off the London and left me in charge for 3 weeks. I didn't kill her tomatoes.

 

A couple of farts yesterday.

When I saw these I started talking out loud about my recent efforts to prefect a homemade naan recipe to go with my favorite butter chicken recipe. We'll see whether that had any impact today.

The naan is coming along nicely. I'm going to make another batch today.

 

I'm working on making decent naan at home. My Indian coworkers are trying to help. It was better the second day after fermenting overnight. I hope that bread flour and a new recipe will improve it even more.

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Bronze Orlopp (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by MapleEngineer to c/homestead
 

We have 16 turkeys on the go this year. They are a mix of Bronze Orlopps and Mini White's. The largest of our Bronze birds finished at over 20 Kg on the hoof last year. We ordered a turkeys a month later this spring than last year.

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MapleEngineer to c/homestead
 

My wife loves toads in her garden because they eat things that eat her plants. She has a love hate relationship with snakes. On the one hand they eat rodents that would eat her ~~pants~~ plants. On the other they are snakes and they eat her toad friends. I nearly stepped on this one. I took a couple of pictures and placed it safely in one of the gardens.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MapleEngineer to c/backyardchickens
 

The two eggs on the left are definitely twins. The little blue one in the middle is a fart. The others are just...unusual.

My hand for scale.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by MapleEngineer to c/soldering
 

We often get asked what we think of beginners first soldering projects then offer suggestions how to improve their technique, and often, how to rescue their project.

In this video I've done my best to do a bad job of soldering header strips onto a QFP32 to DIP32 adapter board. There are some cold joints, some dry points, some blobs, a solder bridge, and some nice, corroded peaks.

How do you fix this so that it looks like you're experienced and know what you're doing?

Liquid flux to the rescue (and clean, good quality solder and a hot soldering iron and a good drag soldering technique.)

If you try this technique please come back here and tell us how it worked out.

Hakko FM-203 with FM-2027 handpiece and T15-D16 1.6mm chisel tip

MG Chemicals 4884-227G Sn63/Pb37 solder

Kester 186 liquid flux

 

I made a new video about why I love liquid flux and how much of a difference liquid flux can make to your soldering.

In this video I created a large blob of solder. I used the MG 4884-227G solder that I always use but once I had the solder down I cleaned away all of the flux then reheated the solder to cause it to oxidize. The now dry, oxidized solder is unruly and uncooperative. It blobs up and forms peaks and is just generally nasty.

Then, I bring some of my Kester 186 liquid flux to the party and the solder is reborn.

I just go to Ebay, type in Kester 186, and guy a bottle. 100ml of the stuff will last you for years unless you're doing a LOT of soldering.

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