Jennifer has issues

[Ond]

How about you OND, What's on your mind?...What you been working on?

I still love technology  (to quote Kip from Napoleon Dynamite).  I'm still working on projects both arcade related and other.  I'll make a deal with ya ok?  here it is:

You post a pic of something you are working on now and then I'll do the same in this here thread.  Lets go!

[Ond]

Aahh sneaky my good man. Currently I'm just doing boring math on a butchered star wars art file, but true to my word I will start a build thread on it when it's ready (with pics)...but since you're here, I do want to say that your work with leds has motivated me for years. Not so much as the projects, but the inspiration and thought behind them.

Hmm ok, I'll hold you to that.  well here's some pics of my media server build, nearly done!:

[Ond]

Just for the record I wasn't asking for pics., just your word is gold...but HOLY COW  that is nice work and does not disappoint!

Thanks, it just so happens that you have skills/knowledge I could benefit from.  You have knowledge of screen printing hard surfaces which I've seen.  I'd like to do the same with that project. 

[Zebidee]

@Ond

I love your work, that really is art.

Q: Why are you using a HDD as your (assumed) main drive for this media server!

On other matters: I love seeing you an Jenn get together and share ideas. It stimulates my creativity

[Ond]

@Zebidee

Thanks mate    Ha ha, yes, if that was the main drive it should be questioned.  The main drive is in fact a 256GB M.2 PCIe SSD mounted under the MB.  That mechanical drive is storage only, 8TB of it.  I'd love to use an 8TB SSD in its place, please send me the money for one if you'd like me to upgrade! 

I suspect Jenn's main issue with posting pics is a general lack of confidence with image processing and posting.  We all have our Achilles heels, but as PBJ would say...pics or it didn't happen.  Forums (and the internutz) are after all all about visuals.  Text is fine until you string too much of it together, wall of post style.  Damit I miss Steve     

@Jenn - Thanks for the tips on screen printing, all good things to consider.

[Zebidee]

That strip, (sides and back) and that sun yellow  and orange right?

I'd call it more orange and red. But you've got to find shades close enough.

If you can take a decent sample of the colours down to a paint shop they should be able to zap it with a spectrum analyser thingy and help you mix the right colours.

[Zebidee]

From what I saw on the video you can paint designs over the lumilor paint/stuff. Which would be the way to go? That would look wicked

[bobbyb13]

I love this idea.

That stuff looks insane.
Surprising that it is utilizing AC!

[lilshawn]

Electro luminescent (EL) panels and wire and stuff have been around for donkey's years.

timex indiglo watches?... EL

gameboy pocket light...EL

backlight on lots of things with LCD displays in the early 90's was EL it was cheap to implement and didn't use a ton of power. only difference here was the availability of conductive paint to create the anode and cathodes, EL material just gets sprayed in between.

[Mike A]

Still not one pic of anything built.

[bobbyb13]

I'll try to fast track that a little, since I need to do a Marque anyway and go into a little more detail...in the meantime I don't know if you've read this whole thread but Bobby is a "Glass man ", he may be of some help building a plug for that metropolis (just saying)

I greatly appreciate your enthusiasm Jennifer but from what I have seen in various threads here I'm not sure that Ond needs my help with anything!
 

[Zebidee]

Did anyone note the costs? ~$15k for an entire car, ~$3k for some feature highlights. I imagine that even being economical, cost could easily be $1-$3k for using that paint on a cab. I mean yeah that's flash, but just saying.

[Mike A]

Keep up. She builds magical ten thousand dollar cabs. Not one of them has ever been photographed. Stealth technology.

[Mike A]

I have posted mine with pics on this site. Also you will never see me claim to be a great builder. I do competent work. I document my successes and failures.

Everything I claim is documented. People on this forum have been to my house. They have played the games that I built or fixed or bought.

You could easily prove me wrong. Just post some pics.

You said you have sold several of them. There have to be pics.

You make wild claims and have zero evidence to back any of it up.

People have been asking for some kind of proof for years.

[Mike A]

Post some pics of the cabs you have built or stop making wild claims.

Your act has been exposed.

[yotsuya]

Says the guy that can't even weld...

I can’t weld either, yet I’ve won awards for my cabs, both here and in real life. So I fail to see what that has to do with anything.

I don’t think Mike is asking for anything unreasonable. One picture of one restored cab that you’ve done. I believe you, Jen, and I know that you’re talented, but I think you should back up your claims with at least one piece of proof. Can’t you see that by being elusive, you’re sowing seeds of doubt?

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[Mike A]

I love cake. It goes great with beer.

[yotsuya]

Well secretly Yots you don't need to weld to build a nice cab, but this is the 21 century. Metal offers quite a bit in weight/strength...as for Mike, let him eat cake.

Oh, trust me, I’d love to weld. It’s kind of next on my skills to pick up list.


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[Gilrock]

I once built a roll-off roof observatory and could control the opening/closing of the roof from inside my house.  Had to learn to weld to make the v-groove tracks the roof rolled on.  Scroll to the bottom you'll even see me welding them.

http://www.threebuttes.com/Observatory.htm

[Mike A]

You need to come out to my place Gilrock.

We can build a gokart. You can help me weld up the frame.

I am not a hunter but we can go to the range and shoot with my SOCOM16.

Oh and video games and beer.

[Mike A]

Do you have a pic of one control panel you worked on with a welder?

[Gilrock]

Yeah I eventually moved because I got a job further away and got tired of the 75 minute drive each way so I no longer do the hobby much.  I did pretty picture imaging, asteroid discovery, and NEO follow-up work for several years.  I got a couple photos published in Sky & Telescope and I captured a separation event on a comet one year that got published on Astronomy Picture of the day and in a book and a couple magazines.  I didn't know how to process a mozaic very well so the second link shows it much better when I reprocessed the images and posted on my site.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020318.html

http://www.threebuttes.com/Ikeya_Zhang_3_11_02.htm

[Mike A]

Yeah. I didn't think you would have pics.

You are full of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.

[yotsuya]

At least I do stuff, not make her friends do it for her...Want to play with Jennifer? You just might want to up your game some.

Mike doesn’t make his friends do anything. Mike’s friends want to do things with him. There’s a big difference.

C’mon Jenn, don’t revert back to this version of you.


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[Mike A]

I could make up a bunch of stories too.

Then have a million excuses why there are no pics.

I have posted tons of stuff that I have done.

It is sad that you think having friends and working with them is a bad thing.

If upping my game means lying on the internet then I will pass.

[Gilrock]

Telescopes like many things come in many shapes, sizes, and cost levels.  For viewing deep space sky the bigger the aperture the better.  The lowest cost is a Dobsonian telescope because you usually get the biggest mirror for the lowest cost.  But the low cost ones will not move with the sky you move them manually and they do not track the star motion.  You also need to make sure the secondary mirror is collimated to the main mirror for the best images.  Motorized scopes that track start to increase the price.  I usually point folks to www.starizona.com.  It is a local company and I know the owner and I've done software for him for many years until recently I took a break.  The owner is Dean and can guide you if you specify what your looking for and he will ship anywhere.

[Ond]

I have a Dobsonian 8".  It's fun to get out on a warm night and look at stuff.  I think it needs some better quality eyepieces though with bigger aperture like Gilrock says.  Cool! So when I want to build my observatory I'm gonna be able to ask Gilrock all about it! 

[yotsuya]

Fee fi fo fum...hey Mike,  come ride Jennifer's pirate ship...you can drink rum till you vomit, and pee in your pants

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[Mike A]

That got weird. Even for Jennifer.

[Gilrock]

If Mike does come over can you take a few pics?

[yotsuya]

If Mike does come over can you take a few pics?

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[Zebidee]

Fee fi fo fum...hey Mike,  come ride Jennifer's pirate ship...you can drink rum till you vomit, and pee in your pants

I thought she was just being creative and funny, but this gif makes if weird

[Zebidee]

Like Joey Tribbiani in Friends with the infamous "Grandma's chicken salad"

[yotsuya]

Fee fi fo fum...hey Mike,  come ride Jennifer's pirate ship...you can drink rum till you vomit, and pee in your pants

I thought she was just being creative and funny, but this gif makes if weird

Oh, it was weird a long time before I posted that gif.


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[Zebidee]

Yep, there's always room for jello

[Mike A]

---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- to all of it.

[Zebidee]

It is true - nobody writes cheques any more (except so that they can be oversized for photo opportunities)

[Mike A]

What? I can build a fake invisible machine too.

22k? You keep saying you are not rich.

Regular people don't have that kind of money to throw at an arcade cab.

Show us some pics or shut up.

[Mike A]

Well my fake invisible cab is going to cost a million bajillion dollars.

[Mike A]

You have been talking about it for months and you don't have one pic.

This is beyond ridiculous now.

You are a clown.