Ha!! The big ol'wardrobe I bought was successfully wrestled into position, having made it from the room we had space to build it in down the hall and around a few corners. 💪💪
That's with total thanks to my sweetie, who, unlike me, can see geometry. 😁 #dimbulb reprieve!
(No isekai portal was included with purchase, though. Sigh. 😂)
Sigh. I bought a piece of furniture, having measured out the space in the room and checking against the online reported dimensions. Everything was hunky dory.
What I failed to take into account was that to *build* it, given how it went together, you needed an equivalent amount of floor space, in a direct line from its final position.
Guess who forgot to take into account bends in the hallway??
#dimbulb 😂
Floyd The Android in DimBulb (2011) [2 min] by Jonathan Lyons | #USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eox9hIZiI2s
#3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Robot #Publicity #DimBulb #StupixAnimation #Slapstick
#StephenKing’s #Smackdown of #DonaldTrump Causes a #Stir.
Trump: '#Gettysburg! Wow!' What a #dimbulb," the critically acclaimed #author wrote, with the post going #viral with 577,100 views and more than 1,000 comments at the time of writing.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/article287684310.html#storylink=cpy
#trump #Gettysburg #dimbulb #briantylercohen #rally #Pennsylvania #cognitivedecline #ignorance #mocked
"Gettysburg. What an unbelievable battle. That was the battle of Gettysburg," Trump said. "What an unbelievable I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful and so many different ways… Gettysburg wow."
Social media users appeared astonished by the made up lesson.
"When you've got an oral report but forgot to read the book," said progressive journalist Brian Tyler Cohen in response to the Trump speech.”
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-mocked-gettysburg-2667771313
Bright Lightbulb Saves Old Radios
If you work on old equipment, you know that there's always that tense moment when you first plug it in and turn it on. No matter how careful you have been, there's some chance your garage sale find is going to go up in smoke. [BasinStreetDesign] built a little box that can help. On one side is a variac and the device you want to test goes into the other side.
In the middle? A lightbulb, a few switches, and a meter to monitor the current. The magic happens because the lightbulb will stay relatively cool and only light dimly if the device under test is drawing an appropriate amount of current. You match the bulb wattage with the approximate watts you expect the load to draw. If the device's power is shorted to ground, though, the bulb will light brightly and this causes the lightbulb's resistance to increase, thus helping to protect the device.
Of course, this is an old idea but we liked the construction method and the inclusion of a variac. The ammeter is great, and there is a connection for an external voltmeter that has some short-circuit protection. We might have opted for a second built-in voltmeter. The analog meters add to the old-school ambiance, but digital meters could be interesting and are easy to find these days.
Be sure you match the lightbulb wattage to your load. If the bulb is too small, it will light anyway. Think of it as a voltage divider. If the bulb is too small, it will have a higher resistance than the radio and get most of the voltage across it, leaving very little for the test device. If it is a higher-wattage bulb, it will have a lower resistance and the radio will take most of the voltage. In either case, the current through will depend on both resistors. If the radio is shorted, or nearly so, its resistance will be close to zero and that's why the bulb will light brightly.
If you want a more classic build along with suggested test procedures and tips, there's a good article over on antiqueradio.org. If you do decide to go with digital displays, consider a steam punk aesthetic like [Christine's] radio project. Or, you could overengineer the variable transformer.
#radiohacks #repairhacks #dimbulb #dimbulbtester #lightbulb #variac #vintage
