Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 2, 2024
I finally figured out what's wrong with my dryer!
There's no drum to put the clothes in. This is a rookie mistake, Samsung.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 2, 2024
It's fun, I looked up the possible issues this dryer has: there's five wheels that can break, one belt, and four sensors.
I haven't gotten to the sensors yet but all five wheels are bad and the belt is gone
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
Supposedly there's a bolt in here somewhere
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
I'm not an expert but I don't think this wheel is in functioning condition.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
Honestly the hardest part of repairing my dryer is that it's got a computer in it, and I gotta resist trying to run Doom on it
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024

I promised my roommates I wouldn't run Doom on it, but here's an idea:
The dryer has a moisture sensor, right? So it can tell how long it takes to dry a given set of clothes...

What if I made this into a keyboard?

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
I just need to bin the different possible drying times and use them as input for a function that converts it to letters
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
So like, doing a load that takes 10 minutes to dry then a load that takes 30 minutes to dry: that's an A
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 3, 2024
Anyway back to slightly serious things: a few people asked how old this thing was but I didn't know at the time.
The answer is apparently 8 years old.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 4, 2024
my spouse and I usually sleep while listening to letsplays, but somehow the playlist got messed up this morning and I got woken up early by it playing a video on how to repair dryers.
I was tossing and turning and they were like CAREFULLY REMOVE THE BELT FROM THE TENSONING WHEEL and I was like THIS IS THE WORST NIGHTMARE, I AM FIXING DRYERS IN MY DREAMS!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 4, 2024
it's still not fixed: it turns out I had to replace the dryer felt seal too, as it had partially come off.
That took a day to get here, and then the glue takes 24 hours to cure.
but maybe tonight, I'll finally finish the job?
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jun 5, 2024
I'm not an expert, but wheels are supposed to be round, right?
Show threadMichal Nemecek

@foone I mean, not necessarily. A square wheel will roll smoothly on a road made up of catenary curve segments. Morphocular has a video on how to calculate a "perfect" road for any mathematically describable wheel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxSTzaID3k

(note that just because their method yields a road shape for some wheel doesn't mean said wheel will roll smoothly, as some wheel shapes may have to clip into their respective road somewhere other than the contact point in order to roll smoothly)

The Perfect Road for a Square Wheel and How to Design It

YouTube
Jun 6, 2024 at 6:41pmWeb