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Table to put driving setup on: €20
Cable (USB 3.2, 3m) to VR reliably: €16
idk if this says smth about how cheap tables are or how expensive cables are
we built a whole ass setup to practice driving over the weekend :D
logitech G29 (steering wheel + stick shift + pedals) + quest 2 + city car driving (simulator)
reducing the need to have extra lessons for driver's licenses should pay for it many times over hopefully
I set up an entire thread network at home to graph this btw lol.
Less CO2-shaped notes:
- ZBDongle-E is a €20 dongle that works with openthread border router. You can flash it with openthread firmware. It works.
- Not a fan of matter over thread requiring using my phone to enroll everything, especially google play services is bound to be a turnoff for some.
- SEN63C supports PM1/2.5/4/10 but ALPSTUGA only exposes 2.5, even over matter :( I don't care much for particulate counts tbh but it feels they could add that with only a firmware update as a nice value-add.
- IKEA matter over thread bulbs and remotes do not currently support direct pairing, which I believe means that if your thread router goes down, you cannot control your lights. Until they release a firmware update for that I'll stick with their zigbee bulbs and remotes. This may be less important if you have e.g. an apple tv or ikea's own router+border gateway rather than a hacky home assistant setup.
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Last in these series: https://web.archive.org/web/20251110161506/https://queer.party/@ao/111779978098588711
Attached: 1 image I talk shit about eCO2/CO2eq sensors a lot, and sometimes think if I'm being too mean. I think I'll make a quick thread on it so I can reference it in the future. I got an SGP30 TVOC/CO2eq sensor (for the TVOC part) yesterday, and I set it up and calibrated it today. I even fed it the absolute humidity data it can use to output better data. Here's it compared to a proper CO2 sensor:
as I tend to post about CO2 sensors... here's some preliminary notes.
IKEA ALPSTUGA is using Sensirion SEN63C which internally appears to use STCC4 (ty evey for the research), which is a thermal conductivity based CO2 sensor.
It doesn't purport to be as accurate as NDIR sensors, but still has pretty reasonable values (iirc ±75ppm±10%). It is much more promising than anything that gives an "eCO2/CO2eq" value, and it is much cheaper than good NDIR sensors.
I generally like sensirion's NDIR sensors as they have very reasonable self calibration, they won't just randomly drift by significant amounts if you don't open the window regularly to the point of getting your room down to near-outdoor co2.
Over a test of 12 days comparing against an SCD41 CO2 sensor, physically side by side, it sadly started to drift significantly (300ppm) after about a week, but went back to being almost exactly NDIR level after opening the window for a few hours.
Unfortunately, that appears to be a downgrade in terms of self-calibration behavior. Note how both weren't exposed to ~4x0ppm for over a week, but only one drifted. I have previously confirmed that SCD41 behaves similarly to aranet4 (which has a senseair ndir sensor) on this, so I am presuming that it is the STCC4 that drifted. I'll test with an aranet4 next to them too, just to make very sure.
Overall if you do reliable Lüften then ALPSTUGA may be for you. For a portable CO2 meter, if you go outside more than once a week, the SEN63C/STCC4 would probably be a good sensor. Unsure if I can recommend it for event-only use (think something used for fosdem that gets packed right after event and opened right before event starts) or for very reliable data for home use in winter. Probably good for offices as leaky windows will likely get it down to 400ppm every night, or at least every weekend.
@dx I just finished summing up the costs more or less, and it's ~112eur that we paid for each air purifier, for a total cost of ~563eur (excl. cost of filters, PETG, soldering supplies etc). With filters and PETG it'd be around ~157eur/ea. Of all that cost, only ~150eur will need to be spent again to make them usable next year, as the only part that we'll need to replace is filters.
And as for making more, I think we'll have some opportunities to lower costs next year as we won't need to spend so much on prototyping, and there's many leftover parts from bulk orders this year too.
So far we got ~269eur in donations, which covers almost half the cost we had out of pocket. Thank you so much!
@germ04
(This will be my only reply to you.)
I find it difficult to believe that it's a shitpost. It's not toned like it, and you have other posts that imply a fascination with violence:
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115860951503063486
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115411675506154951
(among others)
Also while at it: You try to imply that you're not happy to be in the army, calling it "racist" and "fascist" (https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115830824581858408), talking about how you have a desk job that "barely has anything to do with carrying a weapon" (https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115889409211519319). You talk of the moral guilt you feel, and what it does to you.
Well, I struggle with understanding that. I worked a job before where I felt a moral guilt. I cried on my way home from it. I woke up at night feeling awful about myself. And accordingly, until I found a new job, I made it as little a part of myself as possible, gone for a strong work/personal-life separation.
Your profile banner has a picture of you in your army uniform. Your bio openly mentions you're an active service member of the army. A very large % of your posts involve the army, even when you talk about the institution negatively, your posts actually about the job itself do not carry a tone of disliking the work from what I can discern.
Else, why wear your work gear to civilian events?
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115190791090464722
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115192566010486137
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/114755638300560306
(among others)
Else, why post so much about weapons?
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115639739892960708
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115411765137047749
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115411754398863830
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115411743123747515
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115180128328080172
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/115013926834910216
https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@germ04/114949993879106042
(among others)
(Yes, I know that only one of those is after you got a transfer to a desk job. Still, why post so excitedly about holding machine guns and about replacing tank parts and watching it fire, etc?)
btw in case you missed it, I ended up finding out that I have a copy of the interview about kirk climbing the mountain, dumped it and put it on youtube and archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/captainkirkisclimbingamountain
https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ave/statuses/115820073913469952
dx �