• cowseverwhere@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Clean air, protection from the rain and other nasty elements, and high visibility lighting? Who knew safety could be this sexy!!

    Edit: where’s the mech, I want the mech

    • Warl0k3OPEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Maybe I should have said “Soon to be stolen combat mech”. Now take this crowbar and stop asking questions, the guards will hear you…

    • Warl0k3OPEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Thank you! It’s a seriously weird material to work with but when it works it gives some amazing results.

      (edit: Hmm, I’ve apparently lost the final version of that photo, one moment…)

      That was weird, anyways!

  • RubberElectronsEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Hot. Love the EL light, not the best for staying low profile though 😉

    I hope you make a little series out of these or something, thanks for the share.

    • Warl0k3OPEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      It’s actually side-firing PMMA, not EL wire! SUPER fun material, not least because it just takes a 12v battery instead of the HV stuff you need for EL wire (also it doesnt burn out or stress fracture!)

      There’s some other photos on my profile of me messing around with it, hoping to do more (as soon as I can afford some more colors of light source, too…)

      • RubberElectronsEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Ah, very cool. TIL.

        Funny, I use PMMA in a lot of my high voltage work, but the only time I use it unsheathed is for HV arc detection, and even that is niche.

        And then here you go, finding it for sale unsheathed as a feature lol. Keep up the cool work!

        • Warl0k3OPEnglish
          4·
          5 months ago

          How do you use PMMA for arc detection? That sounds neat as heck. Love high voltage work aesthetically, but I can barely work up the nerve to install a new breaker in my house…

          • RubberElectronsEnglish
            3·
            5 months ago

            A slightly more advanced version of this white paper: https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/AV02-4503EN

            I added a running average system to account for the day to day changes in ambient light, which adjusts the trigger threshold automatically. Anything bright and fast still triggers the system but without false positives.

            You gotta get your confidence up if we’re stealing this mech…

            • ThePyroPythonEnglish
              2·
              4 months ago

              Is this just for arc flashes in your mech or will it detect partial discharges as well?

              • RubberElectronsEnglish
                2·
                4 months ago

                Maybe you’ll get lucky with partials lol… otherwise the equipment gets a lot crazier and more expensive as we both know

      • AngryCommieKenderEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I’m saying that is a very small mech. Battletech/ MechWarrior reference.

        • Warl0k3OPEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Ah, apologies; I’m afraid I haven’t played a mechwarrior game since MW2. The modern version is pretty close to what I had in mind though - I was envisioning something along the lines of the MSDF Type 303 from GITS SAC (because I am a filthy weeb)

    • Warl0k3OPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      “You won’t believe how one horny alt-girl took down this 3000kg combat mech! [gone sexual]”