You should ask Daniel Stenberg of CURL fame. He might appreciate some help in this area.

Trump: Yes, let’s kill all the children. Surely that will improve things.

This design appears to be 220VAC only. And I’m assuming all metric threads and other measurements, too.

I think I could live with all the other components being metric, if they just had a way to work with standard U.S./Imperial containers as well.

Oh, and they need a 120VAC design for the motor and all the electronics inside.

Or, a design that can handle both 120VAC and 240VAC, as well as both 50hz and 60hz.

> I think I could live with all the other components being metric, if they just had a way to work with standard U.S./Imperial containers as well.

As far as I know mason jars (of that size) are the same everywhere so it should work with whatever containers decided to use that standard

> Oh, and they need a 120VAC design for the motor and all the electronics inside.

After reading the BOM it looks like the only electrical components are the limit switch, rotary switch, motor, and the support components soldered to the motor, so a 120VAC design would only need to replace those with equivalent 120VAC components.

> Or, a design that can handle both 120VAC and 240VAC, as well as both 50hz and 60hz.

AFAIK that would either be a 120VAC model with a PCB to compensate in 240VAC areas or a DC motor with PCB

Possibly interestingly, some places in the world aren't either 120v nor 240v. Japan for example is 100v.

It's open source, you should make these updates!

I regret to inform you that I am not competent to make electrical systems design changes on a device like this.

This is the perfect thing to learn on. It's actually a very simple thing as these things go. I expect there would be just a few changes needed, typically the components used in these things are friendly to this need and you just need to reconfigure them a bit or order a slightly different part number for a few components.

God speed

You know, if this was software, I would agree with you.

Let’s just say that hardware and I are not a good fit.

Only until OpenAI or one of the other hyper-scalars makes sure to adequately pay him off.

So, use a good VPN. IMO, the main thing they’re actually useful for is protecting you against abuse from your own ISP.

For the time I worked at AWS, pretty much everyone inside the company used s5cmd for its speed.

I think that speaks pretty highly of it.

Yeah, that jumped out at me, too.

If they can’t re-run the benchmarks on the same hardware, it’s hard to compare the numbers.

You can send power without wires, over short distances. Induction charging on devices like iPhones and Apple Watches are common examples of that.

But it gets exponentially more difficult to transmit power wirelessly, the greater the distance between the receiver and the transmitter, especially if you want to send large amounts of power that way. Certain bands of radio waves can be transmitted long distances, and could b turned back into electrical power on the remote end.

But by then you will have successfully converted a multi-kilowatt power source into the source antenna into a few microwatts at the receiver. Not very efficient.

This is not a new concept. You can see a discussion of this technique being used (to a degree) on battleships in WWII, by watching some of the videos on the Battleship New Jersey YouTube channel.

There’s also a Russian torpedo that uses a similar concept to “fly” at supersonic speeds underwater.

> There’s also a Russian torpedo that uses a similar concept to “fly” at supersonic speeds underwater.

Supercavitation

Is it supercavitation or is it riding in a bubble of steam that it creates ahead of itself?

Either way, it’s effectively flying through the air bubble underwater, which was the concept I was thinking of.