Babs [she/her]

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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Big things happening in Babs Labs

    This will be a 3lb camlifter-hammersaw, kind of like if you jammed the two bots of Endpoint into one unholy monstrosity.

    It starts by driving into the opponent and getting them on its flat little forks sticking out front. The servo rotates, and the linkages cause the forks to rotate 90 degrees, hopefully high-centering the opponent so it can’t drive away.

    That’s when I rev up the hammersaw, and slam it into to the top of my enemy.

    I probably made it too complicated and fragile, but we’ll see when I actually finish it several months from now.















  • I was also a stupid teenager told that this was my only way to avoid flipping burgers for the rest of my life, so I signed up for student loans.

    Then in 2010 Obama overhauled the system to cut out the shitty private industry side of things, but gave no relief to people like me already locked into that system. Made it real fun when Biden teased loan forgiveness and I found out I wouldn’t even be eligible.

    But I’ve been paying my loans. I did AmeriCorps so I could afford to do so. I reckon I’ve paid more than the entire cost of my schooling by now, but that doesn’t matter because interest go brrrrrr.

    The whole student loan system is unconscionable.


  • Fpv is hard but there are good sims (I like Liftoff) that you can play by plugging your transmitter into a computer. I am so bad at it and crash constantly, and the sim is way cheaper than breaking a bunch of drones.

    Camera drones are super easy though. They stabilize and hover themselves, and you can figure them out just playing around for a lil bit.

    You need a TRUST certificate to fly, but you can get that in a like couple hours tops https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_flyers/knowledge_test_updates

    There are hella limits as to what “recreational” flying is, and you need a much more complicated Part 107 license to legally do commercial photography or anything like that.

    You also gotta make sure it’s legal to fly where you are. You’d be surprised where no-fly zones are. Near airports, near military installations, some other infrastructure things…I use the OpenSky app which makes things pretty clear.


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    12 days ago

    I once watched a youtube review of this game from someone who seemed to grasp a lot of the game’s personal and emotional themes, but when he got to a point when a character asked him if he was a communist, was like “how should I know??? Maybe communism means something completely different in this fantasy world.”

    Walked right up to the door and jumped out the window.