Hey Tom I am real worried I have not heard from you since the Taiwan earthquake. Can you please check in and let us know you are OK? I hope you and all your family are OK!
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I don't know if I have told you this or not but man thanks for posting the news for so many years! You have a nose for news and you have posted good stuff! Thank you!!!I don't know if you're familiar with the youtube channel of Tek Syndicate, but they tend to report stories in the nature of what you post a lot of the times. So if you wanted to reach a larger audience you should check out their news forum. Anyways keep up the good work, I miss this site, seems to have slowed down quite a bit.
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/c/community/news
Hey Tom, do you live in Taipei all the time or do you move around? If so, it would be really cool if we could get to know each other =)
Yes I am from Taiwan. I mainly come to this site (it's been like over seven years?) to see news postings. It all started with asking questions about mapping in WC3 haha!Yay! Got myself an updated avatar! Still liked this version of Mega Man, but I can also choose to switch to a different one anytime.
Hello, Tom. As promised, the OpenGL terrain source: https://github.com/monovertex/fractal-terrain. If there's anything, please ask, but I will not be able to provide extensive support, as I'm under heavy assault from homework and the like at the moment.
As I promised, coming back with the Spinning Wheel tutorial: http://www.thehelper.net/threads/tutorial-css-spinning-wheel.160910/. If find anything unclear, please send me a PM.
Hi Tom_mai!
I would be honored. I look forward to reading it =)
Respect, yo.,
Mahu
You have a site history section being done about you. Would you like your forum name changed to Tom Mai?
Didn't realise we shared a time zone. So you're leaving tomorrow?
You destroyed the portal in flatland!
Yesshh... I'm officially now a super moderator. I'm sad that this place isn't getting the activity that it shouldn't be.
Minecraft host???
I just wanted to let you know, I am upgrading my phone to a note 2 (I sold my old one a week ago), so while this will most likely resolve any "lag" issues, if there are still issues, it's probably not due to my phone being old :p
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_ii_n7100-4854.php
Yo bro', just wanted to extend a thank you from me and probably most of the rest of us that regularly post on the news threads. Without you, TheHelper.net would be a greatly diminished site in my eyes. Your dedication is invaluable, so again... Thanks!
happy birthday
Would you be interested in a News forum mod position? The advantage is that you post straight to the News forum and don't have to be approved. You have to move posts, even your own to submissions if they have less than 50 views and/or under 3 replies in a day or if it looks like a post after half a day is not going to meet that. Not all submissions get moved to News, only ones you think are interesting and you think will be commented on or popular viewed. What u say? -
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Varine:
I would be there for days, even with my camera set up slides can take a long time, and if they want perfect captures I really need to use my scanners that are professionally made for that. My camera rig works well for what it is, but for enlargements and things it's not as good. -
Varine:
I've only had a couple clients with that so far, though. I don't have a website or anything yet though.
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Varine:
Console repair can be worthwhile, but it's also not a thing I can do at scale in my house. I just don't have room for the equipment. I need an office that I can segregate out for archival and then electronic restoration.
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Varine:
But in order for that to be real, I need more time, and for more time I need to work less, and to work less I need a different job, and for a different job I need more money to fall back on so that I can make enough to just pay like, rent and utilities and use my savings to find these projects+1
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jonas:
Maybe you can do console repair just as a side thing, especially if there's so much competition business might be slow. Or do you need a lot of special equipment for that? -
jonas:
I recently bought a used sauna and the preowner told me some component is broken, I took a look and it was just a burnt fuse, really cheap to fix. I was real proud of my self since I usually have two left hands for this kinda stuff
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tom_mai78101:
I am still playing Shapez 2. What an awful thing to happen, Varine, and hopefully everything has been sorted out soon. Always use multi-factor authentication whenever you have the opportunity to do so.+1 -
Varine:
I think all of the money is accounted for now, and all the cards have been changed out, so I think for the most part it's taken care of now. Just need to go through and make sure all of my accounts are secured again, it's just time consuming.
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Varine:
And yeah everything has 2 factor turned on now, or at least everything I can think of at the moment.
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Varine:
The consoles don't need too much equipment that I don't already have. I would like to get a reflow oven, but I don't really want to buy one so I'm thinking about modifying a toaster oven I have to make something that will work for what I'm doing.
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Varine:
I have the soldering irons and reflow and all that, but without an oven it's kind of hard to build mod chips and things like that. I made a handful of them with a hot air station, but it's a pain.
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Varine:
The only thing I'm not really set up for is BGA rework. I've done it before a little bit, but not reliably, and that equipment is wildly expensive. You need X-rays and shit.
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Varine:
I also have a couple 3D printers. I'm not super good with those and need to get an enclosure built, but they'll be useful for some aesthetic mods I've been thinking about. At least I can use them to do designs and then just have someone else print out the parts for me once I know they work.
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Varine:
I also use them to make adapters for all my camera shit, but that's also an on the side thing for now. Lens adapters get really expensive.
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Varine:
I've been trying to do some little art pieces as well, but I'm not much an engineer so they haven't gone great. I got some new things showing up to try and play with
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Varine:
I want to build this tesserect kind of thing with mirrors, and I've been trying to make this like black hole diorama. In my head it looks really cool, but I kind of thought I could form polarizing lenses into a sphere but I tend to just destroy them every time I try.
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Varine:
So I got a new idea, but I'm not sure how to make it work like I want without being able to get a polarizer curved. I think they are made out of PVA typically, and I thought I could just heat it up a little bit to soften the film, but that clearly isn't working. So I'm going to try a few other things, I'm thinking if I put a mirror film over the polarizing film I might get something cool. I have some polarized LED's as well, and I think if I make a central light source I can use the mirrors combined with the polarizers to make that central light APPEAR black. I have next week off so I'm going to spend some time trying to figure it out
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Varine:
The tesserect works, at least. I just need to figure out how to be able to assemble it, but I think I have a pretty good idea of how to go about it. Or at least a prototype of it. I'll post some pictures next week
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jonas:
That last bit sounds like the last entry in a scientist's journal in a destroyed research facility in a post-apocalyptic video game
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Varine:
Basically it's a cube with a two way mirror on the inside, and then a smaller cube suspended in that with a mirrors on the outside of it. Kind of like those infinity pictures where they use two mirrors to go forever. Only it's twelve mirrors
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