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| donblair | "Oh, toilet tank analogy is great! @cversek was talking at LEAFFEST about how, in the water <--> electricity analogy, the only sticking point..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "changing the capacitance is really easy to explain to people. every transition from a peak to trough of the wave form is queued in by the filling ..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "yes. we should. It isn't directly evident why we would use audio, given that it is so incredibly data-intensive. We have to make that argument RE:..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Aw, shucks :) But yes, it's so cool that we might find some part of design solution space that satisfies all of these! Before Ben pointing me to t..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Your diligence in solving this calibration problem in the most user-friendly way that ALSO involves simplifying the electronics AND the signal out..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Here's an example of a cheap, through-hole 'trimmer capacitor': http://www.amazon.com/Through-Trimmer-Variable-Capacitors-Brown/dp/B00G9BJTJW/ref=..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| boczniak | "very good news :) " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Ah darnit, I deleted my comment above by accident, instead of editing it ... Okay, the punchline is: The only ways to compensate for the effect t..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "My endocrine system can't handle all of these ups and downs. But tonight ends on an up. " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "UPDATE: We can dial in the capacitance! Ben pointed me to the fact that 'trimmers' exist: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Murata/TZB4R500EA1..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Yes! And before, when we had a different relationship between freq and conductivity, the only way to do that tuning was to tweak the probe -- and J..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "this is super excellent. does this mean that people can assemble DIY probes with slightly different relationships that we can now tune to standard..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "(maybe that should prompt me to reconsider my life direction?) " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "YES! :) I was dancing around with glee last night when I saw the equation for freq vs. resistance and capacitance for the 50% duty cycle! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "This is great news!!! And well presented! " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago |