NZHondas F%@#ing Sweet Gadget Thread

[DURTYEF3]

[ehhJV]

tonne of comments on there saying it was fake well the gun part anyway, still freakin awesome imo

[IV]

Google's Project Glass augmented reality glasses begin testing | The Verge

Watch the clip. Not real of course, but probably not far away...

[illicit]

What do you mean 'not real'?

[nykon]

You mean this thread IV?

[Planky]

Its been around for a few years, but I'd love to own one of these:

[IV]

You mean this thread IV?

Yeah man thanks

What do you mean 'not real'?

I mean that those actual glasses probably dont exist, or if they do, I bet they do not work as seemlessly/well as the clip.

[Ignition22]

For anyone interested in the copters they are pretty easy to build from parts yourself with the added bonus of if it breaks you know exactly how to fix it.

just finished the first stage of building my own tricopter. Got it hovering inside yesterday, its pretty stable but managed to wander into the kitchen and get taken out by the fridge. Should be able to get its first outside flight tomorrow then after learning how to fly it the next stage is GoPro and video transmitter

[kiwi pauly]

Got shown this yesterday by a fellow member:

[nykon]

Right, so not so much gadgets... as just sweet technology:

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com





And also something datacentre related, an interesting read and technologically arousing: Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof | TorrentFreak

[GecKo]

*Tri-rotor*

Are you on FPV Lab? I'm hoping to build a wing over summer...

[Adam]

Will post up my quad soon built it slowly, just need to fine tune its PID to get the thing to fly stable.

[Shads]

Android Media Solutions
Looks likea cool toy

[nykon]

Android Media Solutions
Looks likea cool toy

There's already quite a few options around along those lines, most companies just buy cheap Chinese boxes and rebrand them. The only one I'd really touch is an AC Ryan Veolo:

AC Ryan Veolo Review | techPowerUp

I am using a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian as the OS, and stream media from my server via Samba, and have hdmi out... and also can do some basic web browsing. All very secure too.

[Planky]

and here Im thinking about buying a 900$ Mac Mini to be a media center.

[Matty]

Right, so not so much gadgets... as just sweet technology:

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

*Google Datacentre pics*

Looks just like one of ours.

[Gargz]

Thanks to research done by Google we run our server room at an ambient temperature of 28-29 degrees Celsius.

[nykon]

Thanks to research done by Google we run our server room at an ambient temperature of 28-29 degrees Celsius.

19-24 is about right. The only reason you'd run higher would be to reduce the energy consumption of your air conditioning, and IIRC that's one of the main reasons why Google suggested people move toward raising the temperature. We run our Christchurch datacentre at 21 (and 35% humidity), alarming at 24. Last week I worked at a client datacentre that used containment pods like this:



... was pretty interesting, but quite awkward since we were working on one side of the pod whilst another group of guys were working on the opposite. They were set at 22-23.

[Brendan1]

For anyone interested in the copters they are pretty easy to build from parts yourself with the added bonus of if it breaks you know exactly how to fix it.

Just finished the first stage of building my own tricopter.

Wouldn't mind building one my self Dont have a clue where to start tho haha.

I saw a camera kit for those at Sylvia park for $50, the just mount to the bottom.

[Gargz]

19-24 is about right. The only reason you'd run higher would be to reduce the energy consumption of your air conditioning, and IIRC that's one of the main reasons why Google suggested people move toward raising the temperature. We run our Christchurch datacentre at 21 (and 35% humidity), alarming at 24.

We chose to run at a higher temperature to cut our cooling costs by nearly $1000 a month. We have been running at a 28-29 for 6 months now and haven't had any failures (we run IBM, Cisco and D-Link gear).

From memory Googles research showed that when they raised the temperature they didn't notice a discernible increase in hardware failure.

[Matty]

Well if one of you guys could let our datacentre guys know that'd be grand, thanks. I spent 30 hours straight in the machine room at one of ours early last year (fml) and I swear it was about 16 degrees in there.

[edit] Appears we're running around 23 degrees now. Much nicer. [/edit]