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To use the Montreal subway, you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. But how does it work? And how can the ticket be so cheap that it's disposable? I opened up the tiny NFC chip inside to find out more... 1/15

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@kenshirriff is the EEPROM why it is so expensive? OTP Paduak chips are 2.5 cents in 10k quantities, which also includes the package: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPUs-SOCs_PADAUK-Tech-PMS150C-S08_C129127.html

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Please tell me about obscure early digital cameras that I haven’t heard about.

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@thomasfuchs have you heard of the Cromenco Cyclops? It uses a decapsulated 1 kilobit DRAM chip as the image sensor and can be built from plans in Popular Electronics (Feb 1975). Here's a selfie at an astounding 32x32 pixels:

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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… and the stupid wind took my hat. I didn’t even have it on I was holding it worried about the wind — pulled it right out of my hand. How did people live wearing hats all the time!?

Maybe the MTA people have some kind of grabber??

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@futurebird your hat looks like the one on the sign!

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No! Bad printer!

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We’ve cast off lines and put Honolulu to our rudder. Soon we’ll leave Hawaii in our wake as we sail on towards Japan.

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Wore ship and braced around. Now enjoying the quiet moonlight on the last lookout of this night watch.

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It’s finally time!

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More canvas!

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Even more canvas!

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Now with jib boom action.

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Sails and shadows.

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Swedish furl on the stun sail yard.

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And another stun sail day.

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Stun sails as seen from the main mast sky sail yard.

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Going aloft to inspect the sky sail rigging.

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Another beautiful downwind sailing day.

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Are you sure you’re rigging the correct stun sails for the current tack?

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Running downwind means double stun sails.

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Clewed up and furled the main course to unblank the stun sails set on the foremast.

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Despite all that flogging canvas, we’re becalmed below the horse latitudes.

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Almost time to start another evening watch.

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Didn’t have internet for a while so we had to enjoy the beauty of the Pacific Ocean.

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Today started with another beautiful downwind stun sail morning.

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Unfortunately one of the stun sails chaffed against the lower topsail yard and required a new patch.

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Another night watch begins. Haven’t seen any other ships or even airplanes in two weeks.

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Found an unapproved belay technique.

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Sheet and tack.

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After two days of nearly becalmed winds we’ve furled all the sails and are motoring for the first time in several weeks.

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We’ve found the wind, unfurled the canvas and are back sailing on a starboard tack towards Japan.

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Reminder that flags fly forward or sideways when under most points of sail, not streaming backwards like so many paintings.

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Our quiet night watch was interrupted by a boarder.

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With an hour left in our watch the call came to wear ship so it’s been a busy evening

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Koningsdag!

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Saluting time!

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The “stille ocean” can be very peaceful.

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We were becalmed in heavy fog and the night watch felt like sailing on a ghost ship.

Mast with furled sails and white light illuminating heavy fog.
Capstan and lines shrouded in fog.

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Sailing full and by again.

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Striking the dolphins.

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The sails haven’t required much handling the past few watches, so I’ve been spending time working on projects in the bosun store.

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The ship’s carpenter made beautiful butterflies to repair the monkey sheet block.

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Watch out for the striker, dolphins!

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Glad we have modern navigation systems since visibility is close to zero today.

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30 kts wind and 11 kts speed.

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The Jarvis winch is our only modern sail handling gear.

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Life on a starboard tack.

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The heel angle is “only” 20 degrees although it feels like 45.

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Another night watch begins.

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The bioluminescence was unbelievably bright.

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After weeks at see it’s now only a few more hours to Japan. Time to start harbor furling sails we won’t need.

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