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Re: Fukushima still leaking radiation

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Originally Posted by Drachen View Post
RS-232? You stuck in 1996 or something?
Nope, just insanely cheap, as any good researcher should be (I believe the more common term is "frugal")! Why pick up a $20 cable that requires further effort to map, when DB9s can easily be salvaged and have thoroughly mapped pinouts?

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Originally Posted by TF-Viewer
Well, you could rig a silicone face with an accelerometer to detect the force of the slap on one end of the connection and use a pneumatic actuator with that silicone hand to deliver the slap on the other end of it.
Seems a little like buying a mugger the knife he uses to rob you.
If you can take the end device out of the equation, but still deliver the expected result, think of how surprised the subject will be when they get face-slapped out of the ether!
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