▲ 112 r/WidowsBay
I just have one wish.....
>!Please do not make it an alien behind the door. !<
>!​!<
u/vicpylon — 23 hours ago
▲ 1 r/3Dprinting
Custom Pill Cutter for Spoiled Cat
My cat has some health issues and we need to give her a daily pill. No problem. However, the drug has side-effects, so the vet wants to try lowering the dose to the bare minimum to get the job done to reduce the side-effects. However, we need to do it increments. Small increments and the pill is so tiny that cutting it consistently and easily was a pain.
Here is my solution, a pill cutter custom made for the pill in question to cut (roughly) 20% off one end.
The length is a function of the sterile scalpel blade I had lying around to do the cutting that I knew was not coated in some toxic mystery chemical. Thought about cutting the scalpel blade down, but too lazy, so I get a long cutter.
I even added a guard around most of the blade so I am unlikely to lose a finger while using it.
It works great and if I need to tweak the dose, I can just move the location of the blade along the axis.
Not a complex project, but the specificity of it made me chuckle. Thought I would share.
u/vicpylon — 10 days ago
▲ 1 r/Cruise
Atlas Cruise Excursions in Ireland/England
Booked this one for next year, but I am unclear as to what the excursions entail. Never really had great luck with included excursion on cruises, but before I find my own I wondered if anyone had any experience in these countries with Atlas excursions?
u/vicpylon — 11 days ago
▲ 5 r/Cruise
Atlas Ocean Svalbard Arctic Cruise Parka Warning
Cruise was great overall, but I did have one warning. Atlas provides boots and parkas for all guests for the zodiac excursions. The boots are just tall rubber boots and work fine, but the parka is another matter.
I felt like the Michelin Man. The parka, while it works, is very bulky versus modern cold weather jackets. We wore them once and then asked for and got permission to use our own jackets (just has to be checked for bio-contamination, seeds and pollen and the like). Easily 50% thinner than the Atlas jacket and a third of the weight.
The Atlas parka might be ok, but you also have to wear a couple of pounds of auto-deploying life vest on top of it that cannot be taken off, even on shore. (Might need to run from polar bears) Just generally uncomfortable.
Just an FYI.
u/vicpylon — 17 days ago
▲ 3 r/whoop
I bought this item:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F38FFXL7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
It is intended to convert a Whoop MG to use a standard 22 MM watch band. As you can see from the pictures above it makes the Whoop look Fitbit-like. The lugs on the side do indeed fit a 22 mm watch band. The adapter is made of a hard ABS plastic and the Whoop fits nicely inside. I got it to pop out with only minimal effort, which is both good and bad.
If you have a soft band that could potentially spin around on your wrist the Whoop is only held in place by light pressure and pressing against your wrist. If it looses the pressure from the wrist side the potential for it to pop out are high in my opinion.
Also, I tested the battery charging and it worked fine. The existing battery slides over the adapter and the whoop showed it was charging.
Overall, happy with my purchase and will now go looking for some watch bands to test with it.
Disclaimer: paid full retail (all $9 of it) so no corporate shilling here. :-)
u/vicpylon — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/whoop
Found this adapter on Amazon to use watch bands on a Whoop MG.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F38FFXL7?ref_=pe_125775000_1044873430_t_fed_asin_title&th=1
Back story; I designed this same type of solution last year. But after looking at the rampant foreign design theft/counterfeiting in the Whoop band space I abandoned the project and never produced anything.
That said, it is still a good idea and I think it will work, but I suspect you cannot charge the whoop while it is in the case. I did some testing during my design work and determined the inductive charging battery has to be within a very tight tolerance in relation to the Whoop itself.
So I risked my $9 and will let you know how it goes. I have long wanted to use a watch band since they are both cheaper and have more diverse design options.
u/vicpylon — 2 months ago