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I mean, as long as no one has a problem with it, I'll keep posting my bread. I just don't want to spam the sub if it's not welcome.

Please let me know if I should chill

On the bread, this is my go-to, and it didn't disappoint

Tried my hand at the king arthur pan de cristal recipe today, but I didn't have bread flour, so instead of 500g bread flour, mine is 300g AP and 200g semolina, which gives it that wonderful golden color.

Didn't have the massive open crumb I was hoping for, but I think it over-proofed a little.

The result was still fantastic, the flavor is incredible, the crust is crunchy without tearing your mouth up like sourdough can do sometimes. Overall I'm very very happy with it

This one was interesting, but I probably won't make it again. It smells a little........footy, and the flavor isn't my jam

This is the first time I've made this recipe, but it seems pretty good. The flavor isn't as good as the tartine country loaf, but good all-around

I'll say, I prefer the flavor of the Tartine country loaf, but this recipe gets great oven spring every time, I love it.

One thing I've never quite figured out, though, is how to easily and reliably shape batards. Like, I get it done, but it feels like I do it slightly differently every time

Thesis My personal moral philosophy is a garbled mess.

Premise 1 I am, as any college student who has taken one or two philosophy classes is, a dyed-in-the-wool utilitarian.

Premise 2 When my wife is annoyed by something I did, or forgot to do, I invariably argue that my motives were pure and, thus, should be free of blame.

Conclusion Premise 1 posits that I adhere to a utilitarian ethical framework. Premise 2 posits that I argue against being blamed for my actions from a deontological perspective. Thus, I am a wishy-washy yahoo who uses whichever moral philosophy is convenient at the moment; QED.

Title pretty much says it all. I'm trying to find a current limiting ballast for a solid state tesla coil, and this has the right size and current draw, but I'd like to eliminate the motor screaming, if possible.

Thoughts?

I'm using an instructable as reference for a project and it says to use anything available that draws 5-10A as a ballast. Examples were a hair dryer, I thin toaster, and also an incandescent bulb as a test article.

I don't quite understand include any of those things in the circuit. Is it as simple as ripping the guts or if a hair dryer to get to the heating element and writing it in with the exposed leads?

Any general information on ballasts that aren't for florescent lighting would be very helpful

So the lone LED in the middle, with two resistors, is going to be on all the time, as a night light to the night light.

If the rest of the LEDs are on a switch, will I have to run two completely separate wires for the single LED, isolating it on its own circuit?

I'm tentatively planning on doing that, using heat shrink or something like that to tidy up the wires, then use two DC barrel jacks to connect each set of wires to the board. Are there any potential problems with this plan?

So after doing some analysis of human factors (asked my lovely wife what she prefers), I decided to ditch the PIR sensor and just go with a switch. This is just the current state of the board, I'm gonna rip apart an old router to get the barrel jack, then put this thing in an enclosure of some sort and call it day.

I'm also putting one LED with I think a 3k resistor that'll be on all the time as a night light to the night light, so you can find the switch

I've been waiting so patiently all year, hoping the plant in my backyard was butterfly weed. It probably isn't, but I found this little guy in my front yard a couple days ago!

But if I want the LEDs to actually be bright, I probably need to use the sensor to activate a relay, right?

I know this is basic as shit, but I'm having a blast

Update: first trial with the planned number of LEDs and pillow stuffing, looks fantastic!