Teardown The Things You Love: How to Satisfy Your Curiosity and Discover Hidden Secrets

After a solid four year run, this old PSP has seen better days. Countless bumps and grazes and now it's pretty much inoperable. So, what better time to teardown a pricey product than when it's broken beyond repair?

Teardown The Things You Love

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The Dyson has some detailsthat I love to refer to during brainstorms. This is high praise. They get somany things right. At the top of my list is the cord release, a satisfyingswiveling finger that snaps into position both up and down.

This type of project has become popular among Utah residents, especially in this particular neighborhood. The rising cost of land in Salt Lake City and the surrounding area makes lot recycling an extremely viable option for many homeowners. So, if you have a home on a lot you love, choosing to teardown and rebuild may be a better option than purchasing an new home and lot.

It's magical, actually: a voxely world that's just ready to crumble if you find the right way to approach things. You play as a thief of sorts, and each mission drops you into a sandbox with a simple sort of objective - get this, destroy that. You have as long as you want to scope things out and plan how you're going to tackle things, and then you're off.

The magic may be in how things come down - the way a wall collapses as you ease a dumptruck through it, or even the way a window splinters into tinkling pieces after a blow from your hammer - but what keeps me playing is a totally unexpected rigour to the whole thing.

I love this because it invokes one of my favourite books of the last few years, A Burglar's Guide to the City, by the Bldgblog editor Geoff Manaugh. This is one of those books that I have to keep rebuying because I keep giving copies away. I've written about this book before I think, but Manaugh's central point is that burglars are sort of super-users of the urban environment. They see possibilities where other people just see a wall or a window or a JCB. They aren't constrained by the things the rest of us are constrained by, and yet they still have that rigour as they go about their objectives. Very Teardown.

We love this email. There are a few other similar emails that come in on day 3 after ordering your try-on kit, but this one is the best. Because rather than leave you hanging, wondering what the next steps are after you receive your kit, they tell you exactly what to do.

Short-term memory management: It is a well-known fact of cognitive science that human short-term memory (SM), when compared to other attributes of our memory systems, is exceedingly limited. This fact has been the focus of thousands of studies over the last 50 years. Scientists have poked and prodded this aspect of human cognition to determine exactly how SM operates and what impacts SM effectiveness. As we go about our daily lives, short-term memory makes it possible for you to engage with all manner of technology and the environment in general. SM is a temporary memory that allows us to remember a very limited number of discrete items, behaviors, or patterns for a short period of time. SM makes it possible for you to operate without constant referral to long-term memory, a much more complex and time-consuming process. This is critical because SM is fast and easily configured, which allows one to adapt instantly to situations that might otherwise be fatal if one were required to access long-term memory. In computer-speak, human short-term memory is also highly volatile. This means it can be erased instantly, or more importantly, it can be overwritten by other information coming into the human perceptual system. Where things get interesting is the point where poor user interface design impacts the demand placed on SM. For example, a user interface design solution that requires the user to view information on one screen, store it in short-term memory, and then reenter that same information in a data field on another screen seems like a trivial task. Research shows that it is difficult to do accurately, especially if some other form of stimulus flows between the memorization of the data from the first screen and before the user enters the data in the second. This disruptive data flow can be in almost any form, but as a general rule, anything that is engaging, such as conversation, noise, motion, or worst of all, a combination of all three, is likely to totally erase SM. When you encounter this type of data flow before you complete transfer of data using short-term memory, chances are very good that when you go back to retrieve important information from short-term memory, it is gone!

Mystery: You probably do not know how to recognize it, but Angry Birds has it. To add context to this idea, mystery is all around us in the things we find truly compelling. The element or attribute of mystery is present in all great art, advertising, movies, products, and not surprisingly, interactive games. The idea of mystery in a user experience as an attribute for increasing user engagement is embedded in the idea of mystery (conceptual depth). We all experience the impact of mystery when we view a cubist period Picasso, recall the famous Apple 1984 super bowl ad, or listen to Miles Davis. He is said to have described jazz as playing the spaces between the notes, not the notes themselves. Mystery is present when you pick up an iPad for the first time. Why are the icons spaced out across the screen when they could be clustered much closer together to save space. Why does the default screen saver look like water on the inside of the screen?

This leads to a more interesting question: How does visual design impact success in the marketplace? I routinely get this question from clients who are undertaking large redesign or new development projects. Decades after it first surfaced in automobile design, visual design is still the most contentious aspect of designing compelling user experiences. Designers (mostly of the UX stripe) routinely sell clients on the concept that the visual design (graphic style) of a given interface solution is a critical factor in success. This assumption seems to make good intuitive sense. However, the actual working principle is counter-intuitive. In most user experience design solutions, visual design (how things look) is technically a hygiene factor. You get serious negative points if it is missing, but minimal positive lift beyond first impression, if a user interface has great visual design. When we conduct user engagement studies for clients (not the same as usability testing), we routinely see data that strongly supports this theory. This concept does not apply to all user experience design problems, but in most cases it holds well. The ultimate question is how much visual design is enough? Even more important than good or bad visual design is appropriate visual design. On this metric, Angry Birds again has just the right set of attributes. The concept of appropriate visual design is in itself complex as designers generally apply too much rendering and engineers apply none, which often leaves the actual user staring at the equivalent of an engineering prototype (Google) or alternatively, World of Warcraft. After decades of experience in user interface design, I can predict fairly accurately the corporate software development bias of clients by simply examining the user interfaces of their products. I cannot imagine Google as anything but engineering-driven, despite the apparently large number of UX designers hired in recent years.

We are left with the notion that a cognitive teardown of a truly compelling user experience is vastly more interesting and insightful than simply answering the opposite question: why is a given user interface dysfunctional? To summarize, in the context of Angry Birds, success is bound up in slowing down that which could be fast, erasing that which is easily renewable, and making visual that which is mysterious and memorable. Over the past 10 years, our firm has conducted user engagement studies on hundreds of user interfaces. The vast number did not get one principle right, much less six. You go Birds! Your success certainly makes others Angry and envious.

We store things in our subconscious mind as we grow up from childhood to adulthood. The angry bird game uncovers our likeness to hit the target and the whole world is running on targets, if you observe very closely.

Have you truly loved the Lord with every ounce of who you are? Have you committed to love God with your entire being, your whole heart, soul and strength? Have you given him control of every aspect of your life?

This blog post will run through a full teardown and review of the Pi 400 and the rest of the official Kit you can purchase from the Raspberry Pi website for $100. (You can also buy the Pi 400 on its own for $70).

As with all things Raspberry Pi, you're not going to get Apple-level hardware (no chamfered aluminium edges, diamond-blasted surfaces, stainless steel bands, etc.), but at least for the model I received, the plastic molds seemed to produce high-quality parts, and everything fit together (and survived four separate complete teardown-rebuild cycles!) very well.

I love this! Shame I still use Spotify and Discord, if not I would totally switch to the pi. I got zoom running on my pi and I have it set up on a standing desk for school meetings and its pretty neat.

Has anybody accidentally spilled coffee or something into your keyboard? Did it work anymore? How many years before something fails on a keyboard -- for me, it's about 3 years. Do keyboards get banged around a lot? Yes. Are they a super-personal thing -- how they feel, the size, other aesthetics? (I use wired ThinkPad keyboards because I like the feel of the keys and their locations). So I hate to pour cold water on this product, being a big RPi supporter (have *every* board since the beginning), but --- unless schools are the target market, these things are less versatile, more expensive, and probably less robust than the existing RPi4. You are missing the camera connector, the display connector, a USB2 port, LEDs on the Ethernet jack, and any chance you can 'move something' to improve WiFi / BT range. The RPi 400 is a terrible idea. Better: stick an RPi4 on the back of a cheap 4K monitor, use a wireless keyboard with built-in trackpad or Stick. You have the freedom to put the keyboard in your lap, and the stuff that 'doesn't move after setup (Ethernet cable, power supply, HDMI cable) is not constantly moving and/or being jostled by normal everyday keyboard use. 2ff7e9595c