Did Father Ted have much impact in the US? - it always seems v British/Irish in its humour (but that’s true of Monty Python of course and that obviously made it over there)
BBC America is a thing since 1998
Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
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#52Re: Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's not, the dispenser is a jab at the kind of trinket stalls that form around holy sites. what i don't understand is how the dispenser compensates for the changing radius of the tape roll in order to measure accurately. i suspect that it doesn't.
Two ways to make it: - know the total length of the tape, and when it's changed, and therefore predict the current radius of the roll - a small sprung variable resistor pressing against the under side of the role But that could be over-engineering something that almost more perfect if it's a little imperfect.
thought of a third way:
cellophane tape does emit xrays when unrolled, so correlate the strength of the radiation with the angular velocity of the roll to more precisely calculate how much tape was removed. I suspect a second photodiode may respond to the radiation.
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#54Re: Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
#55I don't know if this is an HN thing (as in, the software disallows it), but that title needs some punctuation. My first thought was "Who's Ted Kilnettle and what's Shrine Tape"?
at most it could use a "the" in front of the title:
The Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
which is a reference to a show name Father Ted, in which a Kilnettle Shrine tape dispenser was sold as a souvenir at the Kilnettle Shrine, and brought on a plane by Father Ted in the show Father Ted.
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#56Is there a metric version?
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#57Did Father Ted have much impact in the US? - it always seems v British/Irish in its humour (but that’s true of Monty Python of course and that obviously made it over there)
It didn't have the cultural impact of many other shows, though certainly some people know of and have seen it. It's less well known/referenced than even Red Dwarf and other fairly niche shows in my experience.
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#58I genuinely never thought I'd see Father Ted, let alone the lourdes tape dispenser on the front page of HN. What a great day.
Sitting have a lazy late breakfast, sun is shining and this comes up, great start to the day. Showed my wife and she had the great idea that we should watch Fr. Ted from the start again. Fr. Ted first came out when I was in college in the 90s, Thursday night was the big night out for students and as new episodes of Fr Ted would air at 9pm our night out would start in a jammed pub with everyone watching it on a big sc…
> Fr. Ted first came out when I was in college in the 90s
I was a teenager, and some of the episodes were filmed at my school. The lovely horse video is the field behind my school where we used to sneak out during break. They even stopped class one day to film a scene at the front of the school - they used the school building as the outside of the craggy island sports center.
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#59One of the hardest things in Arduino-based designs is power savings, and this one is not an exception.
This design has no power saving, which means it will only last few hours tops on the batteries. This could be improved, but the current design (ESP8266 + analog IR sensor) does not really work with low power.
A good start would be to put a 2nd low-power micro on IR encoder that'd (1) count pulses (2) wake up ESP8266. This will allow one to keep complex stuff (audio out) using Arduino libraries, while small piece of hand-written code will take care low power stuff.
A more advanced design would be to get rid of ESP8266 and switch to low power MCU. If you keep audio uncompressed, a small MCU (STM8 or AVR8) is perfectly capable of playing some speech... and it will only take microamps in sleep/sense mode. You likely won't be able to use as many pre-made libraries however, so this is substantially more development time.
Re: Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser
#60I don't know if this is an HN thing (as in, the software disallows it), but that title needs some punctuation. My first thought was "Who's Ted Kilnettle and what's Shrine Tape"?
at most it could use a "the" in front of the title: The Father Ted Kilnettle Shrine Tape Dispenser which is a reference to a show name Father Ted, in which a Kilnettle Shrine tape dispenser was sold as a souvenir at the Kilnettle Shrine, and brought on a plane by Father Ted in the show Father Ted.
Father Ted "Kilnettle Shrine" Tape Dispenser.