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Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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Re: Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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Post by trenchpilgrim »

Y_Y wrote: post #93
trenchpilgrim wrote: post #76

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Yeah but the Camera's owner is much more likely to notice "my camera is missing" than "the SD card is blank for some reason... the SD card must have failed" EDIT: The linked PDF has a photo, the camera literally opens up to access the SD card.

The camera's (former) owner may very well notice, but that will have little effect. It's much more common that cameras (security, photography, phones) get stolen with cards inside, rather than someone extracting the card and leaving the camera.

This is professional equipment, used for surveys. Think espionage, not consumer hardware.

Re: Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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Post by orbital-decay »

amelius wrote: post #10
gruez wrote: post #8

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It's a solid piece of silicon encased in epoxy, so there's nothing really to get crushed. Contrast this to something like a cellphone that's made of hundreds of separate parts and has void space that will get crushed.

Why isn't a cellphone filled with epoxy?

Filling dive watches with oil (hydro modding) is pretty popular. It mainly helps with visibility but also increases the depth rating.

Re: Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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Post by hexagonwin »

firesteelrain wrote: post #59
squigz wrote: post #35

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Re: Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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Post by blackoil »

GMoromisato wrote: post #115
tom_alexander wrote: post #14

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How would you do screen replacement? That is a common repair since people drop their phones and currently you can get your phone repaired by some teenager in a booth at the mall. If you fill the phone with epoxy, how are you detaching the screen, and getting a new ribbon cable through the epoxy?

So what if you can't replace a screen on an epoxy-filled cell phone? That's a small price to pay for knowing that your camera will survive if you take a one-way trip to crush-depth.

Is this sarcasm? 99.999% people will never take it beyond a meter in a pool.

Re: Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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Post by ssl-3 »

BikiniPrince wrote: post #137
ssl-3 wrote: post #134

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Usually (not always), something like a Teensy or a Pi Pico or an Arduino is treated like a development board for prototyping. A person builds out their circuit using hardware they can solder/wire-up by hand on a workbench, maybe even with relatively-giant solderless breadboards, to prove the concept and the general design. And a dev board can be great for spinning a few prototypes. It's quick to get started (code can…

That’s entirely true for manufacturing at scale. I really doubt they are selling a lot of these.

I suspect you're right about the quantities. In support of that notion, when looking closer at the (linked in another user's comment) PDF of the report, I can see that a lot of this camera's internal structure quite clearly appears to be the product of an FDM 3D printer. This suggests that quantities are low.

And I don't know when that camera was manufactured or designed.

But these days, it's possible to get even hobbyist-quantities of custom PCBs delivered with difficult-to-solder ICs installed from sources like JLCPCB.

(Depending on the features and functions wanted, it doesn't take a whole lot of extra parts to get an MCU to do its thing: There's not a ton of parts on a Teensy to begin with.)

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Post by bschwindHN »

throwaway173738 wrote: post #100
ryandrake wrote: post #94

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The longer I last in this world the more products I realize are the result of telling a few people who don't know what they are doing to "make it kind of work."

That’s my entire experience in embedded. Everything I get from other companies basically looks like an internship project right down to the pointer arguments with unspecified bounds on the function calls. One of the companies we bought hardware from keeps representing things are working when they only work on devices in the lab. Almost nobody in the space produces anything professional and everything uses Yocto even…

What kind of hardware projects do you work on?

I'm mostly in the software space but in the past few years I've been doing a lot more embedded stuff, and the trend I notice is that companies are making great hardware, and then completely ruining its usefulness with bad software and firmware. It's kind of mind blowing to me because I always considered software to be the easy part of making a product, compared to, you know, etching microscopic patterns onto sand to make magical transistors appear in just the right way to do the task you want.

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Post by zero_bias »

squigz wrote: post #35
Gigachad wrote: post #29

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I haven’t bothered working out how to install one on mobile. I just don’t visit websites with shitty ads.

Firefox on mobile supports uBlock Origin

Safari on iOS support uBlock origin too

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Post by boppo1 »

rdtsc wrote: post #132

> No deep-sea shenanigans around the Titanic wreck were revealed. Manley explains in his Twitter thread that “the camera had been configured to dump data onto an external storage device, so nothing was found from the accident dive.” Nothing particularly pertinent to the tragic accident, that is. This is about camera hardware and how it survived. It provides no information or footage about the incident (in case you we…

Thank you, this post saved me time.
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