TAURUS! Now there's an American car with a shape and a feel we've never seen before! TAURUS! Now there is a personal car with exactly what we've been looking for! TAURUS!
Sorry I can't get that out of my head so many years later.
If it's really complex I start making a process for it, start to finish, if it's moderately complex (rebuilding a car for example) I just write out a checklist of everything that needs to be done to finish it and cross it out as I go.
If you mean actually designing the thing and making sure all the parts would actually fit together? I just draw it up in Solidworks. Easier said than done if you've never touched CAD software before but plenty of incredible things ngs are also made without this kind of planning, sometimes it's best just to plow forward and solve one problem at a time.
as if the first thing I'd do wouldn't be to hotwire the compressor engagement into an off the shelf temperature controller.
I don't really see the point of that other than punishing people for driving (which in the 30 years I've lived in the US has not once been a choice between driving and mass transit). It's a marginal difference in fuel consumption at best.
Measuring the commanded torque from my ECU it's about 1-2 lb-ft difference.
It's already a pain just to access diagnostic tools on modern cars, my current car needs a CAN Bus module that basically modifies the behavior of the module it replaced and allows you to access the bus unencrypted over the OBDII port.
Though admittedly there's a decent argument that the manufacturer implemented this for real security concerns. Its real purpose as far as I can tell is to interpret signals from the infotainment system so it cannot send things it shouldn't to the rest of the car. I'm not too concerned that my individual car is open to this, but if every car was there might be a worthwhile attack to disable them all etc. They could have easily made it disable itself when diagnostic hardware was detected IE a physical lockout that requires a specific resistance on a pin.
Considering modern cars have throttle by wire, brake by wire, electric power steering with assists all hooked up over CAN bus to an infotainment system that may have its own 5G modem it's not too paranoid to consider that an attack vector that could compromise the safety of a vehicle, even if it's slim. Which is unfortunate because I really want to just say make it all open so I can fix stuff and mess around with my car that I own.
Karting, it's a very zen experience for me, which might sound a little weird if you aren't used to flying around a former department store at 40mph and coming within inches of barriers. But to set a fast lap requires absolute focus and control and a complete lack of fear . There's magic in running lap after lap searching for an advantage and improving your smoothness while walking a tightrope of control with absolute confidence. I just wish it wasn't so expensive still much cheaper than real cars.
I've never been at peace walking around a park, or sitting on a beach or anything like that. I'm 100% in my element on track though. I need to focus my mind onto something to let things go. Maybe that's something I need to work on.
RC racing is the much more chill version, you get into the flow of the track and the car and go back to the pits and make some tweaks and go again. It requires the same kind of focus and mental skills but much less bodily stress, be prepared to walk a lot of you are new, or to help flip over cars for kids and other racers.
Obviously I have a very specific mindset where I need to push myself mentally in this area. Stopping short of the limit of myself and the hardware just won't do.
I actually ate less because my poor eating habits are boredom related, like I could eat a whole tray of Oreos if I smoked but I had no real desire to because I was happily engaged in some activity.
It's just a goofy thing me and my friends used to say and I made a depiction of it (much worse than my current avatar, which I commissioned from a cool artist I met a while back) I just thought it was fun.
Wish I knew what her current website/contact was id love to share it but I think she has gone a different way since.
on a modern PC doing that is almost entirely trivial if implemented correctly, I hate DRM but to be honest they may be right that it has no appreciable effect on the final performance of the product for the vast majority of users. Of course that's dependent on proper implementation, what are the odds these folks at Denuvo can do that? pretty low.
Activation limits and compatibility are the biggest issues for me.
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The tiny hands that look edited in crack me up.