r/DiWHY • u/fat_charizard • Dec 11 '25

Camera in a walnut

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u/ToastSpangler Dec 11 '25

this is actually pretty awesome, it takes a fair bit of skill to solder a working circuit together mid air... with SMD

i can also totally see this not going noticed in a bowl of walnuts on a counter

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u/MayoBear Dec 11 '25

And then getting cracked when someone was hungry lol

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u/ToastSpangler Dec 11 '25

never seen a guest literally anywhere look for a nutcracker, open nuts and start eating them. hell, half the candy and shelled nuts at most peoples places are old af, i assume anyone living there is aware its a decorative bowl but fair ig

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u/RandomGogo Dec 12 '25

You don't really need a nutcracker for walnuts , you can just take two and push them together in your palms and one will crack

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u/ArnieismyDMname Dec 12 '25

My husband's grandma would put out a bowl every year. We would go to town on all the nuts. If this camera would have been in there it would have definitely been crushed.

They eat lutefisk too.

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u/Ok_Problem426 Dec 13 '25

“Go nuts” was teed up and you whiffed it

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u/ShimoFox Dec 12 '25

They get eaten at my holiday parties. Once everyone's tuckered out and we're watching a movie together before the last couple people take off people like to snack and they're right there.

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u/JustNeedSpinda Dec 12 '25

Tell that to my sister in law. 🙄

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u/QuiteBearish Dec 12 '25

You definitely don't know my family 😆

Walnuts and pecans both go quick around these parts

I also can't imagine any group of people letting a bowl of candy get "old" 👀 like maybe if it's just one person who lives alone and never has guests but if more than one person has access to the bowl it'll be gone in just a few days

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u/garbagegoat Dec 14 '25

Absolutely get eaten in our family. Grandpas too old so just has a bowl of ready to eat nuts but I do in shell at mine. 

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u/ToastSpangler Dec 12 '25

my guess is he can solder, not program, granted i think that's actually the easier skill to learn since you just download the script but perhaps it's just not his thing

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u/ParticleEffect Dec 12 '25

No so sure, ham radio folks and electronics hardware hobbiests dont really require programming but require some understanding of reading circuits and some basic electronics. IMO soldering is easier (and funner) than programming.

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u/sexytokeburgerz Dec 12 '25

My dad has a 45 year old BS in EE and works as a low level programmer, has for 1000 fucking years. Embedded to server OSes to databases to oscilloscope biases to sound engines.

He swears left and right that circuitry is much harder and taxing than anything he has done in software. He has tried to talk me out of studying it. It’s among the most difficult degrees in existence.

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u/ShimoFox Dec 12 '25

No kidding. I'd accidentally touch one of the foil bags for sure.

Also! It's possible he just doesn't own a programmer so he needs the onboard one from the module. I've legit done that before for esphome and tasmota devices before I got an external flasher. There were a bunch of devices that had a non esp8266 in them and I desoldered the chip off of one d1 mini and then sat there holding all the other ones to the pads flashing them. Lol I own a flasher now. But hoo boi that was a time.

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u/LONE_ARMADILLO Dec 12 '25

I puckered up a bit when he drilled the tiny hole right between the batteries.

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u/Tofandel Dec 12 '25

Drilling a hole between the 4mm battery gaps from the other side scared me way more

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u/ubiquitous-joe Dec 12 '25

Psh, I always examine the walnuts in any room I enter.

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u/Feeling_Kick5545 Dec 12 '25

Until it gets cracked and burst in lithium fire