Top all-time · #2502
Homo Ludens
Personal blog · ludens.clhardwarescience
Homo Ludens is a personal blog at ludens.cl about hardware and science. Since 2012, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “A home microhydro plant (2009)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- A home microhydro plant (2009)7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-06-02
- The microhydro plant7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-02-10
- /paradise/turbine/intake.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-02
- The OS-Graupner Wankel Engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-03
- Practical Transformer Winding (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-25
- /sitemap.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-02
What Hacker News says?
I first heard of it here: https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html (CTRL+F transformer), a pretty fascinating DIY medium distance power transmission setup.
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/turbine.html
on “Transformers Explained Visually”Submitted The microhydro plant as a story · 557 points
HN discussionThis man is much more sure of his construction abilities than I probably will ever be: > So if the roof collapses, it might be my fault... http://ludens.cl/paradise/house/house.html
Comment linking /paradise/house/house.html
on “The microhydro plant”Submitted A home microhydro plant (2009) as a story · 464 points
HN discussionIn case it wasn't obvious and if you want to lose a few hours, here is the site map. Awesome stuff. http://ludens.cl/sitemap.htm
Comment linking /sitemap.htm
on “The microhydro plant”Submitted Practical Transformer Winding (2010) as a story · 125 points
HN discussionI wonder if, instead of dumping excess power into heaters ( http://ludens.cl/Electron/picelc/picelc.html ), it would ever make sense for this system to pump water back to the top of the system. It might not, if the water flow is short-term stable and only varies across seasons.
Comment linking /Electron/picelc/picelc.html
on “The microhydro plant”Submitted The OS-Graupner Wankel Engine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI suppose opinions differ, but I like things where content is king, and these are excellent: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/ http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/ https://ludens.cl/Index.html
Comment linking /Index.html
on “Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?”Submitted The Colour of White Light as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot sure if it's generally applicable but I've learned a lot from reading and trying to understand how the circuits here work. https://ludens.cl/Electron/Electron.html
Comment linking /Electron/Electron.html
on “Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?”Submitted The microhydro plant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe associated article on creating an electronic load controller for his microhydro system is also very interesting: https://ludens.cl/Electron/picelc/picelc.html
Comment linking /Electron/picelc/picelc.html
on “A home microhydro plant (2009)”Submitted DIY Micro Hydro Plant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat solar quote was from a follow post from 2014: https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/intake.html
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/intake.html
on “A home microhydro plant (2009)”Submitted A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs the article says, it diverts most of the flow during low-flow periods (i.e. summer) which means there would not be much left for fish passage. Might be fine, might not, I don't know enough about the ecosystem to say. Additionally, there are some definite issues with sedimentation during construction. They excavated the channel to the intake and put all the dirt from the excavation into the stream for it to "carry…
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/intake.html
on “A home microhydro plant (2009)”Submitted The Color of White Light as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLove everything about this blog. The only disappointing thing about his projects was the house he built. You go out to live in paradise... and decide to make your home in a cave SMH. Need way more windows: https://ludens.cl/paradise/house/814.jpg
Comment linking /paradise/house/814.jpg
on “A home microhydro plant (2009)”Submitted The throw-away society as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe sitemap here is quite impressive: https://ludens.cl/sitemap.htm
Comment linking /sitemap.htm
on “A home microhydro plant (2009)”Most of the images are from 2008 and the html file itself from 2009 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/ . There is also an update from 2014 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/intake.html
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/intake.html
on “A home microhydro plant (2009)”And it's especially great if you have a neighbor with a son who are willing to do the labor for you. [1] [2] [1] https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075110
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/turbine.html
on “How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?”In that case you might enjoy this: https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html Was posted here a while back. Fascinating guy.
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/turbine.html
on “Transformers from Scratch”Regarding hydro, you can go micro to power a house or some small comunity. There are lot's of books on microhydropower, but get a look at this fantastic post at ludens.cl http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/turbine.html
on “Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?”My favorite Hacker News story of all time, about a guy who builds a small, water turbine power plant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/turbine.html
on “Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine”here is another interesting tale of home-made speakers, this fellow made some very large boxes and had very specific drivers he wanted but they were still inexpensive. He used active (powered as opposed to passive RLC network) crossovers. Also he built his own off-grid house with mini-hydro plant. the OP will probably find it interesting. I ended up reading every page on this fellows 90's style website. http://luden…
Comment linking /Electron/Speakers/speakers.html
on “Homemade Speakers”I have pretty much replaced my spreadsheets with postgres(sqlite would have worked as well, but... I really like postgres) simple calculations end up as views, more complicated ones end up as an external script. a postgres function would work, but I find external scripts easier to manage. Once, as a sort of programing kata, I wanted to see if I could turn a simple spreadsheet I found on the internet into a view. tra…
Comment linking /Electron/trafos/trafos.html
on “VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (1999)”Was this it? http://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html
Comment linking /paradise/turbine/turbine.html
on “Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Thinks New Stirling Engine Will Get You Off the Grid”A transformer and coil design guide from the same author: https://ludens.cl/Electron/Magnet.html
Comment linking /Electron/Magnet.html
on “Practical Transformer Winding (2010)”
