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Cake day: February 5th, 2024

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  • If you mount the camera below the rim of your helmet then you’re going to have a really bad time.

    Mount a wedge to the helmet and the camera base plate to the wedge. I’d use wood for simplicity of fabrication. Throw some paint on it.

    If you don’t have access to a wood shop then literally take your helmet into a big box hardware store and look around for something that’ll work as is, or to a small hardware store paying a little more for assistance in figuring out a solution.


















    1. Battery charging
    2. Charger sees increased resistance when the battery is full, then disengages charging to prevent an overcharge explosion.
    3. The system sits. The battery naturally discharges slightly.
    4. Charger sees reduced resistance, then engages charging.
    5. Repeat.

    What this shitty battery charger is doing is repeatedly cycling the rechargeable battery. That decreases capacity. The consequences are far worse for cheaper nickel cadmium batteries (often paired with shitty battery chargers) than lithium ion batteries (often paired with chargers that turn off once the battery is charged).

    There’s two solutions: Buy cheap and unplug it when it’s charged; Buy a nicer product that’ll do it for you.

    Example: Walmart burner phone vs. basically anything else. Leave the burner plugged in overnight for a week and it’s dead because the battery chargers are trash.