A <1 year old $80 lipo car jump starter pack crapped out on me. It worked great for a while, but then stopped accepting a charge. I ripped it apart and found that the individual cells in the lipo pack were wildly out of balance. I hooked each cell up individually to a power supply and manually balanced the back. Now it seems to be charging on its own. Time will tell whether it’s a save or a temporary solution. Note: ripping open lipo packs can be dangerous, have a care if you try this.
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This is the type of budding technology that deprecates spending billions of dollars on super carriers etc. Much of what’s necessary to build drone swarms is readily available commercially. Makes me concerned that our military is once again gearing up to fight past wars. https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/aquabotix-aquatic-drone-swarm/
Is it really that hard?
With 2017 technology, you’d think it wouldn’t be that difficult to produce a safe automated system for trains running in a controlled environment. Good grief, I think I could cobble together a bunch of IoT sensors and do the job for <$1000/car easy. https://wtop.com/tracking-metro-24-7/2017/12/metro-acknowledges-smoother-rides-better-dont-expect-soon/


