Curiosimo

I am not a nudist, but I am taking vacation days this week and I decided I will not do laundry. So I made the tactical decision not to wear underwear and wear old bummy jeans with holes in them, and working and sweating all day I had a bad case of chafed inner thighs..so bad that by now I dug into my stash of bikini briefs to hold things high and tight to allow my thighs to heal. I mentioned this to a friend and wondered how our ancestors who only wore loin cloths managed chafing... all I got for an answer is that "now you know why you should wear underwear". So I mentally went through examples of people who DON'T wear underwear, and they are all remote in time or place, except, convenien

If you are like me, you can't wait for a new probe to get to one of the planets and send back images and telemetry. Even though this is happening at a quickening rate, it doesn't feel quite fast enough, and then the data is filtered and manipulated for 'clarity'.

So it occurred to me the other day that there must be a better way to do extra-planetary exploration and bring that experience to just about anybody who wants to participate. Today we are almost to a point with automated drone technology that we could send many thousands (or millions) of cheap autonomous drones to Mars to blanket the planet -- with each drone assigned a small section of grid to explore in detail. These could be

What is the going rate per carcass? What animals do you avoid (skunks maybe?) How did you get into this line of work?

I (and some coworkers) have created a bot around a raspberry pi 2. It's working well. However, I would like to add a few proximity sensors to it. I've got 4 HC-SR04 proximity sensors which work well. The problem is that each one takes up two GPIO ports, and that doesn't leave a lot for other necessities.

My initial thought is that I should be able to control a multi channel switch with a minimum of 3 GPIO ports, 1 to switch channels and 1 for the VCC in to the sensor and 1 for the echo. Then I can have a channel for each sensor and switch inputs/outputs in a round robin fashion.

Does anybody have experience with such a setup?

Are there any favorite switch controller boards?

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I mean, if the universe wants to hand you a gift, what better way to do it than through a very ignored mechanism for transferring money? Damn trickster universe.