Neogrid 2! Can’t wait for that one! Still in the middle of 1 and had to work out how to do a larger flat plate so hope that’s also included. I’m also loving the new underware. Only done one channel for some annoying cables that went up the side of a corner unit. Now it’s completely hidden away. On to the TV unit next in the new year. Loved the videos this year and looking forward to more in 2025. Have a great Christmas and happy New Year to you.
Katie, the pleasure was all ours, I think. Not only is your content super intresting but looking at you, the way you present your video and content, and yourself, you beauty 🤪, is very delightfull. I hope to see more of you next year. Merry christmas Katie 💝💋
Congratulations on your first year of videos! On a slightly related note.. I have noticed gin appearing in a few of them and just wondered if you had recommendations on brands. I've only tried one over a decade ago, and that's why it's been a decade since I've tried the stuff, but open to trying again.
Hi Katie - Just go my 3D printer. Looking forward to keeping up with you in the next year! Happy Holidays and thanks for inspiring us with new ideas throughout the year!
Hi Katy, I hope you have a great Christmas. The weather here in South West Scotland has not been kind to stargazers, or solar panels as my meter shows. Here's to a good and clear New Year, and more intersting vidoes.
Katie, your double vision gag had me tremendously worried. I haven't been joining you for sips of anything but I did just have eye surgery so imagine my worry! Ha ha looking forward to next year happy holidays.
I love lists like these! So happy you shared yours! I’m a fan of yours! Could you explain the origin of your logo? It’s something I’ve never understood, although I think it’s really nice. Happy 2025 to you!
🤣🤣 It's a log that became a sewing reel and a filament reels and a solder roll and more when I was doodling it originally!! Now it's become a Rorschach test for people!! 🤣🤣🤣
I've been 3D printing for the better part of ten years now and my current printer is the Saturn 4 Ultra (same generation as the Mars 5 Ultra) and I agree, it's quite amazing how far they've come. The speed and quality is extraordinary. Merry Christmas, sounds like you have an interesting year coming up! :)
@@handsonkatie The ability to create extremely complex items that you couldn't produce via FDM is fantastic. The downside of the stinky and hazardous post-processing is a bit of a bugger, but once you get used to the process it's not too bad (get a really good respirator for when you're dealing with the resin and the cleaning fluid - I use a Moldex 7002 with A1B1E1K1 filters).
Maybe keep in mind that all you're solutions(to 3d print) people want tu use they may want to bring it with them when they leav a house(because the are still living in a rented house are not in the house they want to life in foreevewr) si may be make a backplate where all you're solutions can hang on. So that hey can but it on there forever but still can pull it of the wall or kitchen cabinet or... or even sqaure of bacplates that could be put in standard moving box and those backplates you can put together later in you're new house if you want to put it on a bigger totall area.(why because evcerything you put on this backplates(with screws or..) you do not need to disasamble.
Great thoughts - this is one of the big advantages of a modular system, but you're right, there's loads of cool options I could add for this - much like the latest Underware lets you just stick it to the bottom of desks if you want!
With your third reality blinds, how oftern do you have to change the batteries? I have 2 of theses in my bedroom and it seems the love to eat my batteries. I am wondering if there is something that I can try and to do get the batteries to last longer. I absolutely love the blinds, but every time the batteries are dead, my wife complains that at least the dumb blinds she could open and close.
Really?! I've had mine for months and months and not had to change them yet, so I can't actually answer your question, but it's nothing like you're describing obviously!! You checked the mAh of the batteries? Getting a larger capacity will naturally help? You can also nudge through HA when batteries need replaced to avoid any outages!
@@handsonkatie I have the same issue as op! I open and close the blinds ~twice a day (need my afternoon nap) and when I had to replace the Energizer lithiums twice in the span of three months I switched to XTAR's lithium AAs (which are amazing -- you should check them out if you don't already have them, they have a low-voltage indicator; their vx4 recharger is awesome too for its flexibility and true capacity testing ability)
Woah! They look awesome - yes my enerloop ones are good, but these have bonkers mAh levels!! Great recommendation - that should nail it if you're using them all the time. Great tip!!
Katie, a good project I would like to see is how the heck to link the Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer behind you to the dang network / computer / Bambu Studio. I have a P1S that I have been struggling with for a WEEK now. Still no success. Why Bambu can't simply provide an Ethernet port is beyond me. I have been looking at Reddit post, calling my internet provider, looking at Bambu web site / support. Honestly - anybody that has been able to connect this thing, feel free to reach out / reply.
That's an X1C behind me, but I've got three P1S' that I bought before that. They all connect totally seamlessly, so can't say I've heard on anyone having this issue, so I wonder if something is up with yours. Are you getting any errors? I'd imagine it's an oddity with your router, so worth checking it's not blocking it or something odd. Otherwise drop me an email and I can get you into my discord channel and we can see if we can fix!
Are we abandoning Multiboard? i am unclear on what WonderWall is and how it will replace multiboard in the solution framework you outlined back towards the beginning. (ruclips.net/video/EqQTn8CaX14/видео.htmlsi=1caYDsU8jNxOr2Qt) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
@@Botanical4038 I understand. I am also overwhelmed by the complexity of the parts and the naming conventions. That being said, I became interested in Katie's engineering approach / framework that she outlined here: ruclips.net/video/EqQTn8CaX14/видео.htmlsi=1caYDsU8jNxOr2Qt. Miltiboard was a key system in that frameeotk. I am interesyed in understanding if and how the framework is evolving.
Yes, interesting thoughts - I plan to do an update video in 2025 to cover all this and will share my thoughts. Multiboard I basically use a single board and don't really use anything else. Multiconnect is much more elegant (hence it's no surprise it's been copied in recent releases - although again in a complicated way). As for Wonderwall, you'll have to wait and see, but it's pretty cool..... 😎
@@handsonkatie Thank you for the reply and your continued work. - Yes to limiting use of Multiboard to where it makes sense, - Yes to Multiconnect, - Yes to expanding on the engineering and design principles you outlined at the beginning, - Yes to more on Home Assistant (I am still trying to figure out how to best set it up ... currently running in a container on my NAS). - Yes to more about WonderWall Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
@@handsonkatieIt isn’t a question of reliability. It is not plausible that a handheld device costing £69 could test for bacteria, viruses, pesticides, microplastics or heavy metals. That they say it does just indicates to me that it is a scam. Sorry
Ok, so you differ from the previous opinion then as they were talking about reliability - my point is have you got anything to ground this view other than 'things have to be expensive to work'? Genuinely interested as I think it's entirely reasonable that they test for TOC, COD, TDS, UV (prob at 275nm) and other things - eg EC and Temp and use this to provide pretty reliable indicators of these contaminants? Eg High TOC and COD would obviously show the presence of organic pollutants (eg bacteria, viruses etc). Then UV275 would let you measure through elevated absorbance things like aromatic organic compounds to help distinguish and so on. Plenty of scientific research on this - indeed the same approach is used pretty widely for quick assessment. But if you're thinking this would somehow distinguish the type of virus or specific pathogen, then of course not, there's next no easy solutions like that in the world, and I don't think anyone is claiming that - it would need a full lab test, but as a reliable way to quickly test water quality I think this a great proxy! But welcome your thoughts!
@@handsonkatie This isn't the place for a detailed discussion, but try asking ChatGPT "What is a simple test for Total Organic Carbon (TOC) in water?". None of its answers suggest this would be possible in a sub £100 device without reagents. For Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), it seems you also need either lab equipment or reagents. Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) can be estimated from Electrical Conductivity. Certain bacteria can be tested for with reagents (as far as I can see from their website, the Kactoily device doesn't have reagents, which would be a consumable). Viruses are absolutely tiny and very difficult to detect. Although the device claims to test for lots of different things (e.g. also including microplastics, weed killers and heavy metals), its display shown on their website just has three measures: COD, TOC and TDS. I am guessing here, but I assume it measures electrical conductivity (easy to do with a simple semiconductor sensor) and UV absorption (UV LED plus a detector). Maybe it uses UV to break down organic chemicals and measures changes in conductivity over time, which might enable it to infer something. They say it measures temperature, but this in itself is an indicator of nothing but ... temperature. It's possible its other two measures are adjusted for the temperature of the water, of course. It isn't the case that I think 'things have to be expensive to work'. I do, though, want to understand how they plausibly might work using technology that is widely known about. If it's this cheap, it is going to be technology that has been around for a while. You may remember a few years ago a company, Theranos, claimed to have invented an automated and simple blood test that worked from a finger-prick of blood. It seemed unlikely, and so it turned out the be. Elizabeth Homes, the founder was convicted of fraud. Going by what they show on their website, their device shows measures of TOC, DOC and TDS. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they can infer these from conductivity, UV absorption, temperature and time (which are all plausibly measurable in a cheap device). Perhaps taken together these are a useful measure of water "quality". It seems highly unlikely that a sub £100 device includes spectroscopy, chemical reactions (reagents), microscopy etc. They could measure pH quite simply but they don't mention this (they do sell other devices that measure pH though). The headline on their web page is "Kactoily 6-in-1 Drinking Water Analyzer-Bacteria, Virus, Microplastic". I'm prepared to be convinced, but I remain sceptical.
Well I think if an LLM is the source of the veracity.... ;) But I did and it produced a very close proxy - eg UV275 measurement etc, UV254 etc? As you say, it also said electrical conductivity can be used for lots of this too (eg TDS), bacteria etc. Also not sure I buy the Elizabeth Holmes reference (note spelling) given her product was never tested or available for people to buy and was extremely expensive and all hidden in labs - which is exactly the example you claim it needs to be to be 'believable'! In truth, the stats are pretty clear on their site and in decent detail - eg tables of all the parameters, the measurement ranges, resolutions and accuracies for each of these - hence I think they've been very sensible and clear about it. I think the difference might be, that you're expecting some sort of portable lab (which I agree isn't possible, but they haven't claimed this at any point), what I'm seeing is a huge step above complete ignorance (ie what we all currently have!). So essentially, if you have pure/clean water, then the array of COD, TOC, TDS, EC, UV275 and Temperature measurements will be accurate predictors of contaminants in that water (be it bacteria, viruses or the rest) and the variances in these measurements will help you pin down which they are. At a very simple level, bacteria/viruses can't exist in water without elevating levels of organic matter, so think this is entirely accurate - of course these are indirect measurements of the contamination, but that's the precise claim and purpose - ie is this water safe or not! In truth, this really isn't hard to test even casually - I've played with clean vs stale water, eg two blind glasses and can it tell which one has been standing out for a while, putting a drop of puddle water, comparing rainwater vs tap water. It certainly performed admirably for me - as I say, way above the level of ignorance! If you want, we could play russian roulette and put six shot glasses on a table and I'll put one drop of puddle/virus-infected water in one and we'll see who survives! ;) But I think your instinct is certainly admirable, so I'm purely interested (get some amazing folks who are experts in the field, hence I was keen to know!) - I'll cover a bit more in my Body Assistant video as this was obviously just a sneak peek, but it really does do a decent job and I haven't been able to 'beat it' yet, so let me know if there's any tests or cunning ideas you'd like me to check!
"Waiting for other devices" is what we say if we are not impoverished people from the US south (or coaches of American-style football, who talk to boys from such places often enough to mimic their language errors) waiting for devices. If we are poor and hail from Alabama or a neighboring state run by people who treat their nonrich citizenry with contempt, we may be forgiven for suggesting we "wait on devices" other than chairs, benches, sofas, hammocks, or other supportive furnishings available to us. Waiting on those little water testers would get uncomfortable if we were expected to wait for long, especially if the small end were oriented upward toward our bottom, seating ends. The difference of sense between "waiting on" and "waiting for" turns out to be important and well worth preserving. The bizarre thing is that this niche error has exploded on the internet (along with hundreds of more-common errors), thanks, in this case, to misguided kids repeating on their gaming sites and social media what they hear on NFL broadcasts (of blatantly fixed "sporting" events) in the US. Hearing an intelligent woman from Wales living in Scotland repeat such nonsense tells me something has gone horribly wrong with the English language and with the internet. The end is upon us. Pass the gin.
Heheh! I'm quite happy to wait on devices, it is the original after all (as in 'wait upon'), so I'll avoid your new-fangled jargon! Let language evolve! By the same prescription, do you not consider your use of contractions, colloquial stylistic informality, syntactic fragmentations, phrasing and incorrect preposition usage abhorrent to your own ears?? And that's just from your one comment! Take the whole bottle, but don't call it 'gin', it's 'genever' surely?? 🤣 If English had a motto, it would be: ‘Consistency is for other languages.
We can't wait to watch all these projects as you develop them in the new year! Your channel has become one of our favorites.
Neogrid 2! Can’t wait for that one! Still in the middle of 1 and had to work out how to do a larger flat plate so hope that’s also included.
I’m also loving the new underware. Only done one channel for some annoying cables that went up the side of a corner unit. Now it’s completely hidden away. On to the TV unit next in the new year.
Loved the videos this year and looking forward to more in 2025. Have a great Christmas and happy New Year to you.
Happy Holidays Katie and of course a happy and healthy 2025!
Happy holidays! Looking forward to more content and laughs next year!
Well done! I'm chuffed to see you back! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
May you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and a tremendously exciting new year indeed!
Thank you! And you too!!
Have a great Christmas, it has been very entertaining watching your content this year, as I plan to enter the 3d printing world in 2025
Katie, the pleasure was all ours, I think. Not only is your content super intresting but looking at you, the way you present your video and content, and yourself, you beauty 🤪, is very delightfull. I hope to see more of you next year. Merry christmas Katie 💝💋
Congratulations on your first year of videos! On a slightly related note.. I have noticed gin appearing in a few of them and just wondered if you had recommendations on brands. I've only tried one over a decade ago, and that's why it's been a decade since I've tried the stuff, but open to trying again.
Hi Katie - Just go my 3D printer. Looking forward to keeping up with you in the next year! Happy Holidays and thanks for inspiring us with new ideas throughout the year!
Super exciting!! Enjoy it!!
Hi Katy, I hope you have a great Christmas. The weather here in South West Scotland has not been kind to stargazers, or solar panels as my meter shows. Here's to a good and clear New Year, and more intersting vidoes.
Wundervolle Weihnachten aus Österreich ❤
...und ein glückliches neues Jahr!! 🎄🎁
Katie, your double vision gag had me tremendously worried. I haven't been joining you for sips of anything but I did just have eye surgery so imagine my worry! Ha ha looking forward to next year happy holidays.
I love lists like these! So happy you shared yours! I’m a fan of yours! Could you explain the origin of your logo? It’s something I’ve never understood, although I think it’s really nice. Happy 2025 to you!
🤣🤣 It's a log that became a sewing reel and a filament reels and a solder roll and more when I was doodling it originally!! Now it's become a Rorschach test for people!! 🤣🤣🤣
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@@handsonkatie - well I obviously failed the test then cos I thought it was something completely different! 🤣
I've been 3D printing for the better part of ten years now and my current printer is the Saturn 4 Ultra (same generation as the Mars 5 Ultra) and I agree, it's quite amazing how far they've come. The speed and quality is extraordinary.
Merry Christmas, sounds like you have an interesting year coming up! :)
Awesome - I'll need tips from you, but they are super devices by all accounts!
@@handsonkatie The ability to create extremely complex items that you couldn't produce via FDM is fantastic. The downside of the stinky and hazardous post-processing is a bit of a bugger, but once you get used to the process it's not too bad (get a really good respirator for when you're dealing with the resin and the cleaning fluid - I use a Moldex 7002 with A1B1E1K1 filters).
Exactly right, this is why I'm waiting and I'm going to build a whole resin zone with built in air filtration!!
@@handsonkatie Nice! :)
Maybe keep in mind that all you're solutions(to 3d print) people want tu use they may want to bring it with them when they leav a house(because the are still living in a rented house are not in the house they want to life in foreevewr) si may be make a backplate where all you're solutions can hang on. So that hey can but it on there forever but still can pull it of the wall or kitchen cabinet or... or even sqaure of bacplates that could be put in standard moving box and those backplates you can put together later in you're new house if you want to put it on a bigger totall area.(why because evcerything you put on this backplates(with screws or..) you do not need to disasamble.
Great thoughts - this is one of the big advantages of a modular system, but you're right, there's loads of cool options I could add for this - much like the latest Underware lets you just stick it to the bottom of desks if you want!
With your third reality blinds, how oftern do you have to change the batteries? I have 2 of theses in my bedroom and it seems the love to eat my batteries. I am wondering if there is something that I can try and to do get the batteries to last longer. I absolutely love the blinds, but every time the batteries are dead, my wife complains that at least the dumb blinds she could open and close.
Really?! I've had mine for months and months and not had to change them yet, so I can't actually answer your question, but it's nothing like you're describing obviously!!
You checked the mAh of the batteries? Getting a larger capacity will naturally help? You can also nudge through HA when batteries need replaced to avoid any outages!
@@handsonkatie Strange. Do you know what batteries you are using?
I use eneloop pro ones by default (the rechargeable type)
@@handsonkatie I have the same issue as op! I open and close the blinds ~twice a day (need my afternoon nap) and when I had to replace the Energizer lithiums twice in the span of three months I switched to XTAR's lithium AAs (which are amazing -- you should check them out if you don't already have them, they have a low-voltage indicator; their vx4 recharger is awesome too for its flexibility and true capacity testing ability)
Woah! They look awesome - yes my enerloop ones are good, but these have bonkers mAh levels!! Great recommendation - that should nail it if you're using them all the time. Great tip!!
Happy holidays Katie. That's a great sparkly shirt you're weari-omg please don't test the drink immediately after testing the toilet water.
Wow I’ve no comment, apart from seeing the Batman, well now I’m interested, have a great Xmas ⚒️
You too Darren!
Ooo the blinds
Katie, a good project I would like to see is how the heck to link the Bambu Lab P1S 3D printer behind you to the dang network / computer / Bambu Studio. I have a P1S that I have been struggling with for a WEEK now. Still no success. Why Bambu can't simply provide an Ethernet port is beyond me. I have been looking at Reddit post, calling my internet provider, looking at Bambu web site / support. Honestly - anybody that has been able to connect this thing, feel free to reach out / reply.
That's an X1C behind me, but I've got three P1S' that I bought before that. They all connect totally seamlessly, so can't say I've heard on anyone having this issue, so I wonder if something is up with yours.
Are you getting any errors? I'd imagine it's an oddity with your router, so worth checking it's not blocking it or something odd.
Otherwise drop me an email and I can get you into my discord channel and we can see if we can fix!
I thought she was going to drink with every ding!
🤣🤣🤣. I'd never survive!!
Tell us about that gin!
Snowdonia Gin made in Wales - lovely stuff!! Highly recommend the Bara Brith flavour!!!
www.snowdoniagin.com/?hok
@@handsonkatie Thanks! It's a tough get where I am, but I hope to be back in the UK soon.
@@robertdelfavero6552 definitely stock up when you're next here!!
Cheers to 2025 being the year of less MultiBoard!
Are we abandoning Multiboard? i am unclear on what WonderWall is and how it will replace multiboard in the solution framework you outlined back towards the beginning. (ruclips.net/video/EqQTn8CaX14/видео.htmlsi=1caYDsU8jNxOr2Qt)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
@carlschulz1057 I don't know about everyone else, but I don't want to invest into a system with a BS license like multiboard has.
@@Botanical4038 I understand. I am also overwhelmed by the complexity of the parts and the naming conventions. That being said, I became interested in Katie's engineering approach / framework that she outlined here: ruclips.net/video/EqQTn8CaX14/видео.htmlsi=1caYDsU8jNxOr2Qt. Miltiboard was a key system in that frameeotk. I am interesyed in understanding if and how the framework is evolving.
Yes, interesting thoughts - I plan to do an update video in 2025 to cover all this and will share my thoughts. Multiboard I basically use a single board and don't really use anything else. Multiconnect is much more elegant (hence it's no surprise it's been copied in recent releases - although again in a complicated way).
As for Wonderwall, you'll have to wait and see, but it's pretty cool..... 😎
@@handsonkatie Thank you for the reply and your continued work.
- Yes to limiting use of Multiboard to where it makes sense,
- Yes to Multiconnect,
- Yes to expanding on the engineering and design principles you outlined at the beginning,
- Yes to more on Home Assistant (I am still trying to figure out how to best set it up ... currently running in a container on my NAS).
- Yes to more about WonderWall
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Points!! ✨✨
Here's a much deserved 🍪 my mom made them
I don't think those water testers are actually reliable. I would look for scientific articles about them.
I did, and they are! And I tested myself!
@@handsonkatieIt isn’t a question of reliability. It is not plausible that a handheld device costing £69 could test for bacteria, viruses, pesticides, microplastics or heavy metals. That they say it does just indicates to me that it is a scam. Sorry
Ok, so you differ from the previous opinion then as they were talking about reliability - my point is have you got anything to ground this view other than 'things have to be expensive to work'? Genuinely interested as I think it's entirely reasonable that they test for TOC, COD, TDS, UV (prob at 275nm) and other things - eg EC and Temp and use this to provide pretty reliable indicators of these contaminants? Eg High TOC and COD would obviously show the presence of organic pollutants (eg bacteria, viruses etc). Then UV275 would let you measure through elevated absorbance things like aromatic organic compounds to help distinguish and so on. Plenty of scientific research on this - indeed the same approach is used pretty widely for quick assessment.
But if you're thinking this would somehow distinguish the type of virus or specific pathogen, then of course not, there's next no easy solutions like that in the world, and I don't think anyone is claiming that - it would need a full lab test, but as a reliable way to quickly test water quality I think this a great proxy! But welcome your thoughts!
@@handsonkatie This isn't the place for a detailed discussion, but try asking ChatGPT "What is a simple test for Total Organic Carbon (TOC) in water?". None of its answers suggest this would be possible in a sub £100 device without reagents. For Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), it seems you also need either lab equipment or reagents. Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) can be estimated from Electrical Conductivity. Certain bacteria can be tested for with reagents (as far as I can see from their website, the Kactoily device doesn't have reagents, which would be a consumable). Viruses are absolutely tiny and very difficult to detect.
Although the device claims to test for lots of different things (e.g. also including microplastics, weed killers and heavy metals), its display shown on their website just has three measures: COD, TOC and TDS.
I am guessing here, but I assume it measures electrical conductivity (easy to do with a simple semiconductor sensor) and UV absorption (UV LED plus a detector). Maybe it uses UV to break down organic chemicals and measures changes in conductivity over time, which might enable it to infer something. They say it measures temperature, but this in itself is an indicator of nothing but ... temperature. It's possible its other two measures are adjusted for the temperature of the water, of course.
It isn't the case that I think 'things have to be expensive to work'. I do, though, want to understand how they plausibly might work using technology that is widely known about. If it's this cheap, it is going to be technology that has been around for a while.
You may remember a few years ago a company, Theranos, claimed to have invented an automated and simple blood test that worked from a finger-prick of blood. It seemed unlikely, and so it turned out the be. Elizabeth Homes, the founder was convicted of fraud.
Going by what they show on their website, their device shows measures of TOC, DOC and TDS. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they can infer these from conductivity, UV absorption, temperature and time (which are all plausibly measurable in a cheap device). Perhaps taken together these are a useful measure of water "quality". It seems highly unlikely that a sub £100 device includes spectroscopy, chemical reactions (reagents), microscopy etc. They could measure pH quite simply but they don't mention this (they do sell other devices that measure pH though).
The headline on their web page is "Kactoily 6-in-1 Drinking Water Analyzer-Bacteria, Virus, Microplastic". I'm prepared to be convinced, but I remain sceptical.
Well I think if an LLM is the source of the veracity.... ;) But I did and it produced a very close proxy - eg UV275 measurement etc, UV254 etc? As you say, it also said electrical conductivity can be used for lots of this too (eg TDS), bacteria etc. Also not sure I buy the Elizabeth Holmes reference (note spelling) given her product was never tested or available for people to buy and was extremely expensive and all hidden in labs - which is exactly the example you claim it needs to be to be 'believable'!
In truth, the stats are pretty clear on their site and in decent detail - eg tables of all the parameters, the measurement ranges, resolutions and accuracies for each of these - hence I think they've been very sensible and clear about it. I think the difference might be, that you're expecting some sort of portable lab (which I agree isn't possible, but they haven't claimed this at any point), what I'm seeing is a huge step above complete ignorance (ie what we all currently have!).
So essentially, if you have pure/clean water, then the array of COD, TOC, TDS, EC, UV275 and Temperature measurements will be accurate predictors of contaminants in that water (be it bacteria, viruses or the rest) and the variances in these measurements will help you pin down which they are. At a very simple level, bacteria/viruses can't exist in water without elevating levels of organic matter, so think this is entirely accurate - of course these are indirect measurements of the contamination, but that's the precise claim and purpose - ie is this water safe or not!
In truth, this really isn't hard to test even casually - I've played with clean vs stale water, eg two blind glasses and can it tell which one has been standing out for a while, putting a drop of puddle water, comparing rainwater vs tap water. It certainly performed admirably for me - as I say, way above the level of ignorance!
If you want, we could play russian roulette and put six shot glasses on a table and I'll put one drop of puddle/virus-infected water in one and we'll see who survives! ;)
But I think your instinct is certainly admirable, so I'm purely interested (get some amazing folks who are experts in the field, hence I was keen to know!) - I'll cover a bit more in my Body Assistant video as this was obviously just a sneak peek, but it really does do a decent job and I haven't been able to 'beat it' yet, so let me know if there's any tests or cunning ideas you'd like me to check!
LOL. I heard TDS and was like... They can measure Trump Derangement Syndrome tooo!!!
"Waiting for other devices" is what we say if we are not impoverished people from the US south (or coaches of American-style football, who talk to boys from such places often enough to mimic their language errors) waiting for devices. If we are poor and hail from Alabama or a neighboring state run by people who treat their nonrich citizenry with contempt, we may be forgiven for suggesting we "wait on devices" other than chairs, benches, sofas, hammocks, or other supportive furnishings available to us. Waiting on those little water testers would get uncomfortable if we were expected to wait for long, especially if the small end were oriented upward toward our bottom, seating ends. The difference of sense between "waiting on" and "waiting for" turns out to be important and well worth preserving. The bizarre thing is that this niche error has exploded on the internet (along with hundreds of more-common errors), thanks, in this case, to misguided kids repeating on their gaming sites and social media what they hear on NFL broadcasts (of blatantly fixed "sporting" events) in the US. Hearing an intelligent woman from Wales living in Scotland repeat such nonsense tells me something has gone horribly wrong with the English language and with the internet.
The end is upon us. Pass the gin.
Heheh! I'm quite happy to wait on devices, it is the original after all (as in 'wait upon'), so I'll avoid your new-fangled jargon! Let language evolve! By the same prescription, do you not consider your use of contractions, colloquial stylistic informality, syntactic fragmentations, phrasing and incorrect preposition usage abhorrent to your own ears?? And that's just from your one comment! Take the whole bottle, but don't call it 'gin', it's 'genever' surely?? 🤣 If English had a motto, it would be: ‘Consistency is for other languages.
No medical devices on your list I see 😞 Gin wont fix me 🙂
Third!!!!!!!!!!
Double points for making me laugh!! 🤣🤣 ✨🌟🌟
where am I most looking forward to...(you) and ...