I don’t necessarily mean adult as in NSFW.
I’d probably bring in my RG280V. It was my first handheld emulator. I had emulated games on my phone in the past and even used a Bluetooth controller but playing on it felt different. More real in a way.
I grew up with the Game Boy so the idea of having thousands of games on the go is pretty neat to me.
I’ve since moved on to the RG405M.
What about you? Do you have anything neat or special to you that you could talk about for a couple minutes?
Would love to see photos as well
my Akai MPC 2 I’ve played a bunch of instruments my whole life but this thing was the missing piece that allowed me to record full songs. Wish I knew about it a decade ago so I like introducing it to people.
I have a fair amount of crap, but not a lot of it is of much interest to most people.
Unless someone out there wants me to show up with a laundry basket full of Fumos and subject them to an unsolicited three hour lecture on Touhou lore…
Yes, please! BTW, Marisa is best girl.
What is a Fumo?
A Touhou Project plush
Collectible marketable plushies of anime girls from a very specific franchise. Have a bit of a meme cult following. Both the franchise itself as a whole and this product line in specific.
Google will show you what they look like, and /r/fumofumo on Reddit has a collection of memes and shitposts to see, but if you don’t get the appeal that wouldn’t be surprising.
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my stuffed dog
I’d bring my Split ergonomic keyboards I’ve built/am working on.
I’d love to get others into the hobby or crowd source help in coding QMK from those who are already in it. Online forums are a great resource but for some there’s no replacing an in-person teacher.
I’ll hopefully come back and edit this post when I get home to share a picture.
I play Warhammer and D&D…and have extensive mini collections. I’m envisioning a diorama.
Or a few of my favorite knives and a good whetstone, to show how easy it is to do and teach a good skill!
I’d like to bring a tall ship sailor. Preferably from the 18th or 19th century. I bet they’d have some interesting work stories to tell.
I own a sextant. I have other cool stuff, but that’s the one that probably has the most universal appeal.
This has been a very cool thread.
If we could go outdoors I could probably bring my bootleg pelican case full of ham radio equipment, deploy an HF station and try making some contacts while explaining how each of the parts works
I’m an antenna engineer. I’d bring an antenna because after hearing a lot of adult show-and-tells I figure people could probably use some sleep.
Do you still use nec2, or do you have some sort of proprietary thing?
Never used that myself. There are many programs we use depending on what property you are looking to calculate. I’d say the main tool is HFSS. I personally used CST mostly because when I was learning all of the licenses were usually in use and CST was always available since it was not as well known. But seriously, I’d estimate there are literally dozens of programs plus programs that each of us writes, usually in Matlab.
Matlab
That might be the barrier. I seem to remember NEC2 was the only game in town for amateur use, which is why I have it installed. It’s the only thing I’ve used that still expects punch cards.
99% of audience dozing off, 1% fascinated by the mystical art of antennas and radio waves. I know the science behind it, but I still don’t know how you guys came up with some of those designs.
To be honest, we learn about the basic antenna designs, and there are many, and then usually new designs come from altering some idea to fit a new need, until there is nothing of the original idea left. LOL. Usually, we’re asked to size reduce but it’s just not physically possible to do what is often asked of us. There is a running joke in the industry that customers always want an infinitely small antenna with infinite gain. Usually we start with something like a monopole design and change the physical parameters until we can no longer meet the spec. Hopefully the antennas fitsb in the required space. At least that how did it. Necessity is the parent of invention, after all.
My Bad Dragon collection!
Wait, how adult are we talking?
It’s really important you demonstrate the ‘show’ part to everyone, but I’d be impressed more on the tell. I.e., is using a toy like this more strength focused (dragon bonk feel good) or dexterity focused (filthy dexterity user)?
My board game prototypes! Can always use more playtesters :)
my laptop so i can show off gnome and emacs (and my trackball!)
