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Ralim / IronOS

Open Source Soldering Iron firmware
https://ralim.github.io/IronOS/
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Feature Request: Drop Detection #1037

Closed dburr closed 3 years ago

dburr commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. So I was soldering today and I fumbled and dropped my iron. Of course in the act of reaching down to pick it up, my foot happened to brush against it. Ouch.

Describe the solution you'd like Don't these irons have accelerometers in them? Would be nice if the iron could detect extremely violent motions (i.e. being dropped, or maybe thrown across the room in frustration?) and shut themselves off.

Describe alternatives you've considered Not being clumsy... easier said than done tho

Additional context Could save a lot of people from accidentally burning their feet (or worse, burning the carpet and maybe starting a fire)

paulfertser commented 3 years ago

Hey Donald,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:13:10PM -0700, Donald Burr wrote:

Additional context Could save a lot of people from accidentally burning their feet (or worse, burning the carpet and maybe starting a fire)

I propose an experiment: heat the soldering iron up to the temperature you're usually using, then disconnect it from power altogether and drop immediately on the carpet and/or feet :)

My point is that since the iron can't immediately cool down anyway would the added code complexity and possible annoying false positives be worth it?

discip commented 3 years ago

Actually this has been brought up at least twice in the past:

https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS/issues/314 https://github.com/Ralim/IronOS/issues/625

As mentioned by @Ralim himself and others, this is not worth the effort.

@paulfertser

I propose an experiment: heat the soldering iron up to the temperature you're usually using, then disconnect it from power altogether and drop immediately on the carpet and/or feet :)

Very good and obvious depiction! 👍 Hopefully no one takes that as a literal instruction! 😱

Would be nice, if at least the last ones would be closed.

Ralim commented 3 years ago

Yeah this is absolutely a duplicate and its never really been done as its benefit is quite small compared to both the complexity of detection and the tuning required to avoid false positives.

Going to close this and just keep the original one