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Plug-in solar panels (no electrician needed) have just become legal in the UK and will go on sale soon. Helios estimates how much electricity a typical installation could generate at a given address and what that's worth against your tariff.

It uses UK government LIDAR data to reflect the actual skyline, so it knows whether there's a building or a hill blocking the sun.

Caveats: - Outside LIDAR coverage (most of Scotland and Wales) it falls back to a synthetic horizon (less accurate). - Trees and recent developments (post-2022 or so) may not be in the data, and some address placements could be off (geocoding via OSM).

Feedback on the shading model especially welcome.

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I generated this introductory talk (male/female co-host) of my FURS project by getting the AI to read my very mixed codebase and then generate the audio file. FURS was totally created by me before AI even existed, it's 100% human made.

This is a whole new level of WTF!!! for me. The AI has understood EVERYTHING and explained it in ways that I never could because I'm an electronics guy.

If you're into embedded engineering with STM32xx you may be interested in the following.

Download the following URL to checkout the 22 minute Podcast and tell me it's not interesting ?

https://github.com/techman00172/schematics/blob/main/Eliminate_the_Forth_CMSIS_memory_tax.m4a

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