Nothing's worse than trying to mix the perfect water temperature at 3 AM while the baby is screaming, waking up the rest of the family. (We use pre-boiled water for the baby's bottles, so it's not as easy as adjusting a tap.) We bought this after we had our second baby and it's made feeding the baby slightly less stressful.
Exactly what we did with all 3 of our kids. Made a few bottles up ahead of time. The last time we were at the pediatrician with our youngest (who is now 7) and told that to the nurse she was a bit aghast :)
We have a machine that just auto boils and doses the formula water at the right temperature. You can go from zero to a bottle ready to feed in under a minute. I am sure you can get an equivalent where you are.
My wife and I have been using an electric kettle that can be set low (105°F) to heat bottles. It's not perfect, but it's good enough and nice not to have an extra appliance on the counter.
We have the same one and used for the same purpose. The only complaint is I wish the temperature setting wasn't a rotary dial. Going back and forth between lukewarm (100) and coffee brewing temp (195) requires a lot of rotations which could be a few button taps.
I'm a big proponent of co-sleeping and breastfeeding. Of course, I'm the father, so it's less of an inconvenience for me. But much easier for mom to roll to her side and feed when the baby wakes up. We still use the bottle warmer when I'm the one caring for the baby and need to warm up some milk though.
We went with the baby brezza formula pro which mixes, warms water, and dispenses into the bottle all in one click. Worth the $, every time we travel we hate ourselves for not bringing it.
My wife and I used various warmers and threw them all out for microwaving water. 8oz is 30 seconds. 6oz is 22 seconds. It's easy, fast and reliable every time.
Currently running on a t3.medium AWS EC2 instance! (My max budget is currently $50/month since I get that much in AWS credits each month for building an Alexa skill a few years back.)
Sorry all for the long wait times! Was not expecting much interest. At the very least, I need to look into removing photos from the queue when people exit the page.
Done - upgraded to a t3.xlarge. Now it can process 4 images in parallel. Still not enough to keep up with HN demand, but it should chew through the queue a _bit_ faster.
Unfortunately nothing at the moment! Currently working on removing images from the queue if the user has left the page (which I'm guessing is the case for about 99% of the current queue).
Thanks! I chose the same set of gears that shipped with the original Spirograph. Also note that you can achieve a similar effect by pressing "," or ".", which offsets the gear by one tooth, and then re-drawing the complete design.
Hey, author here! Fun to see this old project pop up on HN. Happy to answer any questions.
Last year I tried my hand at building a native mobile version for iOS and Android (using Flutter), which is a little more polished and has a few extra features (for example, irregular-shaped gears): https://inspiral.nathanfriend.io/
Absolutely wonderful. I noticed that the disc-shaped gears have teeth on the inside and outside. How do you get a gear to revolve around the outside of the disc?
Unfortunately it's not possible! It's the number one question people email me about. In retrospect I should have rendered the ring gears with no teeth on the outside.
I love this! Thank you. I’m curious if you know of something similar for producing harmonographs? Or maybe this is even a subtype of harmonography. I was really inspired by John Whitney’s book “Digital Harmony”
Nothing's worse than trying to mix the perfect water temperature at 3 AM while the baby is screaming, waking up the rest of the family. (We use pre-boiled water for the baby's bottles, so it's not as easy as adjusting a tap.) We bought this after we had our second baby and it's made feeding the baby slightly less stressful.