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Researchers Induce Smells With Ultrasound, No Chemical Cartridges Required (www.uploadvr.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002 to c/science@mander.xyz

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Their article: https://writetobrain.com/olfactory

In the end, our headset got a bit hacky: It ended up having a knife taped to the probe for mechanical support. At the time, all of our headsets had a knife taped to the probe, as untaping the knife lead to software errors.

I'm sorry what

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 weeks ago

the hardware equivalent of "I have no idea what this section of the code does but if you remove it, it breaks the app"

[–] cm0002 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's the endgame to "load bearing line of code that's supposed to do nothing"

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's written in CRAB —which is like C#, but sharper because knife.