What Are You Doing Right Now
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Nice to see some other Elon Musk fanboys. I'm alone where I live sadly.
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The video game system is being packed up. You know we are really leaving when that happens.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nice to see some other Elon Musk fanboys. I'm alone where I live sadly.
He's an interesting character that's for sure. I like that he's doing it but it saddens me that we need such a character to make this sort of progress.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nice to see some other Elon Musk fanboys. I'm alone where I live sadly.
He's an interesting character that's for sure. I like that he's doing it but it saddens me that we need such a character to make this sort of progress.
He's definitely a weirdo, and I imagine he's kind of a douche in person, but I support what he does 1000%. Richard Branson too, as the 2 of them are leading the privatization of the space industry (IMO the only way it will survive and progress). If I had a quarter million to piss away, I'd buy a ticket on Branson's space plane, just to help advance the commercial space flight industry.
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Just finished up a minor 'kill time' project.
Using parts from Amazon and Adafruit, took a 18650 cell and turned it into a battery booster. Right side is the charger that will also have a port for using Solar. Left side boosts to charge any USB device... Switched to reduce battery drain when not in use.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just finished up a minor 'kill time' project.
Using parts from Amazon and Adafruit, took a 18650 cell and turned it into a battery booster. Right side is the charger that will also have a port for using Solar. Left side boosts to charge any USB device... Switched to reduce battery drain when not in use.
Looking good. Two comments:
- You should add some tubes to the switch. A bit much of tin solder. Next to a short circuit
- Your GND connection on the module on the right side of the picture (BAT -) doesn't look too great.
- You should add some tubes to the switch. A bit much of tin solder. Next to a short circuit
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@gjacobse 3D print a case for that bad boy
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse 3D print a case for that bad boy
If only someone would ship me a printer, and plenty of consumables....
I would like to have one,.. it would help with the other project I have in the line.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse 3D print a case for that bad boy
If only someone would ship me a printer, and plenty of consumables....
I would like to have one,.. it would help with the other project I have in the line.
We're just in the process of buying one. First thing to print will be a stand for the official 7" Raspberry Pi displays.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just finished up a minor 'kill time' project.
Using parts from Amazon and Adafruit, took a 18650 cell and turned it into a battery booster. Right side is the charger that will also have a port for using Solar. Left side boosts to charge any USB device... Switched to reduce battery drain when not in use.
Looking good. Two comments:
- You should add some tubes to the switch. A bit much of tin solder. Next to a short circuit
- Your GND connection on the module on the right side of the picture (BAT -) doesn't look too great.
Well -
- yes, I agree. But,.. I may Suguru over it,... therefore isolating them.
- Yea,.. not my 'best' but it's a isobutate iron.. not all adjustable. That is easy to clean up.
- You should add some tubes to the switch. A bit much of tin solder. Next to a short circuit
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just finished up a minor 'kill time' project.
Using parts from Amazon and Adafruit, took a 18650 cell and turned it into a battery booster. Right side is the charger that will also have a port for using Solar. Left side boosts to charge any USB device... Switched to reduce battery drain when not in use.
Looking good. Two comments:
- You should add some tubes to the switch. A bit much of tin solder. Next to a short circuit
- Your GND connection on the module on the right side of the picture (BAT -) doesn't look too great.
Well -
- yes, I agree. But,.. I may Suguru over it,... therefore isolating them.
- Yea,.. not my 'best' but it's a isobutate iron.. not all adjustable. That is easy to clean up.
Yeah, was just what I saw when I had a quick look at it. Anyway, good idea and the result looks like it will do the job.
- You should add some tubes to the switch. A bit much of tin solder. Next to a short circuit
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@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I will be doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who needs to do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferably FOSS?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I'm doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who will do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferable FOSS?
I've always wanted to get something like this going but for a webcam on a robotic arm (with a laser pointer - remote cat entertainment toy). I was going to make it super simple with an RPi webserver and simple buttons to control servos (click left = move servo motor #steps on X axis)
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I'm doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who will do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferable FOSS?
I've always wanted to get something like this going but for a webcam on a robotic arm (with a laser pointer - remote cat entertainment toy). I was going to make it super simple with an RPi webserver and simple buttons to control servos (click left = move servo motor #steps on X axis)
Shouldn't be much of a problem. Need to build the arm yourself or is it something off the shelf?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I will be doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who needs to do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferably FOSS?
I'd use a Pi for the front-end web server and Arduinos to actually control the things. That way the front end can have time to do things like reboot if it needs it, and you don't loose control over every thing. I know people have done this sort of thing, but I don't know how much code is available to get the Pi and Arduino(s) talking.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I'm doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who will do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferable FOSS?
I've always wanted to get something like this going but for a webcam on a robotic arm (with a laser pointer - remote cat entertainment toy). I was going to make it super simple with an RPi webserver and simple buttons to control servos (click left = move servo motor #steps on X axis)
Shouldn't be much of a problem. Need to build the arm yourself or is it something off the shelf?
I was going to build it myself but then I found this for half of what I could make it for
http://store.hackaday.com/products/mearm-pocket-sized-robot-arm
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.
Well, I know for sure what I will be doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who needs to do it
Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferably FOSS?
I'd use a Pi for the front-end web server and Arduinos to actually control the things. That way the front end can have time to do things like reboot if it needs it, and you don't loose control over every thing. I know people have done this sort of thing, but I don't know how much code is available to get the Pi and Arduino(s) talking.
Aye, or PIC's, because I'm old school like that (and own way too many that are not being used)
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@travisdh1 Normally yes, because of the timing. But you can use stepper motors which works pretty well with RPis.
This is a good one for roughly 2-3 dollar incl. a ULN2003 controller board:
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@MattSpeller yeah, thats the problem. Probably something made out of Lego or wood would be cheaper
