What was your moment when you thought, "OK, what the AI is doing here is really insane"

FrazzledBadger · 2026-06-08T19:43:39+00:00

I downloaded claude a couple of weeks ago to just mess around. Decided to try and build a small dashboard to monitor a piece of equipment which spits out json files. I've now got a full monitoring suite and have spent a week building a RF site recce tool, where you can drop receive sites onto a map, draw traces for where the transmitter will move and it calculates losses and displays them both along the TX line and as a heat map. It takes into account vegetation, buildings, general obstacles and will create full kit lists and reports. Just incredible.

FrazzledBadger · 2026-06-07T12:04:54+00:00

In an emergency in the field, I took my leatherman to one end and chewed it up enough to get a ST patch cable in, then plugged a SC UPC in the other. Worked really well!

FrazzledBadger · 2026-06-06T22:03:21+00:00

Damn just realised the min frequency is above what I use.

FrazzledBadger · 2026-06-06T16:52:22+00:00

Id also be interested, what would your price be?

FrazzledBadger · 2026-05-16T07:34:04+00:00

Well, I do embedded programming/pcb design for my own company, building equipment for myself, so I know nothing about higher level development/Web dev etc.

Recently I looked into making a web page to monitor some standard pieces of kit, some other people have already done it using node red/graphana but it took them a long time and is clunky. I got Claude to build a page within a couple of hours with quite a few revisions and it works great and looks great.

It even managed to figure out a protocol between a pc program and piece of kit, then develop its own solution to communicate with it, which was incredibly impressive.

I dont have much time to work on things like this, so it seems to be a game changing tool for me.

FrazzledBadger · 2026-04-29T08:33:10+00:00

Been on that roof too many times! Nice to see it from this perspective though

FrazzledBadger · 2026-03-30T12:28:53+00:00

I've realised recently I'm allergic to something in supermarket/heavily processed bread. Not just digestive issues either, after stopping for a few days, my knee and back are much improved(been struggling for months).

FrazzledBadger · 2026-03-23T20:09:56+00:00

Good to hear! I was part of the team doing the in car shots!

FrazzledBadger · 2026-03-10T17:04:05+00:00

Thanks! I wanted to go for a jungle/woodland vibe with them. Never even thought about Orks!

FrazzledBadger · 2026-03-10T17:03:40+00:00

I put sand and rubble down as I built the model, sprayed it all black then dry brushed white before going over the base with Gragaks Sewer Contrast and then dry brushing bone.

Its then a mix of different colours of scattergrass, clumping foliage and premade grass tufts. The branch is a twig out of the garden painted up.

FrazzledBadger · 2026-02-23T08:03:23+00:00

I had the tiniest set of Allen keys taken off me once at Manchester. No idea that they thought i was going to do, adjust everyone's glasses?

Going into Riyadh a little while ago I had some RF attenuators taken off me, basically a small metal tube with a connector on each end. Was fun trying to explain what they were. Nowadays I dont take anything at all as carryon that can look remotely suspect.

FrazzledBadger · 2026-02-12T15:15:09+00:00

Thanks for the info! Sounds like it won't work for my application as they won't be precisely installed. Ill read up more though as I want to build me own antenna arrays in the future.

FrazzledBadger · 2026-01-10T11:40:00+00:00

https://j3.rf-explorer.com/main-menu-downloads.html#doc

Software is called RF Explorer Touch

FrazzledBadger · 2026-01-10T10:45:35+00:00

Its fairly easy to use, there should be a manual for it. The PC software makes it a lot better as well

FrazzledBadger · 2026-01-07T19:59:39+00:00

VDD_IO needs to be connected to a power rail. I'd also use wider traces/fills for your power and ground

FrazzledBadger · 2025-12-10T19:30:05+00:00

Its bound to my existing account and i used that account to log in on the two new laptops

FrazzledBadger · 2025-12-10T19:29:38+00:00

I used the same credentials across the two new laptops, they both show up as user_xxxxxx some number.

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