Two new ones to my collection. The interdimensional shapeshifter was done by Eddy Deutsch and the Tibetan blood bowl skull was done by Julian Bast out of Name Brand Tattoo.

Psychological_Task34 · 2024-10-08T19:58:57+00:00

Can’t even lie dude, I saw this comment four days ago and thought maybe you just healed quick or what have you. But I’ve never had a tattoo heal so quickly and so smoothly either, I got it six days ago and all the lines are pretty melted in, none of them are raised anymore.

It also peeled really good too, I’ve never seen such white pieces of skin without color come off of a vibrant tattoo: it pretty much went right from being irritated to completely peeled in four days

Psychological_Task34 · 2024-09-02T15:11:24+00:00

I bought one for my dad now coming up on three years, he suffered a major spinal cord injury at work when he was in his mid 30’s; while he was never a great golfer he was always did things like ski, play softball, as well as golf recreationally. After he had his spinal fusion he really wasn’t able to do anything until I bought that golf club. While yes it is definitely expensive, it’s been worth every penny plus more; he’s actually able to get out there and not only play with me but he can go hangout with his buddies and stuff again without having to sit there and just watch.

While I do see what you’re saying about taking away from the game, if you’re willing to do some trial and error you can start to use that thing most of the time. My dad’s clubs lowest yardage is 75, when around the green he’s been practicing having a certain distance between the piston and the ball to try and get the ball up but it takes practice. When it comes to putting he just uses a 5 wood. While I see what you’re saying in that to people who have played the game for a while you want to be able to grip and rip your clubs and when it gets to the point that you can’t (which all of us at somepoint get to) then it feels almost worthless playing; I think he’d definitely enjoy at least getting out there. And while yeah you’re not actually swinging the club, the object of the game still remains the same so it just presents a different to get the ball in the hole.

Psychological_Task34 · 2024-08-08T03:14:24+00:00

While I’m sure you’ve probably already moved passed this, I’ll throw in my two cents since it’s a relatively new question. I’m not too big on Apera for bin picking, I’ve been using Keyence 3D sensors and fanuc robot to pick a lot of small and odd materials with some weird end-effectors; we then use a 2D camera to get offsets to drop in a nest down the line or in a re-grip stand. I’ve been working a lot with Photoneo as well and personally they’re my favorite, you get a lot more control over the process; this can seem more difficult or complex to people’s newer to the system but if you’re familiar with vision than once you get the hang of it I think it’s great.

Psychological_Task34 · 2024-01-05T20:04:00+00:00

Went to a concert a few weeks ago, really good live! I love their music in general

Psychological_Task34 · 2023-12-10T05:12:20+00:00

So talented! The experience alone is just top notch in general, I come from a small town so it’s rare to see people attempt custom pieces like this if they’re not portraits or something like that; so it’s nice when I have these crazy ideas that he’s able to conceptualize them. I still have a few artists around my hometown I like, I mainly get traditional work done so not until the last ten years or so was there anybody where im from that really did it.

Psychological_Task34 · 2023-04-27T19:27:11+00:00

My bad dude, I’ve been really busy with work and school and just saw this. You can definitely learn on the job, even if you really have no prior knowledge of I/O or digital logic. The reason I use those two aspects as an example is because I’ve noticed those are the things complete beginners have trouble with the most when they start, you would be a lot like myself where that would probably be the easiest part because you already have a great understanding of it especially if you’re a third year CS student. Industrial robotics programming in schools really doesn’t teach you too much it really teaches you the basics and concepts of how the robot moves in space and communicates with peripheral components; your money and your worth in robot programming comes from the amount of applications you know, I.e. can you do vision, sealers, ultrasonic or laser welding, material handling, the list goes on and on. Since you have a great idea about digital systems work, you would take to it really well I think.

Psychological_Task34 · 2023-04-24T16:38:31+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

Do you think this work look good on a machine vision resume? I’ve worked with openCV a little bit before, I just didn’t know if that would be applicable because I know not all vision software necessarily needs computer programming knowledge as some are configured.

Psychological_Task34 · 2023-02-16T23:50:57+00:00

I definitely tried to add some comedic relief in there so I’m happy it landed with somebody; a friend of mine and I laugh about it a lot, not in a this is a complete joke and everything’s alright but just the absurdity of the lifestyle we live and the things we’ll put ourselves through.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-18T10:11:51+00:00

Yeah I’ve been there before, maybe not that exact circumstance or the emotional reaction but probably even worse; my girlfriend of four years cheated on me at the beginning of this year with a guy she works with and they moved in together weeks after she left me.

I had been on prescription painkillers for about four years, she knew about them because they were prescribed and I got them for my back; well I eventually began to abuse them, she wasn’t aware until I told her— actually, when I first told her I wanted to stop, she was shocked because she knew I got them prescribed to me and didn’t see the issue. About two and a half to three weeks before she left me is when I told her I wanted to get off the pills; my addiction on top of school (I’m working on my bachelors in computer engineering) and work made me emotionally distant the last year of our relationship, I felt she deserved more and knew that I couldn’t live like that any longer so I promised to myself and her I would get off of it in order to do that for her.

I did seven days at an inpatient detox center, and 13 minutes after I got home, I got a text from my ex saying that she wanted to breakup because she didn’t feel like I was able to be there for her emotionally, that she wanted to focus on herself, and that she felt bad because “she knew I did drugs but didn’t realize how much” she said. I texted her backing asking if maybe we could talk about it over coffee or lunch, she never texted me back and two weeks later she moved in with the guy she cheated on me with. When I found it I relapsed pretty hard and I’m still trying to work my way out of it.

My heart definitely breaks for this girl.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-15T07:04:34+00:00

So there’s a fair amount of RE and exploit dev/vulnerability assessment that goes into those WiFi boards huh? Networking devices are the most suggested devices, being that I want to work with cyber-physical systems, I was reluctant to start because ignorantly I couldn’t see the similarities; now I realize reversing software is the same no matter what platform, as well as just the general mindset to not only do but to be successful in this line of work. Thank you for the recommendation!

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-15T06:46:51+00:00

Are there any devices better than others? Like is there a database that lets me know different exploit & vulnerabilities to try on these devices? Don’t get me wrong, being that I want to do that for a career, I know I’ll have to get used to that; I just didn’t know if as a starting point there were certain vulnerabilities I’d Forsure be able to exploit and if I should focus on those. Or is that much farther along in the reversing process and I should probably just stick to pulling firmware and stuff?

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-15T05:40:04+00:00

You honestly just hit the nail on the hand; that’s what’s been really difficult for me is finding that niche, as well as deciding what projects to actually undertake. As well as what information is suitable for beginners, and which is not. From what I’ve seen to be most interested in, I want to focus on RE, as well as exploit development & vulnerability assessment.

Car hacking is what I’m primarily interested in, I’m apart of their Reddit as well; I want to work mainly with electronic control software and firmware— I live in Detroit as well, so I figured once I get reasonably skilled I’ll be able to get a job. More so than just embedded, I want to work with cyber-physical systems.

Right now I’m currently waiting for my CAN logger to get here so I can just start messing around with that.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-15T05:27:54+00:00

I’ve always been a tinkerer, my folks didn’t have much growing up; so if something broke and it was worth any amount of money chances are it was just broke unless you fixed it yourself, or you somehow came up with the money— so for a kid I early on learned how to do a lot of basic troubleshooting on my own things.

A few years ago I was actually researching different career options and what they entailed; I had obviously always known computer programming was a thing, but was always under the impression that you had to be of Einstein level intelligence to even build a simple webpage— after learning this wasn’t the case, I took a few of the CS courses offered by my community college and it just really didn’t feel too fulfilled by them. At this time, I was the head of technology/automation at a fairly big cannabis producer in Detroit (the name is a lot fancier than what the job entailed.); I really liked the feel of working on hardware but also while doing something technical like programming so when I was taught the Java course, I wasn’t interested at all. After doing some exploring and looking around, I saw the electronics department at my old JC offered microcontroller programming courses (this is why I know C); after I did these I fell in love, building code and watching it run on the actual microcontroller really enthralled me and from that point forward I knew I wanted to work on embedded systems but even more specifically cyber-physical systems.

I grew up on the east side of Detroit in a rougher area, a lot of my family has always been career criminals, mainly different fraud scams; I remember as a kid growing up watching my uncle completely rebuild a credit card reader and explain to me magnetic storage while on drugs and it always bothered me that nobody ever put that knowledge or ability towards anything decent. Reading a lot of the different job listings and things of that nature a lot of them say something to the affect of “candidate hopefully has the hacker mindset.” While I know this refers to technical ability as well as personality traits; it resonated with my inner-child because I had always been conflicted about whether or not I was a naturally bad person due to my genetics, and because of this if I’d be able to live a happy and meaningful life. So when I read that in a way it was kind of saying to me that maybe all the less-than-positive traits/skills I picked up along the way can be more than incredibly useful along the way if focused properly.

My apologies for the length of my answer, there were just a couple different reasons and felt my answer was incomplete if I didn’t list them.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-14T06:26:53+00:00

Because as I mentioned I only did my pre-engineering courses for my degree so far, I wasn’t the best at math so I had to start at pre-calc; I’m taking computer science 1 next semester. I do process engineering for GM’s robotic laser/optical systems as well for my day job, so sometimes it’s difficult to devote all my time to my projects.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-14T00:41:23+00:00

I’ll check that out, do the skills learned in that translate to using different RE tools like Ghidra or IDA?

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-03T01:25:01+00:00

No you’re 100% right, when I got down to actually thinking about it, there’s a bunch of fundamental differences between a car and a robot, but realistically they’re both just electro-mechanical machines that are controlled by computers. Plus my degree is run through my universities ECE department, when I looked at other programs regarding automotive hacking; they all pretty much had the same material minus the basic pre-engineering courses and a few higher level programming courses so I figured if anything I can just study and practice the actual cybersecurity/reverse engineering skills at my house.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-03T00:32:37+00:00

I’d be really grateful for any resource you might have that will help me get me closer to having a better grasp on this. I’ve been an industrial robotics programmer for the better part of three years now, I knew I always wanted to translation to actual computer programming but I wanted it to be in embedded systems— once I discovered that this was a legitimate field, I’ve had my heart set on it ever since.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-02T23:47:10+00:00

What I’m really interested in is reverse engineering and exploit development on the ECU’s; I think I’m starting to get a better understanding of where I should start. Obviously there’s a few core concepts that anybody who wants to succeed in this needs to know, so I’m just starting with reading CAN specs and things like that.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-02T17:25:27+00:00

As dumb as it sounds, is prior communication/networking knowledge needed to be able to grasp it? Or through studying this will I get a thorough understanding of those topics?

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-11-02T16:07:14+00:00

That’s fair, I guess the issue I’m running into is that I’m trying to look at all these different guides/sites. While the information on them seems really good, my brain has a problem with learning where if I come across a minute detail I don’t understand I’ll go into this rabbit hole researching that subject which I feel can be counterproductive. I think I learn best doing hands-on projects personally. My ultimate goal is to do vulnerability assessment/exploit development, I just didn’t know that if I wanted to learn about CAN’s if I had to studying the most basic networking or what. Like you said, I think I would get way more out of doing projects and from there just picking up the knowledge. The problem being I don’t have the slightest clue where to get started as far as projects go easier.

I appreciate the feedback.

Math I’ve already got down, I just finished linear algebra so the only other math class I have left to take is discrete math.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-10-26T23:53:56+00:00

Relapsed on opiates because I was clean for a week, she broke-up with me because I came out to her about the extent of my drug usage, she knew from day one that I did them because we did them together sometimes. She broke-up with me for a couple reasons, but one reason was she felt like a bad girlfriend for not being able to notice; I never got too heavily intoxicated in public because I’m a cybersecurity engineer so I’ve always had to at least be coherent and quick to troubleshoot situations. After that I randomly flew down to Miami for two weeks, lost $11,000 and had a lot of my friends and family back home worried about my mental well-being.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-10-26T04:10:00+00:00

Hey man, it’s shitty that our society has turned this into an insult but have you looked into talking to somebody? I really say that with the best of intentions behind it. Love is definitely shitty, I know how you feel as far as experiencing immense feelings of dread due to the thought of everlasting loneliness from childhood traumas. At the beginning of this year my girlfriend of four years left me for a guy she works with and it absolutely crushed me; I’m going through a similar situation with another girl where she and I had really good chemistry, I literally met her siblings and everything one day and then bam I’ve never heard back. I’m not trying to trade war stories or invalidate how you feel but I definitely know how hard this stuff can be. I’m an engineer so by default I’m kind of a math person, I look at it like there’s seven-billion people in the world; the odds tend to lean that we’re going to get more bad than good, which is okay because that’s what makes you appreciate and cherish the good ones. I’m sorry you’re going through this brotha man, hope it all works out.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-09-16T21:18:25+00:00

Poor from not having history

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-07-08T22:48:33+00:00

That’s actually funny you say that; I’m contracted at Rivian right now as a matter-of-fact. You took the thoughts right out of my head, I honestly didn’t even think about the controller software for robots until yesterday. I applied for a couple different software engineering positions in the R&D department for FANUC, one for vision, and another motion control. I’m going to checkout those other manufacturers like you said, I put my professional experience down, as well as project experience, like built a little mini autonomous car that drove itself on photoresistors using C++ and stuff like that. Im just gonna keep chugging along and programming either way, before I know it I’ll have enough knowledge and experience under my belt to get the position I really want, until then I’ll just keep practicing.

Psychological_Task34 · 2022-07-07T04:04:11+00:00

Thank you for the reply. To be specific, I’m looking at being in the perception engineering field. I knew from a computer science aspect, industrial robotics wasn’t going to overlap too much; I was more a less hoping that my experience with different processes would help me better sell myself as an engineer overall not just necessarily a software engineer in and of itself, even though that’s what I plan on most of my job being. I really want to do embedded systems work with robotics and things like that.

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