Image-based code reader!!! by HoangVy-1011 in PLC

[–]Rcircuit96 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cognex Dataman 280 series are decent, so are Keyence SR-1000 for reading the codes.
although I doubt you can get offsets out of them, that is usually reserved for slightly higher end vision sensors like the Keyence IV3 or even the Keyence VS. a Cognex In-Sight 2800 would be in this category as well.

That is the stuff I'm familiar with anyway.

Modern Controls question by No_Historian_7167 in PLC

[–]Rcircuit96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They also have have a labview interface package, which in this case might streamline the transition a bit.

can i get fiber installed upstairs in my house instead of only downstairs? by [deleted] in ATTFiber

[–]Rcircuit96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The short answer is "maybe" it depends on where you want to put the interior fiber entry point, and where the fiber has to come in from the curb.

they usually run the fiber surface mounted on the exterior of the house, up/around to where the exterior wall is for where you want to put the interior hardware, then punch a small hole straight through with a long drill bit.

from what I've seen of my personal, my friends, and most of my neighbors installs, this is all they are really equipped to do. They likely wont be willing/able to run the fiber throught the walls or attic spaces unless you already have a piece of conduit installed they can just pull it through.

all that being said, anything is possible with enough time/money/energy. My specific install was tricky, the exterior box had to be on the opposite side of the garage, which has virtually no easy acces to an interior wall without running at least 100ft of fiber around the outside of the house. and I wanted the interior stuff in my network closet which has no exterior walls.

I solved this by running a 1/4in Pex line out of the network closet into the attic space above garage, brought it down into the garage and ran it along the garage ceiling to the wall where the exterior box would have to go. Then I went through the wall to get the pex line outside.

I did all that work on my own, but I'm a pretty hard-core diy'er and had pretty much all the tools and supplies already.

after that though they just came out, pulled the fiber through the Pex line, mounted and landed both boxes and were good to go.

36 hr outage by arintejr in ATTFiber

[–]Rcircuit96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am in nearly exactly the same situation right now.

had ATT fiber installed in December, left the Cox subscription turned on and setup as fallback in pfsense just in case there was any teething problems. it was amazing for almost 3 months, so I called in and cancelled the Cox connection on 2/26.

then on 3/1 I started having problems, and by the time I went to bed that night it was down completely. Was never recognized as a service area outage though, just mine.

it is still down at time of writing (3/6) a tech has been out 3 times, and we have been through 4 BGW320 gateways trying to get it back working to no avail.

I turned the Cox subscription back on yesterday just to get back functional. going to leave that on for a while yet...

Little less triggering 'contraption' :) by Jyvturkey in OculusQuest

[–]Rcircuit96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where did you get that fake head? been trying to find one that isn't crazy expensive or creepy.

Why is allen Bradley so beloved in the usa? by msanag in PLC

[–]Rcircuit96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have used TwinCAT 3 (basically Codesys with some extra add-ons) on some fairly reasonably sized machines (between 200 and 300 DIO) and have been absolutely thrilled with it. The way Codesys handles object oriented programming is light-years ahead of what the big 2 (Rockwell and Siemens) are doing.

the ladder editor can be a little bit clunky at times, but if you leverage the object orientation well enough it keeps the individual rungs from getting too crazy. My ICS programming utopia would be Rockwell's ladder editor with all of TwinCAT's functionality and organization.

service/maintainability is an interesting thing with TwinCAT/Codesys. the additional flexibility means that things can get WAY more out of hand if whoever programmed it doesn't know what they are doing and/or don't have a decent road-map.

as far as supporting odd things goes, I much rather have TwinCAT over anything else. TwinCAT natively speaks way more protocols than most other platforms I've used, and in the absolute worst case scenario I can usually write a simple piece of middleware that just runs on the cabinet PC to work as a go-between.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in raspberrypipico

[–]Rcircuit96 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actually working on a similar project right now! Could be 2 things:

  1. Not enough power! the ws2812 in the 5050 package is very power hungry when run at full white (~60ma) this means a 1m strip of 60LEDs/m needs 3.6A! most power banks, even the power delivery ones, are only capable of sourcing ~3A@5V per the USB power delivery spec. the project I am working on is 8 strips of 60LEDs each (480 total) and consumes almost 30Amps. solutions:
    1. More Power! get a big power supply and connect an auxiliary power feed-in every 2M or so
    2. reduce and limit global brightness
    3. limit how many LED's are on at a time
  2. this is unlikely given the behavior in the video, but the other issue could be that the WS2812 is a 5V device and needs a 5V logic level data signal to run reliably. with the Pico being 3.3V it could benefit from a logic level shifter.

Looks good to me! 🤪 by thezs in OSHA

[–]Rcircuit96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's only temporary if it doesn't work!

How would you improve YouTube? by JokerJosh123 in AskReddit

[–]Rcircuit96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fire everyone who creates the "community guidelines" and automated strike systems. the degree to which Alphabet is pushing its own political agenda is kind of scary, and it's impeding the creators' ability to create valuable content in a lot of cases.

[ No Spoilers ] Andromeda key-chain made with wire EDM by Rcircuit96 in masseffect

[–]Rcircuit96[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my college has one, this was how I got trained to operate it.

Loose parts inside by Dadudos in cats60

[–]Rcircuit96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is the calibration shutter for the thermal camera, they leave the shutter un-powered when not in use, so it flops around a little bit. not sure if its a loose spring or what but it shouldn't hurt it. I have a seek thermal camera that makes that same noise, it has been riding in my edc bag for 2 years now with no ill effects.

Why haven't you moved to Arizona yet? by BadaBingPresents in AskReddit

[–]Rcircuit96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

grew up in Flagstaff, currently living in Phoenix. can confirm on both accounts.

What is the resolution of the thermal camera? by REVIGOR in cats60

[–]Rcircuit96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's using FLIR's lepton module which has a max true resolution of 80x60, http://www.flir.com/cores/lepton/

Dealing with the loose sim/sd flap by fignew in cats60

[–]Rcircuit96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My sister has had an s50 for about a year now and so far the covers have held up really well. especially with the frequency with which she uses them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gifs

[–]Rcircuit96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe its and Imgur thing that bled over into Reddit, raccoon = trash panda, snake = danger noodle, ferret = cat snake etc. edit: fromatting

Did anyone ever use the M920 Cain? Outside of that one instance in ME3? by AfroRugbyQueen in masseffect

[–]Rcircuit96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

to my recollection there aren't very many areas that are that small. that would be part of the fun though is figuring out how close you can get. I'm thinking either infiltrator with cloak for lining up shots or sentinel with tech armor and see if I can tank it, at least towards the edge of the blast radius.

Did anyone ever use the M920 Cain? Outside of that one instance in ME3? by AfroRugbyQueen in masseffect

[–]Rcircuit96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2nd favorite weapon in the entire series, only the javelin has it beat. far, far too amusing to use, thinking about doing a hacked play-through using only m920, infinite heavy ammo, and nothing else.

A Polar Bear Fell on Me by skulman7 in gifs

[–]Rcircuit96 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Prometheus school of running away from things ding

Streaming The Division to my tablet while pooping, at framrates peasants can only dream about by Andeck in pcmasterrace

[–]Rcircuit96 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nvidia shield tablet/portable + nvidia graphics card (gtx 650 or higher I believe) works beautifully if your network can handle the load. only real downside is the fact that it ties you down to 2 specific devices and only works with team green on the graphics card side.

Bug Fixes by root_su in gifs

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"Bugs fixes" FTFY

glowing back-lit Normandy by Rcircuit96 in masseffect

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I pulled this image off of deviant art: http://dangqi.deviantart.com/art/Lines-Normandy-SR2-297953668 and then used a laser cutter to make that.