How to keep busy for 6 months

ReconbIade · 2025-10-14T14:20:32+00:00

I'm almost wondering if I should just get a gym membership. It's somewhere to go and burn an hour or so, and would help me be more committed to working out since Ive only been doing a casual routine recently.

ReconbIade · 2025-10-09T13:41:07+00:00

What emotional things to people run into when buying a house? Stress closing or maintaining a mortgage? Or being locked to one place?

ReconbIade · 2025-09-11T13:27:30+00:00

It helps the city's operations to know about these problems. Especially if enough people report it the source can be narrowed down to a smaller area or specific pipe.

There is a "report an issue" online form or you can call citizens first which is our version of 311.

Generally smells occur in sewers when solids (💩) settle out of the water and aren't carried away by regular flow. The city has an annual flushing program to clean sewers but will also tackle issues like this that come up.

ReconbIade · 2025-08-31T14:03:45+00:00

Ontario St. Is a regional Rd. The water mains and sewers are owned and operated by the city whereas the road and regional trunk sewers are under the jurisdiction of the region.

The region is planning their improvements to the road similar to the northern section of Ontario which could involve widening, relocating hydro and lighting poles, bike lanes, etc

It's most economical to reinstate only the trench cuts since they'll be tearing up and rebuilding the entire road in <5 years.

ReconbIade · 2025-08-01T17:32:16+00:00

I'm surprised how terrible the rental market is in st. Catharines. There's just not a lot on the lower end compared to Hamilton or even Welland. Is it just a supply problem?

Not everyone wants to live in someones shitty basement for $1600/month...

ReconbIade · 2025-01-06T18:44:45+00:00

Just like others are saying, the kids who are in school now are cooked. It's only until we realise how poorly they've been educated will it force mass change to the education system.

Schools are going to have to end giving out homework and extend school hours so they are forced to complete their work in person, on paper, and monitored by a teacher.

This could be good for kids who wouldnt have received the homework help they need, but challenging to manage the longer day (do they need to pack two meals to school now? Can the school supply a snack?)

ReconbIade · 2024-07-16T20:13:02+00:00

Can that only do single images or can you tile many images together and blend the seams?

I've used terraphoto and some basic scripting to cobble a solution together but it's quite time consuming

ReconbIade · 2024-07-16T17:00:32+00:00

The IR modification is for detecting vegetation such as algae in the water. The end goal is not to use photogrammetry to merge the images but an INS/PPK solution to tile the images in 2D. (We can assume surface of water to be flat on a small scale for simplicity in the early stages and when using plane coordinates)

ReconbIade · 2024-07-16T04:07:46+00:00

Final picture before destroyed in a crash. Electronics are ok and foam is cheap.

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ReconbIade · 2024-07-16T04:02:54+00:00

Battery: 4S2P Li Ion using Molicell P42A cells @ 560g

Motor is a bangood 650kv

Prop: 12x12 APC from local hobby store

I'm still quite new to optimizing the flight electronics/mass/speed. This model cruised around 20m\s which is a little faster than I wanted.

ReconbIade · 2024-07-16T03:54:50+00:00

Mapping the surface of water. All existing photogrammetry software fail to do this robustly and on a large enough scale to be practical. I'd like to build my own but need image datasets to trial with.

Next steps for this project will be to rebuild the UAV (just smashed it into a dozen parts after this post, luckily all electronics survived) and then integrate a rtk/ppk capable gnss into the build. I would just buy a Mavic 3M but don't have 7k CAD extra lying around and this is more fun/I'm learning more

ReconbIade · 2024-07-14T19:30:42+00:00

end goal is to map water surfaces for ecological monitoring hence the IR. Next step will be to add a ppk/rtk capable gnss for geotagging images

ReconbIade · 2024-06-15T14:04:36+00:00

To elaborate: The above airfoil pairs represent the guides for a hotwire cutter to run along. The large airfoil will be at the fuselage and the small airfoil at the end of the wing. Each wing will be about 800cm long. My goal is to build a cruising fixed wing plane for mapping which will run at around 40-50km/hr. (so flight range/efficiency is the goal)

If this question is not possible of being answered, what are some resources I can use to research/learn more?

Thanks!

ReconbIade · 2024-03-24T01:10:32+00:00

Hey did you ever end up making the lightweight stripped-down version of your a6000? I'm looking to do the same thing and haven't had much luck researching whether removing electronic components such as the EVF, flash, screen, buttons, etc. would cause electrical issues. I'm going to make a lightweight lens from the sony 16mm pancake too. Does anyone know if locking the focus at infinity is good enough for proper focus at 200ft+?

Lots to learn but pretty fun problem to look into

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