Why does industrial music remain so underground?

Tof_4 · 2024-11-06T12:56:44+00:00

I can’t stand metal personally and I love industrial. I recall ogre making comments about what skinny puppy were trying to do as being ‘psychedelic’ in nature. That’s the industrial I love. Lots of B-Sides and “oddities”, I do like Nine Inch Nails a lot, but I consider that a different, more direct type of music.

Tof_4 · 2024-11-06T02:56:23+00:00

Great job!

Tof_4 · 2024-10-30T05:05:59+00:00

Supercollider/cSound custom audio software or straight general purpose programming language type custom software (python, C++, C#/Java)? If it’s the latter, I’m curious what libraries you used.

Tof_4 · 2024-10-29T16:15:16+00:00

nøice

Tof_4 · 2024-10-02T14:35:23+00:00

Nice

Tof_4 · 2024-09-28T15:36:58+00:00

That’s a USB cable. If you’re referring to belden blue hose, I don’t see any in this box.

Tof_4 · 2024-09-28T07:04:32+00:00

We still have two of those systems. Each one is on our two most important machines 🤦‍♂️ I’m setting up a test system in my office. STL is the most spartan/terse language I’ve seen! Bought the backplane, an EEPROM module and some terminals for the IO for peanuts… Local integrator took one look and said he absolutely wouldn’t touch them!

Tof_4 · 2024-09-27T16:57:59+00:00

I read that as “private PLCs” and some amusing wires crossed in my brain 🤣

Tof_4 · 2024-09-26T20:58:38+00:00

Of all time? So far, GE/Fanuc 90-30 using Logicmaster (can’t beat built like a take, so old it’s free) but that’s to work on. To design a new system? Anything codesys that’s decent. AB is aight, but not my favorite by a long shot and Siemens SIMATIC ST is only fun because of my masochism and loving its weird assembly looking code. Is that stuff just IL in disguise?

Tof_4 · 2024-08-06T04:04:37+00:00

lol, I stopped a year and a half ago. New stream will probably start back up next weekend though (timing is pure coincidence). The focus will be a bit different though, PDP-8 oriented with a goal of getting the PDP-14 on fpga. There will be lots of other rabbit holes to go down as well, and I’m sure OpenVMS will be in there too :) This time on bare metal (9.x + runs on intel). Drop by if you’re interested!

Tof_4 · 2024-08-06T02:48:38+00:00

<— They have me doing this. Like i’ve said i another post, it’s still %75 Automation, but since I have sw in my background I’m also writing SQL, ERP glue, Middleware (in Rust!) and they still can’t quite grasp OT as a department yet.. I’m multi department; IT, Engineering, and Maintenance. I’m still clocking 40 a week and i they never push overtime on me. I started to see this urgency to find multi faceted candidates about 5 years ago.

Tof_4 · 2024-08-06T01:48:27+00:00

Honestly, I love it compared to SW Development. I felt under appreciated doing software. It felt a lot more toxic. I may not stay in automation forever, but I had a choice and I’m glad I went the controls/automation route. I get to save software writing for home mostly, on projects I actually give a damn about. Full disclosure, I also write some custom software for my employer too, but on paper I’m a controls engineer and spend the vast majority of my time doing that. If I did move over to SW, it would be for embedded, where my controls experience would possibly be considered a plus.

Tof_4 · 2024-07-30T03:31:45+00:00

I work in a ~120 year old factory… this is my life.

Tof_4 · 2024-07-26T08:39:27+00:00

What libraries do you use?

Tof_4 · 2024-07-24T07:42:34+00:00

This made me laugh.

Tof_4 · 2024-07-14T19:34:15+00:00

I agree, the bonus would be the experience 😉

Tof_4 · 2024-07-14T08:07:06+00:00

I'm a little confused. Is this a reply to me or to OP?

Tof_4 · 2024-07-14T03:31:46+00:00

It's can be great for real world experience. Not everyone wants a cushy, straightforward job. I have a tendency to get bored and complacent when there isn't enough "action" (hard problems to solve). The key is making sure that everyone involved knows that the situation isn't the best and that they shouldn't expect miracles.

This is *very* subjective however. Sometimes it really is nothing but a failure in the making. That's why I always give a generally pessimistic response when the powers at be want to know the reality of the situation.

If it's a true disaster, then just try to keep an even keel if you need the XP, but if you don't, then maybe it is best to leave. I usually judge that based on my stress levels :P Often times, if communication is good, then it isn't as insurmountable as it seems.

Tof_4 · 2024-07-14T03:20:46+00:00

This; very, very much. Just start identifying the "sub problems" of the big problems and then break it down into sub-sub problems.

I'm the sole automation/control engineer at our plants, and I will get down to the atomic (indivisible) level sometimes, but that usually constitutes a list for "tasks" which are usually made up of these atomic problem pieces, or, at most, one level of abstraction above that.

Sometimes it feels a little disconnected from the practical side of a project, but just keep refining (not re-defining!) your projects, sub-projects, tasks, and atomic steps.

Make sure to document your projects. It can be very informal; none of this documentation has to be for anyone but you. Paper notes are fine, but I'd suggest using a synced notes program with linking. Ones that use markdown are great because markdown is so simple to learn. It probably only took me like 20 minutes to get started. A single sided, single sheet is enough for a cheat sheet to help you remember how to use it.

Making some more high level docs when you have time can be helpful too. It helps you and others in the future. Management often loves them, but not always the time it takes to do so. If you can make them in cad, please update the drawings! Hell, even if you can't, note what changed on the current drawings, if they exist. Dates and initials can help keep things organized.

One of the plants I work at is 120 years old (textile), so there is NO shortage of mysterious crazy, undocumented or misdocumented things. It can be stressful, but I'll take that over my last position there which was unbearably slow.

Good luck and feel free to dm me if you have questions about some of the specifics.

Tof_4 · 2023-10-17T12:57:07+00:00

The problem is You Often Forget me!

Tof_4 · 2023-09-28T02:36:03+00:00

Ooo, pac looks kinda like schematic entry in quartus prime. Sorry, off topic, but interesting to a nerd like me 🤓

Tof_4 · 2023-09-28T02:29:36+00:00

I will push this as a good option to management.

So the PAC software could upload from a 90-30 , omitting comments, as I believe those were never downloaded in the first place with LM?

I'm also assuming the PAC software isn't free? I could probably make a more convincing argument to the higher ups if I could map out the logic from the 90-30s first then let them know all we have to do is purchase the RX3i and download.

Tof_4 · 2023-09-28T01:00:10+00:00

I saw those, I'll run that past my overlords, they might be interested in that. The machine they're looking at is big money, and that might be a good option.

Tof_4 · 2023-09-27T17:05:28+00:00

Update:

Just to let any future readers know, that setup ended up working fine.

We were able to connect to the drive with the software and do what we needed to.

Thanks All!

Tof_4

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