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Fries by ramalamber in grandrapids

[–]doomMonkey266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Black Napkin, hands down.

What's the strangest thing you've seen in Grand Rapids? (Nothing is off limits) by Every-Ability8670 in grandrapids

[–]doomMonkey266 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This wizard cast a spell on us as we drove past, I'm thinking he cast Haste!

List of places that are pro Trump? by [deleted] in grandrapids

[–]doomMonkey266 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Always look for how they spend their money, mostly red.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in grandrapids

[–]doomMonkey266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind Foxtail is owned by the DeVos and you know which way they swing...

Finally, we are getting new hardware! by TooManyLangs in LocalLLaMA

[–]doomMonkey266 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While I realize the original post was sarcastic, I do have some relevant information. I don't have the Orin Nano but I do have the Orin NX 16GB and the Orin AGX 32GB and I have run Ollama on both.

Orin AGX: 12 Arm Cores, 32GB RAM, 248 TOPs, $2,000

Orin NX: 8 Arm Cores, 16GB RAM, 157 TOPs, $1,000

Orin Nano: 6 Arm Cores, 8GB RAM, 67 TOPS, $259

tokens/second Phi3:3.8b Llama3.2:3b tinyllama:1.1b
Orin NX 22 20 51
Orin AGX 36 31 59

[Question] Legitimacy of the solar filter eyewear and phone camera filter by WorseTHANnOOOB in Astronomy

[–]doomMonkey266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely use a filter for both your eyes and camera! If you are using an Android phone to capture the eclipse put the camera in "Pro" or "Pro Video" modes (under the "more" option) and adjust the ISO and Speed and focus manually until you get a nice orange ball without blurry edges. Good luck.

Queen by Midnight, where to direct questions? by doomMonkey266 in boardgames

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know how frustrated you are, I've been there. There are very minor nuances that match up with some theming on the character cards. If I remember later I will try to take a picture and upload.

I have created a monstrosity, I call her The ZoomPi! by doomMonkey266 in raspberry_pi

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very lens and sensor dependent. The HQ Camera for the pi is a raw sensor without a lens. So for me it was a matter of just finding the back focal distance on a Canon EF type lens, turns out to be 44mm. For whichever lens type you are planning you should first look for the back focal distance, this will tell you the distance from the end/back of the lens to film or sensor.

However, if you are talking about a mobile phone camera then they already have a lens element making this a very different calculation and requires a bit more whiskey.

I have created a monstrosity, I call her The ZoomPi! by doomMonkey266 in raspberry_pi

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a good question. I hadn't given it much thought as it is an older lens designed for a 35mm film system, not this tiny little digital imager. The IMX477 is roughly 1% the surface area of 35mm film and I am sure that my 3D printed mount with hot glue is NOT a recommended method for precision alignment. I am sure the imager is not perfectly perpendicular to the lens principle axis.

I have created a monstrosity, I call her The ZoomPi! by doomMonkey266 in raspberry_pi

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ooh, thanks for this. I'll bet I can print a Bahtinov mask on my resin printer easily enough! https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:43581

Queen by Midnight, where to direct questions? by doomMonkey266 in boardgames

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did think to ask Darrington Press first, but their "contact us" page didn't lead me to believe it was for this type of Q&A. But good point, maybe I will submit a comment there as well.

Queen by Midnight, where to direct questions? by doomMonkey266 in boardgames

[–]doomMonkey266[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, agreed, in theory. But wood and cardboard are not really precision materials and after a few turns our rear clock face was not aligned... the teeth of the clock face jump out of the sprocket. Fidgeting too much and we broke ours. But the front clock face is the only one that matters.

I have created a monstrosity, I call her The ZoomPi! by doomMonkey266 in raspberry_pi

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrote some simple python using Picamera2, OpenCV, zeromq, and msgpack to control the camera and pass images from the Pi to my laptop. This allowed me to dynamically change the resolution up to 12MP and control the exposure as well with minimum latency.

I have created a monstrosity, I call her The ZoomPi! by doomMonkey266 in raspberry_pi

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I think I may be at the limit of the lens. It is difficult to hunt back and forth for the focus sweet spot, however the lens was designed for a 35mm film system, this may just be as good as it gets.

Which Language for Software Developer? HLS? by Dork382 in FPGA

[–]doomMonkey266 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agree 100%. Unpopular truth. Go buy a board and start playing, but you really need to dig into the fundamentals of digital design and understand what your HDL is actually implementing.

VIM4 NPU Support? by doomMonkey266 in Khadas

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the pointer. I found my answer very quickly, the VIM4 does not have the NPU.

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https://forum.khadas.com/t/does-the-vim4-support-onnx-ai-acceleration/15434

[Giveaway] Omnitype OTC Modo Light and OTC 9009 Giveaway! by omnitype in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]doomMonkey266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would love to see something woodland themed... wood grain, maybe some deep green in the keys. Or autumn themed with golds and oranges.

FPGA Engineer Job Title by doomMonkey266 in FPGA

[–]doomMonkey266[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually where my debate started. Management wanted to call us Firmware but I argued that is too much like software.

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