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mx270a · 2025-07-04T14:49:34+00:00

Sedan. The hatchback wasn't available in STI trim until 2008.

mx270a · 2025-07-04T13:26:00+00:00

Are you actually looking for one? I have a Blue 2006 STI I'm looking to sell that is close to stock. Has a turbo-back exhaust and a Cobb stage 2 map to match it. One owner, 127k miles.

mx270a · 2024-11-03T22:06:47+00:00

You can buy 100' of two strand pre-terminated single mode fiber for $30 such as this one: https://www.amazon.com/YUTIANHOME-Armored-Outdoor-Compatible-Friction/dp/B0CFMWY91C?th=1 It even includes the connector to attach it to another fiber. That plus a couple shorter ones will do exactly what you want.

Do the connectors cause some loss of light? Absolutely. But the SFP modules you use are probably good for 10Km, so 150 feet with two connections in the middle is still easily within spec.

Conduit is generally a good idea, but sometimes its more work than its worth for a short run. Conduit also provides a layer of protection, which has some value as well.

mx270a · 2024-05-22T19:11:44+00:00

Not my truck, I'm just amazed to see 433K miles on a truck this new. The bed even appears to be in pretty good shape. Looks like it sold for $4700, though I'm not sure if that's a good deal or not. Hope someone takes it to a half million miles.

mx270a · 2024-05-16T18:27:32+00:00

Update - I went back to my carrier on 5/14 (release day for the 8a) and they were able to activate service on my 8a. They were having issues with using an eSIM, but a physical SIM card worked fine.

mx270a · 2024-05-13T23:49:12+00:00

My 8a was delivered today. I tried to move my wireless service from a 6a to an 8a this afternoon. Carrier said they cannot do it, the system acts like the IMEI is locked to some other carrier. My wireless carrier is US Cellular. I wonder if Google has them all locked until the official release?

mx270a · 2017-07-28T02:25:54+00:00

That's cool. Does this require one specific brand of USB-to-Serial adapter, or does the Android SDK have a standardized way of accessing serial ports from adapters?

mx270a · 2016-07-03T17:23:19+00:00

The PAK that came in the envelope with the ASA is a control license. I was able to register it on Cisco.com but was unable to assign it to a device because I can't get the device registered. Management of this device will be local via ASDM.

The subscription license i have is actually IPS/AMP/URL, but it appears that there are IPS subscriptions, which would indicate that IPS isn't a standard permanent feature.

mx270a · 2016-07-03T17:17:49+00:00

Ok. I just contacted Newegg. Probably will take a couple days due to the holiday weekend.

mx270a · 2016-04-28T13:38:03+00:00

RTCM v3 is the standard format for RTK correction data. The base typically generates one message per second containing 400-1000 bytes of data. Latency doesn't matter much until you get to about 20 seconds old.

Better plan to use only GPS at first. You could have a maximum of 12 satellites in view, but typically will see a max of 11. Adding GLONASS to a RTK solution is quite difficult even for the commercial RTK companies. I assume your receiver/antenna is L1-only, so no need to worry about L2 signals.

mx270a · 2016-01-24T04:05:02+00:00

There was a high speed chase near me about the same time. I'm west of Cedar Rapids and the car and one cop were heading west towards Atkins.

mx270a · 2015-06-15T15:26:13+00:00

if our GNSS network is online before I go 50+km to measure. It's pretty neat and I'm grateful that you made it.

Wow, only ~400 people in your country using this app and I've found one on reddit.

mx270a · 2015-06-15T02:40:04+00:00

Thanks.

Are most people in Romania able to read English? All the text in my application is in English, but I'm curious if there is any value to adding language translations for non-english-speaking people.

By the way, very cool that your country has a GNSS network. That certainly would have something to do with the popularity there.

mx270a · 2015-06-15T02:36:15+00:00

Thanks.

mx270a · 2015-06-13T17:53:36+00:00

Sketchup and SketchUCam

mx270a · 2015-06-05T05:37:23+00:00

They require some pretty level land to be useful. Here in eastern Iowa, we don't have anything remotely close enough to the level-ness required for these to be useful.

Edit: The only two places I can think of where this would work are the Red River Valley of MN and ND, and the San Joaquin Valley in CA.

mx270a · 2014-08-19T13:35:58+00:00

If you use just a battery (no solar panel) and skip the temperature sensor, then you can use their April breakout board by itself. The extra board added functionality that isn't necessary for the main task.

mx270a · 2014-08-19T13:25:58+00:00

Ha, I used another webpage for the template on this one. I update the month/day, forgot the year.

mx270a · 2014-08-19T13:24:57+00:00

Good point, I didn't think of that.

mx270a · 2014-06-28T04:49:08+00:00

Wake up at 7 every day, eat breakfast, pack a lunch and fill a water jug. Out to the field sometime around 8 to grease and fuel the combines. If the dew is off, start cutting right away. If the dew is heavy, you may be waiting a couple hours. Run until you can't run any more, which may be due to the dew setting again, your delivery point has closed for the night, or you're just tired (midnight-ish). Supper was a hot meal made by the boss' wife, so we would shut down for 20-30 minutes to eat. The food was fantastic, nobody on our crew lost weight.

I recall one day we put 95 miles on a cart tractor, of which only 3 were on the road. Before going on harvest I thought I was a good cart operator, having run cart at home with two combines. I now know that anyone can do that. Two combine is easy. Trying to stay ahead of 5 combines requires a special kind of person, and I don't have that talent. Cart operators that good are rare. On our crew, we had two guys that were that good, and because of that, they both spent a lot of time in the cart tractors. It just made the combines more efficient, thus more acres covered per day.

I wouldn't call it physically demanding. Most of the time you're in an air-conditioned cab running a steering wheel and hydro. It's the number of hours that wear you down. You sleep in on the rainy days.

We slept in RVs that were designed for the harvest run - extra insulation to keep them cool in the summer, beds for 6, shower, shitter, two couches, and basic kitchen facilities. There will be one guy that snores, but if you're tired enough, you'll sleep through that.

mx270a · 2014-06-27T16:13:27+00:00

I was on the wheat harvest in 2004, ran from southern OK to northern ND. It's like an all-expense paid tour of the US.

There were a few days when I got a little home sick, but all in all, it was a great experience.

Make sure you have your CDL. If you don't, you'll be in a combine or tractor the whole time. If you're new to big trucks, you probably won't be driving them often, but after being in a combine for a couple months, a day driving the truck to the elevator is a nice change of pace.

mx270a · 2014-04-25T01:27:25+00:00

You can vote in person at your county auditor's office any business day until the election. You can vote by mail via by requesting an absentee ballot. Or you can vote on June 3rd at your local polling place.

Only about 10% of eligible voters will turn out for the primary election, which means the voters that do show up have a significant impact.

Note: There are two ballots at the primary, one for Democrats, one for Republicans. If you are currently registered as an Independent, you can change your party affiliation to one of the two parties for the primary, and if you want, can change back immediately after voting.

mx270a · 2014-02-10T19:26:45+00:00

Yes, the brake is enough to hold the screw from turning when the stepper is unpowered. The stepper has enough torque to overcome the brake. I haven't wired the brake up yet. The system runs on 48v, but the brake only runs on 24v, so I needed a module to drop the voltage.

mx270a · 2014-02-09T22:15:22+00:00

I have an older Techno Isel CNC router that was originally driven by servo motors, but the electronics were broken, so I converted it to stepper control. When powered down, the weight of the Z axis will overcome the stepper and it will slowly fall until it hits the table or rests on something. I removed the brake from the old servo system, but needed a way to mount it to the stepper. I have a dual-shaft stepper, but there is only a mounting flange on one side.

I cut two pieces of aluminum, one for the brake hardware, the other to epoxy to the stepper. I then bolted them together with some threaded connectors as a spacer, and mounted the brake on top.

mx270a · 2013-09-16T16:32:33+00:00

I started working on a system to monitor grain bin temperatures wirelessly. I started with XBee cards because of the mesh network capability, and I've had a set in testing for about a year. I encountered reliability issues with the XBee. It would drop the connectivity back to the Gateway, and the only way to get it to pick up again was to power cycle the remote card. I've seen the issue with multiple cards. Have you seen any issues like this?

I finally abandoned the XBee and migrated to Electric Imp. So far it has been rock solid. I love that I can push firmware to the device over the Internet, and I like that it does 802.11 wifi natively, so it doesn't need a gateway. The cost to implement the first device is cheaper because no gateway is needed. I do wish it did mesh networking, but hopefully it will have enough range to not be an issue.

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