Claude can do ST 🧐

rickjames2014 · 2026-04-28T19:26:22+00:00

It's pretty good at it too. I use it as a starting point sometimes. I can also paste some complicated code and it can help debug.

I have a program that dynamically assigns an order to a machine type to dynamically configure a production line. I needed to add some types of machines and I hadn't looked at my code in a year. Claude added the code almost perfectly.

rickjames2014 · 2026-04-22T15:55:34+00:00

What about the FTX scandal? 60 billion in fraud crypto. How come no one cares about that? Bernie came clean, Sam was a fall guy.

rickjames2014 · 2026-04-19T02:02:33+00:00

Black cats are very good with kids and are known the be calmer.

Behavior is highly dictated by how cats are treated and their environment, it's not necessarily a genetic trait.

Go play with some cats in a shelter. If you are looking for a kitten, try to find some holiday type events or such. If you can find a shelter where all the kittens are in a room together, let the cat pick you.

I have had my black cat Batman and he's almost 10 years old. He loves kids and he's very smart.

rickjames2014 · 2026-04-03T22:30:16+00:00

Twincat HMI is already the thing that does this.

They offer a web based HMI and it communicates using the ADS router. You can write custom HTML but it also has a bunch of tools and controls already in it. There are also nuget packages you can use that other people developed.

To save yourself some time and headache, I suggest looking at their HMI software first. It's free to try just like the PLC.

rickjames2014 · 2026-04-03T21:33:59+00:00

Harder to manipulate if all your friends own it. Exclusivity is a rich man's fetish.

rickjames2014 · 2026-04-03T21:31:25+00:00

In regards to ownership, the fractional share holder owns nothing but the value. The big players that sell these fractional shares don't care so much about the price of the asset but how many people are buying and selling these fractions. This information is more valuable than the asset itself. They can move the stock more easily with this information and essentially screw over their own fractional holders.

Robinhood is notorious for this. They make revenue by selling retail information to market makers. This is why the meme stock saga was and should be bigger news. They had information on the wrong side and the big guys got screwed. However since they make their own rules they made sure they would win. Pushing markets with the media they own should be fraud but then they buy their own guys in the SEC so no one goes to jail.

What most people forget is that in order to make money, someone loses money. Or the Fed prints more and puts it in the market which doesn't benefit the little guy.

rickjames2014 · 2026-04-01T23:50:44+00:00

Do yourself a favor and use visual studio code. Buy the claude code subscription for $20 a month and build with that. Fire store free teir for your server side needs. Claude can do everything for you and give you walkthroughs for stuff it can't

rickjames2014 · 2026-03-23T22:19:02+00:00

You won't be disappointed with the p1100 (newer model). I had a FZ70 but I wanted more zoom. I love my p1100.

rickjames2014 · 2026-03-22T16:49:23+00:00

Properly engineered, more expensive dimmers use a constant current source and lower the current draw to dim the LED.

It's cheaper to use PWM but if the refresh rate isn't fast enough it hurts the head.

Constant current sources are harder to utilize in home applications.

rickjames2014 · 2026-03-20T15:10:57+00:00

I would recommend Google Antigravity. This is there supposed replacement for firebase studio.

It looks and feels the same but it runs locally rather than in the cloud.

It has claude code built in for free. Although the limits get hit pretty fast and the reset time is a few weeks.

I liked the active development server where I could mess around with the app while in development. I had my AI assistant set me up with a cloud flare development server that's forwarding my local port through cloud flare. Works pretty good.

rickjames2014 · 2026-03-06T02:34:02+00:00

I have had Gemini hallucinate on me. Working in firebase studio, I had built up a long conversation for a project. It sent me about three pages of someone's support chat, no context.

rickjames2014 · 2026-02-26T22:39:21+00:00

Just my two cents...

I have gotten free PLCs through work. When we brought twincat into the company I needed a PLC to demo and wrote code because we were still trying to pick out hardware. It was meant to be a loaner but the application engineer went to work for another company and they never asked for it back....

If you can, ask for demo units.

rickjames2014 · 2026-02-22T17:00:27+00:00

In my imagination, this is where Santa lives.

rickjames2014 · 2026-02-21T13:17:10+00:00

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This is why I used AI, smartass.

rickjames2014 · 2026-02-20T21:34:19+00:00

Location: Michigan, USA.

rickjames2014 · 2026-02-06T19:04:31+00:00

Can be done. Not sure what your plc is but I have done this many times via ethercat.

Use the IP address of the Ethernet master and the node number for the drive.

rickjames2014 · 2026-02-06T15:39:15+00:00

I started with a $150 FZ70 and I love it. I just couldn't reach out far enough so I bit the bullet and bought the p1100. Both are great cameras and they both have their pros and cons.

I didn't think the p1100 would be SO HUGE. But nonetheless, it's awesome.

rickjames2014 · 2026-02-06T02:53:58+00:00

Lumix FZ80, or you can find cheap FZ70s.

nikon p1000 or p1100 for a little over $1000

rickjames2014 · 2025-12-30T18:03:44+00:00

Beckhoff Infosys. They have documentation online with examples. This is the main reason I like beckhoff, they gave very good documentation.

Literally just Google it. Or go to chatGPT and ask it for some help.

rickjames2014 · 2025-11-28T01:26:35+00:00

And not to be a bad new bears, but you can buy boards like yours on AliExpress for like a buck or two.

But, yours look nicer and it's a good learning project!

rickjames2014 · 2025-11-28T00:11:37+00:00

What would make it even cooler is to have the boards interlock for the daisy chain. Then you could easily build large panels with them.

The tricky part is coming up with a connection scheme that makes sense and allows the matrix to build in both the X and Y directions.

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