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    • thwrT
      thwr @travisdh1
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      @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.

      Well, I know for sure what I will be doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who needs to do it 😉

      Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferably FOSS?

      I'd use a Pi for the front-end web server and Arduinos to actually control the things. That way the front end can have time to do things like reboot if it needs it, and you don't loose control over every thing. I know people have done this sort of thing, but I don't know how much code is available to get the Pi and Arduino(s) talking.

      Sorry, hitted the reply link on the wrong post. Anyway...

      All the infrastructure is not a problem, it's planned right down to the bus system we're using. I'll be using dedicated Arduinos every here and there, all the logic happens on a Pi. Only problem is the monitoring and controlling frontend.

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      • thwrT
        thwr @MattSpeller
        last edited by

        @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @gjacobse Looks awesome man! I need to clean up my work bench and dig into some of this stuff again. Once the good weather hits I struggle to work on any of my projects.

        Well, I know for sure what I will be doing this winter... My father is building an analog Märklin H0 model train course with tons of rails and trains - and wants some automation with Arduino's and Raspberry's. Now if he wants it, guess who needs to do it 😉

        Anyway, will be funny I think. Only thing where I'm not yet sure is the frontend, thought about something that works like webbased SCADA. Anyone knows something like this, preferably FOSS?

        I'd use a Pi for the front-end web server and Arduinos to actually control the things. That way the front end can have time to do things like reboot if it needs it, and you don't loose control over every thing. I know people have done this sort of thing, but I don't know how much code is available to get the Pi and Arduino(s) talking.

        Aye, or PIC's, because I'm old school like that (and own way too many that are not being used)

        A Board that has my interest right now is the ESP8266....

        lol those are the future of IoT for sure... so many evil possibilities...

        http://hackaday.com/2016/06/15/the-terrible-devices-of-the-internet-of-wrongs/

        Yeah, there's quite a lot of crap out there.

        Anyway, it's late here. Good night.

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        • gjacobseG
          gjacobse
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          @MattSpeller

          I'm not sure how practical this is.. but thought it was well done at least.

          Youtube Video

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          • gjacobseG
            gjacobse
            last edited by gjacobse

            Dang - wished I had found this TP4056 sooner..

            http://www.hotmcu.com/bmz_cache/b/bf1f7a2ee83f8c6ef86405d75858888e.image.750x508.jpg

            Has the building battery protection using a MOSFET

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates
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              Good morning so far. Personal record of 415.

              0_1466078645636_IMG_20160616_075821.jpg

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              • thwrT
                thwr
                last edited by thwr

                https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fabcreator/fabcreator-lasers
                https://vimeo.com/167692489

                40 & 100 Watt CO2 laser cutter, 100W goes for just 7k EUR right now. Looks great.

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                • dafyreD
                  dafyre
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                  I'm getting ready to go on my first real vacation in what feels like eons... (It's really been only a year or three). Going to go hang out with the wife's family for two weeks!

                  So... I'll likely be mostly not on here while I'm gone, but you know how that goes. Heading from Georgia to Iowa by car... ~18hrs on a good run.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @dafyre
                    last edited by

                    @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    I'm getting ready to go on my first real vacation in what feels like eons... (It's really been only a year or three). Going to go hang out with the wife's family for two weeks!

                    So... I'll likely be mostly not on here while I'm gone, but you know how that goes. Heading from Georgia to Iowa by car... ~18hrs on a good run.

                    where in Iowa?

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre @Dashrender
                      last edited by

                      @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      I'm getting ready to go on my first real vacation in what feels like eons... (It's really been only a year or three). Going to go hang out with the wife's family for two weeks!

                      So... I'll likely be mostly not on here while I'm gone, but you know how that goes. Heading from Georgia to Iowa by car... ~18hrs on a good run.

                      where in Iowa?

                      We'll be around West Burlington.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @dafyre
                        last edited by

                        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        I'm getting ready to go on my first real vacation in what feels like eons... (It's really been only a year or three). Going to go hang out with the wife's family for two weeks!

                        So... I'll likely be mostly not on here while I'm gone, but you know how that goes. Heading from Georgia to Iowa by car... ~18hrs on a good run.

                        where in Iowa?

                        We'll be around West Burlington.

                        lol that's barely iowa 😛

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                        • wirestyle22W
                          wirestyle22 @Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          I'm getting ready to go on my first real vacation in what feels like eons... (It's really been only a year or three). Going to go hang out with the wife's family for two weeks!

                          So... I'll likely be mostly not on here while I'm gone, but you know how that goes. Heading from Georgia to Iowa by car... ~18hrs on a good run.

                          where in Iowa?

                          We'll be around West Burlington.

                          lol that's barely iowa 😛

                          Anywhere in iowa is barely iowa

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                          • travisdh1T
                            travisdh1 @wirestyle22
                            last edited by

                            @wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            I'm getting ready to go on my first real vacation in what feels like eons... (It's really been only a year or three). Going to go hang out with the wife's family for two weeks!

                            So... I'll likely be mostly not on here while I'm gone, but you know how that goes. Heading from Georgia to Iowa by car... ~18hrs on a good run.

                            where in Iowa?

                            We'll be around West Burlington.

                            lol that's barely iowa 😛

                            Anywhere in iowa is barely iowa

                            Part of the state is the bits no other state in the area wanted to deal with 😛

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                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1 @thwr
                              last edited by

                              @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @travisdh1 Normally yes, because of the timing. But you can use stepper motors which works pretty well with RPis.

                              This is a good one for roughly 2-3 dollar incl. a ULN2003 controller board:

                              https://www.amazon.com/Alegant-4-phase-Stepper-Mega2560-Duemilanove/dp/B018RTXQTC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466026185&sr=8-1&keywords=BYJ48

                              If you're just using the steppers to turn the knobs and things on the controllers I suppose. I was assuming you'd want to directly control most of it using the electronic controllers. Adding local controls is easy, the only difficult part is making sure you're using the correct signaling going to the models.

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                              • hobbit666H
                                hobbit666
                                last edited by

                                Having problem is unitrends free and Linux agents.
                                Can't seem to find any good guides to diagnose why it's not running or listening/

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                                • thwrT
                                  thwr @travisdh1
                                  last edited by

                                  @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @travisdh1 Normally yes, because of the timing. But you can use stepper motors which works pretty well with RPis.

                                  This is a good one for roughly 2-3 dollar incl. a ULN2003 controller board:

                                  https://www.amazon.com/Alegant-4-phase-Stepper-Mega2560-Duemilanove/dp/B018RTXQTC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466026185&sr=8-1&keywords=BYJ48

                                  If you're just using the steppers to turn the knobs and things on the controllers I suppose. I was assuming you'd want to directly control most of it using the electronic controllers. Adding local controls is easy, the only difficult part is making sure you're using the correct signaling going to the models.

                                  Sorry, that post was meant to be a reply to @MattSpeller and his robot arm project . Fat-finger-on-small-touchscreen-syndrome.

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                                  • nadnerBN
                                    nadnerB
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                                    Waiting for the hot water system to warm up

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      Drove all night to get to Bucharest. We are camped out in the hotel by the airport now. We leave first thing in the morning.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
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                                        I'm setting up XenServer on the first of the two host.

                                        Sadly XS doesn't see the 16GB SD card, but it does see a 16GB USB.

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                                        • hobbit666H
                                          hobbit666 @DustinB3403
                                          last edited by

                                          @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          I'm setting up XenServer on the first of the two host.

                                          Sadly XS doesn't see the 16GB SD card, but it does see a 16GB USB.

                                          Is there a BIOS setting to make them look like SATA devices or similar?

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403 @hobbit666
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                                            @hobbit666 Nothing that I saw, but I could have overlooked it.

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