What Are You Doing Right Now
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@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.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller 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'm 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 will 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, preferable FOSS?
I've always wanted to get something like this going but for a webcam on a robotic arm (with a laser pointer - remote cat entertainment toy). I was going to make it super simple with an RPi webserver and simple buttons to control servos (click left = move servo motor #steps on X axis)
Shouldn't be much of a problem. Need to build the arm yourself or is it something off the shelf?
I was going to build it myself but then I found this for half of what I could make it for
http://store.hackaday.com/products/mearm-pocket-sized-robot-arm
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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.
Aye, or PIC's, because I'm old school like that (and own way too many that are not being used)
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@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:
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@MattSpeller yeah, thats the problem. Probably something made out of Lego or wood would be cheaper
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@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....
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@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/
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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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@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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I'm not sure how practical this is.. but thought it was well done at least.
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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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Good morning so far. Personal record of 415.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fabcreator/fabcreator-lasers
https://vimeo.com/16769248940 & 100 Watt CO2 laser cutter, 100W goes for just 7k EUR right now. Looks great.
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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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:
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.
