Cygnwulf Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 2 hours ago, WhiteWulfe said: That's thermal infrared, as a note. Infrared photography usually refers to near-visible light photography, such as Kodak Aerochrome, 590nm (known for its oranges and reds), 720nm (known for its ethereal blues), and 840-990nm (known for its sharp black and white contrast, as there's no visible light left at this spectrum). I'd show a (poorly edited) pic taken with the IR Chrome filter but I don't have it on mobile it seems. yeah, This is more what I was thinking, Actually I'm looking at picking up a modded M200 or SL3 with the IR cut filter removed, but same concept 🙂 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenity Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 RTB Pro-Tips! SKU#30007 Damras, Human Wizard! 8-18-22. Started at 11:33 AM. This is Anne's last stream this week. Next one is planned for Friday Aug. 26. https://www.twitch.tv/reaperminiatures 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteWulfe Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Cygnwulf said: yeah, This is more what I was thinking, Actually I'm looking at picking up a modded M200 or SL3 with the IR cut filter removed, but same concept 🙂 KolariVision does good work. I got their small Canon point and shoot tot Ry it out, and my next camera will be through them (probably either a Lumix G95, G9, or GH5S. Or two from the previous list... Or one and a modded Fuji X100V) 3 hours ago, Thoramel said: We've got a bit of a wait before the data gets sent to us. But honestly, the IR images aren't really that dramatic. Everything shows as greens and blues for the most part since we're mostly just seeing vegetation cover. We also look for saturated soils which are just a slightly deeper blue than the surrounding soils owing to the water there being just a degree or two cooler than unsaturated soils. Pretty useful for our work, but not really very interesting outside of that. Thermal or NVDI infrared out of curiosity? Edited August 18, 2022 by WhiteWulfe 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 <sigh> Just shot myself in the foot. I mentioned a test set unit I build for distributors to our newest distributor, and he wants to buy one. I'm the one who designed them, so I am the one that builds them - usually 5 units at a time. Last one was sold/given away months ago, and the Calgary office didn't tell me nor update the database. So now this new distributor wants one, But a major part - the case - is currently out of stock at the manufacturer and my usual suppliers. So now I have to go and tell the distributor I won't have any for awhile. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Eyed Monsty Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 1 hour ago, kristof65 said: Good morning. Is it Friday yet? Came in this morning to a couple of issues that are of the site's own making: - a municipality owned location where I've been trying to get them scheduled for final start up and training. For almost 10 months now - ticket has been open since 26 Oct 2021 I respond to every one of their emails/phone calls within hours, it takes them days or weeks to get back to me. The sense of urgency in their email this morning has me rolling my eyes, considering my last communications from them was 30 days ago about the same thing. - a site on the other side of the country that changed owners and needs the merchant number programming changed, but the new owner has only a Mac computer. Unfortunately for him the system software needs a Windows PC to configure it. He is unhappy that he's going to have to buy or borrow a Windows PC to get things set up. This one really annoys me - the software we need doesn't require a powerful Windows PC. There are several sub $400 Windows PCs out there - peanuts compared to what most car washes are sold/purchased for. I know this particular site can make $400 on a slow weekday and the cost of the PC is a tax write off. But no, he's whining about us not supporting Mac. I'm seriously considering sending him a quote for $250,000k to "develop Mac software" with an estimated delivery of 24-30 months. Apple has a 15.3 percent market share according to what I just looked up. He'd be in better shape with a Linux based system as on Linux you have PC Emulation available. Sounds like one of those Apple Fanatics who live within the Apple products virtual geo-fencing. He can get a refurbed Dell Optiplex 7010, with warranty, from Wally World for $166.15 plus monitor and keyboard/mouse, so with careful shopping the bill comes in around $300. Looks like you have yet another penny wise and pound foolish customer to deal with. GEM 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thoramel Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 41 minutes ago, WhiteWulfe said: Thermal or NVDI infrared out of curiosity? Honestly couldn't tell you. I just know the guy operating the drone said he had a infrared camera we could use. I could tell you all about the changes in temperature based on the presence of water on the landscape, but not much about the gear used to measure that. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnwulf Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 2 hours ago, kristof65 said: But no, he's whining about us not supporting Mac. We've the same problem with some of our customers, and our product is a windows native application using the .NET framework, with a database backend that runs on MSSQL server. It literally would have to be rebuilt from the ground up to run on Mac. But we've a customer who every year dings us pretty hard on his NPS Score because we don't support Apple products..... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Eyed Monsty Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, Cygnwulf said: We've the same problem with some of our customers, and our product is a windows native application using the .NET framework, with a database backend that runs on MSSQL server. It literally would have to be rebuilt from the ground up to run on Mac. But we've a customer who every year dings us pretty hard on his NPS Score because we don't support Apple products..... Good thing it's not me providing the support. Every point of ding for not supporting a product with a 15% market share would earn them an additional 15 minutes wait time for every response, and that would be cumulative from year to year. But then, I'm a Cranky Old Man TM who uses Linux. GEM 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Oh boy! Mayhem! Vehicle design lead just realized that due to sudden pressure change (aka a rocket motor igniting), some critical parts are going to pop off way before they need to be used. I am currently enjoying my curiosity, er, I mean, serious engineering work, to figure out how thick a plastic sheet would need to be to protect the vent to the parts being blown apart. Why plastic? So it can them melt and uncover the needed vents after the pressure has dropped as things go upwards. In summary, I am finally getting to design something that will purposely fail and destroyed, but on purpose. The very definition of fun. 1 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 And now just finished up a little session on the company’s VR software. Based on the Unity engine, in case you were curious. About 20 of us tearing apart an Apollo capsule in the lab, test chamber, and on the moon. That last one really looked a bit like a sci-fi/horror film. I’m having a good fake Friday. 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenity Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 The Crafty Creative with Josh Foreman! Ruined Temple Diorama! Start screen up at 1:45 PM. https://www.twitch.tv/reaperminiatures 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Cygnwulf said: We've the same problem with some of our customers, and our product is a windows native application using the .NET framework, with a database backend that runs on MSSQL server. It literally would have to be rebuilt from the ground up to run on Mac. But we've a customer who every year dings us pretty hard on his NPS Score because we don't support Apple products..... So our main computer hardware is a proprietary chip based OS & motherboard (meaning you have to change the chips to update it). We're still doing it that way for security reasons. But the software used to configure the various modules, or update teller circuit boards, and the remote access software to the main computer are all PC based. For the modules, those are third party devices we purchase from OEM vendors, and they only have PC software - there just isn't a lot of hardware design/microcontroller programming done on Macs as far as I can see. The remote access software that we use is really just specialized VT100 Terminal software. We could probably hire someone to write one pretty easily for Mac (or any other system), but then that just doubles the software we have to support. People can just use most any VT100 Terminal software to connect, they just lose all the fancy features we've programmed into our custom terminal. And VT100 terminal software is available for just about every OS out there - even iPhone and Android. So if they push, we tell them that, we just don't provide support for it. I once pulled out my old Commodore 64 and connected to one of the main computers using the C64 version of a VT100 terminal emulator, just to prove it could be done. In this guys case, the problem is that we need to run a piece of our third party software to locate and configure one of the modules on his network, and that's windows only. If the guy is a savvy enough computer/Mac guy, he might be able to figure it out without that tool, but all the tools I know how to use outside of the specialized ones are still PC only. 1 hour ago, Pegazus said: Oh boy! Mayhem! Vehicle design lead just realized that due to sudden pressure change (aka a rocket motor igniting), some critical parts are going to pop off way before they need to be used. I am currently enjoying my curiosity, er, I mean, serious engineering work, to figure out how thick a plastic sheet would need to be to protect the vent to the parts being blown apart. Why plastic? So it can them melt and uncover the needed vents after the pressure has dropped as things go upwards. In summary, I am finally getting to design something that will purposely fail and destroyed, but on purpose. The very definition of fun. I both understand what you're saying is happening, and what you need to do, and yet having a hard time wrapping my head around what you're actually doing. IF I am reading you right, this would be something along the lines of putting a sheet of plastic over the HVAC vent in a room that has to melt before it will let the room heat up? I know that's a really crude analogy, but it's all I could come up with. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Me to customer: Would you like your appointment on Wed the 24th or Thu the 25th.Customer: Wed the 25th please! 7 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegazus Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 41 minutes ago, kristof65 said: IF I am reading you right, this would be something along the lines of putting a sheet of plastic over the HVAC vent in a room that has to melt before it will let the room heat up? I know that's a really crude analogy, but it's all I could come up with. Pretty close. Imagine the plastic sheet is there to keep the sudden increase in room pressure from destroying the HVAC, but then after a few tenths of seconds it needs to melt and let the HVAC blow into the room. Best solution we could devise to have it done within the 30 days needed (recalling large corporation != fast responses and quick processes). 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Pretty interesting, just signed up for the D&D playtest for the next edition, One D&D or whatever it's called. I'm not sure if I'll jump fully into the next edition as I've put quite a bit of cash into 5e, but it'll be neat to see the progress. Speaking of the FLGS, we had a pretty good D&D session last night. I ran the Adventure League adventure for my group, & since the adventures are standard 4 hr ones, I've split it up for 2 weeks. It also doesn't help that the the middle of the month Weds is also the night the FLGS closes an hour early for a store/employee meeting. Oddly, I left my miniature case up there.....in my locker I rent. It felt weird not to come home with it, but since next week is the next time I'll open it, no reason to bring it home this time. Funny too, is next Weds will be the last game at the FLGS before ReaperCon. My store is bringing a "prof DM (whatever)" the weekend before RCon week, I've thought about joining up in the game he is gonna run, but I really don't want to experience a true burn-out with me running 5 games in 4 days at RCon. Also new Humble Bundle for Pathfinder 2e is available for purchase. Since I'm starting to get into 2e at my FLGS, this is perfect timing. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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