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How can we get these things to fight each other for sport? Real battle bots

What about PI?

Because republicans continue to fight each other over how much they can lick authority boot. Gone are the days of fiscal conservatives or small government… no sir they are all on board for locking this place down.

You put one CO2 sensor in the return air duct and tie it to outside air control.

Pid control was supposed to allow people that rotate valves to magically transform into software configurators. That never happened. Those people turned into janitors and an automated solution became a capital project. The janitorial staff gets fired in the end.

Oh this post again. Kind of made sense to repost it on the solstice, but why again and again and now?

Whoppers junior

You send in the Calvary to get this straw Juan of yours, you don’t sick them on the state of Minnesota

If that’s your rationale for soft pedaling shock troops attacking American citizens, yes deeply flawed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants

You can eat shit. A private investigator has a specific target and a specific complaint. The topic, blanket surveillance by a private company does not have either. Again, eat shit. Shame on you apologizing for this behavior.

How do they not have much to lose? They are the ones that have their users on a subscription basis.

Wasn’t room 641A just the NSA strong arming At&T to facilitate full take collection?

As a guy that tries to make the lame ui in FactoryTalk sparkle, thank you!!!

How is procurement process with Beckhoff? I am tempted to make the jump from mostly AB.

Sure, call. Do a back and forth with calls and emails for two days with their sales guy to make sure they got it right. Spending five to six figures. 5-15% of order shows up incorrect.

When you go to try another distributor: No, you're in crappy vendor's territory. So, sorry!

Waiting for that invisible hand of the free market to step in...

Cheap and reliable goods. Free software. Great prices. Decent Docs.

Best of all, no middle men distributors to dick around with. It is so easy to buy their stuff compared to almost all other controls hardware.

I see "pre-order" and "shipping winter '23"... :(

Hacked VFD firmware makes the most sense to me. The PLC/PAC is giving a reference of xx Hz, the hacked VFD overrides the speed reference to destroy the centrifuge but reports back that everything is tickety-boo.

Just switched my work phone to a flip phone. Fuck smart phones. My life and job aren't that important for immediate email updates.

I've got automated SMS texts for critical alarms. if something else is burning down, someone will call.

I miss email on my phone, but it just makes me use the phone for what it is for: Talking

A fart has been lofted in your direction

Ladder logic, written by peasants. (signed: control peasant that prefers ST)

they are likely just relay closures.

You get it, yup.

Also each school is probably on the net these days, so replace with some Wifi IOT device.

What I use are Ethernet to Bacnet gateways. Each building gets a gateway device with Bacnet nodes connected over a serial daisy chain. If the HVAC device isn't networkable, serial devices do the relay flipping. IT folks get the data into different applications.

Integration and maintenance are expensive.

Optics coating

avoid black walnut. not as terrible as salting the earth, but not great.

Somewhat often but minor. I believe it's called glacial rebound. As someone tangentially involved in the optical side of chip fab, I am excited to have a neighbor like this. We work primarily with Micron competitors, but this is good for WesternNewYork.

Broken pianos make the cut: https://pianos.pub/piano/2f90254f

I had that question on an interview there. They said that they're only careful about dust when the film is wet. The velvet strip in the film canister wipes any dust off just before an exposure.

I see it in Programmable Logic Controllers. Engineering drawings often come in all caps and a program's input and output buffers are sometimes named to match. The older programs were in all caps because the programming terminals had no lowercase.

https://www.artisantg.com/itemimages/AB_1747_PT1_View1.jpg

I'd do this to fake a fever when I was a kid. Try to breath out really hard without letting it out. Get red, dizzy, and warm.