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I remember fondly spending countless hours looking through the Icewind Dale manual.
Unfortunately, I purchased Baldur’s Gate 1/2 many years later with no manual. I’m sure it had an awesome manual as well.
I am in the process of launching my poultry RFID tags, “eFlock Smart Poultry Tags”. They allow farmers to count and identify all of the birds that they have. The project goes along with a mobile app, Manger, a tool that can be used to gather data about livestock (not just poultry). Tags should be available sometime this week, perhaps early next week on Amazon. Here’s a video of scanning: https://youtu.be/wilixJiyPYA Tags on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWTB1DR9 Manger app: https://www.manger.app/
Pretty sure in that case AG stands for Athletic Greens.
I think the name change also came before the AI hype.
A bit of a shill comment but… I have chickens and have been tracking egg production in an app that I’ve built, a livestock manager of sorts called Manger.
Looking at my data, since we’ve had our first egg 743 days ago, our hens have produced 9,393 eggs, or an average of just above a dozen a day.
The app can also count chickens, since each chicken has a UHF RFID.
Big “beautiful” bill comes to mind.
Are there any places where a hobbyist could purchase a tag or reader?
If a workstation has Git installed on it, which I’d think would be the case for substantial number of engineers out there (…not just software engineers), grep is there due to Git BASH.
I haven’t played with any stationary antennas but I think it’s possible.
The scanner that is used in the video has configuration for transmit power. At its maximum setting, the range is 15 feet with clear line of sight.
Tags with larger antennas, generally speaking, have longer range but might be too big for younger chickens.
So overall there are a lot of variables.
I have a hobby project where I am using UHF tags for counting poultry. The advantage that it gives me is long range (few meters) compared to LF / HF tags. QR code also wouldn't work due to size and distance.
Here's a video.
Maybe they could do some R&D to see if coffee could be used as ink.
Similar things come to my mind with The Sims. Once the game was “over” (maybe you’ve reached the top job) you could still do all sorts of things… Some of them a bit masochistic.
I’ve been working on an animal management app for the last two years or so. It’s a hobby project so it’s not going very fast. Recently I’ve released a new version with support for one model of a UHF RFID reader. It allows me to count and identify my chickens from up to 15 feet away.
https://youtu.be/_iGn_pZ3IkY?si=x4ijZdAP-suhuJ7Y
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/manger-animal-manager/id674269...