My dog Lily, a Maltese, thought it was a flying vacuum cleaner and she hated it and just wanted to attack it...
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My dog Lily, a Maltese, thought it was a flying vacuum cleaner and she hated it and just wanted to attack it...
And I do offer a money back guarantee...
Meanwhile, in the infamous ThreadHack Department;
I receive mail in 2 locations. Being employed and being 65 miles between them, was a problem monitoring important inbound mail traffic. Well, there is a remedy.
On their site USPS offers at no charge 'Informed Delivery', that shows digital record of mail and package scheduled arrivals. No charge for the service, just register address and email. Two things I normally avoid when solicitors are involved.
And I have zero issues with USPS, certainly thanks to my kind demeanor. Or carriers really enjoy the even kindlier dog.
It's on the operating table, one motor and the LED on that arm are intermittent. Makes it sometimes fly erratically and/or not even get off the ground. Since it's the LED AND the motor it sounds like a bad common power connection. I noticed those are both hooked to the same solder pad. I'll jumper it over to another pad which should hopefully fix the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
The guys are currently pounding dirt and tossing boards around so I can't photograph until later anyway.
As for the Informed Delivery with the Postal Orifice, it tells me things like "your package was delivered" when there was no mail at all delivered. For a while we were getting messages of "couldn't deliver mail due to dangerous animal". Our mail delivery is OUTSIDE our gate and our dangerous animals are chickens. Seems the postmaster didn't buy that excuse either so that carrier disappeared. The current carrier loves the chickens, is monitoring our house build, and is very reliable...except on days off/sick leave. THEN our mail delivery goes to crap again.
The latest fun I'm having is I sent off two identical boxes of holiday ornaments to the same town in Russia. These have bar-coded meter labels printed on our thermal printer (100 x 150mm, water proof) with electronically filed customs. One got to San Francisco a day before the other, but then sat there a week not moving. The other box got to San Francisco a day later, immediately departed and a week after shipment was delivered in Russia.
That first box THEN said it arrived at San Francisco 4 more times, dead air, then "Cleared Customs in Moscow" followed by tracking to the town and delivered.
It was working fine up until I crashed it. That was two years ago...
Sounds like most of us with some machine tool, car, whatever. My car has the grill and one headlight reflector held together with epoxy and wire, you have to look close to see it. Also the bent metal was fixed with a ratchet winch (come-along) and a handy oak tree. Almost as good as new. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
Found the problem, it had TWO bad motors. The one you had removed and one other. The intermittent was because part of the brush assembly broke so there was a piece of metal floating around in there randomly shorting things out. Complements to the circuit designer that the driver FET didn't go up in smoke.
Hopefully now it will hover without suddenly acting like a dog that just saw a shiny object..."HEY, come back here! HEEL!!!"
Good thing I bought all those extra motors...
Hey, it works now!
Photo or it didn't happen. :thumbsup:
Bit of a breeze up there right now so I can't keep it above the fence for long. But...Quote:
Originally Posted by PDXsparky
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I am impressed with your piloting skills...
That thing they are building takes up the whole lot. I guess they don't want a yard. I'm sure they made it as big as the setbacks would allow.
It sure didn't take log for you to become accustomed to flying that drone
The pile of dirt on the subfloor is a nice touch...
they've mentioned wanting to plant a lot of fruit trees when the house is done. roof?
I did practice in the house last night and a bit over the picnic table, but those were hops. The videos are the first long flights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I guess a few decades on operating machine tools and building surface mount electronics pays off.
Does that stairwell look small to you? Seems like it should be more rectangular. I'll try for better pictures tomorrow if it's not windy.
Spiral staircase to the basement perhaps?
I went to take more pictures yesterday. Had a nice long flight and then found I'd forgotten to install the SD card. :brickwall:
So, fresh battery and decided to try the "headless" mode as it's supposed to be easier. Well... the rotation was slightly out of trim so the drone was slowly turning. Kewl, automatic pan of the camera. Only...it's reference to "head" was also rotating so now the controls didn't work relative to the physical head or what I had originally set as the head. I sort of had it under control but a small breeze came up so time to land...and it wound up flying over my head fairly fast headed towards the other fence so I cut power. Landed upside down in the kiwi arbor. No damage but the rough landing apparently glitched power because the SD card was corrupted. I couldn't even post a video of the less than stellar landing.
I had to climb on the roof with a long electrician's pole to retrieve it.
No more headless mode!
Video time! Still getting used to flying and I occasionally get a power loss. ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0t_Q6th-zI
2x4 walls, so I take it this is going to be a single story dwelling then.
No idea, but their windows more or less look at our roof line, so it's already the tallest building in the neighborhood.
I still wonder where they're planting all the trees they want.
Yea! You're getting the hang of it. Better than I ever did.
So was there a house on that property before or is this some new view ruining project?
Oh, it was stellar alright. . .Your tiny little pilot saw them.
Probably still is.
It's important, socially speaking, to not quip about headless operation.
If not counting the ICBM launch bunker below.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I was disappointed in seeing those gluelams had it been me the floor would have been precast set in place not some elongated chunks of fireplace material.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Here's the upper floor of our new house, just went in this week. The precast plates (as they call them) are 7 meters long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
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And regarding The Pit, it was too windy to fly. I got just above the fence and the wind blew the drone back...almost gave my wife a haircut. So...here's some land based pictures
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You are having a house built. this other thing that is the subject of the thread will be a just another stack of kindling for the next brush fire.
For only the second time in my adult life I am currently living in what I call a nailed together stack of dried kindling. it may have 1850 sq ft and 7 rooms + 2 bathrooms and an enclosed sun porch. but I also completely replaces the wiring to above anyone's code and installed a dozen smoke/ monoxide And gas leak detectors and there are fire extinguishers through out I doubt if I will ever be completely comfortable living in something made out of materials which should be reserved for furniture or cord wood.. Some wood used in the construction of a house is fine but the primary material to construct one should not have grown in a forest. If this thing ever gets blown away or burns I will use the settlement money to build one half the size out of rock concrete and steel 100 yards deeper into the property. but it has been here now for 50 years.
We did just have an issue with our house (had to be something), my wife and I did the design and from day one we've had straight stairs with a flat landing then straight to the second floor. When they've given sketches of changes to our plans we've always been careful to cross out anything that looked like Winder stairs and write in FLAT LANDING. Well, now that they've put the lower walls in they said there's no room for a flat landing, especially as they won't make stairs as steep as I had drawn (7" rise, 11" run). Sounds like a Winder conspiracy to me. The engineer will only approve low slope stairs (5.9" rise, 11.81" run) with a winder for us elderly people (who's elderly? We can both hike miles). Well, we agreed to the Winder ONLY if it's the safe type with no sharp end. 6" minimum run on the narrow end with 10" minimum a foot in from the narrow end. Also want them to increase the rise at least a bit.
I just hope I don't trip over those "safe" stairs, with the nose on the tread they're going to be 12-1/2" deep...that's a lot of step to take two at a time when I run up stairs.
Yeah I hate the low rise wide step stairs to me they seem more dangerous than the only slightly steeper 7" rise. That whole short height riser code only came into existence because the person sitting on the panel when the codes were made up was only 5 ft 2in. just barely out of school so they still remembered being 4 years old and having to climb what used to be the standard height. with their little short legs.
As for the 12" treads that's fine as long as there is a 1 to 1 1/2" nesting from the next tread above leaving 10 1/2 to 1 inches
As I was growing up I often visited one of my uncles their stairs to the made over attic were 9x9 continuous for a 12 ft total height, and only 36" wide in later years once he nad my aunt got into their 80's they installed a grab rail on both sides. My aunt still climbed those stairs until she was well into her 90's
My shop will have 7x11 1" overlap with a 180 turn back landing but the only code I build to is Frank's
I like when they asked if we had any idea what climbing steep stairs like I was suggesting was like. Um, yes, been climbing 7-11 my whole life.
Interesting they think 7" rise stairs are steep and yet anything less than a 10 foot ceiling is too short. Makes for some LONG staircases.
Something like this...
https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/0664ac02-1...JB0EElX2B.copy
10 ft ceilings means at least 11 feet from floor level to floor level and could be much more
yeah it would make for a long stair obscenely long with a straight landing half way up with less than 6" risers and 12 inch treads. still long even with an inch of tuck under for the treads.
9in x9in stairs are steep but if my Aunt could still climb them into her 80s before needing a hand rail it couldn't have been too bad.
They made the Pit House taller!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jixo...ature=youtu.be
At least we have happy PIT workers.
Audio from today, they normally sing along.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SHj...ew?usp=sharing
Sounds like a couple of worksites around here...
yep they can't drive a nail without their sounds polluting the air.
I walked into my shop one day when I had a dozen employees only to hear 10 different radios blaring at full volume.
My wife knew what was getting ready to happen and went and pulled the handle on the main breaker shutting the whole shop down.
OK guys it is like this you can all have your noise to listen to while you work as long as I don't hear it in the office or in the machine shop area, but when persons driving by on the road 100 yards away hear it in their vehicles with their windows up its too loud. Now if you think you can listen to your noise at a reasonably low volume enabling you to be aware of sounds around you like the forklift or the overhead crane moving OK. if not you have 2 choices collect your pay or leave your boom boxes at home. Either way suits me, any one of you can be replaced in under an hour. Not a single one of you can hear the books playing in my wireless headphones while I'm machining but I can hear any of you when you call out to me or someone else. Six decided to collect their pay at the end of the day and there were 9 applicants show up the next morning. When the unemployment was near 10% and it was known that we paid double the minimum wage as a starting salary there was never any shortage of applicants.
They're still going up!
https://youtu.be/BBRwY-Dwc98
So damn close. I'm getting upset for you. I would not enjoy neighbours that close...
