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Well, I didn't see much of a flash sequence when I clicked on the Contact Us button, but it did cause my AOL window to crash and auto-restrat. Now THAT's what I call Flash going horribly wrong.
BASIC and FORTRAN in college. Then assembly code for the DEC PDP-12. Yes, there was a PDP-12. It was a combination of their PDP-8 and their LINK computer. You could actually switch between CPUs in mid-program. Some 6800 Assembly (wrote a compiler ...
I think I was thinking of LORAN, maybe, or something similar. GPS is more precise, evidently.
The problem you're talking about is really interesting. I think there are a lot of angles to attack it from.
I'd be interested in hearing updates.
Goo...
Roger,
There is animal tracking involving RF that is older than both RFID and GPS. It may not suit your purposes, however. I know very little about it, other than the fact that biologists have been tracking animals using RF for a long time.
If I...
Nate,
The immediate application, or at least the one that prompted my interest in it, is for a robotic mower for Christmas tree farms. Mowing of the weeds between the trees is a major part of the labor for growing the trees. The robot mower would...
Nate,
There are two types of animal tracking. One simply identifies the animal, as when a cow passes through gate, and it does that using RFID technology. That does not actually determinetheposition of the animal. The other type is when a transmi...
Also, I would have thought that tracking of animals (which I thought used RF + triangulation) would apply to your situation. Does it not?
-- Nate
Roger,
What precision do you need? And is the thing being tracked taller than the stuff around it? In other words, is it like a 6 foot tall person in a field of 3 foot tall plants or are the plants much taller?
Would cameras mounted on poles (hi...
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- Occupation:
- Software Developer
- Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
- Robotics, GUI, Inventing
- Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
- C, C++, C#
- About Me:
- If anyone in here is old enough to remember Interface Age magazine (late 70s) you may recall a monthly column titled "The Inventor's Sketchpad". Well, I wrote that column. I also wrote a book, "The Complete Starship: A Simulation Project" way back then, describing how a simulation could be constructed using personal computers.
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- At 9:00pm on August 10, 2009,
Ken Berkun said…
- Ah yes, I remember now. I simulated a tic tac toe machine that worked by beads dropping into buckets. No hurry on the scan, I have a copy in storage...in Seattle. But it would be fun to see it again.
Thanks!
Ken
- At 10:03pm on August 9, 2009,
Ken Berkun said…
- That would be a hoot! Thanks,
Ken
- At 9:01pm on August 9, 2009,
Ken Berkun said…
- Roger, I just noticed your profile. I had an article published in Interface Age. It was for a game on Altair/Imsai type machines with a video card (Lee Felsenstein's in my case). The game was Snake and you used the front panel switches to direct the snake. They published the hex code for it and I know at least one person entered in all that hex because he wrote a letter pointing out a bug. I knew about the bug but had left it in as a kind of cheat, it let the snake out of one corner. Oh heck, it might even have been Octal they listed. So, yes, I remember Interface age!
- At 6:15pm on March 3, 2009,
Mika Leuck said… - E komo mai Roger! We hope you find some fellow inventors and robotics guys in our community.
The FAQ is a good place to learn about the site. You may want to join some of the interest groups such as User Experience Design and Robotics.
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