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Post by wfn »

cprayingmantis wrote: post #281
iamleppert wrote: post #108

Kespry - http://www.kespry.com/ We provide a drone to the (primarily aggregates/mining) industry that can create highly detailed survey quality maps. Our customers can use the data in measuring the volume of their material (stockpiles) and in planning a big project, construction, etc. Basically anything you can imagine someone would need information about a physical location from above. We develop the full stack in h…

Hey that's pretty awesome have you thought about applications of this tech in agriculture? Perhaps keeping an eye out on crops and trying to predict yields or crop health?

Yep, if you are able to gather data over near-infrared (NIR) as well as red channels, you can compute NDVI which is a kind of vegetation index. It's interesting stuff and I would look into using the tech for agriculture surveys, constant monitoring and automatic advisory compilation (where to water things etc.)

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Post by Stoo »

egypturnash wrote: post #202

I recently finished a graphic novel about a robot lady dragged out of reality by her ex-boyfriend and am procrastinating on the Kickstarter for the printed version. http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ "Seriously folks, if you haven't looked at "Decrypting Rita" yet you really ought to. Innovative, fresh, interesting, and it does my head in." - Charlie Stross (Accelerando) "Deliriously confusing and addictive... It’s kind o…

Ooh! I started reading this a month or so ago, but never finished. Thanks for reminding me. I will also checkout the Patreon page.

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Post by sswezey »

Garthex wrote: post #458
sswezey wrote: post #333

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I saw that Symmetry Labs did the Generate music video! I honestly thought that was CGI! Do you have any tips of getting started with the type of LED display work you do, with regards to the control software?

I would check out these 2 libraries: Fadecandy by Micah Scott: https://github.com/scanlime/fadecandy LX and P3LX by Mark Slee: https://github.com/heronarts/LX They both provide good starting points to working with LEDs arranged in arbitrary 2D and 3D configurations. You can also check out the code for 2 different LED art projects I've worked on, both built on top of LX. Tabula - https://github.com/squaredproject/Tabu…

Awesome, thanks!

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Post by Stoo »

Storytella: https://storytel.la/

An online writing tool aimed at authors who self-publish. It's awesome because of the database back which means you can store people / places / anything really and insert them into your document (think variable replacement / an IDE for writers). The one-click EPUB generation is also pretty sweet.

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Post by normaldotcom »

fundamental wrote: post #21

ZynAddSubFX - a musical software synthesizer http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/ Right now everything is open source, but I've started work on a replacement user interface which would be temporarily released under a proprietary license. I think the project is awesome as understanding workflow in a complicated application is a challenging task and at some stage all work will be released back to the open source version…

I used to mess around with ZynAddSubFX quite a bit... glad to see that there's still some development going on!

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Post by bornon5 »

jordanf wrote: post #511
bornon5 wrote: post #250

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Not to derail, but as a bassoon player, I'm curious how you landed on the name.

Domain name was available. I wanted Bugle though.

No worries, the bassoon is never anyone's first choice ;)

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

Loughla wrote: post #165
sjs382 wrote: post #6

Currently, a lot of woodworking. It's awesome because it keeps my mind free from more stressful things. :)

Our property is getting full of small (10'x10'ish) sheds, greenhouses, and the like. It's so soothing to be able to just make and follow a plan and have concrete solutions to straight forward answers. That being said, building the old-fashioned pole barn (36'x54') using logs, sawmill, and kiln to make the lumber, almost killed me. There needs to be some sort of limit to everything.

Felt good to read that. I started an 8x12 shed two years ago and really need to get it done this spring so we can actually use it. I kinda have the same plan: just keep erecting outbuildings when I get bored.

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Post by BigMonty »

http://www.ExchangeTree.Org

I've just recently launched a bartering website where users can exchange goods and services without using money. Users can create profiles listing out what they have to offer and what they may be looking to get in return, search other users, and leave reviews detailing their experiences with other users.

In todays economy, sometimes it can be difficult obtaining certain necessities in life, and ExchangeTree offers people an alternative platform from the financial system that is so deeply rooted in todays society.

I urge anyone interested to check it out and ask any questions you may have :)

Cheers Josh CTO of ExchangeTree

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