Control line aircraft are, according to some, (and citations of the supposed FAA response are never available) "motorized kites." Therefore having a permanent tether to the aircraft makes this model no longer subject to the same rules as a untethered aircraft (in theory). I am not sure if these are really parallel arguments though.
If use of a tether allows commercial operation of "camera drones" to resume then it is probably a good thing. Responsible operators taking reasonable precautions and safely operating their equipment allow for some useful services. There should be oversight for these operations though, but the industry should be encouraged not banned.
I do not want some yahoo with a model to crash and then think they have no responsibility to the resulting property damage though...
A safe deposit box with the data stored in it. A key in the possession of a time keeper, such as a suitable law firm, and a third party to receive the information.
But what format to use that will remain useable after 50 years...
I too have played trumpet and baritone in school band. I never achieved a high level of mastery, but I did try and apply myself to learning. I also sang choir for years throughout grade school and middle school.
The only type of music I find fulfilling * has words * the words can be understood * the words tell a story that makes sense even separated from the music (such as Rush, Red Barchetta)
One piece of awesome was a robot, really well done, but the kid wearing it broke his arm a couple days before... tore the plastic duct work arm apart, jammed in some stripped back network cable and an old ribbon cable to be a "disarmed" robot.
Gonna take a couple minor hacks, but the technology is already present.
Use an air drum stick (or similar, say, wimote?) for the baton. This needs to output to a device that can communicate to other devices.
Built an app for android cell phones (everybody has one now, Iphone is another option of course) so the output from the baton is translated to vibration at the phone via wifi.
While certain aspects are going to be lost, timing and emphasis can be retained.
Why ceramic? Plastic and rubber bullets are deadly at close range. There are youtube videos of people making hot-glue bullets for primer fired target practice. Put some powder behind it and it becomes pretty serious. Why not make a plastic shotgun type shell? Very little metal actually needed...primer...not much else. You can even buy shotgun shells that are plastic except for the primer (although I have never seen them other than target load)
Springs can be plastic (or even air pressure enhanced) if they only need to function a couple rounds, same with a plastic firing pin... The more plastic the less life though. A determined well equipped individual, the person that the ATF is worried about, will make it work.
The reason the ATF is not very concerned is the weapon is disposable. Disposable weapons exist. Making a pipe gun from some plumbing parts is not very difficult. I've seen one demonstrated.
Making a plastic weapon that can pass detection is disturbingly easy. Toothbrush? Stick? Point the end. Pen or pencil? No modification required with a pen or pencil. Pretty single use though.
Lastly the evidence is easily destroyed, unlike a metal weapon. The ATF is not very concerned because it would be chasing their tail to try to track these items.
If you don't mind some light, but hard work, bordering on drudgery:
an old CRT has over a pound of copper in it. Older ones have quite a bit more.
When you get down to old processors and other circuitry there are some people who are able to salvage the gold out of them, but the parts need separated first. When I was in high school I helped sort and strip and salvage a couple hundred 286, 386 and 486 computers that were being disposed of by some large local businesses as a "donation" to the school my mom worked for. There was a jeweler who took the processors and gold plated connectors for cash. I know a large coffee can of parts was worth over $100, and we generated quite a few can fulls.
Circuit boards can be recycled and have value once separated and in the pounds of materials.
Parted out there is a good possibility of a few hundred dollars worth of salvage in that pile. Even sheet steel has significant salvage value once you get to 100 pounds of material.
There is a reason junk collectors, people who take all the salvageable trash off the curb on trash day, can do this instead of having a "real" job.
A smaller format keyboard that you can allow your pinky finger to do less since the other fingers can reach easily, as well as some minor retraining will allow you to type at nearly the same rate without a large learning curve. You can also look at some of the different brands and ergonomic keyboard types and see if the computer function (return, command, alt, etc) are in more suitable locations for your hands.
With my old EEE I only used 2 fingers for typing since the keyboard was so small.
My upgrade experience on an old dell last year was less than peachy. I took my Dell XPS with the core2 duo, running XP, dropped in a moderate video card (EHA5450 silent) and 2 gig of ram bringing it up to 3 gig of ram. The performance improvement was dramatic, but not nearly as much as I hoped for. I also soon learned that upgrading to 4 GB of ram would be useless because XP can't address more than 3GB!
The on board NIC failed about 2 months later. I dropped in a pulled intel etherexpress 10/100, a few weeks later the on board sound failed (I tried reloading drivers, etc, finally turned sound off). At this point I specked out a new kit and started buying parts as I could afford, with Christmas money and a small windfall I built a new system in January, but made the mistake of putting Win8 on it.
I ended up with a Asus Sabertooth x79 Radeon 7950 3GB I7 3820 8 GB Crucial Ballistix ram WD black 1TB Antech earthwatts EA750 in a Cooler Master HAF 912
The problem with Win8 is it won't recognize all the onboard devices, won't allow the manufacturer drivers to load, and is a general pain in the ass.
Heh. Wait till you bring the newborn home. The first few months may be impossible. I know I had it bad with my daughter having a few severe allergies that have proven to be life changing for myself and my diet, let alone my wife's diet and routines. However the first few months are all about the new one. (and god forbid if you have family and friends who expect you to entertain! Tip: send them to the store, or other errand before they come over, be sure to pay them back, cash, for what they spend that you ask for)
Then responsibility mounts, laundry, dishes, house cleaning, yard chores, vehicles, other hobbies...games get a close second to quite a many things for me. Christmas pageants, spring concerts, and extra-curricular activities for the child also take a huge chunk of time in just transportation needs, let alone showing for the big show!
I only get to game while my wife is working on "homework" from her office after our daughter is in bed. This ends up a couple times a week in a 2+ hour block.
We do "game" some together but it is limited to the multi-player WII offerings, or physical board games and cards, most of those offerings geared towards a younger child playing as well.
About the only game we play together online is "words with friends" (I am currently kicking her butt, though I lost by over 200 points last game)
While I generally recommend using known steels, particularly for sale, coil and leaf spring from automobile and truck suspensions are typically 5160, oil hardening, and very suitable for learning. Selecting scrap stream steel that is likely know is good to help with learning since there is some odd stuff out there.
If you are going to stick with the hobby for any length of time or start producing items for sale then using new known steels makes sense, helps produce a better product with fewer failures, and is general good business sense, even if your hobby business is only doing a couple thousand dollars of annual business.
Producing and selling 1 premium quality knife per month, sold at $100 per blade (quite cheap if you look at custom blades) translates to $1200 annual sales, will require a business license and the filing of taxes, at least in the US. I state this for perspective, and as a sound reason to agree with you in buying new steel.
Automotive leaf spring is good too. I just don't have any. I have 6 coil springs left from replacing strut assemblies on my car and my wife's car. Phil
Don't need acres. Many hobby smiths are using a space of little more than 100 square feet for a shop. Of course no power hammer, just forge, anvil, and some small power tools.
While I don't make knives (not because I can't) my "workshop" is my driveway. Everything gets put away in the garage when I am done. A person can start out using a coal or lump charcoal fired forge made by digging a shallow hole in dirt, and using a hair dryer with an iron pipe on the end for air. Find a large steel slug, or piece of axle, or railroad track, say 30-100 pounds for an anvil (and it will be better than a cast iron anvil by far). Get a couple hammers such as a 2 pound ball pein and a 3 pound cross pein to start with. You can use long stock without tongs, and make your own tongs (Remember the BLACKSMITH makes the TOOLS, not the other way around)
Car or truck coil spring is nice stock to make knives and tools out of for a beginner.
There are forums dedicated to blacksmithing and knifemaking.
I like Papermate myself. Pencil is not permanent which can be a problem for some work, but for figuring is probably the best answer here
The no pressure bit screams fountain pen with high quality ink. Hook up with one of the writing implement forums. Be amazed at what some people think of writing utensils.
My mother, now aged 85, learned to type using a printed picture of a keyboard, and exercises very similar to "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing". Its true there is no record of what keys you actually press, etc, but she could type a lot faster than I ever could, and is using an IPad as I type this.
My point is: stop being obsessed with technology: anyone in the third world can have a photocopy of a picture of a keyboad, and probably has the motivation to try and learn with it. Once a week, use a real machine to test their progress if you have to. (Yes I have visited third world countries).
I am not nearly that old and I remember sitting at a desk in high school with that picture printed on the desk top in a study hall. They did not use them for regular teaching anymore, but the idea is to provide a means to memorize the keyboard and finger positions.
The image was actually carved into the desk and had a slight texture to it. You had to have a pad of several sheets of paper in order to write with a pen or pencil. Seriously low tech. You have several examples on site and can have local craftspeople make up a few dozen in a few days. Heck, you could have the STUDENTS make up some using a keyboard stencil and paint!
I never took typing and type faster than most people I know. Touch typing is not as useful in most fields, except where large quantities of text information needs transcribed directly into the machine. Programmers use such a non-language language that touch typing is less useful than a secretary, transcriptionist or author find touch typing.
I know a professional and semi-professional photographer who use this scheme. They state that data cards "go bad" if they are wiped and reused too many times.
Specifically the semi-professional photographer stores her working files on her computers and uses an on-site backup scheme that I believe is simply data mirroring to a USB drive. After the files are copied and mirrored, the original data card gets stored in file cabinet at her parents house.
Some probably will, but I expect your siding is already well grounded.
I had aluminum siding on my old house, it was grounded in several spots (plumbing for garden hose spigots, electrical inlet and meter, AC unit, grounding spike, probably at a few other points too), and phones, pagers, etc did not work well inside. It was kinda nice most of the time. My wireless was very low strength, but usable, on the front porch in front of the picture window, and as expected very strong inside.
living room 4 3 bedrooms 6 kitchen 2 dining room 2 breakfast area 2 den 2
Right there is 18
Add in my personal wishes for basement, garage, and workshop gets 24.
Interesting thing is I don't use my wired network for computers, generally. I have TV's on them. The new systems use a connection for each device, so TV and blue ray are 2 ports. I use wireless for most of the computers.
No, I do not have this many TV's or computers. This is how many connections I would like in my house.
In Ohio it is "Mean high water" or something similar. If you own floodplain (like I do), then it is public access. as long as they are not hunting (fishing is the point), not littering, and not stealing your stuff (burning your firewood, happens to my neighbor all the time) there is nothing you can do.
There is a group who kayak through and pull up on my property all the time. Normally it is not a problem, they pack up and take everything with.
They are not permitted to access from anywhere though, they have to go to a bridge access (public road meeting public right of way) or some other access point. They are not permitted to walk down my driveway to get to the river.
If you CAN do this on the clock and at the office, bring it up at the next review as performance that "exceeds expectations" and talk about a new position, job description, and associated pay raise. Loosing the rights to your creations is part of being employed, but compensation of some type should be expected.
However don't talk yourself into the unemployment line either, unless you really feel you need to change employer that quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Control line aircraft are, according to some, (and citations of the supposed FAA response are never available) "motorized kites." Therefore having a permanent tether to the aircraft makes this model no longer subject to the same rules as a untethered aircraft (in theory). I am not sure if these are really parallel arguments though.
If use of a tether allows commercial operation of "camera drones" to resume then it is probably a good thing. Responsible operators taking reasonable precautions and safely operating their equipment allow for some useful services. There should be oversight for these operations though, but the industry should be encouraged not banned.
I do not want some yahoo with a model to crash and then think they have no responsibility to the resulting property damage though...
A safe deposit box with the data stored in it. A key in the possession of a time keeper, such as a suitable law firm, and a third party to receive the information.
But what format to use that will remain useable after 50 years...
Phil
Wow. I feel relieved that this is a real thing.
I too have played trumpet and baritone in school band. I never achieved a high level of mastery, but I did try and apply myself to learning. I also sang choir for years throughout grade school and middle school.
The only type of music I find fulfilling
* has words
* the words can be understood
* the words tell a story that makes sense even separated from the music (such as Rush, Red Barchetta)
Phil
What does IBM do anymore then?
Intragalactic Bowel Movements?
http://www.schlockmercenary.co...
The local festivities were Sunday for me.
One piece of awesome was a robot, really well done, but the kid wearing it broke his arm a couple days before... tore the plastic duct work arm apart, jammed in some stripped back network cable and an old ribbon cable to be a "disarmed" robot.
Diffusers are good. There are also sheet metal adjustable hoods for the lighting so you can control how the light floods.
Phil
Spring clip instead of a magnet on a ball joint or two and off-the-shelf art supplies can be used.
Sadly hand technology is not advancing at the same pace as leg/foot technology.
Phil
Gonna take a couple minor hacks, but the technology is already present.
Use an air drum stick (or similar, say, wimote?) for the baton. This needs to output to a device that can communicate to other devices.
Built an app for android cell phones (everybody has one now, Iphone is another option of course) so the output from the baton is translated to vibration at the phone via wifi.
While certain aspects are going to be lost, timing and emphasis can be retained.
Phil
If Disney can release the original Star Wars movies without the plot changes it will be welcome.
I am still trying to forget the prequels even happened.
Phil
Why ceramic? Plastic and rubber bullets are deadly at close range. There are youtube videos of people making hot-glue bullets for primer fired target practice. Put some powder behind it and it becomes pretty serious. Why not make a plastic shotgun type shell? Very little metal actually needed...primer...not much else. You can even buy shotgun shells that are plastic except for the primer (although I have never seen them other than target load)
Springs can be plastic (or even air pressure enhanced) if they only need to function a couple rounds, same with a plastic firing pin... The more plastic the less life though. A determined well equipped individual, the person that the ATF is worried about, will make it work.
The reason the ATF is not very concerned is the weapon is disposable. Disposable weapons exist. Making a pipe gun from some plumbing parts is not very difficult. I've seen one demonstrated.
Making a plastic weapon that can pass detection is disturbingly easy. Toothbrush? Stick? Point the end. Pen or pencil? No modification required with a pen or pencil. Pretty single use though.
Lastly the evidence is easily destroyed, unlike a metal weapon. The ATF is not very concerned because it would be chasing their tail to try to track these items.
Phil
If you don't mind some light, but hard work, bordering on drudgery:
an old CRT has over a pound of copper in it. Older ones have quite a bit more.
When you get down to old processors and other circuitry there are some people who are able to salvage the gold out of them, but the parts need separated first. When I was in high school I helped sort and strip and salvage a couple hundred 286, 386 and 486 computers that were being disposed of by some large local businesses as a "donation" to the school my mom worked for. There was a jeweler who took the processors and gold plated connectors for cash. I know a large coffee can of parts was worth over $100, and we generated quite a few can fulls.
Circuit boards can be recycled and have value once separated and in the pounds of materials.
Parted out there is a good possibility of a few hundred dollars worth of salvage in that pile. Even sheet steel has significant salvage value once you get to 100 pounds of material.
There is a reason junk collectors, people who take all the salvageable trash off the curb on trash day, can do this instead of having a "real" job.
Phil
A smaller format keyboard that you can allow your pinky finger to do less since the other fingers can reach easily, as well as some minor retraining will allow you to type at nearly the same rate without a large learning curve. You can also look at some of the different brands and ergonomic keyboard types and see if the computer function (return, command, alt, etc) are in more suitable locations for your hands.
With my old EEE I only used 2 fingers for typing since the keyboard was so small.
Phil
My upgrade experience on an old dell last year was less than peachy. I took my Dell XPS with the core2 duo, running XP, dropped in a moderate video card (EHA5450 silent) and 2 gig of ram bringing it up to 3 gig of ram. The performance improvement was dramatic, but not nearly as much as I hoped for. I also soon learned that upgrading to 4 GB of ram would be useless because XP can't address more than 3GB!
The on board NIC failed about 2 months later. I dropped in a pulled intel etherexpress 10/100, a few weeks later the on board sound failed (I tried reloading drivers, etc, finally turned sound off). At this point I specked out a new kit and started buying parts as I could afford, with Christmas money and a small windfall I built a new system in January, but made the mistake of putting Win8 on it.
I ended up with a
Asus Sabertooth x79
Radeon 7950 3GB
I7 3820
8 GB Crucial Ballistix ram
WD black 1TB
Antech earthwatts EA750
in a
Cooler Master HAF 912
The problem with Win8 is it won't recognize all the onboard devices, won't allow the manufacturer drivers to load, and is a general pain in the ass.
Phil
Heh. Wait till you bring the newborn home. The first few months may be impossible. I know I had it bad with my daughter having a few severe allergies that have proven to be life changing for myself and my diet, let alone my wife's diet and routines. However the first few months are all about the new one. (and god forbid if you have family and friends who expect you to entertain! Tip: send them to the store, or other errand before they come over, be sure to pay them back, cash, for what they spend that you ask for)
Then responsibility mounts, laundry, dishes, house cleaning, yard chores, vehicles, other hobbies...games get a close second to quite a many things for me. Christmas pageants, spring concerts, and extra-curricular activities for the child also take a huge chunk of time in just transportation needs, let alone showing for the big show!
I only get to game while my wife is working on "homework" from her office after our daughter is in bed. This ends up a couple times a week in a 2+ hour block.
We do "game" some together but it is limited to the multi-player WII offerings, or physical board games and cards, most of those offerings geared towards a younger child playing as well.
About the only game we play together online is "words with friends" (I am currently kicking her butt, though I lost by over 200 points last game)
Phil
While I generally recommend using known steels, particularly for sale, coil and leaf spring from automobile and truck suspensions are typically 5160, oil hardening, and very suitable for learning. Selecting scrap stream steel that is likely know is good to help with learning since there is some odd stuff out there.
If you are going to stick with the hobby for any length of time or start producing items for sale then using new known steels makes sense, helps produce a better product with fewer failures, and is general good business sense, even if your hobby business is only doing a couple thousand dollars of annual business.
Producing and selling 1 premium quality knife per month, sold at $100 per blade (quite cheap if you look at custom blades) translates to $1200 annual sales, will require a business license and the filing of taxes, at least in the US. I state this for perspective, and as a sound reason to agree with you in buying new steel.
Phil
Automotive leaf spring is good too. I just don't have any. I have 6 coil springs left from replacing strut assemblies on my car and my wife's car.
Phil
Don't need acres. Many hobby smiths are using a space of little more than 100 square feet for a shop. Of course no power hammer, just forge, anvil, and some small power tools.
While I don't make knives (not because I can't) my "workshop" is my driveway. Everything gets put away in the garage when I am done. A person can start out using a coal or lump charcoal fired forge made by digging a shallow hole in dirt, and using a hair dryer with an iron pipe on the end for air. Find a large steel slug, or piece of axle, or railroad track, say 30-100 pounds for an anvil (and it will be better than a cast iron anvil by far). Get a couple hammers such as a 2 pound ball pein and a 3 pound cross pein to start with. You can use long stock without tongs, and make your own tongs (Remember the BLACKSMITH makes the TOOLS, not the other way around)
Car or truck coil spring is nice stock to make knives and tools out of for a beginner.
There are forums dedicated to blacksmithing and knifemaking.
Phil
I like Papermate myself. Pencil is not permanent which can be a problem for some work, but for figuring is probably the best answer here
The no pressure bit screams fountain pen with high quality ink. Hook up with one of the writing implement forums. Be amazed at what some people think of writing utensils.
Phil
My mother, now aged 85, learned to type using a printed picture of a keyboard, and exercises very similar to "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing". Its true there is no record of what keys you actually press, etc, but she could type a lot faster than I ever could, and is using an IPad as I type this.
My point is: stop being obsessed with technology: anyone in the third world can have a photocopy of a picture of a keyboad, and probably has the motivation to try and learn with it. Once a week, use a real machine to test their progress if you have to. (Yes I have visited third world countries).
I am not nearly that old and I remember sitting at a desk in high school with that picture printed on the desk top in a study hall. They did not use them for regular teaching anymore, but the idea is to provide a means to memorize the keyboard and finger positions.
The image was actually carved into the desk and had a slight texture to it. You had to have a pad of several sheets of paper in order to write with a pen or pencil. Seriously low tech. You have several examples on site and can have local craftspeople make up a few dozen in a few days. Heck, you could have the STUDENTS make up some using a keyboard stencil and paint!
I never took typing and type faster than most people I know. Touch typing is not as useful in most fields, except where large quantities of text information needs transcribed directly into the machine. Programmers use such a non-language language that touch typing is less useful than a secretary, transcriptionist or author find touch typing.
Phil
I know a professional and semi-professional photographer who use this scheme. They state that data cards "go bad" if they are wiped and reused too many times.
Specifically the semi-professional photographer stores her working files on her computers and uses an on-site backup scheme that I believe is simply data mirroring to a USB drive. After the files are copied and mirrored, the original data card gets stored in file cabinet at her parents house.
Phil
Some probably will, but I expect your siding is already well grounded.
I had aluminum siding on my old house, it was grounded in several spots (plumbing for garden hose spigots, electrical inlet and meter, AC unit, grounding spike, probably at a few other points too), and phones, pagers, etc did not work well inside. It was kinda nice most of the time. My wireless was very low strength, but usable, on the front porch in front of the picture window, and as expected very strong inside.
Phil
living room 4
3 bedrooms 6
kitchen 2
dining room 2
breakfast area 2
den 2
Right there is 18
Add in my personal wishes for basement, garage, and workshop gets 24.
Interesting thing is I don't use my wired network for computers, generally. I have TV's on them. The new systems use a connection for each device, so TV and blue ray are 2 ports. I use wireless for most of the computers.
No, I do not have this many TV's or computers. This is how many connections I would like in my house.
Phil
In Ohio it is "Mean high water" or something similar. If you own floodplain (like I do), then it is public access. as long as they are not hunting (fishing is the point), not littering, and not stealing your stuff (burning your firewood, happens to my neighbor all the time) there is nothing you can do.
There is a group who kayak through and pull up on my property all the time. Normally it is not a problem, they pack up and take everything with.
They are not permitted to access from anywhere though, they have to go to a bridge access (public road meeting public right of way) or some other access point. They are not permitted to walk down my driveway to get to the river.
Phil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
Seems like a different input technique...
Phil
If you CAN do this on the clock and at the office, bring it up at the next review as performance that "exceeds expectations" and talk about a new position, job description, and associated pay raise. Loosing the rights to your creations is part of being employed, but compensation of some type should be expected.
However don't talk yourself into the unemployment line either, unless you really feel you need to change employer that quickly.
Phil