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2022-05-29 8:01 am
Hey y'all,
nice to meet you. I am a 21 year old engineer from Germany. Graduated only months ago with my bachelors in mechanical engineering. I am currently working on an AGV professionally. At least as far as that's to be called professionally. The project arose from two students doing some R&D at that company and now I am more or less working on that with one student collegue of mine alone. Great experience because we're straight to leading a project and getting first hand experience, but on the flip side we run into dead ends once in a while. Good for us, that the budget allows that ^^
Next stop, once that AGV is rolling, will be aerospace engineering for me. That's where my true passion lies. One day a week is occupied working on a space launch system for me already. I kept working on the system I developed in my thesis.
Microelectronics are a big part of all my work at the moment, cause we are building a small prototype to work out SLAM navigation for the AGV. At home I have a project on hold to become an autonomous sail boat. I am very looking forward to discuss future problems and learn from each other along the way on here.
Thanks for all your future support,
best regards
Alex
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2022-05-29 11:21 am
Welcome to the forum.
I would like to know more about how exactly do you apply microelectronics to your rocket system.
I hope you have a nice time here.
2022-05-29 11:31 am
Welcome to the forum. I wonder if you might be the first. The first to join the forum that was born in this century! 🤣
Mostly... I've noticed there are a bunch of old guys here (me included) There is a LOT of experience here!
VBR,
Inq
3 lines of code = InqPortal = Complete IoT, App, Web Server w/ GUI Admin Client, WiFi Manager, Drag & Drop File Manager, OTA, Performance Metrics, Web Socket Comms, Easy App API, All running on ESP8266...
Even usable on ESP-01S - Quickest Start Guide
2022-05-29 11:56 am
Now that I've read past the 21 year old part and looked up AGV and SLAM navigation, I look forward to your posts. Being a retired AE, I might have something to offer you. Although I was a structural analysis type AE, not an astro-physics type AE. Now, I just design stuff and make electronic messes.
I also like sailboats and designing sailboats. Only difference is, I want my arse to be on the boat, so autonomous isn't in my designs... although I have given a great deal of thought about making them able to navigate AND self configure and trim the sails... thinking some day, when I'm 90, I'll just say, "Inq*, take me to Oslo."
* In this case, Inq is the name of the boat."
VBR,
Inq
3 lines of code = InqPortal = Complete IoT, App, Web Server w/ GUI Admin Client, WiFi Manager, Drag & Drop File Manager, OTA, Performance Metrics, Web Socket Comms, Easy App API, All running on ESP8266...
Even usable on ESP-01S - Quickest Start Guide
2022-05-29 1:33 pm
@alex3105, welcome to the forum..your projects sound intriguing.. so good luck, have fun, and be safe!
@inq I've been to Oslo, but I sure don't want to go there by sailboat...lol
I like the big cruise liners..travel in comfort, and leave the driving and navigating to the experienced captains and staff.. Having said all that, the autonomous project sound interesting though from a coding point of view.
regards,
LouisR
LouisR
2022-05-29 1:52 pm
I've been to Oslo, but I sure don't want to go there by sailboat...lol
I have an old flame there. I promised her I'd sail into Oslo in a sailboat I designed and built. Might still happen. 😎
3 lines of code = InqPortal = Complete IoT, App, Web Server w/ GUI Admin Client, WiFi Manager, Drag & Drop File Manager, OTA, Performance Metrics, Web Socket Comms, Easy App API, All running on ESP8266...
Even usable on ESP-01S - Quickest Start Guide
2022-05-29 2:10 pm
I like the big cruise liners..travel in comfort, and leave the driving and navigating to the experienced captains and staff.. Having said all that, the autonomous project sound interesting though from a coding point of view.
Of the dozen cruise ships I've been on my favorites were the Windjammer cruiseline... The power, the romance of the wind driven sailboat is an intoxicating drug. And yes... the challenge of sensing and controlling the complexity of sails would be a fun project.
3 lines of code = InqPortal = Complete IoT, App, Web Server w/ GUI Admin Client, WiFi Manager, Drag & Drop File Manager, OTA, Performance Metrics, Web Socket Comms, Easy App API, All running on ESP8266...
Even usable on ESP-01S - Quickest Start Guide
2022-05-29 2:34 pm
alex3105 Welcome aboard. I am REALLY looking forward to hear about your projects and work. I have done some sailing years ago and am amazed at how much tech is used now.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
2022-05-29 3:11 pm
@inq Yes, experience. If you want to know how to make a radio out of an old pencil lead and a razor blade, then I am your man!
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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2022-05-29 3:12 pm
@inq Never been on a cruise or cruise ship, I would be bored out of my mind unless I could spend most my time in the mechanical rooms and bridge. I once did a Vancouver area tour and was so bored. I have however sailed on the Bluenose II twice and hope to get in one more sail as the winds were light to non-existant. A windjammer cruise DOES sound like something I would enjoy if my assumptions about it are correct, so I am off to google that.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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2022-05-29 3:27 pm
@inq We just experienced a sort of funny situation in our home where a friend contacted us asking if we were OK. Seems my wife called her, even left a VM. We had no clue what was going on until yesterday her tablet started talking. It seems the tablet is listening and occasionally responding (I have heard strange voices in the past but thought they were from outside) so I think that is the culprit.
Imagine that happening at the wrong time on a high tech sailboat beating into 30Kn winds and you happen to be alongside the boom when the voice activated sailing assistant decides you asked for a jibe.
I was once knocked off a 16ft dinghy (pumpkin seed?) when I accidently jibed but was able to hang on until I clambered back on board. My wife was there but not a very experienced sailor. It's fun when it's warm, daylight and a few 10's of feet from shore AND still holding on. Not so much in a gale at night at sea alone.
BTW, my survival skills instructor had a saying, 'batteries die, you die'. This was his response to those who ONLY wanted a GPS instead of a good old fashioned magnetic compass at least as a backup AND the skills to use it effectively. Keep the tried and true mechanical systems at least as a backup.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
2022-05-29 3:30 pm
@inq Just a hunch and maybe I heard something but I would not be surprised to hear they are using strain gauges on the sail sheets and maybe even the mast for racing sailboats to determine the best sail positions.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
2022-05-29 7:07 pm
@zander "BTW, my survival skills instructor had a saying, 'batteries die, you die'. This was his response to those who ONLY wanted a GPS instead of a good old fashioned magnetic compass at least as a backup AND the skills to use it effectively. Keep the tried and true mechanical systems at least as a backup."
I totally agree...My father was a Senior Chief Quartermaster (QM) in the U.S. Navy for 22 years before he retired, and then when to work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a Captain of a 10,000 ton dredge ship until he pasted away in 1985. He taught my brothers and I navigation and basic sailing.. We even learn how to use a sextant.. I have a book you'd probably enjoy , it's called "American Practical Navigator".. Bowditch 1962, H.O. Pub No.9 , U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office. It's everything you ever wanted to know about navigation, including celestial navigation.
regards,
LouisR
LouisR
2022-05-29 7:15 pm
@inst-tech That would probably be a great book if there was any chance I was going to ever need it again.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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2022-05-29 7:53 pm
I like the big cruise liners..travel in comfort, and leave the driving and navigating to the experienced captains and staff.. Having said all that, the autonomous project sound interesting though from a coding point of view.
Of the dozen cruise ships I've been on my favorites were the Windjammer cruiseline... The power, the romance of the wind driven sailboat is an intoxicating drug. And yes... the challenge of sensing and controlling the complexity of sails would be a fun project.
Indeed, My favorite was the Viking cruise on the Rhine, Main, and Danube river from Budapest to Amsterdam..In sight of land at all times for 15 day, and beautiful scenery ...lol
But we have been on so many, it's hard to say, they all have special memories..
regards,
LouisR
LouisR
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