Yo. I successfully did outdoor aeroponics with insane temperatures in the root chamber (near 40°C/100°F). My secret? I grew 'Virginia Gold' tobacco.
> Farmers discovered that bright leaf tobacco needs thin, starved soil, and those who could not grow other crops found that they could grow tobacco. Formerly unproductive farms reached 20–35 times their previous worth. By 1855, six Piedmont counties adjoining Virginia led Virginia's tobacco market
This is one beast of a plant. My plants stayed alive when I stopped spraying water in September and only died because of frost in late December. They were about 40 cm high due to the small volume of the root chamber.
Anyway it's a great choice for an outdoor aeroponics setup.
For some reason I had it in mind that growing tobacco was illegal in the UK, so your post prompted me to check and lo! Apparently it's entirely legal, for personal use.
So now I have a new project - I've always wanted to smoke 'pure' tobacco, like the ancients.
I'm twenty years too old to have an illegal harvest at home :)
> In contrast, if a user has been rude, entitled, and high maintenance, I may end up not even trying to reply in the first place because I know they’ll just be combative every step of the way,
get paid. Stop this nonsense. You shouldn't work for free it makes you disagreeable (I am the living proof).
> I guess the moral of the story is don’t be a prick to the people you’re asking something from.
This is your salary. That's how you get paid. In power. Power over what? "I am a latex maintainer". I'm not impressed. You're wasting your time. Show me your Ferrari instead.
I was at a ROS conference a few years ago. A presenter went up and gave a talk about lidar and point clouds, speaking about how obsolete optical cameras were now that lidar was readily available.
The next person gets up and gives a talk about all the advancements in generating point clouds from optical cameras.
By far the best part is how tied to specific versions of Ubuntu each ROS release is, just getting all the packages installed and running requires sacrificing a cat while chanting Hail Mary backwards in Latin.
> By far the best part is how tied to specific versions of Ubuntu each ROS release is, just getting all the packages installed and running requires sacrificing a cat while chanting Hail Mary backwards in Latin.
100% this. I had a very, very miserable time setting up two systems and trying to get them running a version that was supported. The worst part is SBCs that stop getting OS updates and become permanently locked in to a specific version. Which also forces the rest of your hardware to use the same version. Using a Jetson Nano with Ubuntu 18.04 in 2022 was lots of fun...
Last year I met a couple of university students working on a robot and out of curiosity I asked what they were using as a microcontroller and the software stack. They were running ROS. When they said they still hadn't upgraded to ROS 2 yet, I could feel their pain...
In general, lidar is used to remove the ambiguity in a local ground scan, and cameras extrapolate overlapping texture gradients to guess distant surface structure ( documented in the old book https://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Libra... .)
There are some fairly good FOSS tools around like COLMAP, if you want to learn why automatic monocular pose recovery and SfM is hard.
Real autonomous robotics is hard, and people make the same predictable mistakes every 4 years. Retrofitting a consumer Yarbo would be cool though. =3
I observe many groups solving platform design issues also eventually move on to other projects or careers. The dozens of documented fools-errands from Academic literature and Commercial sectors are eventually lost again each time. There are various institutional structural reasons this occurs, but the outcome is usually the same.
One must accept many problems are not purely technical in nature, and unfortunately complex Mechatronics often tend to exhibit sustainability problems.
Thanks! Does it mean I can now upload tracks to the mz-rh1 without using their ugly piece of software? Or is this still impossible due to the use of cryptographic keys?
The firmware in a sense does not change anything regarding connectivity (for now). If you want to record normal MD, just use Web MiniDisc Pro. For HiMD, I recommend the Electron version of Web MiniDisc Pro, but it's not yet as stable as SonicStage (due to the complixity of Sony's system).
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