#automation programs

[k0libra]

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

"The Writing Boy"

In 1774 AD, during the reign of Louis XVI (1754-1793), Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jacques Dro (1721-1790) unveiled a remarkable engineering feat that would go down in history as the world's first android or programmed automaton.

Known as "The Writing Boy," this creation appeared at first glance to be a simple wooden doll with a porcelain head, barefoot, and holding a goose feather.

But hidden within this seemingly ordinary toy was a technological marvel, a writing mechanism powered by 6,000 intricate moving parts, making it the first automatic calligrapher.

"The Writing Boy" was a groundbreaking achievement, as it was capable of writing complex sentences, such as "My inventor is Jacques Dro."

The automaton was a product of 20 months of meticulous work by Pierre Jacques Dro, and its debut in Paris stunned the court of King Louis XVI.

The android's ability to perform such an intricate task showcased the high level of craftsmanship and innovation of the time.

This astonishing creation marked a significant milestone in the history of robotics and engineering.

Not only was it the world’s first programmed android, but it also demonstrated the potential of machines to replicate human actions.

"The Writing Boy" paved the way for future advancements in automation, solidifying Pierre Jacques Dro’s legacy as a pioneer in the field of robotics.

[adafruit]

OPT4048 - a "tri-stimulus" light sensor 🔴🟢🔵

We were chatting in the forums with someone when the OPT4048 (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/texas-instruments/OPT4048DTSR/21298553) came up. It's an interesting light sensor that does color sensing but with diodes matched to the CIE XYZ color space. This would make them particularly good for color-light tuning. We made a cute breakout for this board. Fun fact: it's 3.3V power but 5V logic friendly.

[antiadvil]

i need dan and phil to learn the full story behind their rpftourney win i NEED them to understand how hard we fought in the semifinals i neeeeeeed them to understand how serious tumblr voter fraud is

[bonebrokebuddy]

@kodedgeekthings eyo you mentioned wanting a dpxdc prompt for Howard, Batman’s mechanic!

Harold misses fixing toys for kids and in his off hours has taken up the habit of answering questions on forums about machining, electrical, engineering, mechanics, and mechanical design that are often frequented by students.

One day, he comes across a request by a college student who is trying to assemble his own car out of scrap he bought from a local wrecking yard.

Ghostly_Boy states that he has previous experience in machining and can make replacements for broken or too-damaged parts if need be, but he doesn’t know where to start and what specific requirements he needs to reach to ensure it’s street legal.

Harold willing to help, he answers a few of Ghostly Boy’s clarifying questions:

- Great questions!

It’s good to note that if you’re not careful, fixing or making your own car from parts can be a moneysink and can cost you more than a brand new vehicle. - That being said, your first major step to ensuring you can drive the car is to get the title of the body/frame of the car you plan to build. It’ll have the VIN on a plate welded to the frame usually near the lower edge of the windshield wipers on the drivers side. It’s how the DMV identifies vehicles for licensing.

- Generally, you’ll at first get a “wreck out” title that shows the vehicle is listed as a total loss, but if you can assemble the parts for the car with that frame, the DMV can check if it’s properly running and road worthy & license for you to use it on public roads if you’ve done the proper paperwork.

- Once that is done, it’s largely a case of getting the right parts and assembling them. Depending on how much you have to repair, you could be taking on a task that could give a challenge to even a seasoned mechanic. There may be additional paperwork depending on what exactly you need to repair, like the breaks, lights, steering, etc.

- If you want to build the car entirely from scratch, chassis and all, that’s an entirely different story with a much more complicated list of requirements to make it street legal, so getting a frame from a junkyard is a great first step!

- Make sure to keep all bills of sale, junkyard receipts, invoices and manufacturers’ certificates on any major parts you used in building the vehicle to prove its road worthy to the DMV when it’s complete!

Harold doesn’t always answer first but over time he’s found the adventures of this kid amusing and keeps up with it.

Ghostly_Boy keeps the forum updated with his progress:

The kid spontaneously deciding to scrap the wiring system and make his own in a span of 3 days, leaving experienced mechanics on the forum practically screaming at the kid for his updates showing him using random wires he salvaged and pigtailing them together to get the length of wire he needed.

Mixing not only multiple types of wires but ones that didn’t have the protection needed for auto use. DIY-ing his own relay and fuses he didn’t have and connecting the wrong grounds and switches. And planning on leaving the wires unwrapped and loose.

Leaving Ghost to promptly redo the wiring, correctly this time, within 78 hours.

Making a repair of a massive rusted hole on the passenger side by the bumper and the front tire via cutting 1/2in past the rust, grinding it pretty and clean, tac & seam welding the vintage aluminum housing material of a toaster to cover the hole to the response of Harold and many others in the forum just going “… I guess that would work?”

Harold and many others telling the kid that this “ectoplasm” material wasn’t cleared through the EPA’s Clear Air Act and could be illegal to drive with it as it’s fuel source unless he got the emissions tested & the center of gravity of the car adjusted to have the center of gravity a gas car has, it wouldn’t pass Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Nor would the previously untested on material make it easy or quick to get an Emissions testing certificate. Best to just stick with gas.

Removing what he thought was a “skid plate” that turned out to be another rusted out section on the frame on the bottom of his car and repairing it with steel he salvaged from an old medical table he had laying around. (To the multiple slightly confused commenters asking how Ghost had a spare medical table, he replied, “eh, my folks visit every so often and they’ve been giving me things they’re clearing out of the house so they can move closer to my older sister. I just so happened to get the ye olde medical table. They’re an odd couple of folks but that’s why I love them.”)

People just crying at the kid to go to rockauto.com and just buy the damn parts he needs for his car. (A good resource btw)

The kid kept cutting corners to save cash but through the badgering of Harold and many others that he actually would have to spend money to make this car be safe to drive in, he finally got it completed.

Ghost’s post of him leaving DMV waving the updated title to the car in its envelope in the air, titled, “THE DMV FINALLY SAID IT WASN’T A FIRE HAZARD! ONLY TOOK 2 YEARS! THANKS EVERYONE!” Got the most amount of responses he’d ever had with congratulations from lurkers and previous commenters.

Over the course of those two years, Danny learned how to draw his own wiring diagrams, properly solder and weld, and learning to actually plan out his projects so he got it right at least the fifth time instead of the 20th. Not bad for a kid that went straight from graduating high school with a 1.5GPA to construction jobs.

But after finally getting the car approved, Ghostly_Boy returns to the forum with a new problem. Lamenting that his parents keep coming over and “modifying” his car to no longer make it street legal.

At this point, about half of the answers to the submission think it’s either a joke project taken very, very seriously with a good chunk of money behind it, or a kid with parents that have narrowly avoided falling completely down the mad scientist rogue rabbit hole.

After all, what sort of parent would think that the DMV would approve to “anti-ghost missiles” being attached to the outer body of the car? Either way, the submissions always had video attached showing a demonstration, proving that Ghost wasn’t just completely yanking their chain. And a good amount of money would have to be sunken in to not only pay for the fines Ghostly continued to get from the additions to his car, but to actually manufacture and make a unique working product for each plea for help request.

Harold is not only taking notes on some of these defense measures but also decides to bring up the boy to Alfred. Intrigued, they together keep an eye on Ghostly_Boy. Bruce may be their employer, but they can handle a case or two on their own.

- I wanted Danny to try to make smth for himself now that he doesn’t have access to his parent’s lab anymore but he also doesn’t have access to ectoplasm so he’s fairly unfamiliar how to wire things Not for ectoplasmic standards.

Also I wanted to make a prompt where Danny had a good relationship with his parents & went into a fairly realistic job after high school with his fairly bad GPA so he’s saving up for a technical school via construction jobs as he doesn’t like the idea of working fast food for understandable reasons.

[bloodgulchblog]

Sangheili soldier explaining to sangheili civillian that the Covenant has The Machine that can just surgery your body and destroy all your dignity and honor and then you're just supposed to go on like nothing happened, like you weren't just put in The Machine and subjected to The Shame Of It All?

[hungwy]

i have no computer goals. i dont have any computer wants or needs. im likea computer buddhist. this is my main barrier to coding

[dario48gay]

so yea, I automate booping

maybe you saw it, prob you didn't, but I automated booping

but dario, you probably aren't asking, how can I do it too in a simple yet powerful way?

well, I'm here to answer the question nobody asked, with a little bit of bash

first, choose you victim(s)

this goober will do

then boop em

next, open inspect elements and navigate to the network tab

now press the bin to clear everything

now boop

when you have done that various GET requests will have appeared, choose the boop one, right click->copy as->copy as cURL

this will give you your cookie too, this kind of cookie mus NEVER, and I repeat NEVER be shared, it gives access to your account bypassing any kind of 2fa

then create a basic bash script, just a for loop will do but if u don't know what u are doing, copy this (if on windows copy as powershell instead and figure it out)

no, I did not cum on the script, I censored my cookie

this will trigger the anti-spam, so putting a sleep 0.1s before the done might be useful

the script is (put whatever you want instead of 100)

for i in {1..100}; do

[insert the curl]

[optional]sleep 0.1s

done

[monaddecepticon]

I visited my father at his workplace and he walked me through his workflow

He works as a surveyor.

They record points with lots of metadata and a naming convention they devised

He imports the points into autocad

But also he imports them into the excel sheet

In the excel he filters based on metadata to get only the points he wants

Then the excel generates autolisp expressions:

based on the names it knows which points are parts of the same line

also it is encoded into the name whether they are a polyline or a curve

6. Then he pastes the generated autolisp into the autocad console and boom everything is connected It is a pretty clever scheme. He mentioned that he'd like to open source it.

[attentionneedyqueen]

Posted at ALL WILL BE MANY:

Become women in STEM, program that singlet into a system today!

[smilyboyy]

🚀 I Built AutoFillix – A Smart Chrome Extension to Autofill Forms Instantly

Like many developers, I was tired of filling out the same details over and over — name, email, phone number — every time I submitted a job form, Google Form, or sign-up page.

So I built AutoFillix, a smart and secure Chrome extension that:

Autofills common fields (name, email, phone, etc.)

Works on Google Forms and regular web forms

Stores your data locally (no login, no cloud)

Is completely free and easy to use

🔐 Why it’s different:

AutoFillix respects your privacy. Your data stays in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.

🧩 Try It Out:

👉 Install AutoFillix from the Chrome Web Store

💬 Feedback Welcome:

This is just the beginning! If you have suggestions or ideas, feel free to comment. 😊

[asteamtechnosolutions]

AVEVA (Wonderware) System Platform

SCADA, HMI, MES, and IIoT applications, AVEVA System Platform (previously Wonderware System Platform) is a unified operations center solution that offers an open, adaptable, and scalable architecture. In manufacturing and infrastructure operations, it provides a common basis for supervisory control, data collection, and real-time display.

Key Features of AVEVA System Platform

Object-Oriented Architecture

Scalability and Flexibility

Centralized Configuration and Deployment

Real-Time Data Handling

Integrated Historian

Security and User Management

Common Use Cases

Supervisory control and monitoring for manufacturing plants.

Energy and utilities operations management.

Water and wastewater facility control.

Oil & gas SCADA systems.

Smart buildings and infrastructure monitoring.

[adafruit]

Solenoids go clicky-clacky 🔩🔊🤖

We're testing out an I2C-to-solenoid driver today. It uses an MCP23017 expander. We like this particular chip for this usage because it has push-pull outputs, making it ideal for driving our N-channel FETs and flyback diodes. The A port connects to the 8 drivers, while the B port remains available for other GPIO purposes. For this demo, whenever we 'touch' a pin on port B to ground, the corresponding solenoid triggers provide an easy way to check speed and power usage.

[nintendont2502]

instead of like. actually working on the numerous assignments i have due (like a nerd) i instead spent half an hour making a program to find all unique consonant/vowel* patterns used for canon troll names**. like a nerd

(*i just broadly considered every "y" to be a vowel because that seemed easier. i dont know if that's grammatically accurate and tbh i dont really care. what do i look like an english major)

(**canon homestuck + hiveswap/friendsim + beyond canon + the three "canon" fantroll's names)

anyway out of the 178 unique names, there was only 22 unique consonant/vowel patterns. which sounds about right

[ladyluscinia]

Really annoying to watch in real time as hyped up tech investors artificially stretch the ai bubble by just... Redefining "ai" to include any new useful software so they can go "look at the potential of ai!" and act like Enhanced Autocorrect chatgpt still has potential to revolutionize workplaces.

Like. An article about using "ai" in farming talks about image analysis to catch disease or count leaves to measure plant health - which is actually an ai thing, but related to analysis not generating text/images. But then it also talks about "Smart Apply" spray systems that have sensors to more effectively target leaves and not waste spray in open air and that's like. That is detecting light and running an algorithm to spray where there is less light (so it turns off when you drive past a gap). I'm sure they've been refining the algorithm but we've had "turn this off when it detects too much light" for a long fucking time. If they have added any "ai" to that (to better differentiate foliage density?) it's significantly less "smart" and even further from resembling chatgpt.

And then they talk about "ai" irrigation systems which are just automatic water pumps with software that gathers data. It has auto shutoff if water flow passes X. It sends a ping about a suspected leak if Y doesn't equal Z. That's literally just automation software. That's "your microwave does X amount of energy for Y minutes unless the door opens and triggers auto shutoff". The only thing *maybe* "ai" is that the valve "learns" typical water use, and that could also just be a guy pulling up the usage data because the only system in which your valve is making decisions is if you have a separate ai system like the first one doing leaf health analysis that then automatically sets the irrigation level for the day because the plants seemed dry. Which is a totally different feature only vaguely alluded to and not part of the automatic irrigation system. Which you can definitely get sans ai because the features you have described as revolutionary are just normal enhancements of normal control software.

And none of this is remotely the same thing as the random plug about using chatgpt to develop, label, and price a wine bottle. Which why the hell would you use Enhanced Predictive Keyboard Text chatgpt to do that?

I mean, I know "artificial intelligence" is a buzzword and not a distinct thing, but running an algorithm to operate a system used to just be called adding a computer, and we were aware that computerizing one process for efficiency did not stop a completely different computerized process from being an ineffective waste of money that people probably shouldn't have invested in.

[apokolyps]

All companies that provide a writing platform for you to use try to profit in some way and a bunch of those are using your writing to train AI. If you don't pay for something, you are the product being sold (your information, writing, space on your screen for ads).

So I use LibreOffice for my writing. The main thing I like about it is that it doesn't have a cloud and downloads the documents directly to my computer, aka, they don't have access to my writing and I can also write offline (looking at you google docs).

LibreOffice Writer feels pretty similar to how Word used to be and has every feature that I could think of. It also comes with a spreadsheet program, LibreOffice Calc, (the only other one that I've used) and a few other programs that I don't even know what they do.

The whole thing cost me $4.59 on microsoft store and is a one time payment not a subscription. This isn't an ad, just my review of a product that works really well for me and doesn't use your writing to train AI. If anyone has more experience with the program or any additional info feel free to share.