On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 07:45:47AM -0700, Steve Butler wrote: > > G> Once my EON Steel arrives we'll need to drive up to Hoodsport and do > > some data collection... :-)? > > > > As in Hood Canal, WA? Somehow I thought you were located in Europe. > Guess > > I need to be more curious in the future! > > Hehe. Linus, Thiago and I all three live in Portland, OR. But we're > originally from Finland, Brazil, and Germany, respectively. > > I did almost all my dive training in Hoodsport, WA and occasionally > pretend to work there as a dive master or tec dive master. And as much as > I enjoy warm water diving, there is no warm water anywhere in driving > distance, so if I need to collect data, I drive up to Hoodsport - > especially for things like multi-cylinder diving or deco diving. > > But since we are entirely off topic already... John Hawley, a coworker of > mine at Intel, is currently building the "Auto Diver". A contraption that > will allow us to automatically lower and raise a dive computer into a > pool... which makes it possible to add a lot of really boring dives to a > dive computer (for cases where we are concerned with things that happen > once there are tons of dives on a DC, e.g. for the EON Steel where we > don't know what will happen to its directory entries). > Some of the tests I want to see on a dive computer involve volume of data and also depths. For volume I need to exceed the enormous limits of Cochran computers, like 1450 hours of sample data and 1024 logged dives. For depth I need to exceed 256 ft to verify how the data is encoded. I'm neither trained nor comfortable doing a dive like that. The LDS had cut the bottom 12" off an old AL80 and had a machine shop modify it to be a pressure chamber, add water and it's a dive simulator. It's manual, in that the user presses a valve to add compressed air and turns a bleed screw to release. Unfortunately it maxed out at 150ft and far too manual to do 1000 dives. However add some solenoids and maybe it could be automated. > > --Steve (Enumclaw, WA -- OC mostly at Redondo) > > So you're 60 miles closer to Hoodsport than we are :-) > > > PS Looks like I'll need to pick up a modern language like C to add to my > > ancient language list (COBOL, Fortran, PL/SQL, etc). Become more useful > > here. > > Yes, please. Especially, please pick up C++ and focus on Qt development. > That's the number 1 area where we need more active contributors :-) > > After your tenth UI related patch I'll invite you to a dive weekend at the > Yellow House (only partly kidding). > > /D > _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface > -- John Van Ostrand At large on sabbatical
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