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Dar13
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PAGE instance with more SSH_PAGE.

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I use your tears to build a fearsome and majestic PAGE ice sculpture.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 01:43 Edited at: 27th Jan 2015 01:44
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Why are signatures appearing so high up in the posts these days?



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More tears for more ice sculptures.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 04:45
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Don't push your luck

Quote: "Why are signatures appearing so high up in the posts these days?"


Only when you post a near-empty post. Notice the post after that where you have more lines... the sig appears near the bottom

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Heaps of cool stuff arrived today!! I got me FPV camera, my GPS module, my ultrasonic sensor and most surprising of all, my ESCs! AND my transceivers are at the post office now (man, Toll Global is fast!) and my brother's driven in to pick them up This means my quad should be somewhat flyable today or tomorrow, depending on fast I can solder and program (and whether I can get my FPV camera to display an image on the TV for more than a fracion of a second )!


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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 05:18 Edited at: 27th Jan 2015 05:18
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Testing to see if moderator complied with orders...

They didn't! I hereby ban all mods for five thousand microseconds.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 07:58 Edited at: 27th Jan 2015 08:00
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FINE then.

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MY QUADCOPTER'S FPV WORKS!! HUZZAH!

I've just spent most of the afternoon trying to get it working. I first hooked it up being extremely careful to get the right voltages (because the transmitter is 12V but the camera is 5V - the TX is powered direct from the 3S lipo but the camera runs through a linear voltage regulator), but when I powered it up it wouldn't work. Shortly after that I discovered I had the wrong AV channel on the TV (*facepalm* I haven't set up an analogue TV in years), but then the video only displayed for a fraction of a second each time I powered up the TX. After hours of searching it turned out that the RX and TX channel-selecting dip-switches are not the same; channel 4 on the RX is all switches up, but channel 4 on the TX is first two switches down and last two up. What idiot thought THAT was a good idea??

Anyway, I now get crystal clear reception at about a foot from the receiver - my TX isn't that portable yet

I also got my ESCs soldered with bullet connectors (which took a fair while but I got a lot of practice soldering bullet connectors - and I learned that having a fan on to blow away fumes also kills the heat on a 25W soldering iron ) and heatshrinked so they look really good now.

My next task is to work out where I'm going to mount my ESCs and then program a basic flight controller on my Arduino just to get the thing in the air!


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Maybe someone could develop a drone for this purpose that costs less than $20,000 to make?
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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 14:23 Edited at: 27th Jan 2015 14:24
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Testing again...

EDIT Hey, it's worked!!!!!!!!

Quote: "and I learned that having a fan on to blow away fumes also kills the heat on a 25W soldering iron"
You don't need no fan! Suck those fumes up like a real man.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 14:55
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Remember we have young'uns on here, a joke must be made clear

Gosh I feel like an old man sometimes

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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 15:23
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Quote: "Heaps of cool stuff arrived today!! I got me FPV camera, my GPS module, my ultrasonic sensor and most surprising of all, my ESCs! AND my transceivers are at the post office now (man, Toll Global is fast!) and my brother's driven in to pick them up This means my quad should be somewhat flyable today or tomorrow, depending on fast I can solder and program (and whether I can get my FPV camera to display an image on the TV for more than a fracion of a second )!"


Awesome, I ordered my FPV gear today, I hope it arrives before the weekend. (which it should).

Quote: "Maybe someone could develop a drone for this purpose that costs less than $20,000 to make?"


As cool as it is, I don't think autonomus "drones" are anywhere near ready to be used like this. There are lots of videos of quadcopters loosing GPS signals or something similar and just go flying off in some random direction. Manually controlled drones is a diffirent story though.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 18:02
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So.... why did Comet's signature get erased then? Inquiring minds want to know...


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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 19:16
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Clearly TheComet sold his soul to the mods in a past life, binding him in a contract that limits him to a very specific maximum number of unique signatures. He's simply reached his limit, and it's far beyond the abilities of us mere mortals to truly understand the complex nature of what his soul-binding contract entirely entails beyond an erased signature.

I urge we come together and hope for the safety of TheComet's everlasting soul.
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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 19:55
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I can't figure out why this isn't loading my level file into the program



Anyone have any suggestions? When I print debug info to my screen (using "DidLevelLoad" and the length of the brick array to see if it actually stores anything in there), I find there's nothing stored in the brick array. I hand-wrote my level file, this is what it looks like...



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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 20:09
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@Yodaman Jer,

Didn't you have a different username for a while? It's nice to see you changed back (if you changed at all in the first place).
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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 20:33
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If you can, step through the loading code and see what's happening.

If you can't step through in AppGameKit, print values as it goes and see if they're what you expect. Check that total rows is what you expect to to be. How are your values delimited? How does AppGameKit expect them to be delimited?
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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 21:14
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Quote: "Didn't you have a different username for a while? It's nice to see you changed back (if you changed at all in the first place)."

He used to be CoffeeCoder. That is still how I refer to him.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 22:39
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I've tried a bunch of different ideas for loading the level and it still isn't even trying. I've set the folder, I tried another file, and I tried Indicium's idea, but nothing appears to be working.

Oh well. Hello again, Unity.

And yes, my dear Cheesecake, I did indeed used to go by "CoffeeCoder", a moniker I found rather fitting, but I eventually decided to go back to my original name of "Yodaman Jer" because I liked how it flowed better. Plus I was so used to it.


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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 22:48 Edited at: 27th Jan 2015 22:49
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Pretty sure that's the problem. As far as I remember, AppGameKit writes and reads in binary mode, thus calling ReadInteger will want to read the first 4 bytes of the file (32 0d 0a 30 , 2 CR LF 0). If you want to do ReadInteger, you'll have to write the ints to the file in binary mode.

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Budo speaks the truth, you will need to either write the file in bytes manually, or read the file as text using readLine or something and then parse the values you read.

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Yodaman Jer
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Ah, ok! That makes sense I suppose. That would be why it's loading nothing, because it thinks there's nothing to load, so it's skipping the for-next loop totally and just exiting.

I suppose now would be a good time to work on the level editor in order to save the level files.


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Posted: 27th Jan 2015 23:48 Edited at: 27th Jan 2015 23:49
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In some parts of Sydney it gets that low, I was down there just last weekend and one of the Fuel Stations had E10 for $0.97


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Yodaman, i would recommend using a .CSV format for this.

What happens when you accidentally miss or delete a line? You start reading in values that don't match what you expect them to belong to, bricks will starting getting strange positions and colors, and because there is no distinction between brink entities, it will be difficult to track down where the data is missing.

With a CSV, each line is a distinct brick, it is easier to find a missing brick or a missing field.

A level editor is great, but it's still nice to be able to quickly read and edit a plain text file when you want to

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@Ortu:

Indeed, a CSV format would definitely be better. I'm not that great coming up with that sort of code though, in fact saving/loading data values has always been my most complicated subject with programming in general. It's always eluded me.


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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 01:29 Edited at: 28th Jan 2015 01:34
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Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there lived a silly person named... let's called him Halley. He had a powerful mind, and he could have used this mind for great good, but instead he chose to path of foolishness, turning his abilities to the dark art of trolling. His efforts did not go unnoticed, and the High Lords of the Forum, with their all-seeing crystal balls, spent much of their free time trying to teach Halley that his ways were foolish. Halley refused to listen, however, used his evil skills more and more, until the High Lords of the Forum grew weary of Halley's ways and banished him from the Land of the Forum!

Now, for many moons the High Lords of the Forum ruled in peace, free of Halley's tyrannical trolling. But Halley feared the outlands, the world outside the Land of the Forum, and he begged and pleaded to be unbanished. The High Lords of the Forum are forgiving rulers, and with much warning, allowed Halley to reenter the Land of the Forum.

For a time, Halley repressed his urges to troll, but his skills were too great, and he became able to troll by accident. The High Lords of the Forum had warned Halley, and when he made a mistake the punishment was harsh. His identity was taken and he was required, for a day, to present his words before the High Lords of the Forum before they were allowed to leave his mouth.

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lol

Quote: "Awesome, I ordered my FPV gear today, I hope it arrives before the weekend. (which it should)."


Cool!

Quote: "As cool as it is, I don't think autonomus "drones" are anywhere near ready to be used like this."


Agreed.

Quote: "In some parts of Sydney it gets that low, I was down there just last weekend and one of the Fuel Stations had E10 for $0.97"


Ah, E10... E10's rubbish. Destroys seals and stuff. Even so, that's REALLY cheap!


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Quote: "Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, there lived a silly person named... let's called him Halley. He had a powerful mind, and he could have used this mind for great good, but instead he chose to path of foolishness, turning his abilities to the dark art of trolling. His efforts did not go unnoticed, and the High Lords of the Forum, with their all-seeing crystal balls, spent much of their free time trying to teach Halley that his ways were foolish. Halley refused to listen, however, used his evil skills more and more, until the High Lords of the Forum grew weary of Halley's ways and banished him from the Land of the Forum!

Now, for many moons the High Lords of the Forum ruled in peace, free of Halley's tyrannical trolling. But Halley feared the outlands, the world outside the Land of the Forum, and he begged and pleaded to be unbanished. The High Lords of the Forum are forgiving rulers, and with much warning, allowed Halley to reenter the Land of the Forum.

For a time, Halley repressed his urges to troll, but his skills were too great, and he became able to troll by accident. The High Lords of the Forum had warned Halley, and when he made a mistake the punishment was harsh. His identity was taken and he was required, for a day, to present his words before the High Lords of the Forum before they were allowed to leave his mouth."
Let's just say, this was one of the most beautifully worded analogies used to describe a real situation this forum has seen.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 01:34 Edited at: 28th Jan 2015 01:35
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Haha thanks I had to use a thesaurus to remember most of the words I was looking for


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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 01:38 Edited at: 28th Jan 2015 01:56
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I would hope that a person that young wouldn't have access to a tool that easily reaches temperatures in excess of 370 Celsius.

Quote: "I had to use a thesaurus to remember most of the words I was looking for"
Haha, I use that more than I'd like to admit.

Quote: "I urge we come together and hope for the safety of TheComet's everlasting soul."
How about a committee? I, as forum Vice President, offer to found and host this committee. The committee

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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 01:53 Edited at: 28th Jan 2015 01:56
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Now, for many moons the High Lords of the Forum ruled in peace, free of Halley's tyrannical trolling. But Halley feared the outlands, the world outside the Land of the Forum, and he begged and pleaded to be unbanished. The High Lords of the Forum are forgiving rulers, and with much warning, allowed Halley to reenter the Land of the Forum.

For a time, Halley repressed his urges to troll, but his skills were too great, and he became able to troll by accident. The High Lords of the Forum had warned Halley, and when he made a mistake the punishment was harsh. His identity was taken and he was required, for a day, to present his words before the High Lords of the Forum before they were allowed to leave his mouth."


I like the flow of that story!

But that still doesn't quite explain why his signature was erased, unless I am missing something? I am sick and not thinking very clearly at the moment.


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Yoda, I sent you a PM.

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Thank you, Mr Vice President! I have also sent a PM. Indeedily-dee.

Boy do we need a notification system.

Ugh this head cold can go away now too. I just sneezed so hard my ears popped and then immediately felt like they got stuffed up again.


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Back at ya!

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The TGC Forums: Where You Are the Notification System

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Right, I have also responded again!

In other news, I started a thread asking for help picking out a proper monitor! Any advice is appreciated, y'all!


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Aaaaan back at ya.

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You know the drill!

I also am a fan of your new signature.


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Hey, you wrote it.

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Indeed! Just like I wrote these POINTS hahaha


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Haha! Me replied to your PM.

PAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 10 posts early... Okay fine, not page...

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Now, for many moons the High Lords of the Forum ruled in peace, free of Halley's tyrannical trolling. But Halley feared the outlands, the world outside the Land of the Forum, and he begged and pleaded to be unbanished. The High Lords of the Forum are forgiving rulers, and with much warning, allowed Halley to reenter the Land of the Forum.

For a time, Halley repressed his urges to troll, but his skills were too great, and he became able to troll by accident. The High Lords of the Forum had warned Halley, and when he made a mistake the punishment was harsh. His identity was taken and he was required, for a day, to present his words before the High Lords of the Forum before they were allowed to leave his mouth."




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If the TGC Forums were America, that would be a picture of me! Now you all know what I look like, if you follow the analogy. That picture is to America as a picture of me is to the forums. Tadaaaaaaaaa

Quote: "The only way to do great work is to love what you do -- Steve Jobs"
You toned your signature down a fair bit! I suggest using Jobs' one about how great artists steal.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 15:00 Edited at: 28th Jan 2015 15:02
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Thanks! I was struggling to think of new words to use by the end of it, so it was getting a bit wonky

Quote: "But that still doesn't quite explain why his signature was erased, unless I am missing something? I am sick and not thinking very clearly at the moment."


No, you're not missing something. The story was cool and all but really didn't explain anything The only thing is, I'm not really sure if TheComet wants me to tell everyone what happened.

@TheComet: PM sent

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lol I know the feeling

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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 15:47
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I hate being sick.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 16:43 Edited at: 28th Jan 2015 16:53
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Quote: "If the TGC Forums were America, that would be a picture of me! Now you all know what I look like"


You're Joe Biden? I mean, I knew you were lazy, but I had no idea you were forum-dwelling lazy. Go help manage America instead of a forum.



Anyway, piggle-dee-giggle-dee-gook. Why yes, I did make that up, however could you tell?

I need more money to buy l337 monitors hahaha

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Quote: ""If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan"


Awesome sig.

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budokaiman
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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 19:26
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Quote: "Do get a point?"

No, but you did get a post. It's sort of similar only it doesn't actually have any meaning or worth.

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swissolo
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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 21:50 Edited at: 28th Jan 2015 21:52
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Quote: "MY QUADCOPTER'S FPV WORKS!! HUZZAH!

I've just spent most of the afternoon trying to get it working. I first hooked it up being extremely careful to get the right voltages (because the transmitter is 12V but the camera is 5V - the TX is powered direct from the 3S lipo but the camera runs through a linear voltage regulator), but when I powered it up it wouldn't work. Shortly after that I discovered I had the wrong AV channel on the TV (*facepalm* I haven't set up an analogue TV in years), but then the video only displayed for a fraction of a second each time I powered up the TX. After hours of searching it turned out that the RX and TX channel-selecting dip-switches are not the same; channel 4 on the RX is all switches up, but channel 4 on the TX is first two switches down and last two up. What idiot thought THAT was a good idea??

Anyway, I now get crystal clear reception at about a foot from the receiver - my TX isn't that portable yet

I also got my ESCs soldered with bullet connectors (which took a fair while but I got a lot of practice soldering bullet connectors - and I learned that having a fan on to blow away fumes also kills the heat on a 25W soldering iron ) and heatshrinked so they look really good now.

My next task is to work out where I'm going to mount my ESCs and then program a basic flight controller on my Arduino just to get the thing in the air!"

I have a friend who just finished a quadcopter and I'm looking into building one myself I helped him tune the PID and oh my I can't believe the results! I've got to top it

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 28th Jan 2015 22:23
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Quote: "I have a friend who just finished a quadcopter and I'm looking into building one myself I helped him tune the PID and oh my I can't believe the results! I've got to top it "


Awesome, more people . Make sure you know how to fly it before spending all the money building one

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