So tell us, is this part of your training as a minor deity, or are you preparing for some sort of light saber exhibition/competition, perhaps part of a Cosplay convention, if such things exist?
Those new fangled tag locator things would do the trick - TrackR as one example. Funny - I know a guy who's got a west coast company who came out with locator tags years ago for luggage - think he was ahead of his time, or at least ahead of the curve of the better tech/cost/marketing. GPS or audio and visual queues, or both.
Hmm driver update with gsm slot, antenna pads, GPS chip
Design new package with antenna connections, design big shipping box with antenna connections
Adds a few cents in shipping and simcard with data, but you could really see where it is then
Unless it is rejected for a box with tons on outbound communication probably is not something shippers want
GPS is tricky. It is, quite literally, the worldās biggest clock. It takes the form of a bunch of satellites orbiting in known paths, all going āTICKā¦ TICKā¦ TICKā¦ā very loudly in perfect unison as they broadcast individually-identifiable pings with timestamps. If you know exactly what time it is and very precisely how much time elapsed between receiving each copy of a single ātickā due to the limited speed of light, you can figure out where you are.
But I wouldnāt expect anyone to do realtime orbital mechanics calculations on dozens of satellites simultaneously, with corrections for general relativity, on a cheap 8-bit integer-only single-core processor, and still remain responsive enough to measure microsecond differences in lag between the visible signals, and then use that lag measurement to triangulate the deviceās location precisely.
Okay, maybe I knew a guy who once did exactly that (Lightman, funny how things always seem to revolve around light)ā¦ but most sane people instead buy a chip with all the relevant parts already implemented. Because GPS is almost as much of a pain as date math.
If anyone needs a reminderā¦
The first rule of Date Math is: You donāt do your own date math.
The second rule of Date Math is: YOU DONāT DO YOUR OWN DATE MATH.
See this video if you want to know why. Programmer Barbie says āDate math is hard!ā
In any case, GPS is a similar storyā¦ especially on cheap, under-powered processors. You really donāt want to do your own realtime relativistic orbital mechanics and micro-lag triangulation calculations. Itās like that long lonely winter down at the South Pole when you got really drunk one night and decided to run around the pole wearing only boots in ā75 C weather ā it may seem like a good idea at the time, but after a few days of coughing up blood you realize you were horribly, disastrously wrong.
BTW, does anyone know where to get boots with built-in heaters? Asking for a friend.
GPS capabilities are similar to 3D graphicsā¦ they come in a nicely packaged specialized processor that does the job lightning fast - way faster then software on the cpu.
BTW: iām still scratching my head about how much of a signal can be induced in a tiny antenna, 14.000Km away, inside a cell phone in a very noisy environmentā¦ The GPS satellites canāt broadcast that loud, do they? They are running on solar powerā¦? Kind of puzzles meā¦
Have them check with the persons family of the person who ran around outside at ā75Ā°C. Itās much less expensive to just sell them than ship them home.
Hmmmm, personally I have never found any that are worth a flip. But I have been checking out THESE , but at this point I know nothing more about them than what I have read.
But, I am thinking; put them in a pair of Boots Like This and your probably good to go pretty far into the negative Fahrenheit numbers. .
My experience with the boots have been positive. They are not much to look at, but they do keep my feet warm. :+1:
18 below zero F is the coldest I have been in and my feet stayed warm.
Iām not much of a fighter, and Iām not the least bit competitive; Iām more of a process junkie. I do things because I enjoy the road, not because I want to get to the destination. Those who donāt enjoy the process rarely survive past a couple centuries, so you can generally assume that those of us who remain are here because weāre having a good time.
That is to sayā¦ Iām not doing this for any particular goal. I enjoy it for its own sake.
As seen a couple pages ago, this doesnāt tend to go over well with people who are impatient to get where weāre going. So I apologize for thatā¦ but I hope I can at least make the ride a bit more interesting.
This thread might set a record for both # of posts as well as for off topic sub topics in one thread.
This thread has taken on a life of itās own for sure. But it has been interesting and educational. For instance TK has told some about her Ninja like skills. sparkyDK has posted about neat train stuff I had no idea existed , and several other detours (by others) I shall not take the time to mention.
In addition, as we patiently wait for the Q8 to be released; we have learned more about the firmware as well as many other aspects of it.