chrisbennet

Joined 17 years ago

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Member since
Jun 14
Past projects:

- RS485 project, kinda secret...

- machine vision: Tracking rock climbers at an indoor gym

- machine vision: measure medical test strips for in office test

- a data logging/analysis application for laser welding (WPF/C#)

- machine vision project for analyzing golf ball velocity and spin as they leave the club (OpenCv/C++/3D math)

- display graphics for a radar system (OpenGL shader, C++)

- I've spent a few years working on windows/WPF/C#/C++/machine vision applications for aiming lasers [muu hah, hahha!].

Now that I’m retired, I spend my time dying from a brain tumor and being happy.

Web: 3drocketsurgery.com email: [email protected]

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Comment · 4 years ago
Oops! I meant 15 years.
Comment · 4 years ago
I retired a several years ago (2018). I'm 60 (2022) now.

I was getting $150/hour. I charged by the hour.

I live in Nashua, NH. I think location really effects what you can charge.

Over the 4+ years I worked as contractor, among things I worked on:

- Radar displays/GUI (solo, in person, job shop).

- Laser scanning (solo).

- Medical scanning/GUI - the computer vision part (solo)

- Computer vision for protecting operators (solo, job shop).

To get work, I talked to former employers (direct) and sometimes the indirect kind (through a job shop).

Comment · 4 years ago
I love these pens (TUL). I was also surprised that they weren’t mentioned.
Comment · 5 years ago
I have played with Python on my tablet (Pythonista). Does that make me an “em-bedded” programmer?
Comment · 5 years ago
As the “man of the household”, my jobs include repairing the mailbox and putting spiders outside.

When the wife tells me there is a spider in the shower I reply: "Oh, you mean Steve?"

Spiders eat the mosquitos so that's plus.

Comment · 5 years ago
I'm a lazy software developer.

I can't take a book and make myself learn ("push"). Instead, I find a project I'm interested in and let it "pull" me in. Sort of the difference between studying a French book ("push") and actually going to live in France ("pull") with French people. You still bring the book of course.

Comment · 5 years ago
Not sure what's going with your account but I upvoted you.
Comment · 5 years ago
I use Waze (on the iPhone) and it doesn't have that problem.
Comment · 5 years ago
Auto play!
Comment · 5 years ago
I use Visual Studio to trace through code I’ve written recently to see if it’s doing what I meant it to. It’s like proof reading.

(Professional coder since 1987.)

Comment · 5 years ago
I can't believe Apple blew her off like that.
Comment · 5 years ago
I believe he/she is being sarcastic.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Forgive my trespass. I meant no spite or ill will.

As an American, I had to converted the number to mm and the divided it by 25.4 and again by 12. I figured I save somebody else the trouble.

(I upvoted you.)

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