02 27 2017 Shakedown
A fairly successful shakedown of the new lashup for remote control from a safe place. Nothing really special here, this is kind of the beginning of the beginning, overnight sensation after only 2 years of dev work and troubleshooting. More at my forums: http://www.coultersmithing.com/forums...
This is a test of the remote control fusor lashup, recording my operating position setup with a separate vidcam, seeing if any of the computers over at the fusor crash or lose data (They didn't!) and just a little flavor of how I work on a pretty good day. This is NOT a demo of our "breakthrough" mode, just simple Farnsworth/Meeks/Hirsh kind of stuff, but done from a safe distance with homebrew data aq and control. Raspberry pies for cameras and SQL database (replicated on the desktop shown here), arduinos for the actual time-deterministic data aq (but also, note flashing led in the cameras at start of run, our "clapboard" sync). All replicated back to this big desktop (Intel/Nvidia) and all on linux (my own opsys of course for the arduinos).