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Don't forget the geek factor in all of this. Sure it would be easier to
"estimate" bait fish by some arbitrary standard. But why, when you could
learn something really cool instead? There's also the "climb the mountain
because it's there" mentality. I built a MOSIX cluster for this reason. It
was cool, I had a few extra boxes...It was fun! :-)
Russell
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 20:20 pm, you wrote:
> How important is it to have a precise count of these
> bait fish? All the bait shops I go to when I go
> fishing give me an approx. count, approx. a dozen
> shrimp for example, on the generous side. Wouldn't a
> non-technical solution be more appropriate, such as
> some sort of template to estimate x amount of fish
> take up x amount of a profile, or weighing the fish,
> where you know how much a single fish would weigh, and
> then project that for the count plus the weight of any
> liquid..... -Pat
>
> --- wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
> > Ahh, I shall go and get it. The hardware should be
> > easy.
> > I get a IR LED bar and keep it lit while the fish go
> > between
> > it and the detector bar. As the fish go in front of
> > it they
> > cast varying shadows on the detector bar. The trick
> > will be
> > to interpret them properly, and cause a count to
> > take place.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jason Copenhaver
> >
> > [mailto:jcopenha@typedef.org]
> >
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 04:55 PM
> > > To: slug@nks.net
> > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] A Challenge....
> > >
> > >
> > > "Linux Device Drivers" from O'rielly actually has
> >
> > a sample
> >
> > > device driver
> > > that reads/writes to the parallel port. If you
> >
> > can build the
> >
> > > hardware the
> > > software doesn't sound that complicated.
> > >
> > > Jason
>
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