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RickZeeland11-Jul-21 9:33

11-Jul-21 9:33

Yes a bag of potatoes is indispensable, they are so hard to find abroad!
$Shucks | :-\$

Rick York11-Jul-21 10:05

Rick York

11-Jul-21 10:05

When I first read that I immediately thought of an old band called "Camper Van Beethoven."

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Eddy Vluggen11-Jul-21 10:58

Eddy Vluggen

11-Jul-21 10:58

Don't go. Ehr, please, don't go.

I worked there. Twice. Germany, like the Netherlands, is a no go area. I'm Dutch and vaccinated, she is German and not yet. It's complicated Big Grin | :-D

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

RickZeeland11-Jul-21 19:42

11-Jul-21 19:42

We'll see how things develop, we plan to go at the end of august.

Mycroft Holmes11-Jul-21 11:12

Mycroft Holmes

11-Jul-21 11:12

If it does not have an awning get a different model. We did 3 weeks in Queensland and when it rained or was really bright you are confined to the van, an awning makes a vast difference.

I found the mercedes sprinter version very easy to drive, parking was a challenge.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

Peter_in_278011-Jul-21 15:46

Peter_in_2780

11-Jul-21 15:46

Mercedes Sprinter yay! One of our local RFS brigades has one as a personnel carrier. 4WD, minibus configuration. Surprisingly capable offroad in 4WD, easy as on the highway. And I have half a dozen witnesses to the awesomeness of the ABS brakes when an eejit pulled out under my nose. Only the guy sitting beside me could see him; the others just strained their seatbelts (with an unspoken chorus of WT Elephant | [mastadon]

).
You can appreciate why there are so many of them on the road.

Cheers,
Peter

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RickZeeland11-Jul-21 19:44

11-Jul-21 19:44

It has an awning luckily, we already made our reservation for the campervan btw.
You might be interested in this full van conversion of a Mercedes Sprinter:
FULL VAN CONVERSION in just 13 minutes TIME LAPSE | with no previous experience! - YouTube[^]

Chris Maunder11-Jul-21 15:15

Chris Maunder

11-Jul-21 15:15

We just drove a thousand miles in one of these. It's like trying to drive a whale. A noisy whale. A thirsty, wriggly, saggy, wandering noisy whale.

It was, however, awesome being able to take food, loo and nap breaks anywhere you wanted to, especially in COVID times. No having to (shudder) talk to people.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Dan Neely12-Jul-21 2:46

Dan Neely

12-Jul-21 2:46

Sites with Elephant | [mastadon]

ing autoplay videos can Elephant | [mastadon]

ing

themselves where the sun doesn't shine with Elephant | [mastadon]

ing bus sized Elephant | [mastadon]

ing motor homes! Elephant | [mastadon]

ing sideways!

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Jörgen Andersson12-Jul-21 4:29

Jörgen Andersson

12-Jul-21 4:29

If you're using chrome, there's an extension called 'Disable HTML5 Autoplay'.
It helps making many sites less intrusive.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

Peter_in_278011-Jul-21 16:14

Peter_in_2780

11-Jul-21 16:14

There isn't a campervan channel on slant? Poke tongue | ;-P

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RickZeeland11-Jul-21 19:48

11-Jul-21 19:48

Yes, there is: volkswagen-t1-camper-van[^] $Shucks | :-\$

I just came across this, and ...

rnbergren12-Jul-21 3:36

rnbergren

12-Jul-21 3:36

I so want one. I would work at least part of my time in one. Wife hates the idea.

To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

CAN bus and .Net

Ger Hayden11-Jul-21 2:20

Ger Hayden

11-Jul-21 2:20

Could any of you recommend a good library and examples to interface CAN with .Net - so far Google is kicking up Kvaser and Pcan, but I suspect there is better out there. Ideally I would like to be able to troubleshoot boards

Ger

Re: CAN bus and .Net

Joan M11-Jul-21 14:10

Joan M

11-Jul-21 14:10

Never done it, google show a few results, but not used them, one of those:

https://www.datalink.se/[^]

Usually I get this from my PLC and given I usually use Beckhoff devices, I can interface any communication, variable... from the ADS protocol (which is natively available from the PC as a DLL, OCX, ...), that, of course gives me access also to CANOpen if that is on the machine.

I am super curious about this now... could you give more details? or share the final decision when you have it?

www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming

Re: CAN bus and .Net

Ger Hayden11-Jul-21 20:49

Ger Hayden

11-Jul-21 20:49

Hi Joan, Its for my Model Railway. I'm also waiting to hear from my colleagues in MERG on this. I already have the CANUSB board and a couple of modules that are not doing their thing. I want to be able to at least monitor them and maybe even dictate to them as I learn more.

Ger

Re: CAN bus and .Net

den2k8811-Jul-21 21:13

den2k88

11-Jul-21 21:13

Ger Hayden wrote:
Kvaser

Ger Hayden wrote:
there is better out there

Yes, but it costs several thousand dollars and you don't want to end in the V***or business model, trust me.

Pcap is the cheaper one and the one I would go for home projects, Kvaser has the advantage of being actually used by a sizeable (as far as I know 10%, which in a otherwise monopolistic environment is a lot) amount of OEMs including Ferrari.

There should also be some free native library, with a few pinvoke you should be able to use them easily. For troubleshooting I would go to suites designed for that, and Kvaser has one (again, you don't want CAN***zer unless you want to spend thousand of dollars and be tied for life to Vek***).

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OriginalGriff11-Jul-21 1:35

OriginalGriff

11-Jul-21 1:35

... Did you ever wonder what Aziraphale and Crowley did during lockdown?[^] Laugh | :laugh:

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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yacCarsten11-Jul-21 2:30

yacCarsten

11-Jul-21 2:30

I love Crowley's gardening expertise

Quote:
“He had heard about talking to plants in the early seventies, on Radio Four, and thought it was an excellent idea. Although talking is perhaps the wrong word for what Crowley did.
What he did was put the fear of God into them.
More precisely, the fear of Crowley.
In addition to which, every couple of months Crowley would pick out a plant that was growing too slowly, or succumbing to leaf-wilt or browning, or just didn't look quite as good as the others, and he would carry it around to all the other plants. "Say goodbye to your friend," he'd say to them. "He just couldn't cut it. . . "
Then he would leave the flat with the offending plant, and return an hour or so later with a large, empty flower pot, which he would leave somewhere conspicuously around the flat.
The plants were the most luxurious, verdant, and beautiful in London. Also the most terrified.”

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Eddy Vluggen11-Jul-21 5:26

Eddy Vluggen

11-Jul-21 5:26

For those that don't recognize the quote; read Terry Pratchet. All of his works.

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

AndyChisholm11-Jul-21 21:55

AndyChisholm

11-Jul-21 21:55

Everybody should have been given that advice at the beginning of the lockdown(s).

Jörgen Andersson11-Jul-21 5:43

Jörgen Andersson

11-Jul-21 5:43

On that topic, kind of: Is Good Omens, the tv series any good?

I don't have Amazon Prime, and I wouldn't want to get it unnecessary.

Also does it follow the book reasonably well?

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello