Patch day got you down? Here is a Hardware idea

Lum · Post by **Lum** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:55 pm

i have no clue why you link searching for sand blasting to searching for something here.

I've received help here over stuff (this section as well as others), and i've seen people get helpa s well as done it myself. I dont ask for people to do it all for me, There are many people who do though. How would you feel if 30 people each asked you the SAME question which was asnwered recently, day after day?

Also, nobody in this thread si being critical, why did you even post it here? That is something people DO get critical over, not reading the title and using common sense to post in the proper place.

Bardlover · Post by **Bardlover** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:25 pm

First, why I linked it with sand blasting. I find that finding the TERM that you are searching for is usually harder than finding what you are looking for. Computers being so exact in spelling and keyword matches, you can't expect the computer to take my description of "Shopping list" and come back and say, O, you wanted the multi threaded query bazaar feature. So I generally do some searches using the keywords I can think might be logical, but don't neccasarily spend hours browsing all the little macros and reading all the descriptions of things without at least asking the question, and no, when I ask a question, I am not done looking, I keep looking and hope someone will follow up on thread.

Second, why here? because I see too many people getting flamed over inocent questions and thought maybe in this post where I was giving something back (other than my donation) that I might be a little safer than starting a whole new topic

Don't worry, no hard feelings, you right, I wasn't being ripped apart, I was just tired of reading all the posts that people DO ask the questions that I want answers to also and all I ever get is the answer is always look somewhere else. Kinda makes looking for answers discouraging to do a search and all you get are results saying you idiot, find it yourself

Random() · Post by **Random()** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:45 pm

Bardlover: It has a lot to do with the join date. If a person's join date >= the date MQ info was posted on RPGExperts - They better have flame retardant underwear or be in the VIP forums.

The MQ crowd is elitist. With ShowEQ, you had to have a bit of knowledge to set up a unix system, get your libraries, etc etc.. Those requirements thinned out the herd by themselves. Our devs here only require a compiler which means any idiot that buys VC or higher off ebay can participate which in turn means there's a high possibility of some jackoff bringing undue attention to our little soiree.

It was even rumored, at one point, that SOE would leave the devs (and therefore us) alone as long as the devs didn't release the offsets for a couple weeks after a new expansion was released. (Anyone? Velious era I believe?)

Anyway, MQ's code might be open source but the knowledge is only shared if the requestee shows some level of maturity and self reliance.

Btw: Nice job on the tapper. I've used Lego robotics sets in the past

FirebornX · Post by **FirebornX** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:42 pm

That is a nice hack :) I know next to nothing about working with actual physical electronics so that's like omg to me.
If I really needed to make something I would have built it like your first machine, or yeah use one of the lego sets or Knex! I think I have some spare ones laying in the garage somewhere

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Unfortunately though a tapper wouldnt do me any good

I play a wizard.

When I joined the boards I took the time to read through a lot of the forums and found out not to ask certain questions which many people ask... and ask... and ask. "When's MQ going to be fixed??????!" or "Why's MQ broken?!?!?!"
Educated questions are usually appriciated, and usually.... don't get flamed.

Bardlover · Post by **Bardlover** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:16 am

Well, in answer to your statment about being left alone. I personally have a feeling that we are here. I mean lets take an example...
KK the first step is to take a URL
http://www.williamson-labs.com/images/555-aa3-4.gif
was my first posts image. Translate that to IP and you get 63.99.209.25. Oooo Scary got an IP. OK so sounds innocent But then we go to Http://www.arin.net do a whois and find that this IP is owned by:

OrgName: UUNET Technologies, Inc.
OrgID: UU
Address: 22001 Loudoun County Parkway
City: Ashburn
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 20147
Country: US

NetRange: 63.64.0.0 - 63.127.255.255
CIDR: 63.64.0.0/10
NetName: UUNET63
NetHandle: NET-63-64-0-0-1
Parent: NET-63-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: AUTH03.NS.UU.NET
NameServer: AUTH00.NS.UU.NET
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 1999-01-22
Updated: 2003-01-23

With a single $25 lawsuit filed, SOE could Subpoena the records from UUNET and find who has that pic. They could also subpoena the server logs from here and that would by default keep track of downloads adn where they went. I used this method to track down computer hackers from a company where I managed the webservers.

So Yes, I think that we ARE left alone. Much like EQWindows, if it makes the customer happy, let them use it unless it becomes a problem. If it was important to them, they would take care of it. THere are much more direct means than having GM's wander looking in on people.

Vayeco Dynn · Post by **Vayeco Dynn** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:28 am

Random() wrote:Bardlover: It has a lot to do with the join date. If a person's join date >= the date MQ info was posted on RPGExperts - They better have flame retardant underwear or be in the VIP forums.

The MQ crowd is elitist. With ShowEQ, you had to have a bit of knowledge to set up a unix system, get your libraries, etc etc.. Those requirements thinned out the herd by themselves. Our devs here only require a compiler which means any idiot that buys VC or higher off ebay can participate which in turn means there's a high possibility of some jackoff bringing undue attention to our little soiree.

It was even rumored, at one point, that SOE would leave the devs (and therefore us) alone as long as the devs didn't release the offsets for a couple weeks after a new expansion was released. (Anyone? Velious era I believe?)

Anyway, MQ's code might be open source but the knowledge is only shared if the requestee shows some level of maturity and self reliance.

Btw: Nice job on the tapper. I've used Lego robotics sets in the past

Ahahaha... that explains some things...

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I, unfortunately, didn't discover MQ until I saw it on RPGExpert, yes.

Well, I try to make up for it with contributions ^_^ (And posting off-topic conversations in the middle of threads, lol)

Er, continue on.

Thanks for explaining that bit, BardLover. lol, I just can't imagine how in hell you figured that out

With the short-circuiting and all...

Wink- · Post by **Wink-** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:09 pm

I used an occilating desk fan, string and a pulley. It would lower a metal rod straight up and down over my #6 hotkey. Would come back and have a million things on my cursor tho :)

Lum · Post by **Lum** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:20 pm

I've never played a foraging char or such, I never would have thought of so many hardware solutions to auto click/press haha.

Chill · Post by **Chill** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:56 pm

I used xylobot to automate my fishing and forraging before MQ. Thats about as ghetto as I got, but I still love the erector set pics

RDPidb · Post by **RDPidb** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:12 am

I put a P.I.C 16C508 microcontroller inside my mouse back in the day, wrote simple little program in assembly to pulse an output pin high to low at different speeds .. used a potentiometer dial to adjust resistance on a input, measured that and used it to set the speed of clicking .., on off switch to turn the chip on and off, and a 2nd switch to determin if it was mouse button 1 or 2 being clicked. with a 2 second delay on left mouse it was good for foraging and such, and with a 10millisecond delay on right mouse it was the ultimate ninja/power loot mouse. (not sure with what delay mouse clicks actualy get sent to the server by the client .. but it always worked)

oh and:

Steelhammer wrote:all i can say is..... Holy shit lmao, you should be off at harvard or something, lol

Uh, your realy not to bright are you Steelhammer?

fearless · Post by **fearless** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:31 am

RDPidb wrote: Uh, your realy not to bright are you Steelhammer?

I can tell you have some grasp of the english language . . . but execution is key. This of course is meant in the best possible way, cause we all just love post bumbers.

RDPidb · Post by **RDPidb** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:26 am

Yes sorry It is not my first language. but .. I joined b4 u .

j/k

I am sorry for bumping the thread though. I find hardware hacking to be very interesting, and I was bored at work and found the post. I was also not speaking negativly about Harvard so dont be offended, Its just that as far as I know it does not offer an electrical engineering degree program.

regards

fearless · Post by **fearless** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:41 am

RDPidb wrote:Yes sorry It is not my first language.

Completely understandable.

RDPidb wrote:Its just that as far as I know it does not offer an electrical engineering degree program.

Now that's funny.

Bardlover · Post by **Bardlover** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:25 am

New artwork for the device

If you do this right, with the Dec 15 patch you hypothetically could kite a bard AFK forever without ever violating the EULA.

Tie it into hotkey 1 Remap right or left turn to 1 key

Create hotkey that goes something like:
/target ****NPC name****
/harmony 4 5 6 7
/pause 1000

/pause is to prevent the harmony from restarting at 4 every .5 sec

I should mention that you need to play with capacitor size and resistor size to adjust circle size. I am working on one with a Dial to do that, you can too by replacing the Resistors with Potentiometers (Dials)

Agripa · Post by **Agripa** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:41 am

I did a similar circuit except wired directly to the keyboard using an optocoupler. That eliminates keyboard bounce issues that can happen with a relay and is lower power allowing operation on batteries for months.

I considered making a state machine version using counters or flip flops to simulate a series of keys but adjusting the timing for each pulse would be very complicated so a PIC is probably the way to go in that case.

Patch day got you down? Here is a Hardware idea

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