Founder - Hudson Valley Forestry, Deploygoats. Former IATSE-600
Poughkeepsie, NY
Joined January 2009
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Designing / Testing New Mesh Nodes
4g LTE / GNSS
2.4ghz wifi
915Mhz Lora backhaul
and of course fully custom software / firmware / frontend / backend now that software is free
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I really thought I could make it through the end of the year without having to replace an AC compressor, but that’s not the case
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Diag of PC1 board on a Miller 200 Airpak Diesel, while this is an amazing all in one machine I can’t say it actually runs often without needing $1000 boards all the time…
New tooth holder and rebuilt hydraulic’s for this mulcher. Next a custom PCB to capture all the can bus data and stream it back to the servers for recording.
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HP OmniBook X Flip 14 ships with completely broken internal audio on Linux. No speakers, dead headphone jack, mic records garbage. I got it fully working on Omarchy and packaged the fix so anyone with this laptop can do it in minutes.
github.com/sansscott/omniboo…
Working on the custom PCB for my sycamore-pulse.com project. Realtime dashboard, troubleshoot issues before they happen, the AI reads the full history of the machine every time it works and logs the data. It can spot issues before you can.
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Always figured there should be a low-cost box that pulls data off any machine, any brand, any system. Couldn't buy one. Built one.
Custom board + an AI that's read every hour of my mulcher's history. I text it questions, it answers with numbers.
sycamore-pulse.com
Scott Sans retweeted
Scott is one of the blue collar builder GOATS. 🐐
No literally... he built his own goat software.
I really enjoyed this conversation.
Scott is a former cinematographer turned land clearing contractor and the founder of Hudson Valley Forestry.
He normally works with massive forestry mulchers, pipeline right of ways, and 50 acre industrial solar sites.
But there's terrain those machines can't be used on. Steep slopes with sensitive ecosystems. Sites where a 30,000 lb mulcher does more damage than good.
So he sends in the goats.. yes like baa goats.
It was my first time learning about targeted grazing, and definitely my first time talking to someone building goat software.
@SansScott is the definition of a blue collar builder and why I'm so excited that AI put the building back in the domain experts hand.
He is the literal GOAT! 🐐
