Measure Grades/Terrain Instantly

[@TheBalloonGuys]

Is this still your back yard? What happens when you run out of space to do KZbin projects? 😂 Tear down and do new ones? It’d be awesome if the videos are profitable enough to do that!

[@woodbullyltd]

lol I do have a business with multiple active jobs my wife won’t rest until this one is done

[@TheBalloonGuys]

@@woodbullyltd yeah I figured it was something like that. My wife is giving me the business with my deck build too. Thats why I was hitting you up for advice the other day lol.

[@christopherbowersdresser4188]

definitely cool. i could see it being useful to some extent. i doubt the file generated is accurate enough to say water jet a giant solid surface to fit dead nuts. but knowing the topography is extremely helpful. i could see this being used by high end fence builders, form work and the like. it'd be cool if you could use it in real time as a level, like 2 posts a great distance apart...set it on top of post 1 and set as datum point then set it on top of post 2 and adjust hole depth to match, same for concrete forming to know you level acrossed everything from a desired point in space. and to know how what youre designing on the computer will nest into the landscape. i recently over engineered a fence for my parents house in CAD and not knowing the topography greated a lot of additional work when i actually built it.

[@modwetpm]

What's about S-Shape? And what happens if you don't have GPS or Wifi? I'm assuming it needs GPS to work?

[@woodbullyltd]

No. Just need the app on your phone. It does a shapes as well

[@SlackerU]

It sounds too good to be as functional/accurate as I imagine. Drone mapping requires about $4k in additional accuracy & that's without Lidar. So I wish/hope it's as good as I want it to work but I imagine it would need multiple points speaking to each other to see the space more accurately.

[@woodbullyltd]

Multiple measurements can be taken. It’s really interesting. I use it as a transit when determining topography now as well

[@josephbrown8905]

It uses inertial mapping. It has accelerometers and measures how it moves from one point to the next one, then does math to calculate the new location relative to the starting point. So if you click a point, then walk five feet east, three feet north, and five feet west, it cancels out the east and west and knows that you are now three feet north of where you started. It gets those distances by measuring your speed from moment to moment. So, it doesn't know anything about where it is on the planet (unlike GPS), but only where it is relative to the starting point. The more steady your motion, the smaller the errors. Definitely not as accurate as mapping with LIDAR, but much cheaper. And much more sensitive to operator skill. Which can be a good thing, if you are a skilled operator.

[@SlackerU]

@@josephbrown8905 I'll have to get a YT yard-drainage company to test it out.

[@Velly_drums]

That is pretty cool!!

[@woodbullyltd]

I’m replacing my zip level with it.

[@kannankana]

@@woodbullyltd to me both are expensive :)