Silver, V, Gold, And Wheaties Oh My!

[d-dub]

Got out with the gang this morning. Met up with Lowbatts, Mayo, Kimsdad, and Watercolor for some woods hunting. Right off the bat I got a wheatie and a 64' nickel and then for next 3.5hrs nothing but shotgun shells and trash. Ready to pack it up, I said bye to Watercolor and headed out. Don't know where the rest of you wandered off too but it was great seeing everyone again. On my way home I decided to stop at another grove and hop out for a quickie.

In the first half our I picked up a few wheaties here and there and then got a nice solid nickel signal. I was thinking it was going to be a Jefferson due to all the wheaties being from the 50's but to my pleasant surprise, I recovered my oldest V. 1884! Where did that come from?!? A few minutes later I got another nickel signal and was blown away when I looked into the plug and a solid 10K gold ring was staring me in the face. Reached into my pocket to call someone and realized I left my phone in the car. Damn.

Anyway, I got back to swinging and picked up a few more wheaties so there had to be silver somewhere, right? RIGHT! I got this really sweet sounding iffy bouncy signal that would only come in every few swings and in only one direction. Watching L4S dig many of silver from these types of signals, I had to dig it. First out of the plug was a huge square nail followed by a smaller one. Got up scanned the whole and removing the two nails revealed the numbers I was looking for. 12-46/47. Pinpointed again and widened the plug to recover my first 1924D SLQ for the year! Hell's yea!

Ready to pack it up, I swung back to where I took off my jacket and got a really nice pocket spill. A couple wheaties, 3 badly worn Grimland Play Coins, a maple leaf pennant which reads "Winnipeg", and a 10K gold fill Lutheran Sunday School Pin. What a pocket spill!

Here is a pic of today's take.

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Here you go TMAN!

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[p2c]

Re: Silver, Gold, And Wheaties Oh My!

Big congrats! That SLQ's a beauty. 12-46/47 -- you have just revealed your secret silver searching machine to the world there.

 

[tmanfromtexas]

DDub, post a better pic of that SLQ please. Dont clean it, dont scratch it, just seeing a little bit of it, it looks to be worth at least 100.00 bucks. My first SLQ was also a 24d. It went for 215. on ebay. TMAN...

 

[litefire56]

Yeah, I'd like to see a close-up of that SLQ.
Nice haul!

 

[watercolor]

Outstanding!

I should have followed you home

 

[d-dub]

DDub, post a better pic of that SLQ please. Dont clean it, dont scratch it, just seeing a little bit of it, it looks to be worth at least 100.00 bucks. My first SLQ was also a 24d. It went for 215. on ebay. TMAN...

Updated with close ups. I try not to rub my finds but sometimes do and usually wash them under water with a infant tooth brush. That's after looking at the value. Today I didn't rub it and only washed it under water while lightly dabbing it to get the mud off. Glad I did!

Thank you for the comments gentleman.

 

[Brett]

WOW, NOICE SLQ Dan! GOLD TOO, crazy awexome!

How's the Arduinoing going? This winter has been pretty full of Arduino projects for me... I could go on and on about them all. I'm hoping to come up with that one project that kicks off a little home business. All it would take I think is a nice "Shield" kit that doesn't even make a ton of money, but sells a bunch, and then take it from there. Anyhoo... great hunting!

 

[justdigging50]

Wow that was a kick but day! Gold, Silver and a V

 

[d-dub]

How's the Arduinoing going? This winter has been pretty full of Arduino projects for me... I could go on and on about them all. I'm hoping to come up with that one project that kicks off a little home business. All it would take I think is a nice "Shield" kit that doesn't even make a ton of money, but sells a bunch, and then take it from there. Anyhoo... great hunting!

Sadly, I haven't touched my board since my last project idea. That got shot down by the patent holder, but I haven't given up yet. For the last couple of month's I have been spending a lot of time on another project/business venture but hope do something with it again soon. I have been trying to come up some idea that can integrate Arduino with MD'ing. Haven't found it yet. Good luck on the shield. Would be a nice side income. If you figure something out let me know. I've been doing online sales since 06'.

Wow that was a kick but day! Gold, Silver and a V

Thanks!

 

[Clad the Impaler]

Congrats on a beautiful coin!! And the other stuff is awesome too!!

 

[treasurefiend]

Thats what I call a hunt!!! That ring is an oldie for sure!!!

 

[Pocket Spill]

Super Duper hunt! Heck of a quarter and I really like that antique ring.

 

[kimsdad]

I should have followed you home

No $h*TTTT!!!!

What a great day you had after you ditched us!

Outstanding finds for sure!!!

WTG, Dan!

(Nice pic, too)

 

[Brett]

How's the Arduinoing going? This winter has been pretty full of Arduino projects for me... I could go on and on about them all. I'm hoping to come up with that one project that kicks off a little home business. All it would take I think is a nice "Shield" kit that doesn't even make a ton of money, but sells a bunch, and then take it from there. Anyhoo... great hunting!

Sadly, I haven't touched my board since my last project idea. That got shot down by the patent holder, but I haven't given up yet. For the last couple of month's I have been spending a lot of time on another project/business venture but hope do something with it again soon. I have been trying to come up some idea that can integrate Arduino with MD'ing. Haven't found it yet. Good luck on the shield. Would be a nice side income. If you figure something out let me know. I've been doing online sales since 06'.

I'm pretty confident most patents can be sidestepped. I think I remember your wireless idea, and it could be implemented as a generic sensor that can be applied to anything that stops vibrating, starts vibrating, senses water, etc.. all generic applications and common knowledge. I would just build it and then worry about tweaking it to not infringe.... send me the patent in question and I'll take a look at how it can be done a different way.

For the wireless part, were you going to use Zigbee? or something cheaper... I saw some one-way stuff that was less than $10 for the Tx and Rx modules together.

What I've been doing is just trying to interface to different things like NKK Smartswitches, zigbee, iPhones, WiFi, IR, serial LCD's, I2C EEPROMs, etc.. and just getting more comfortable with the coding. In the process I'm generating a lot of usable code for down the road, and getting exposed to a bunch of different sensors and protocols I've never used before. I think once an idea pops into my head, I'll be a lot more eager to knock it out instead of feeling like it's a huge task.

To help me play/design this winter, I got a bunch of Arduino proto shields, a boarduino, some protouino boards (for committing a design to a board), FTDI cable, FTDI breakout board, zigbee radios, wave shield, screw shield, Wii nunchuck breakout board, a Atmel ISP, and also a Polulu 3Pi robot to play around with (this is a sweet line following mouse bot). I basically said, "this winter I'm not just sitting around on my ass surfing the web... it's time to f'ing build some sh't"... haha... oh yeah, and I picked up a SWEEET color 2ch 50MHz oscilloscope which has been SOOO helpful in debugging most of the projects I'm working on. It's a Rigol DS1052e and has so many features it would make your head spin (USB ports, FFT Math function, Slope triggering, 1MegPoints of storage, etc. etc..) all for $420 shipped to my door They are so good, 3 of my friends bought one and we got two for work.

Testing out my friends' scopes on my kitchen table:

 

[d-dub]

How's the Arduinoing going? This winter has been pretty full of Arduino projects for me... I could go on and on about them all. I'm hoping to come up with that one project that kicks off a little home business. All it would take I think is a nice "Shield" kit that doesn't even make a ton of money, but sells a bunch, and then take it from there. Anyhoo... great hunting!

Sadly, I haven't touched my board since my last project idea. That got shot down by the patent holder, but I haven't given up yet. For the last couple of month's I have been spending a lot of time on another project/business venture but hope do something with it again soon. I have been trying to come up some idea that can integrate Arduino with MD'ing. Haven't found it yet. Good luck on the shield. Would be a nice side income. If you figure something out let me know. I've been doing online sales since 06'.

I'm pretty confident most patents can be sidestepped. I think I remember your wireless idea, and it could be implemented as a generic sensor that can be applied to anything that stops vibrating, starts vibrating, senses water, etc.. all generic applications and common knowledge. I would just build it and then worry about tweaking it to not infringe.... send me the patent in question and I'll take a look at how it can be done a different way.

For the wireless part, were you going to use Zigbee? or something cheaper... I saw some one-way stuff that was less than $10 for the Tx and Rx modules together.

What I've been doing is just trying to interface to different things like NKK Smartswitches, zigbee, iPhones, WiFi, IR, serial LCD's, I2C EEPROMs, etc.. and just getting more comfortable with the coding. In the process I'm generating a lot of usable code for down the road, and getting exposed to a bunch of different sensors and protocols I've never used before. I think once an idea pops into my head, I'll be a lot more eager to knock it out instead of feeling like it's a huge task.

To help me play/design this winter, I got a bunch of Arduino proto shields, a boarduino, some protouino boards (for committing a design to a board), FTDI cable, FTDI breakout board, zigbee radios, wave shield, screw shield, Wii nunchuck breakout board, a Atmel ISP, and also a Polulu 3Pi robot to play around with (this is a sweet line following mouse bot). I basically said, "this winter I'm not just sitting around on my ass surfing the web... it's time to f'ing build some sh't"... haha... oh yeah, and I picked up a SWEEET color 2ch 50MHz oscilloscope which has been SOOO helpful in debugging most of the projects I'm working on. It's a Rigol DS1052e and has so many features it would make your head spin (USB ports, FFT Math function, Slope triggering, 1MegPoints of storage, etc. etc..) all for $420 shipped to my door They are so good, 3 of my friends bought one and we got two for work.

Check this out:

Damn. Your not F*&$ing around! I almost bought that O'scope but stopped myself this time from making an impulse buy. When the time comes to get one, that will probably be the one.

My prototype was interfaced with a $10 remote chime similar to a wireless door bell. The arduino was wired up to a transistor to close the circuit to the button on the transmitter. I'll dig up the patent and sent it to you. I was thinking of going X10 for the TX/RX. You could plug the receiver in any outlet in the house and get notified. Just need to finish up my current project before revisiting this one.

 

[d-dub]

What a great day you had after you ditched us!
(Nice pic, too)

Sorry about that, Neil. I had planned on stopping somewhere on the way home. I was a bit surprised at how well turned out.

Thanks!

 

[d-dub]

12-46/47 -- you have just revealed your secret silver searching machine to the world there.

 

[Lowbatts]

Hey!

I was across the lake and making back to the group when I saw you leaving. Headed over to the sled hill to pick out some more deep mems and up to the groves to get a couple more. I figured you might be heading over to the old roadbed site. If you get back up there this week look north of the lake, along the trails there and you'll find some wheatie trails between there and the pine grove we were at last year.

Awesome recoveries!

 

[twistidd]

Great finds! D-Dub is up in D-Club! Or was it the pub? Either way, those are some nice finds. I love the SL, I'm waaayyyy overdue on one of those, got pretty close yesterday.

Joe

 

[d-dub]

Hey!

I was across the lake and making back to the group when I saw you leaving. Headed over to the sled hill to pick out some more deep mems and up to the groves to get a couple more. I figured you might be heading over to the old roadbed site. If you get back up there this week look north of the lake, along the trails there and you'll find some wheatie trails between there and the pine grove we were at last year.

Awesome recoveries!

I remember that pine grove. Just need a hammock and nice summer day in that place. Thanks for the tip, Tim.

Great finds! D-Dub is up in D-Club! Or was it the pub? Either way, those are some nice finds. I love the SL, I'm waaayyyy overdue on one of those, got pretty close yesterday.

Joe

Thanks!