OPC Mythbusters
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Eric MurphyLast week Gary Mintchell had a posting on some innovative marketing ideas that came across his desk. That same day I got a ‘personalized’ invitation to an event sponsored by my car service place. Of course the invitation probably went to hundreds of people, but what struck me was the 3-way fold out card had my name on it is 7 different places, all in different fonts/styles, including in the clouds by a sky writing plane! The event itself didn’t actually interest me, but I still read their ad simply because effort went into creating it. We all know that a big part of selling, be it products, ideas or standards is getting the message out.
So I started thinking on other ways of getting the OPC message out. It so happened around that same time, I was introduced to the GoAnimate website (Thanks Troy!). Who doesn’t like cartoons? (I admit I have the Dilbert iGoogle gadget on my homepage. I’m sure I am not the only engineer out there who does). So the end result is a couple of my attempts at OPC animation, in a parody of another Geek favorite, Mythbusters.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Let me know if you enjoyed them. I know I had a lot of fun making them. Who knew OPC could be even more fun?
September 10th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Oh man, all this time I’ve been struggling with an analogy for layered OPC and DCOM security. Now I have my answer;
You see. . .OPC security is like Mortal Kombat between a little green man, a gorilla, a tourist, and a stick figure. . . .
September 10th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
lol brilliant
September 11th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Eric, great work! If the OPC Security spec is a gorilla, what’s UA security? King Kong?
September 18th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Eric, these are terrible. What are you thinking. Quit Raising the bar! Now I have to blog, IM, twitter, podcast, facebook, LinkedIn, AND animate? Cut it out… er, unless you want to animate PROFINET for me.
[Seriously, what a great idea.]
Carl
September 29th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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December 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 am
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