#garfield Logs

Jun 06 2012

00:39 katsmeow-afk ok, so 2-sided winding didn't work, one sided didn't work, tomorrow i try a compromise: 90 degree (or less) winding on an angle
12:15 tsmeow-afk designed a really steeply angled mulch processor, and now needs someone named Compeau to market it .. as a <drum roll> Compeau S
18:08 zhanx katsmeow-afk: on puppy bot?
18:10 zhanx this is the current puppy bot, http://oi49.tinypic.com/2exosvs.jpg
18:11 zhanx it has one issue, a 3 year old likes to play with it and i need to redo the power supply on it so he stops ripping out the battery
18:24 katsmeow-afk same pic you showed last week?
18:26 katsmeow-afk i have a suggestion i think isn't too late to add on: actual electric field detectors on the antennas, it's real simple stuff: a small to-92 or smt fet, a few resistors, shotckey static protection, can detect some field changes, like humans, lightning storms, etc quite a ways off depending on resistor values
18:29 katsmeow-afk i have a few 2N7000 i could send you
18:51 zhanx when i get time i will look into that
18:51 zhanx got a major inspection coming up
18:51 tsmeow-afk
18:55 zhanx going over my plan for my early morning workcall
18:57 zhanx i got like 20 items on it so far and i am only 2 pages in the inspection check sheet
18:59 katsmeow-afk what would it be like if you were always ready for inspection?
18:59 katsmeow-afk if i were a combat readiness inspector, i'd just show up unannounced
19:02 katsmeow-afk just one day announce "this is Hawaii, and there's clouds of enemy planes coming in from 3 directions, do your thing"
19:03 katsmeow-afk have PA sound systems on rooftops play plane and bomb sounds
19:05 katsmeow-afk it would be like either Orson Wells "war of the worlds" radio broadcast, or morons would start with the live ammo when no targets are in sight
19:05 katsmeow-afk might be a way to learn stuff
19:07 katsmeow-afk "fred shot up the hospital building top floor windows because he heard helo sounds from up there, and george got excited and put gasoline into diesel truck fuel tanks.." etc
19:08 katsmeow-afk "sam took the opportunity to frag his platoon leader"
19:11 zhanx kat that i can do
19:12 zhanx its the fact i was handed a shit sandwich on the paperwork
19:12 katsmeow-afk "half the men on base first called home to tell their significant others about the exercize, so the telco was jammed up, and the war started 5 minutes late"
19:13 katsmeow-afk erg, 7pm, i need to go do things irl, before sunset
19:13 katsmeow-afk bbl
19:13 zhanx i go in july to the field and i have been planning that, and found out i am getting an inspection on stuff from 2 years back
19:14 katsmeow-afk isn't stuff from 2 yrs ago all dusty now?
19:14 katsmeow-afk or missing?
19:14 zhanx missing
19:14 zhanx the last guy didn't keep them
19:14 tsmeow-afk
19:17 tsmeow-afk is excited that by the end of the week, praps she'll have the knob materials and 10watt base resistors for the psus,,, even having one powered up in manual mode will be
19:17 katsmeow-afk afk, bbl
20:40 tsmeow-afk wants to apply a bat to some editor : "The Phantom Eye�s size means the drone can be loaded up with a whopping 450 lbs. of sensors" , while the manned aircraft with refueling can carry a mere 45,000 lbs. of sen
20:47 zhanx they are funny
20:47 zhanx i got to check out the predator today in person
20:47 katsmeow-afk yeas?
20:48 zhanx naked even
20:48 zhanx it was nice
20:48 katsmeow-afk can i borrow one?
20:49 zhanx i wish i could
20:49 zhanx they use nasa standard for wiring in it
20:50 katsmeow-afk but it's a prop plane, not a rocket on the whole thing
20:50 zhanx i know
20:51 katsmeow-afk i'd understand mil spec, better than commercial aviation, but not nasa
20:51 zhanx but the optic are epic
20:51 katsmeow-afk the predator has no exciting G forces, unless they are planning a mod or two to it
20:52 katsmeow-afk i wonder if that's why they did nasa spec, just for the optics, to keep vibration down,, but then,,, it's a piston engine, it's gonna vibrate
20:52 zhanx it does but again it vibrates good
20:53 zhanx either way i was stoke to get up close to it
20:54 katsmeow-afk i wanted to be able to launch (and maybe recover) 20ft wingspans off my roof here, i even have steel in the center wall diagonally from mid roof to concrete wall footer
20:55 katsmeow-afk farm it out to real estate agents for air pics, news for local traffic pileups on the interstate here (there's a LOT locally), the guys routinely escaping from the jail, interesting weather, etc etc
20:56 katsmeow-afk 2 days ago, 30 mile backup on I-20
20:56 zhanx they use blimps for that
20:56 katsmeow-afk blimps don't do 60mph to get onsite
20:56 zhanx true
20:56 zhanx but can stay on site for a while
20:57 katsmeow-afk at 15 or 20ft, i could even land it on pavement to refuel in a pinch, or land and recover
20:57 zhanx true
20:57 zhanx a road will work
20:57 katsmeow-afk anyhow, i wanted to be able, even if just a hobby
20:57 katsmeow-afk the land in Fla i tried to move to had a great approach and landing area to it
20:58 zhanx my girl just asked i remembered the ticket numbers i gave her yesterday and then was like never mind its numbers, give them to me
20:58 zhanx if i *
20:59 zhanx she is slowly getting the hang of the fact i don't forget alot
20:59 katsmeow-afk heh
21:00 zhanx when i built puppy bot i hadn't shown her elf or my rc bot etc
21:01 tsmeow-afk
21:01 katsmeow-afk how did you name the bot that?
21:01 zhanx elf is on the kitchen table, with a dozen sheets of paper and my mic's, acadian named it
21:02 zhanx it followed him like a puppy he said so its name is puppy
21:02 katsmeow-afk ah
21:03 zhanx need to grab / print graph paper tomorrow
21:03 tsmeow-afk imagines puppybot leaving a "dropping" of small multicolored colored confetti, and the robovac zooming out to clean i
21:03 zhanx well i looked into your idea
21:03 zhanx added to it
21:03 katsmeow-afk the fet sensors?
21:03 zhanx leds based on sensor info for mood
21:04 katsmeow-afk but the puppybot has only ultrasonic reflectometer, how will it know about mood?
21:05 zhanx its for a kid, when it senses the kid it will turn blue
21:05 zhanx etc
21:05 katsmeow-afk oh
21:06 zhanx ok back to work
21:07 zhanx oh i also think the gf is gonna freak when i turn the dining room into a lab for measurements
21:08 katsmeow-afk as long as it's available for paying bills and serving dinner on
21:09 zhanx maybe we use the couches for a bit :D
21:09 katsmeow-afk i had to leave my kitchen table down in Fal, i am still bummed about that too
21:11 katsmeow-afk erk, bbl
21:20 katsmeow-afk took care of that
21:21 katsmeow-afk i had been plumbing in the cellar and outside at the pool-tank, and had the cellar door open for cool air
21:21 zhanx printer is blowing up with 1 cm graph paper
21:21 katsmeow-afk you can buy that stuff cheap at office depot, ya know?
21:22 katsmeow-afk and 1/4 paper
21:22 zhanx paper was free as was the toner
21:22 katsmeow-afk o
21:22 zhanx first test is 1 cm for a base line
22:38 rue_mohr pdf?
22:38 rue_mohr clear the 'auto scale' box