#garfield Logs

Dec 27 2013

02:43 rue_house you dont need sound for...
02:43 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQnGgoO-CvY
02:50 rue_house I dont know why that person stilll has all their fingers
07:04 rue_shop3 hmm, some luck with an oddball lcd, but the segments are all randomly located in the bit field
07:05 Tom_itx i bet they were placed there with care
15:10 rue_house na, adjacent bits are all over the place
15:11 rue_house for example on a bar graph the bits go 75642130
15:11 rue_house the next byte controls 6 of the 7 segments on a display
15:11 rue_house and 1 segment of an adjacent display
15:12 rue_house this is the work of a hardware designer dumping off work on a software designer
15:24 rue_house kat, thanks for re-assuring me that I'm not hte only person who thinks the soup base tastes like dirt
19:12 katsmeow-afk so it turns out the threads on a oil burner nozzle are 3/8 compression, but no compression fitting will work because the sintered filter , which also holds in and aligns the sprayer guts, sticks out too far in a male direction....
19:13 Tom_itx custom
19:13 katsmeow-afk however, a 3/8 compression cap , with the shoulders filed down some, will press into a 1/2" copper sweat fitting, where it can be pinned (for mechanical strength) and soldered (to not leak)
19:14 katsmeow-afk the otehr end of the sweat fitting can be 1/2 pipe, another sweat, etc
19:15 katsmeow-afk of course, drill out the end of the cap
19:17 katsmeow-afk i couldn't find any "fruit cake"
19:30 katsmeow-afk Some 213,000 California residents will lose their unemployment insurance benefits Saturday,.... in related news the police dept reports gun permit requests are way up
19:31 katsmeow-afk In Utah, the plan will affect approximately 3,000 individuals,...The average dollar amount an unemployed Utahn receives is about $341 per month,... in related news the police dept reports gun permit requests are way up
19:36 katsmeow-afk oh, i remember, that burning smell is dinner that i forgot to eat
20:02 katsmeow-afk "shut up, we are going to sit here and listen to the radio in silence" "this thing has no radio" "what part of 'silence' didn't you understand?"
20:14 katsmeow-afk it's 8pm, dark for 3 hrs, and some moron is outside witha shutgun
20:15 Tom_itx so grab yours and go greet him
20:16 tsmeow-afk declines that suggestion, regardless of how good i
20:17 katsmeow-afk it's cultural details that cause me to think living on a floatie out in the ocean is a good idea
20:44 katsmeow-afk "What's at stake for the U.S. as Americans struggle to climb the economic ladder?" uhh, unemployment?
20:47 Tom_itx you mean as someone is there knocking the rungs out as you climb?
20:49 katsmeow-afk climb? what's that?
22:23 katsmeow-afk so locally, the guy burned down an entire apartment complex, destroying the contents of 18 apartments, to get back at his gf, because she wouldn't do some sex act on him
22:24 Tom_itx he mustuv really been stuck on her
22:25 Tom_itx he coulduv just paid a hooker
22:25 katsmeow-afk she was not amused
22:30 katsmeow-afk so is there yet as usb dongle that can be used for Tiggr to interact with the rest of the whirled?
22:31 katsmeow-afk something to read input from and send relay and selenoid signals to?
22:33 katsmeow-afk using one of the avr with a usb port on it, praps?
22:34 Tom_itx http://tom-itx.dyndns.org:81/~webpage/boards/USB_Breakout/USB_Breakout_index.php
22:36 katsmeow-afk umm, i see no way to connect a button to one pin, that the pc can read, and decide to send a signal to another pin to close a relay and turn on the lase.. i mean light
22:37 katsmeow-afk your link to http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/midimonster/ is broken
22:37 Tom_itx regular avr io
22:38 Tom_itx to do so you would use something like the LUFA library
22:38 katsmeow-afk stop speaking greek, man!
22:38 Tom_itx http://fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php
22:39 Tom_itx full of examples
22:40 katsmeow-afk how does the pc look upon the usb device?, how does it allow me access to pin #1 ?
22:41 tsmeow-afk keeps clicking ont he listed examples,and noting hap
22:42 Tom_itx download the lib and the examples are tucked away inside
22:42 tsmeow-afk is doing so
22:42 Tom_itx also listed in the lower part of the link
22:43 Tom_itx probably 20-30 examples
22:43 Tom_itx Android Accessory Host
22:43 Tom_itx Audio In Device
22:43 Tom_itx Audio In Host
22:43 Tom_itx Audio Out Device
22:43 Tom_itx Audio Out Host
22:44 Tom_itx well that was damn fine of freenode
22:44 katsmeow-afk what?
22:44 Tom_itx i tried to send you the list
22:45 katsmeow-afk the list is on the webpage, but it isn't linked to anything
22:45 katsmeow-afk i have unzipped the dl now
22:45 Tom_itx the examples are in the zip probably
22:45 katsmeow-afk C:\AVR\LUFA\LUFA-130901\Demos\Device\ClassDriver
22:45 Tom_itx only thing i've done with it is my programmer
22:47 Tom_itx i don't have a recent copy so i'm not sure what he's changed lately
22:47 katsmeow-afk i am totally lost
22:47 Tom_itx i would be too if i tried to use it
22:48 Tom_itx but the usb framework is there and works rather well
22:49 katsmeow-afk what is DoxyGen ?
22:50 Tom_itx it generates the documentation for the whole thing
22:50 Tom_itx make doxygen will generate it
22:50 Tom_itx you need gcc installed
22:51 Tom_itx maybe avr-gcc
22:51 Tom_itx i forget
22:51 katsmeow-afk not really, maybe *it* needs me to do things, but *i* need a ready-built interface i can use to send and recieve data
22:52 Tom_itx i'm not sure then
22:52 Tom_itx there are probably solutions out there
22:52 Tom_itx ready to go
22:52 katsmeow-afk learning nix lingo, lufa, doxygen, conf and makefile, and 100's of comamndline switches, it not plug-n-play
23:01 katsmeow-afk i have looked into this issue every few years , and every time, i go back to dumping the wintel computers using only vic20/c64 clones, which are infinitely hardware expandable in any way i can think of
23:03 katsmeow-afk but i don't see a way to transfer the tbytes of data off the pcs to the smaller computers, even if they have the hdd capacity
23:03 katsmeow-afk the pc is a locked box, there's no i/o except keybd, mouse, monitor, and ethernet
23:05 rue_house kat, are you trying to do usb right off an avr?
23:05 rue_house might I suggest, if it works for the project at hand, to just do serial from the avr and use a usb converter?
23:05 katsmeow-afk i want to connect robot i/o to a pc, switches, pots, relays, motor drivers
23:07 rue_house yup, do it via serial connection
23:15 Tom_itx or parallel maybe
23:40 katsmeow-afk Hite was freed from jail on Dec. 26 (Thursday) after several days behind bars because he failed to appear in court to answer charges stemming from a Sept. 7 DUI arrest, and Friday morning was arrested at the scene of a drunk driving wreck wherein Hite killed his 21 yr old son
23:43 katsmeow-afk my guess is the son bailed the father out, they stopped at a bar to get re-drunk, and then hopped into the truck and wrecked it,it loks like not even 12 hrs after release from jail
23:47 katsmeow-afk http://swampland.time.com/2013/12/22/navy-underwater-drone/ .... In 2009, the Navy issued a $56.2 million contract for up to 150 of the �Littoral Battlespace-Sensing� gliders to be delivered by 2014.