#garfield Logs

Mar 09 2014

04:20 rue_shop3 school
04:20 TELunus Good, had a meeting with the client the other day, he was pretty happy with what we've done so far.
04:21 rue_shop3 whats togethor so far?
04:23 rue_shop3 :) I'm writing a serial interface to my new bench power supply
04:23 rue_shop3 you connect with kermit and it provides a colour interface
04:27 rue_shop3 http://eds.dyndns.org/~ircjunk/projects/newpower/Interface.png
04:27 rue_shop3 thats with kermit right off the serial port
14:35 TELunus So far we've got most of the frame together, and the spool mounted. I started putting the electronics on the DIN rail we got, but apparently my teamate who redid the electronics didn't make a schematic (or didn't make it availible to me), so I couldn't do the wiring.
14:36 TELunus For some reason we've got like 10 different fuses, but only two fuse holders. It's possible we're supposed to put one in the power supply I guess, but that would still only account for 3.
14:51 TELunus|2 I wonder why I lose connection to this channel so often.
14:56 TELunus|2 Ooh, that's interesting. Scrolling back I see that I've been disconnecting every hour at 20 after the hour.
14:58 TELunus|2 Except it's actually 7 seconds over an hour, so it's slowly drifting forwards.
19:57 Tom_itx bak
20:01 rue_shop3 where did you go?
20:01 Tom_itx jamaca
20:01 rue_shop3 TELunus, somewhere a hackers clock is drifting forward by 7sec/hr
20:01 rue_shop3 Tom_itx, huh
20:01 rue_shop3 Tom_itx, we didn't know if you were gone for good
20:02 Tom_itx Grand Caymen
20:02 Tom_itx etc
20:02 rue_shop3 sounds like a tour
20:02 Tom_itx not something you pre announce publicly
20:02 rue_shop3 I'm recalculating the electric test conversion for the hand tractor
20:03 rue_shop3 everything looks good so far
20:03 Tom_itx just drove 10 hrs and got home
20:03 rue_shop3 the new 'motor' will be a different shape
20:03 rue_shop3 Tom_itx, gonna crash?
20:03 TELunus I'm more worried about why my connection to freenode is at the mercy of that clock.
20:03 Tom_itx no, i'm a safe driver
20:04 rue_shop3 TELunus, there is a hacker who is determined to destroy freenode, his handle is Rucas
20:04 Tom_itx he's still at it?
20:04 Tom_itx i see the bot is still up...
20:04 TELunus Ya, you've mentioned.
20:05 rue_shop3 somewhere there is an anarchist channel on an anarchist server, him and his buddies are there laughing at what they are doing to freenode
20:05 rue_shop3 Tom_itx, its only every about one loud guy
20:05 rue_shop3 sometimes the guy is just hiding behind a lot of people
20:06 rue_shop3 ok, this looks good, I have a motor that does 318rpm/volt, on a 8:1 reduction to create an output around 1725/1140 rpm
20:06 Tom_itx oh
20:06 rue_shop3 which runs me about 48V at up to about 7.5A
20:10 Tom_itx kat been around?
20:13 rue_more no
20:31 rue_more hah where am i
20:44 TELunus|2 Actually, I think it might be that my internet goes down at those periods.
20:44 TELunus|2 Which would imply that it's a problem with my computer, the router here, or my ISP.
20:57 rue_more should I come up with a power unit called a rodent just to hilight how silly a 'horsepower' is?
20:58 TELunus|2 1 rodent = 2*pi/sqrt(2) HP
21:01 rue_more I was thinking 3Pi
21:01 rue_more watts
21:01 rue_more make it metric, just to be more rediculus
21:03 rue_more ok, compromise
21:04 rue_more 4*Pi/sqrt(2) watts
21:04 rue_more then, people can approximate it by 9, but they will be wrong
21:10 rue_shop3 ok, its 7pm
21:11 rue_shop3 what do I do with the last bits of my time
21:49 Tom_itx something productive i'd hope
22:25 rue_shop3 just sorted about 5lbs of screws
22:26 rue_shop3 3/6 machine 1/6 wood, 1/6 nuts, 2/6 chaff ;)
22:27 rue_shop3 chaff mostly washers and E clips
22:32 TELunus http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=molish
22:32 TELunus I noticed the example for the first definition.
22:33 rue_shop3 interesting find
22:48 TELunus|2 It's pretty hard to find good written history of what actually went down.
22:49 rue_shop3 with rucas?
22:50 rue_shop3 he's got a conspiracy theroy
22:57 TELunus|2 Well, there's also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s39fQoqcwOo#t=44
23:02 rue_shop3 thats him....
23:02 rue_shop3 the picture anyhow
23:02 rue_shop3 but thats not him made the video
23:02 rue_shop3 interesting how popular he is tho
23:04 rue_shop3 yea, his freenode attacks are no secret
23:04 rue_shop3 I need a finger joint with a low piece count
23:05 rue_shop3 TELunus|2, you have time to work out what limits the backwards motion of the human finger?
23:06 TELunus|2 Pretty sure it's the tendons, not gonna go do real research though.
23:09 rue_shop3 3/8 T fitings might do it