#garfield Logs

Oct 10 2015

11:43 rue_house ^kat^, they have an overlay on her nose too
11:43 rue_house no eyebrows
11:44 ^kat^ yeas
11:44 ^kat^ i dunno about her looking alien, but she definately looks like someone else
11:44 rue_house ok, its a new day, its wet out
11:45 rue_house oh I'm dazed, great
11:45 e_house just sits d
11:45 ^kat^ by the wet?
11:45 rue_house just got out of the shower, so maybe
11:46 rue_house the cat is starring at me, I think she wants me to make it sunny out
11:47 ^kat^ be careful, if you do not deserve to be her god, you will be demoted
11:48 ^kat^ she's also over 30 yr old, i thought her char was/acted early 20's
11:48 rue_house I aleady made food appear in the dish and opened the portal to the great outside
11:48 ^kat^ but you must exhibit some control of the outside, or voice your feedback, and promice to clean up the mess later
11:49 rue_house hmm
11:49 ^kat^ how appropo i am listening to Moody Blues "Another Morning"
12:21 ^kat^ oh well, i need to go do things outside again
12:22 ^kat^ "the same thing i do every day, Pinky, try.........................
13:05 rue_house its rining, no welding for me
14:46 rue_house did you know deer cant rotate their feet?
14:46 katsmeow-afk you can't either
14:46 katsmeow-afk squirrels can
14:47 rue_house I can turn on my foot..
14:47 katsmeow-afk technically, a deer's foot is it's toes, so being unable to rotate them makes sense
14:47 rue_house what happened to googles creativity?
14:47 katsmeow-afk 180 degrees?
14:47 rue_house they only have 1 bone all the way down
14:47 rue_house they dont ahve two like in our legs or forearm
14:47 katsmeow-afk i have one upper arm bone, and can rotate my elbow separate from my shoulder :-P
14:48 katsmeow-afk ditto knees from hip bobe
14:48 rue_house I think there was a language fail
14:48 katsmeow-afk bone
14:49 katsmeow-afk anyhow, you haveto remember that many animals walk only on their toes, and modern women try to emulate this with high heels, for some idiot reason
14:49 rue_house cats have the double bone too
14:50 rue_house http://skywalker.cochise.edu/wellerr/fossil/mammal/6deer-extinct-NHMLA3783x.jpg
14:51 rue_house AND check it out, see how the bones extend past some of the joints?
14:51 rue_house its extra muscle leverage
14:51 rue_house we only have that in our heel
14:51 katsmeow-afk that IS it's heel
14:51 rue_house yes, they have it in their front leg too
14:51 katsmeow-afk it is walking on it's toes
14:52 rue_house I know
14:52 rue_house were the only ones who dont iirc
14:52 katsmeow-afk well, the knob on the front leg i have no clue
14:52 katsmeow-afk apes don't walk on their toes, neigher do birds
14:52 rue_house ok, fair enough
14:53 rue_house not sure that counts for all birds
14:54 rue_house I dont get why the front legs/arms aren't attached to the spine like the pelvis is
14:54 katsmeow-afk squirrels don't, cats don't
14:54 katsmeow-afk mobility
14:55 katsmeow-afk getting the actuators around a offset 90 degree'd ball joint , with that kindas stresses, is a nightmare
14:55 rue_house dunno if I'm sold on that
14:56 katsmeow-afk the leg-hip is restricted mobility, so it's just a matter of longer offsets to the anchoring points, which works out fine for otehr reasons too
14:56 rue_house it would lend itself to having multiple front arms
14:56 katsmeow-afk really? try holding your legs out to the side like you can hold your arms out
14:57 katsmeow-afk it's why i say a really good shulder joint is needed, and then use it at the hip too, no need to make them difefrent in a robot
14:57 rue_house ok, that helps define the problems
14:58 tsmeow-afk has gone over this stuff in her lil head so many times, it's sc
14:59 rue_house I'm starting to understand how nature designs things, which is helping me design the mecha
14:59 katsmeow-afk designs to fit thepurpose, really
14:59 rue_house the elbow joint in that deer is a columnar hinge
15:00 rue_house with a axial interlock in the middle
15:00 katsmeow-afk ideally, if you can, make it a double ball or cardan joint
15:00 rue_house which surprises me, cause I'd figure it'd just be locked with lots of cartilidge
15:01 katsmeow-afk no real reason it mus be restricted to one axis of movement
15:01 katsmeow-afk cartlidge breaks and wears fast
15:02 katsmeow-afk consider how many axis you can move yur wrist and ankle in, why not have that in all the joints?
15:04 katsmeow-afk heck, i want extendable shins and forearms
15:04 rue_house hah, I meant ligaments, not cartalidge, natures tape
15:04 katsmeow-afk ideally, your robot should be identical from shoulder to wrist as it is from hip to ankle, imho
15:05 katsmeow-afk oh
15:05 katsmeow-afk and in any way you can bisect the engineering drawing of the robot, both halves should look mirror of the other
15:06 katsmeow-afk exception of the head, which you can simply turn around
15:07 katsmeow-afk with a standard arm/leg unit, multipodal robots should be trivial
15:08 katsmeow-afk and if the 4 center legs were tucked under a coat, you'd never know the robot standing in front of you has 8 legs
15:10 rue_house yay! I got a script working to upload files to my PC via the http server, now I can transfer stuff from the iphone
15:10 katsmeow-afk i soooooooooooo wanna weld the legs to the pods, but that would make the pod+legs take up too much transport room and be heavier
16:37 katsmeow-afk i shall weld them
17:13 katsmeow-afk so i need to make more jig
17:42 katsmeow-afk rue, do you like moody blues?
17:43 tsmeow-afk delete
19:38 Tom_itx i do
19:38 Tom_itx nights in white satin etc
19:42 katsmeow-afk i wish you had spoken up before you could have downloaded it from me
19:42 katsmeow-afk err, now you cannot, i deleted it
19:44 katsmeow-afk it was the clearest version of Days Of Future Passed i have ever heard
20:25 katsmeow-afk scored 8082 in 93 sec in solitaire
20:27 katsmeow-afk not my highest score tho
20:44 Tom_itx not near that good
22:42 katsmeow-afk what the hay,, The Poppy Family was from Van ??
22:47 katsmeow-afk poor Willy Reard, he has dyslexia, just ask him is name
23:02 katsmeow-afk You can view it like a regular video and just move your phone around to see different parts of the 360-degree capture. Hold the phone in front of you to see straight ahead, then, keeping your phone in front of your face, spin your body around to see behind you.
23:03 katsmeow-afk duh, i can do that now witout a $400 phone camera
23:04 katsmeow-afk The camera�s lens points straight up, so it can�t capture anything going on beneath you.
23:04 katsmeow-afk duh,, like every other camera you point at the sky?