#garfield Logs

Oct 20 2015

20:35 rue_shop3 bah, wheres z
20:47 Tom_itx does google bots still chase meta keywords?
20:55 rue_shop3 dunno
22:04 rue_shop3 zhanx, there you are
22:04 rue_shop3 hey kat
22:05 Tom_L http://www.electronicproducts.com/Power_Products/Power_and_Control/Alloy_made_twenty_years_ago_by_US_Navy_could_provide_more_efficient_way_of_producing_electricity_today.aspx
22:05 rue_shop3 zhanx, I got the guns on the mecha, but I could have used your advice, I got creative clustering the rocket launchers
22:05 rue_shop3 I have to say, although its a static thing, it taught me more than I thought it would
22:06 rue_shop3 its all scrap too, all the way down to the welding rof
22:06 rue_shop3 rod
22:06 rue_shop3 I took a bunch of pics but they are challanging due to it being dark out,
22:06 rue_shop3 I'll post what I have and take more later
22:07 rue_shop3 I put a cluster of rocket launchers on one side and a small bore cannon on the other
22:07 rue_shop3 kat, whats the difference between a cannon and a gun?
22:08 Tom_itx barrel diameter?
22:09 rue_shop3 I think that camo would be the best paint style for it, but I dont want it to blend in, so I was thinking dessert camo
22:09 rue_shop3 hmm
22:09 Tom_itx i have heard of cannons being referred to as guns before
22:09 rue_shop3 the plan was to make thewhole thing 4' but it ended up 5
22:09 rue_shop3 it also took 300% longer to make than it was supposed to, but it was dead on budget
22:09 rue_shop3 Tom_itx, hmm
22:10 Tom_itx you don't really wanna put your head in front of either one
22:11 rue_shop3 I stood up under it and hit my head on the cannon, AND ITS BLEEDING
22:11 rue_shop3 :/
22:12 rue_shop3 I may put on side plates, paint it, and add some little lights
22:14 ^kat^ cannons aren't rifled, iirc
22:14 rue_house aaaah
22:14 ^kat^ cannons may also have separate powder and shell
22:14 rue_house zhanx left...
22:14 rue_house ah! that makes sense
22:14 rue_house too
22:14 ^kat^ xhanz would know
22:17 rue_house interesting article tom
22:19 ^kat^ why would two identical hdds, plugging into the same cable, same connector, same power, one comes up ata6, the other ata2 ?
22:19 ^kat^ it's an ata6 cable
22:23 rue_house sata or ata?
22:23 ^kat^ sata is ata
22:23 ^kat^ but these are pata, which is also ata
22:23 rue_house pata or sata (parallel/serial)
22:23 rue_house anyhow, the port is where you plug it in ont he baord..
22:23 ^kat^ same port
22:24 rue_house windows?
22:24 ^kat^ xpee
22:24 rue_house yea, drive ID on filesystem
22:24 rue_house http://neme-s.org/Shaper%20Books/Odds%20and%20ends/Cleveland%20Twist%20Drill%20Ready%20Reference.pdf
22:24 rue_house ^ everyone get that file?
22:24 ^kat^ drive id?
22:25 rue_house microsoft junk
22:25 ^kat^ what about it??
22:26 rue_house its what make the id difference?
22:26 at^ looks confused at
22:27 ^kat^ you want me to drill the pata port on the mobo?
22:27 rue_house no I'm just saying that windows wrote someone on the drives file system that gives it a drive id
22:27 ^kat^ so?
22:28 rue_house oooh
22:28 rue_house you dont mean drive number, you mean protocol
22:28 ^kat^ correst
22:29 rue_house perfectly identicle model numbers?
22:29 ^kat^ ata2 protocol is dead slow
22:29 ^kat^ seem to be, yeas
22:29 ^kat^ same date code even
22:29 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070516.jpg
22:30 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070517.jpg
22:30 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070518.jpg
22:30 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070519.jpg <one of the better images
22:30 at^ wonders what she did wrong that rue keeps telling her to go to
22:30 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070520.jpg
22:30 rue_house they are clickable
22:30 ^kat^ no they aren't
22:31 rue_house oh, why cant you click them in your irc client to open up the link in a browser?
22:31 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070522.jpg
22:31 ^kat^ i thought you had a ramp to the front door
22:31 rue_house of the shop? no
22:31 ^kat^ because i refuse to tell the irc client what browser i use
22:31 rue_house ok
22:31 ^kat^ and there's no default on the system, ditto for email
22:32 rue_house k, well those are the better of the images
22:32 rue_house all scrap metal, some better than other
22:33 rue_house it was fun
22:33 rue_house wish I could have done it in one day
22:34 ^kat^ put a 24" subwoofer nearby, and a mid on the robot, make it swivel towards someone coming arounf the corner, and demand ID
22:34 rue_house its surprisingly light
22:34 rue_house :)
22:34 rue_house make it swivel and use motion tracking software
22:34 rue_house *that* would be un-nerving
22:34 ^kat^ ok
22:34 ^kat^ yeas
22:35 ^kat^ simple too
22:35 rue_house swivel would be easy too
22:35 ^kat^ to UPS: "drop the package, NOW!"
22:35 rue_house beleive me, by the time it gets to the house, its been dropped lots
22:35 rue_house :)
22:36 rue_house after building it, I can see how it would be really easy to make a moving one
22:36 ^kat^ well, now that you can see how, start building it in 19 years ago!
22:36 rue_house lots of aspects of the basic design lend themselvs to easy implementation
22:36 rue_house :)
22:37 rue_house I might work my way up to the 12' mecha
22:37 rue_house thats just a useless battle thing tho
22:37 ^kat^ which is better a 4ft that does things, or a 12ft that stands around in the way and demands to be oiled regularly?
22:37 rue_house I need to screw some shin guards to it to take away its chicken-leggedness
22:38 rue_house the toes should not have origionated from the ankle like that *oops*
22:38 ^kat^ why does it have a crotch protector?
22:38 rue_house it was the shape of the existing scrap
22:38 rue_house I went with it
22:38 ^kat^ oh
22:39 rue_house its interesting what you can make from all the offcuts laying around
22:40 ^kat^ Walmart here sells cheese balls in a 14" tall 10" dia clear plastic jar, put a fake brain in it, set it on the upper body somewhere with dim flashing lites
22:40 rue_house the rear tendons are actually there to rigidify it, they make a huge difference to its stability
22:40 rue_house :)
22:41 rue_house I was thinking a few little leds would light it up nicely at night
22:41 rue_house its balanced too far back, a lead-acid in the front would help out a lot
22:41 ^kat^ make sure when the cops start shooting at it, you aren't behind it picking up the misses
22:41 e_house
22:42 ^kat^ i was hoping when i first looked, that teh leg joints worked
22:42 rue_house that was fun
22:42 rue_house no, but they aren't too far off
22:43 rue_house they use the same pipe I plan to make the hinges on for the 12' mecha
22:43 rue_house but on that it'll be 3 peices inline
22:43 rue_house ABA where A is upper and B is lower
22:43 rue_house connected
22:44 ^kat^ you need to find someone, that when you voice-freq shift them talking, they sound very threatening when saying "hello"
22:44 rue_house I may tack some bike sprockets on the legs with some of all the siezed up chain I have
22:44 ^kat^ like when the boy remote controleld the robot in the last Lost In Space movie
22:44 rue_house :)
22:46 rue_house I could ahve made the hips more plausable, maybe I'll sell it and do again
22:47 ^kat^ you can sell those?
22:53 rue_house sure, I could prolly get $500 for it easy
22:53 rue_house (but its cool and I want it)
22:55 ^kat^ 64k x 4 sram = 15-input priority encoder
22:55 rue_house yup
22:55 rue_house want me to write you a rom for that?
22:55 ^kat^ no
22:55 rue_house ok
22:56 rue_house ihex...
22:56 ^kat^ just wondering how far i can take the scheme
22:56 rue_shop3 I can write it in about 15 rules
22:57 rue_shop3 because the rules have priorities
22:57 zhanx Evening
22:57 rue_shop3 z!!!
22:57 zhanx Ate bad food
22:57 ^kat^ 2gb module = 250mb rams = 28 inputs
22:58 rue_house <rue_house> http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070516.jpg
22:58 rue_house <rue_house> http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070517.jpg
22:58 rue_house <rue_house> http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070518.jpg
22:58 rue_house <rue_house> http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070519.jpg <one of the better images
22:58 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070522.jpg
22:58 rue_house http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070520.jpg
22:58 zhanx Weird angles explained by scrap use?
22:58 ^kat^ but two little 64kx4 and a couple glue chips gives me 32 inputs
22:59 rue_house today I went to the hospital and drank some barrium
22:59 zhanx Ewww
22:59 rue_house it was mint flavor
23:00 ^kat^ sounds excessive just to get mint flavoring
23:00 rue_house I was trying to keep my eye on the screen, but they made me roll over
23:00 zhanx Was asked to make a powered snow shoe today
23:00 ^kat^ just give them talc, they won't know what pwder it is
23:01 ^kat^ oops
23:01 rue_house zhanx, I needed to ask you how to cluster the launchers on that, but you weren't here
23:01 rue_house how do you powder a showshoe?
23:01 ^kat^ or what a cannon is
23:01 zhanx No clue
23:01 ^kat^ grinder
23:01 zhanx I was like canon or black powder?
23:01 rue_house zhanx, you dont like which angles?
23:02 ^kat^ what wrong with witch angels ?!?
23:02 rue_house I'm calling the one on the left a small bore cannon and I suppose rocket launchers on the right
23:02 zhanx http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/projects/mecha1/p1070517.jpg
23:02 zhanx Top part
23:03 rue_house I was asking what the difference between a cannon and a gun is, kat had answers that sound good
23:03 zhanx K
23:03 rue_house its a low poly pointed
23:03 rue_house iirc that style is used for radar deflection
23:04 rue_house :/ I have to work out supper
23:04 zhanx Surface area not structure
23:04 zhanx I failed at that today
23:05 ^kat^ well, structure can bounce the radar beam to somehwwere the radar reciever isn't
23:06 rue_house yea, I thought thats what the angles were about
23:06 rue_house try to keep the direct-reflection surfaces to a minimum, tho
23:07 rue_house what z says makes more sense if you have more smaller panels at different angles
23:07 rue_house otherwise someone is bound to catch a glimplse of a whole panel
23:08 rue_house it might be fun to add some plywood panels to it
23:09 rue_house its standing up too much, puts too much of the weight backwards
23:09 rue_house and as I was saying,the front toe origins aren't correct
23:10 rue_house all in all it was fun to make
23:10 rue_house used up most of my scrap pipe
23:11 rue_house all the "why the hell do I ahve this" stuff
23:12 ^kat^ i sometimes make up projects to use up the scrap, but i still minimize making scrap
23:13 ^kat^ y can hide how the toes conect if you lay "feet" over the existing toes
23:14 ^kat^ make some curved claws to plug into the toe pipes ends
23:15 zhanx Ok long day of failure
23:15 rue_house what are the marker colours of a plane? red/green on left and right, white on nose and tail?
23:15 zhanx But I did make an electro magnet
23:16 zhanx Origin country
23:16 zhanx And red blue
23:16 zhanx Forward is either or for green blue
23:16 zhanx Or was
23:17 ^kat^ http://ecoboards.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/chico-homepage-ecoboards-org-pet-sup-board.jpg
23:18 rue_house hmm
23:19 rue_house not at all like a boat then
23:20 at^ ponders making such a board from laminating up a stack of corop
23:24 ^kat^ no no ideas on the diff ata modes for identical hdds ?
23:25 rue_house nope, can you force it in the bios?
23:26 ^kat^ nope
23:26 ^kat^ i even inabled udma, which usually crashed windoxe
23:27 rue_house strange
23:28 ^kat^ which is why i have no cure for it yet
23:32 zhanx Cure is linux
23:33 rue_house linux apparently isn't nice to kat
23:33 rue_house and she's got a damn tight leash on widnows
23:34 zhanx Took my pstd meds so if I space or disappear you know why
23:34 rue_house ok
23:35 e_house programs the battle droid to run like hell it if sees z's b
23:35 zhanx Tomorrow I might go bear hunting
23:35 rue_house awe, dont kill the bears
23:35 zhanx Wife wants a rug and the meat
23:35 zhanx It's a nuisance bear
23:35 rue_house hmm
23:35 rue_house ah
23:35 rue_house hmm
23:36 zhanx Killed 2 dogs
23:36 rue_house oo
23:36 zhanx Found its tracks today
23:36 rue_house pack it up, ship it to kat
23:36 zhanx This is true
23:36 at^ puts it in the neighor;s tra
23:36 rue_house her neighbour will steal the package
23:36 rue_house job done
23:36 ^kat^ heh, that too
23:36 zhanx It's like 320 pounds
23:37 zhanx Deep tracks
23:37 rue_house usa
23:37 rue_house that might cost, about... $20 to ship?
23:37 zhanx Like 5 bucks flat rate box
23:38 zhanx In reality it did a number on the dogs sad thing
23:38 rue_house damn I wish I could send a letter to my neighbour for a price that low
23:38 rue_house these things happen
23:38 rue_house we have bears around here entering houses
23:38 zhanx Yep its the land owners fault really
23:39 zhanx But he has little kids etc
23:39 rue_house I had a bear break into my work van once, opened the door with *no* damage
23:39 zhanx This one was wreck it Ralph
23:39 rue_house pulled out a bit of garbage and left it on the driveway, took me a while to figure out
23:40 zhanx I was you sure it wasn't a mouse
23:40 rue_house the van was open, I was like "WTF!" and then realized that none of the tools were bothered, just things that smelled like food
23:41 rue_house how many sleeping pills doyou think it takes to put out a bear?
23:41 zhanx Broke him rabbit cage, did not hurt them, ate one chicken they think and the dogs
23:41 rue_house can you fit that many in an apple?
23:41 zhanx I take 4
23:42 zhanx I am 265
23:42 rue_house yea, but your just muscle, bears are fat
23:42 rue_house they like beer
23:42 rue_house and I hear your not supposed to mix sleeping pills with alc
23:43 zhanx I loke beer
23:43 rue_house bear would be lucky to be out like that and never know or feel it comming
23:43 rue_house lot less work too
23:45 zhanx They won't know anything
23:45 rue_house oh I'm sure there is a moment of pain and fear in being shot
23:45 rue_house thick skulls ya know
23:45 rue_house oo, I cant think about it
23:47 rue_house desert camo is yellow with brown and black spots?
23:47 zhanx Base of skull
23:48 zhanx All lights off
23:48 rue_house your gonna go take it with a knife aren't you, I thought you were just gonna shoot it
23:49 zhanx Depends on how I'm find it
23:49 rue_house "man jumps out of tree, kills bear with knife. page 12"
23:50 rue_house http://2.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/31/78/f3d9e3ccf33f4e74cbb48df679d71fe7.jpg
23:50 zhanx 320 besr was killed to Day in the park
23:51 rue_house I drew one up once and everyone told me the idea was stupid cause it was too top heavy
23:51 zhanx Looks good
23:52 rue_house I wonder how logn the power cell lasts :)
23:52 rue_house I'm guessing till lunch
23:52 zhanx Ok fyi in new tork, I ''''''free''''??sruff
23:52 rue_house http://www.nerdlikeyou.com/kuratas-the-giant-battle-mech-shooting-enemies-down-with-a-single-smile/
23:52 rue_house have yiou seen that?
23:53 rue_house see, wtf, it was done as "art"
23:54 zhanx Cool
23:54 rue_house I really need to hop on this "art" exploit
23:54 rue_house if you make a robot, nobody cares. if you make a peice of 4 tonne kinematic art, people go crazy over it
23:55 zhanx I have 14 bikes
23:55 rue_house thats a good supply
23:55 zhanx A a lathe and lots of motor
23:55 zhanx Just need barrels
23:56 rue_house thats kats line
23:56 ^kat^ different kinds
23:57 zhanx Toying with 8t
23:57 ^kat^ why?
23:57 ^kat^ err
23:57 ^kat^ who?
23:58 zhanx It