#garfield Logs
Aug 02 2020
#garfield Calendar
02:16 AM Tom_L: probably yes
03:37 AM rue_shop1: ok, if I ever say "hey, lets program an 8x8 led array as an OTP rom!" just tell me no
03:37 AM rue_shop1: I'd choose switches over that any day
05:25 AM polprog: haha
05:26 AM polprog: so you decided to blow out leds
05:26 AM polprog: neat :p
05:29 AM polprog: https://youtu.be/i4njPe2_rho
05:34 AM rue_mohr: well, my idea was to blow the bond wires, but that didn't always work
05:37 AM rue_mohr: cute
06:29 AM polprog: glad it works
06:29 AM polprog: i think i finally understood your fsm design
06:30 AM polprog: now im gonna make a smaller version of your circuit with GALs when im back home ;)
06:30 AM polprog: pursuing a new generation of led-roms!
08:43 AM polprog: for some reason twitter videos from rue dont load for me, i have to rip them to watch
10:26 AM rue_bed2: you too?
10:26 AM rue_bed2: thought it was doing it to me cause their my videos
10:27 AM polprog: i think they load on the phone okay... lemme check
10:27 AM polprog: yeah, just the webshite
10:28 AM polprog: it works on the phone
10:31 AM rue_mohr: ok so hold on
10:32 AM rue_mohr: the video of the UPS bursting apart, used a different coder, did IT work?
10:33 AM rue_mohr: https://twitter.com/RueNahcMohr/status/1287487265023778816
10:34 AM rue_mohr: does THAT video *just* work?
10:34 AM polprog: the one with the book plays fine
10:34 AM polprog: https://twitter.com/RueNahcMohr/status/1287487265023778816
10:34 AM polprog: yeah
10:34 AM rue_mohr: ok!
10:34 AM rue_mohr: I'll adjust the coder I use
10:34 AM polprog: ffmpeg?
10:34 AM rue_mohr: dunno
10:35 AM rue_mohr: video formats are one of the universes larger messes
10:35 AM polprog: yeah
10:35 AM polprog: what do you encode it with?
10:36 AM rue_mohr: cmon, I just woke up
10:36 AM rue_mohr: kdenlive
10:36 AM polprog: ah
11:12 AM rue_mohr: Tom_L, where is that rom programmer link again?
11:13 AM rue_mohr: foun dit
11:15 AM rue_mohr: polprog, for what its worth, it stopped working again
11:15 AM rue_mohr: the properties of the burned out leds change during normal voltage operation
11:15 AM rue_mohr: they must 'come back' somehow
11:15 AM Tom_L: which programmer?
11:16 AM rue_mohr: someone wanted to read roms from a cdrom drive
11:16 AM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/mtkflash/flash_howto_index.php
11:16 AM rue_mohr: yep, found it
11:16 AM Tom_L: takes that specific chipset
11:16 AM rue_mohr: yup
11:17 AM rue_mohr: need to work out what to do today
11:17 AM rue_mohr: be nice to get some DC servo stuff done for one of the cnc machine
11:17 AM rue_mohr: s\
01:34 PM polprog: rue_mohr: build the transistor pair tester i sent you
01:34 PM polprog: hmm, that is weird, they cant be lit again can they?
01:38 PM Tom_L: spacex splashdown in 10 min
01:52 PM polprog: alternative mind-virus: https://polprog.net/rozne1/ircjunk/various/adcexpander.jpg
02:02 PM polprog: rue_mohr: that new gadget with the keyboard port is interesting.. mass floppy copier/writer?
02:35 PM rue_mohr: card puncher
02:35 PM polprog: oh
02:35 PM polprog: with.. with an LCD??
02:35 PM polprog: i guess *these* mainframes never die
02:35 PM rue_mohr: not like that
02:36 PM rue_mohr: punches letters into them
02:36 PM polprog: what cards does it take
02:36 PM rue_mohr: plastic ones
02:36 PM polprog: ah, so like a big Dymo punch
02:39 PM rue_mohr: yup
02:41 PM Tom_L: plastic shortage eminent
02:41 PM Tom_L: rotary showed up today instead of tomorrow
02:51 PM rue_mohr: cool!
02:51 PM polprog: heh, cool
02:51 PM rue_mohr: Tom_L, yea, its not firing the hammers to set in the letters
02:51 PM polprog: also, that one didnt play in brower either
02:51 PM rue_mohr: I might try *the other one* sometime
02:52 PM rue_mohr: polprog, yea, I need to figure out what encoder output kdenlive is using and make handbrake try to do the same one
02:52 PM Tom_L: you mean polprog
02:52 PM polprog: doesnt handbrake have some generic web/youtube preset?
02:52 PM rue_mohr: yea, its a fail
02:53 PM rue_mohr: and their docs have fallen behind their devs
03:30 PM polprog: id think h264 would be played by just anything
03:30 PM polprog: id try that
05:30 PM rue_mohr: Tom_L, trying to make a threaded collar out of 316
05:31 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1160815.jpg
05:31 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1160816.jpg
07:22 PM Tom_L: how much pressure?
07:22 PM rue_mohr: 300
07:22 PM Tom_L: be careful
07:22 PM Tom_L: pics to come..
07:25 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/calipers/Mitutoyo1.jpg
07:25 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/calipers/Mitutoyo2.jpg
07:27 PM rue_mohr: water for hydro test
07:27 PM Tom_L: ?
07:27 PM Tom_L: what are you testing>
07:53 PM Tom_L: ^^ no test on that one. cad'd it up and ran it
08:29 PM rue_shop1: got the larger spark plug in,
08:29 PM rue_shop1: the tap drill was a hair large, would have liked more thread
08:29 PM rue_shop1: water fire extinguishers
09:57 PM ShopMoon: rue_mohr: Hay you got a spare lcd for a kid friend?
10:00 PM Tom_L: rue_shop1, something for work then
10:08 PM rue_mohr: wtf, I'm taking apart a gearbox I was given, its an electric actuator
10:08 PM rue_mohr: its ... filled.... with........... gasoline?
10:08 PM rue_mohr: ShopMoon, we can round one up
10:10 PM ShopMoon: XD, cool
10:12 PM ShopMoon: hey who is tiwake? is that your tea machine?
10:23 PM Tom_L: that would be teawake no?
10:30 PM rue_mohr: dunno
10:30 PM rue_mohr: ShopMoon, you gonna stay up all night and code?
10:31 PM Tom_L: rue_mohr, you making a male or female thread on that coupling?
10:34 PM Tom_L: rue_mohr, someone that gave you the gearbox don't like you???
11:09 PM rue_mohr: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/i2mqub/wirewrapping_the_forgotten_craft_look_at_this/
11:09 PM rue_mohr: these are interesting
11:09 PM rue_mohr: Tom_L, inside thread on it
11:24 PM rue_mohr: Tom_L, its a hydro test, so you fill it up with water, then use a hand pump to bump it up to 300
11:25 PM rue_mohr: let it sit a bit, relieve and empty out
11:25 PM rue_mohr: the dry tanks are 575 psi
11:25 PM rue_mohr: I need to find some expanded mesh
11:26 PM rue_mohr: hey! I did two of the items on my list today!
11:27 PM rue_mohr: that just leaves clearing 10' of the house deck for that cnc machine