#garfield Logs

Sep 25 2023

01:13 AM polprog: rue_mohr: what floating thing?
01:30 AM polprog: on the slideshow
01:30 AM polprog: what do you want to control there?
07:39 AM rue_mohr: polprog, oh, the play controls for the slideshow
07:39 AM rue_mohr: on a floating div
07:52 AM polprog: ah that
07:52 AM polprog: shuld be easy
07:52 AM polprog: the hardest part is making the css work
08:01 AM rue_mohr: heh
08:01 AM rue_mohr: thats css for ya
08:04 AM polprog: ill check that whenim back from work
08:22 AM rue_mohr: huh
08:22 AM rue_mohr: PSRAM is cool
08:23 AM polprog: oh nice
08:23 AM polprog: it looks cool
08:23 AM rue_mohr: serial
08:23 AM rue_mohr: it came up in that 1 bit cpu thing
08:23 AM rue_mohr: much higher density than i2c ram
08:24 AM rue_mohr: on mouser they are calling it '
08:24 AM rue_mohr: "IoT RAM"
08:24 AM rue_mohr: 64Mbits
08:24 AM rue_mohr: ~$3
08:25 AM rue_mohr: :] thanks for telling me what to find them in!
08:25 AM polprog: the Internet Ram
08:25 AM polprog: RAM as a service
08:25 AM rue_mohr: haha
08:25 AM polprog: you send a json with an address and data to the cloud
08:25 AM rue_mohr: haha
08:26 AM rue_mohr: easier to use than SDRAM!
08:26 AM rue_mohr: maybe faster...
08:33 AM rue_mohr: Tom_L, worked with mig much?
11:52 AM polprog: damnit
11:53 AM polprog: spent an hour cleaning up the trunk because someone did not close the diesel canister and it tipped over while i was driving to work today
11:53 AM polprog: ca 2.5L spilled >_>
11:54 AM polprog: stinks badly
12:00 PM VanUnamed: fuckin' mig!
01:10 PM Tom_L: rue_mohr, what about it?
04:39 PM aandrew: hm, got a cheap ($50) powerline ethernet adapter to see if I could get better internet in the garage here, I'm 2 stories above it and while wifi does make it down I prefer something.. more
04:39 PM aandrew: I mean it worked pretty much right out of the box. plug 'em in, pair, done. drag the one downstairs, hook up a pi, it works
04:39 PM aandrew: link is about 100mbps (they advertise gbps) so we'll see
04:45 PM Tom_L: i had a bunch of those given to me way back
04:45 PM Tom_L: as long as you're on the same buss
04:50 PM aandrew: apparently these can hop over to the other phase, but with a loss of performance, and everyone who I've talked to so far who's used them say they work and almost universally lock up or "pause" from time to time. power cycle cures it but it's annoying
04:50 PM aandrew: so we'll see
04:50 PM aandrew: so far the ping times to the router have been < 5ms consistently
04:51 PM Tom_L: i ran a cat5 to the garage and put a wifi out there
04:51 PM Tom_L: turned an old router into a repeater
04:52 PM aandrew: *nods* I am a fan of cat5 or OM1 to where ever you need bandwidth, then sprinkle wifi where you need wireless. this powerline thing is more from a lack of other options although I was wondering how hard it'd be to poke a hole in the downspout outside the kitchen window and slide some cable in there
04:53 PM aandrew: I'd still have to run it across one of the other unit's garages before i could get to mine, and of course I'd have to do this all without making the neighbours curious which would be almost impossible since they're literally across the street with windows facing mine
04:53 PM aandrew: and on top of all that, I'd have to convince my wife that a bit of cat5 coming in the kitchen window isn't an eyesore
04:54 PM aandrew: which would probably be the hardest thing of all that to achieve
06:26 PM rue_mohr: yay, spare drive belts for the spindle arrived!
06:27 PM rue_mohr: Tom_L, is it normal to just have a voltage adjust?
06:27 PM rue_mohr: no current control?
06:27 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/Mill_Steel/Welding/Miller.jpg
06:28 PM Tom_L: V & wire
06:28 PM rue_mohr: so the idea is to set the voltage to where _ but _ doesn't happen?
06:29 PM Tom_L: mine has a chart inside to somewhat follow
06:29 PM Tom_L: it's pretty close
06:29 PM Tom_L: for material thickness
06:29 PM Tom_L: & wire size
06:31 PM Tom_L: i'll take a pic of it after i finish eating
06:32 PM Tom_L: https://www.millerwelds.com/resources/weld-setting-calculators/mig-solid-core-welding-calculator
06:35 PM Tom_L: https://www.millerwelds.com/files/owners-manuals/o1324d_mil.pdf
06:35 PM Tom_L: start around P13
06:35 PM Tom_L: no that was wrong
06:36 PM Tom_L: 24 shows gas & wire size
06:36 PM Tom_L: 25 has thickness & settings
06:39 PM Tom_L: 25..27 same as the chart i have
08:58 PM rue_shop2: so, the next pulley, I totally missed the size for the bearing
08:58 PM rue_shop2: I'll have to make an adaper ring
09:16 PM Tom_L: having issues with mig?
09:16 PM Tom_L: i had trouble at first but it was because the gas tube wasn't seated right
09:17 PM Tom_L: and wasn't getting to the tip
09:24 PM rue_mohr: I'm not sure how you adjust it
09:24 PM rue_mohr: aside from the charts
09:24 PM rue_mohr: I like to do performance based adjustments
09:28 PM Tom_L: i use them as a guide but usually make it a little 'hotter'
09:29 PM Tom_L: you can tell if the wire isn't feeding fast enough
09:32 PM rue_mohr: arc should be continious eh?
09:48 PM Tom_L: right
09:49 PM Tom_L: too fast and it just makes a hump of weld
09:53 PM rue_mohr: ok
09:53 PM rue_mohr: so I cant get the ise (xilinx) to let me open the pin editor
09:53 PM rue_mohr: it let me do it a while ago
09:53 PM rue_mohr: accidently
10:00 PM Tom_L: hmm, it should
10:01 PM Tom_L: i haven't used it that often
10:01 PM Tom_L: http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/cnc/Mill_Steel/Welding/test_bead2.jpg
10:02 PM rue_mohr: not sure how I got it up
10:02 PM Tom_L: that was one of my first welds after i got the gas connected
10:02 PM rue_mohr: nice
10:02 PM Tom_L: could have been a bit hotter but not bad
10:02 PM Tom_L: penetration could have been a little more
10:02 PM Tom_L: it welds different than stick
10:08 PM Tom_L: i think i only used that pin editor with my cpld board
10:09 PM Tom_L: it should be on the menu to the left
10:09 PM Tom_L: you may have to expand it
10:12 PM Tom_L: maybe under 'implement design'
10:12 PM Tom_L: place & route
10:14 PM rue_mohr: for some reason its disabled
10:15 PM Tom_L: maybe the pins are defined elsewhere
10:15 PM Tom_L: iirc you can do it more than one way
10:15 PM rue_mohr: there is a little gui tool that makes a ucf somewhere
10:15 PM Tom_L: i don't remember
10:15 PM rue_mohr: :]
10:15 PM Tom_L: what is the ucf file?
10:16 PM Tom_L: the pin file?
10:16 PM rue_mohr: yea
10:16 PM rue_mohr: they have a gui tool
10:16 PM rue_mohr: I accidently brought it up once
10:16 PM Tom_L: on a big chip it gets a little confusing
10:17 PM Tom_L: since some are grouped
10:17 PM Tom_L: dunno if it's for timing or what
10:17 PM Tom_L: some pins are chosen for a certain purpose
10:18 PM rue_mohr: thats part of why I want the gui tool
10:18 PM rue_mohr: so I dont have to find the pinout and write it all manually
10:20 PM rue_mohr: I hate how manager this is
10:21 PM rue_mohr: "make report" "analyze this" "analyze that"
10:21 PM Tom_L: heh
10:21 PM Tom_L: alot is for timing critical things to happen together
10:21 PM rue_mohr: there is nothing to get the work done!
10:21 PM rue_mohr: not at 5kHz
10:22 PM Tom_L: but it doesn't know that
10:22 PM Tom_L: those xfinity chips are worse
10:22 PM Tom_L: from what i can tell
10:24 PM Tom_L: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/86961/how-to-assign-physical-pins-of-fpga-to-xilinx-ise-verilog-modules
10:24 PM Tom_L: yeah that's the ucf file
10:25 PM Tom_L: PlanAhead
10:26 PM Tom_L: maybe that's the editor
10:26 PM Tom_L: look for that on the left menu dropdown
10:26 PM rue_mohr: huh, things are missing
10:26 PM rue_mohr: the planahead is disabled in the menu
10:26 PM Tom_L: are you on the right tab?
10:26 PM rue_mohr: yea
10:27 PM Tom_L: https://i.stack.imgur.com/87N79.png
10:27 PM rue_mohr: yea, thigns are missing
10:27 PM Tom_L: you got the right chip selected?
10:28 PM Tom_L: i dunno.. it's been too long
10:28 PM rue_mohr: np I think something is broken
10:28 PM Tom_L: ahh
10:32 PM Tom_L: gnite
10:32 PM rue_mohr: night
10:35 PM rue_mohr: ok
10:36 PM rue_mohr: I didn't run that shell file
10:42 PM rue_mohr: oh there is a library file it cant find