#garfield Logs

Dec 16 2024

03:29 AM rue_mohr: Tom_L, do you recall seeing some of the encoders I made with the discs you did?
03:44 AM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1300343.jpg
03:44 AM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1300344.jpg
03:44 AM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1300349.jpg
03:44 AM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1300351.jpg
04:10 AM Tom_L: i remember those
04:16 AM rue_mohr: I DID use some!
04:17 AM rue_mohr: the refunds for things are starting to waterfall in
04:17 AM rue_mohr: for the aliexpress stuff
04:17 AM rue_mohr: Purchase Protection is running out, but package is still in transit Valid
04:17 AM rue_mohr: Solution1:Full refund 8.17 CAD
04:18 AM rue_mohr: thats the 3rd item
04:18 AM Tom_L: cool
04:18 AM Tom_L: you must be off today
04:18 AM rue_mohr: our postal system is still probably 6 months backlogged
04:18 AM rue_mohr: I still might get 100% refund on anything I buy
04:18 AM rue_mohr: might get blacklisted by all the sellers,
04:19 AM rue_mohr: not sure if that matters...
04:21 AM rue_mohr: one of the little floor sweeper robots fell off a stand today and turned on when it hit the floor
04:21 AM rue_mohr: there was a bit of amusement and it beeping and trying to drive around upside down
04:22 AM Tom_L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWgviZZi7lM
04:23 AM rue_mohr: most of my stuff arrives fine, I'm not sure how
04:24 AM rue_mohr: I dont think the canada post workers are much nicer to them
04:31 AM rue_mohr: Tom_L, are you awake?
04:31 AM rue_mohr: oh, your just up getting out to work aren't you
04:32 AM polprog: rue_mohr: https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=58
04:33 AM rue_mohr: ah, your awake!
04:33 AM polprog: yep
04:33 AM polprog: sick, so working from home
04:33 AM rue_mohr: polprog, Im looking for ideas on getting the little sweeper bots to locate a charger station for automatic charging
04:33 AM polprog: slow monday at work
04:33 AM rue_mohr: ah perfect
04:34 AM polprog: hmm. from what i know the charging stations for most automatic vacuum cleaners use some IR emitters to locate themselves
04:34 AM polprog: think about lighthouse but it sends some code in IR
04:34 AM rue_mohr: hmm
04:35 AM rue_mohr: turn the robot around to find the angle extents and go with the middle?
04:35 AM rue_mohr: maybe narrow its detector to like 30 degrees?
04:36 AM rue_mohr: that would play into other things tho, it wont always be able to see a charger station
04:37 AM rue_mohr: its 2:30am, might be getting close to bed time for me
04:38 AM rue_mohr: I'm super happy about the wire clamp I made for the stripper
04:38 AM rue_mohr: need to think up a stripper mechanism for it next
06:41 AM polprog: thats the idea yes
06:41 AM polprog: you can have two ir emitters, one for left, one for right hand side
06:42 AM polprog: if the robot sees both, it means its going towards the station
06:42 AM polprog: kinda like a navitational light, that has three sectors, green, white and red
11:42 AM aandrew: what do your sweeper bots look like? any docu anywhere on them?
12:58 PM rue_mohr: I had them on twitter, I was making a fleet
01:35 PM rue_mohr: I want to do a 7 segment decoder with an old ROM...
01:35 PM rue_mohr: just to have been thee
01:35 PM rue_mohr: ere
01:35 PM rue_mohr: there
03:43 PM Tom_L: fpga
03:48 PM rue_mohr: na, old ROM
03:48 PM rue_mohr: OTP
03:49 PM rue_mohr: use empty space
03:49 PM rue_mohr: OH WOW, PACKAGES!
03:49 PM rue_mohr: I might be in trouble now if they all start arriving.
04:02 PM Tom_L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUzNEWvFPxk
04:02 PM Tom_L: those were mux'd
04:02 PM Tom_L: in code
05:52 PM rue_mohr: I wonder if there is a video thing that works with my normal browser
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump On
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump Off
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump On
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump Off
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump On
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump Off
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump On
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump Off
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump On
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump Off
05:52 PM rue_mohr: Septic Pump On
05:52 PM rue_mohr: its got to have a bad switch
05:55 PM Tom_L: what browser do you use?
05:57 PM Tom_L: the float on mine was getting clogged with paper and wouldn't cycle right
05:57 PM Tom_L: i've replaced the switch on it 2-3 times and last time had to buy a new sump pump
05:57 PM Tom_L: the housing was getting pretty coroded
06:21 PM rue_mohr: my main browser is firefox 59.9.0
06:22 PM rue_mohr: hmm
06:22 PM rue_mohr: I had them set it up for two pumps
06:22 PM rue_mohr: I should have actually got a second one a while ago
06:22 PM rue_mohr: alternate them
06:23 PM rue_mohr: ok, I'm gonna check my truck tires and sort some stuff
06:23 PM rue_mohr: freaking mice got all thru stuff in one of the storage sheds
06:23 PM Tom_L: you realize ff is up to 115.18.0 now?
06:23 PM rue_mohr: I cant upgrade it
06:23 PM Tom_L: why?
06:23 PM rue_mohr: I have a program called kompozer that I need for stuff
06:24 PM rue_mohr: and just about every upgrade depends on removing it
06:24 PM Tom_L: i've heard of that
06:24 PM Tom_L: hmm
06:24 PM rue_mohr: I think my way around it is to go to a 64 bit kernel
06:24 PM Tom_L: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/
06:24 PM rue_mohr: I can leave the 32 bit system in place and put on a new layer of apps for the 64 bit stuff
06:24 PM Tom_L: you can't reinstall it?
06:25 PM rue_mohr: nope
06:25 PM rue_mohr: pretty sure that the dependencies it needs conflict with system stuff
06:25 PM Tom_L: Mozilla Composer codebase
06:25 PM Tom_L: is that why?
06:25 PM rue_mohr: probably most of its code base
06:26 PM rue_mohr: "last update 2016"
06:26 PM rue_mohr: 2016 code wont compile or work on anything made in the last 10 years
06:26 PM rue_mohr: ;]
06:27 PM rue_mohr: so I got two aliexpress packages today
06:27 PM rue_mohr: the union was ordered back to work
06:27 PM rue_mohr: which is NOT good
06:27 PM Tom_L: you were hollerin cause they weren't workin
06:28 PM Tom_L: now you're hollerin cause they are?
06:29 PM Tom_dev: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/06/msg01378.html
06:30 PM Tom_L: iceape
06:32 PM Tom_L: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_trademark_dispute
06:45 PM rue_mohr: yea well
07:44 PM aandrew: if they deliver all his aliexpress items he doesn't get to cash in on late delivery refunds :-)
07:48 PM rue_mohr: shopping for goodies knowing they wont cost anything, even if you might not get them, is actually too much fun
07:58 PM aandrew: what's the neatest/uniquest/unusualest thing you've got off ali? for me I think it could be either the invisible hinges, micro-actuators or the optical power meter
07:58 PM aandrew: there are some other neat things in there too but it's hard to pick just a few
07:59 PM aandrew: funniest name was probably "battery shrapnel" -- the spring and leaf battery terminals for regular old AA and AAA batteries
08:00 PM rue_mohr: hmmm...
08:00 PM rue_mohr: the thigns I get are usually pretty standard
08:01 PM aandrew: I did try to get a 30W fiber laser for $250 (it was priced way wrong) but they canceled it
08:01 PM rue_mohr: yea, they miss by too much and that happens
08:02 PM aandrew: I also found some heat shrink tz-tape for my brother p-touch, that was pretty awesome
08:02 PM rue_mohr: odd was probably getting a scalple, becasue the straight bladed ones are cheaper than hobby knives, and the blades are WAY cheaper
08:03 PM rue_mohr: oo
08:03 PM rue_mohr: I wonder if its a brother I have...
08:03 PM aandrew: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807663060817.html
08:03 PM aandrew: like that
08:04 PM aandrew: oh wait that's jsut a regular sticker
08:04 PM aandrew: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807616255508.html
08:04 PM aandrew: that is heat shrink
08:04 PM aandrew: I gotta try to help you spend that refund money wisely :-)
08:05 PM rue_mohr: wow the heat shrink is cheap
08:05 PM rue_mohr: I have a bunch of 'choice' items in my cart waiting for more delay refunds to come in
08:06 PM aandrew: heh, scammers trying to get me to enter my dhl details
08:06 PM aandrew: thing is I am actually waiting on something from TI that the first half arrived via dhl
08:07 PM aandrew: I particularly like the "scanned by antivirus" letter with checkmark icon ensuring me it's perfectly safe to open the attached html and pdf document
08:07 PM rue_mohr: :]
08:07 PM rue_mohr: oh I stripped down a vfd today
08:07 PM aandrew: rue_mohr: haha yes I have also had things in my cart for over a year just waiting
08:07 PM aandrew: nice
08:07 PM rue_mohr: shall I post that on bluesky or mastadon?
08:07 PM aandrew: mastodon, I've pretty much given up on bluesky
08:07 PM rue_mohr: yea, lots of users, no activity
08:08 PM aandrew: twitter's hard to replace for the jokes and tech content, but I don't do anything useful there
08:08 PM aandrew: actually there are 51 things in my cart right now and I just got a bunch of stuff
08:09 PM rue_mohr: got a new ballast and lamps into a basement light I been meaning to do for a month now
08:10 PM aandrew: I think we spoke about this before but humor my diseased mind... why are you using CFLs? I figure you must have a gazillion LEDs and cheap LED accessories for lighting
08:11 PM rue_mohr: the new lamps are LED
08:12 PM rue_mohr: working ones disposed of at work
08:15 PM Tom_L: as mine give out i'm getting led strips
08:27 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/tempimage/p1330456.jpg
08:27 PM rue_mohr: is it working any better for you?
08:29 PM Tom_L: i dropped one and a section went out on it but the rest still work
08:29 PM Tom_L: it's hanging above the mill
08:29 PM Tom_L: and i was trying to rewire the cabinet some
08:31 PM rue_mohr: heh, I been thinking the shop is dim lately, I wonder if the led lamps are getting dim, (they do it really gradually)
08:33 PM Tom_L: alot of the street lights around here are turning purple
08:33 PM Tom_L: the city said they got a bad batch
08:33 PM aandrew: yeah as I get older I realize just how much easier it is to see/work with a lot of light
08:33 PM aandrew: but funnily enough (maybe not funny) my ability to work in strong contrast is really going down the tubes
08:33 PM Tom_L: wait til you're as old as dirt...
08:33 PM aandrew: I need ambient light when working at a laptop
08:34 PM aandrew: I feel old as dirt today. fighting off some cold my kid brought home
08:34 PM rue_mohr: 'tis the season
08:35 PM aandrew: just listening to some smooth jazz (not my usual) and chilling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8AWb5lTb7g
08:35 PM aandrew: this song really works for me, the key changes and the ... saunter... that the melody has just does it
08:36 PM aandrew: the version I have isn't quite as frilly as this one but the youtube one is still very good
08:37 PM aandrew: might throw on some satriani later
08:39 PM aandrew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oe06936C0c THIS is the one I have
08:39 PM aandrew: much cleaner and the saunter is so much better
10:45 PM rue_mohr: amazon.com/stores/page/5A3D798A-3097-4597-AB3E-B04C3645F850
10:46 PM rue_mohr: cough cough, 80!!!?????
10:46 PM rue_mohr: cough cough, $80!!!?????