#linuxcnc Logs
Apr 25 2024
#linuxcnc Calendar
10:52 AM JT-Shop: turboss linked me the qtpyvcp sections of the plotter this morning
11:04 AM lcnc-relay: <roguish> way to go
11:11 AM JT-Shop: my vmc does not have a plotter and I don't miss it :)
11:17 AM Tom_L: yard done none too soon... it's pouring down rain
11:18 AM Tom_L: i use the plotter mostly to see how many passes are left
11:18 AM roycroft: the rain just started here too
11:18 AM Tom_L: we need the rain, it's been rather dry
11:34 AM skunkworks: roycroft: I am interested in your megasquirt.. (that is a sentence I never thought I would write..)
11:35 AM skunkworks: brb
11:37 AM roycroft: haha
11:37 AM roycroft: i'll dig it out and let you know what's up with it
11:37 AM roycroft: iirc i got the megasquirt1, assembled and tested it, and i got some ancillary lcd display for it that i don't remember what it does
11:38 AM roycroft: but i'll be happy to pull it out and see what's there
11:49 AM -!- #linuxcnc mode set to +vv by lithium.libera.chat
12:00 PM Tom_L: those were a fire hazard
12:01 PM Tom_L: fuel leaks then boom
12:01 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> when i build my standby generator project i will likely have to go with something EFI...
12:01 PM roycroft: not if maintained properly
12:01 PM roycroft: all elevated-fuel tank vehicles can be fire hazards
12:01 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> I think I need a set of right angle spark plug wires..
12:02 PM roycroft: but there's no reason for fuel to ever leak if you maintain the vehicle properly
12:02 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> There just isn't enough room around the new distributor..
12:03 PM skunkworks: the current carb is a single barrel rochester.
12:03 PM skunkworks: cute little thing
12:04 PM skunkworks: Need to get it out on the road to really test it - but seems to be running good
12:04 PM skunkworks: the internet seems to think they were a decent carb - and the choke works well
12:05 PM skunkworks: (which so far - it seems to)
12:05 PM roycroft: i always used dual carbs on my pancake engine vws
12:06 PM skunkworks: Pump the gas once - starts right up.
12:09 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> i keep looking for cheap donor engines for my generator project... they are all EFI, so without something like a megasquirt, i would have to convert to carbureted...
12:14 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> carbs setup right - work well... I just want the megasquirt to play with.. 🙂
12:16 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> right, but with a generator, the choke is a PITA to fiddle with in an automated standby situation...
12:25 PM roycroft: i have a half dozen spare air-cooled vw engines that i need to get rid of
12:25 PM roycroft: if you bring your truck or trailer over you can have as many as you want, travis-farmer :)
12:27 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> don't think either will make it to the west coast... just pop a couple stamps on one and mail it out 🙂
12:31 PM * roycroft is really looking forward to the big purge
12:37 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> skunkworks8841 i just found this, you may fine interesting: https://speeduino.com/home/
12:40 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> travis_farmer neat!
12:41 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> yeah, it used a Arduino Mega2560 🙂
12:41 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> kits are under $200 or so
12:41 PM roycroft: so one of tfg's attorneys today argued before the supreme court that a president could order the assassination of a political rival, or stage a military coup, and as long as the president framed it as an "official act" they would be immune from prosecution
12:41 PM roycroft: i don't want to turn this into a political discussion, but it really needs to be said that they made that argument a few minutes ago
12:42 PM roycroft: people need to know what's really going on
12:42 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> OMFG...
12:43 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> ugh. we are doomed.
12:44 PM roycroft: someone should ask "if the president ordered the justices of the supreme court to be hanged, would they be immune from prosecution?"
12:45 PM roycroft: anyway, sorry to bring reality to the channel
12:46 PM roycroft: i don't think we're doomed
12:46 PM roycroft: but i have this annoying optimistic outlook on things
01:40 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> I don't understand why he's still alive
01:41 PM XXCoder: heavy duty healthcare thats how
01:43 PM rdtsc2: This is pretty neat https://github.com/RT-Thread/rt-thread
01:56 PM XXCoder: spring finally happened here
01:56 PM XXCoder: its raining all day
01:56 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> in the 80's here last weekend. this week in the 60's. next week back to the 70's, supposedly
01:57 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> only got up to 50F here
01:57 PM XXCoder: 50s f all week here. so its 80c there eh roguish eh
01:58 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> i only do F. roy is the C guy
01:58 PM XXCoder: when someone leaves units out ill choose one
01:58 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> K
01:59 PM roycroft: me and almost the entire rest of the world
01:59 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> always choose "K", makes it more interesting
02:00 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> just because the rest of the world does it, doesn't make it right 😉
02:00 PM XXCoder: I prefer metric units, except I grew up in usa so
02:01 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> I use both. all the time.
02:01 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> I am bi-units.
02:01 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> lol
02:01 PM XXCoder: fancy
02:01 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> bi-units sounds like a medical issue
02:01 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> whatever floats your boat
02:02 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> it's definitely a personal problem
02:02 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> makes you multi-dingual
02:02 PM roycroft: we will get you some unit-conversion therapy
02:03 PM roycroft: to better align your units with social norms
02:03 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> ha ha
02:05 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> roycroft: you should read this Opinion piece in the NYT. very good. pretty sure you'll like it.......https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/opinion/oppression-victim-offensive.html
02:05 PM roycroft: they have a paywall
02:10 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> you can create a free account and get some access. Use a disposable email address......
02:11 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> roycroft: use Brave browser and open a private window with TOR. let's you read it
02:16 PM roycroft: that's a lot of work to read an article
02:16 PM CaptHindsight: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/166904 Q. How do I access The New York Times?
02:17 PM CaptHindsight: works from outside CA
02:17 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> that'd be Roy
02:20 PM CaptHindsight: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-for-firefox/ works for many other newspapers
02:20 PM CaptHindsight: but not NYT
02:21 PM CaptHindsight: roycroft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ukak8P2vY Help! I'm Being Repressed!
02:27 PM roycroft: i don't feel repressed
02:27 PM roycroft: i just don't want to bother with paywalls and logging in to websites
02:30 PM roycroft: bc wildfire had their headquarters in chetwynd, bc, in the middle of the forest area where most of the wildfires start
02:30 PM roycroft: they just moved it to dawson creek, over 100km away, where it's flat and there are no fires
02:30 PM roycroft: the only connecting road from dawson creek to chetwyck closes regularly due to wildfires
02:31 PM roycroft: chetwynd
02:31 PM roycroft: so yeah, that makes a lot of sense
02:31 PM roycroft: keep the firefighters safe by blocking their access to the fires
02:31 PM CaptHindsight: not even a little repressed?
02:32 PM roycroft: no
02:32 PM Rab: Is that an equipment facility, or administrative/command center?
02:32 PM roycroft: i think both
02:33 PM roycroft: the folks in chetwynd are complaining that they're not going to have any protection when the fires start up again
02:35 PM roycroft: and i mean, the proletariat are always repressed by the bourgeoisie, but like any repressed american, i dream of becoming the bourgeoisie some day, and therefore fully support my oppressors
02:35 PM skunkworks: Lol.. Don't tax the rich - I might be rich one day...
02:36 PM roycroft: that's american exceptionalism at its more pure
02:37 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> roycroft: I pay the NYT $1/month. getting close to quitting 'cause it's so frackin' liberal.... and no, I am not Trumper or even close. Just like even coverage.....
02:39 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> roguish: hey, how's the new house coming along?
02:39 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> roycroft: hey, how's the new house coming along?
02:40 PM roycroft: slowly
02:40 PM roycroft: i'm heading back up after work today for another coat of mud on the room i'm working on
02:41 PM roycroft: i wanted to move in at the end of april, but i'm probably still a month away from that
02:41 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> https://jauriarts.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/matrix.org/QHCfCWFiuKUQgVoLEizTNMsP/nyt%20opinion.pdf
02:41 PM roycroft: i'm really looking forward to the move, though
02:41 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> there ya go. now ya can read it.
02:42 PM roycroft: and even though the place i'm moving to is way more conservative than even my current maga neighborhood, it has small town energy, which i like
02:42 PM roycroft: people smile at each other, wave to each other when they're driving, and say hi to each other even when they don't know the other person
02:44 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> roycroft: I just uploaded a pdf of that opinion piece. read it in your spare time
02:44 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> it's good
02:44 PM roycroft: thanks
02:45 PM roycroft: and please don't get me wrong
02:45 PM roycroft: i'm not complaining about paywalls
02:45 PM roycroft: o
02:45 PM lcnc-relay: <roguish> hey, i agree
02:45 PM roycroft: i'm just pointing out that they exist, and that i choose not to play their game
02:46 PM roycroft: they are free to start a game and make up whatever rules they want, and i am free to not participate
02:51 PM roycroft: i agree in large part with that article
02:51 PM roycroft: modern "liberalism" and the "social justice movement" reminds me a lot of dennis moore
02:53 PM roycroft: and for the python-challenged:
02:53 PM roycroft: https://jauriarts.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/matrix.org/QHCfCWFiuKUQgVoLEizT
02:53 PM roycroft: ack, not taht
02:54 PM roycroft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkhx0eqK5w
02:54 PM roycroft: but that
02:56 PM Tom_L: skunkworks, this was also an eif project quite some time back http://www.diy-efi.org/efi332/
02:56 PM Tom_L: i had a handfull of those moto chips
02:56 PM Tom_L: i must say one of the funnest chips to mess with
02:58 PM Tom_L: http://www.bitsavers.org/components/motorola/68000/MC68332_Users_Manual_1990.pdf
02:58 PM lcnc-relay: <skunkworks8841> Tom_L: Neat - I don't think I have run across that one. I never really got to the point of playing with any of the stand-alone engine computers.
02:59 PM Tom_L: i have the set of books for it (9 or 10 i forget)
02:59 PM Tom_L: along with the 'pink' 68hc11 books
02:59 PM Tom_L: the tpu was pretty cool
02:59 PM Tom_L: offload tasks to it to keep the main uc free
02:59 PM Tom_L: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/user-guide/MC68332UM.pdf
03:00 PM Tom_L: after nxp bought them out
03:01 PM Tom_L: their pwm was a phase shift pwm with 15 channels iirc
03:01 PM Tom_L: use an external xor chip to get the phase
03:02 PM Tom_L: gnu c worked with it
03:05 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> you would think they would switch to the 32-bit STM32 chips
03:06 PM Tom_L: http://robominds.com/
03:06 PM Tom_L: i've got a few of those boards
03:07 PM Tom_L: i've forgotten most of what i knew about them now though
03:07 PM lcnc-relay: <travis_farmer> i am currently dreaming of adapting an engine from a small EFI car to a standby generator application, and i think speeduino may be the answer...
03:16 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> Yo
03:17 PM Tom_L: yo yo
03:17 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> $618 to fix the mirror
03:17 PM Tom_L: better be careful where you park from now on
03:18 PM Tom_L: ins cover it?
03:18 PM Tom_L: mostly
03:18 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> No, she has to pay for it
03:19 PM Tom_L: they wanted some crazy number like that to replace a running light on the honda
03:19 PM Tom_L: the lens is chipped
03:19 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> The lady that opened her door
03:19 PM Tom_L: ahh
03:19 PM Tom_L: wasn't quite sure how it all went down
03:19 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> 2 different paint colors 3 parts damaged
03:19 PM Tom_L: was there a parking lot brawl?
03:20 PM Tom_L: :)
03:20 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> She was very nice about it
03:20 PM Tom_L: i'm sure...
03:20 PM Tom_L: i'd guess probably 1/3 the cars around here are running around without ins from the looks of them
03:23 PM roycroft: that's not such a crazy number, necessarily, based on what it takes to do what should be simple repairs these days
03:23 PM roycroft: right to repair laws should help with that a lot
03:24 PM roycroft: i'm still driving my prius with a noisy blower fan, because while the fan is $120, it's 12 hours labor to completely remove the dashboard to access the fan
03:24 PM roycroft: that's just stupid
03:24 PM XXCoder: mirror assembly is quite expensive and you cant buy parts for those in most part
03:24 PM XXCoder: my car it would be $450 something
03:24 PM XXCoder: thankfully I found a site where I could buy only cover that was ripped off
03:25 PM XXCoder: with $100 paint, it cost overall $120
03:26 PM XXCoder: still amazed that somehow cover being ripped off didnt damage anything else
04:00 PM roycroft: well i worked through lunch again, so i get off work an hour early today
04:01 PM roycroft: which is good, as i have a lot of work to do on the new house
04:01 PM * roycroft hits the road
04:01 PM XXCoder: dont let road hit back. roll with hits
04:05 PM Tom_L: AI isn't always that great... ordered amazon.. wrong size.. ups shipper back.. received credit.. claimed they didn't receive it... re-charged cc
04:05 PM Tom_L: AI was left out of the returned item loop
04:06 PM Tom_L: phone call.. found item.. re-issued credit
04:07 PM Tom_L: oh.. JT-Cave don't crack a windshield.. you'll really be in for a surprise
04:08 PM Tom_L: i've had to put 3 in the honda @ 1.6k ea
04:08 PM Tom_L: all the camera crap etc has to be recalibrated each time
04:08 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> I can't even imagine what a C8 windshield costs
04:08 PM Tom_L: don't try to :)
04:09 PM XXCoder: probably more than c8 ;)
04:09 PM Tom_L: she feels jinxed since each time she was driving :)
04:13 PM XXCoder: hows her recovery jt
04:13 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> Hi snaked
04:13 PM lcnc-relay: <JT> She is doing well, 3 weeks today
04:13 PM * snaked waves through the relay bot
05:41 PM CaptHindsight: https://pad.efn.no/p/linuxcnc-2024-norway LCNC meeting for fun
05:43 PM XXCoder: fun lol
06:19 PM Unterhausen: used the dado blade on my tablesaw for the first time and it was mostly a success. No slotted fingers anyway
06:48 PM rdtsc_away is now known as rdtsc
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