#robotics Logs

Nov 08 2011

09:12 rue_house who was dude?
09:13 rue_house ooo pretty good on in tiwan
09:15 rue_house that fault in oklahoma is going for a steady slip
09:15 rue_house 5km down eh? seems shallow
16:10 andrewvos Thinking of getting a bioloid as my first entry into robotics. Anyone think this is a bad idea? I'm a developer so I've written some C, and was wondering if this would be the right choice?
16:10 home i need help also
16:10 home urggh
16:10 home i am frustrated..
16:18 home ok
16:18 home need some C++ code
16:18 home to make a robot go forward for 10 seconds
16:18 home or 5 seconds
16:19 orlok that all depends on the hardware...
16:20 home lol yeah
16:20 orlok but generally it will be a serial message to the dedicated hardware driving the motors
16:20 home but I am looking for a loop that goes for 5 seconds, and then tells the motor to stop moving
16:21 orlok that will all depend on the motor controller
16:21 orlok echo "START" > /dev/ttyS0;sleep 5;scho "STOP" > /dev/ttyS0
16:31 home wow
20:17 rue_house I have a C library for linux comm communication
21:42 roid hello?
23:30 home oh snap
23:31 home I nbeed to get my C++ skills
23:31 home up
23:31 roid exam tomorrow?
23:33 home not really
23:33 home I am slowly understand it better.
23:34 roid are you having fun with it?
23:34 home yeah :D
23:34 roid :)
23:34 home its cool looking for solutions and seeing how mines differs.
23:35 home I am hoping this will run on my robot at school tommorow >.<
23:35 roid that must be hard, compiling at home and then having to wait until school to test it out
23:35 home yeah
23:36 roid you should break into your school
23:36 roid to try it now :D
23:36 home You know..
23:36 home IF, and IF
23:36 home we had an area
23:37 home to properly test it at, then I guess I could find a viable solution to run it from HOME.
23:37 home but man... this robot uses a lot of energy
23:38 roid ah
23:38 home I need some at home projects..
23:38 home so that I can develop my programming skills... for programming bots..
23:38 home so much to practice XD
23:38 home anyways..brb
23:38 roid ok