#robotics Logs

Nov 10 2011

08:03 coppermine i got one of the pololu controllers to work
08:03 coppermine the ohter only works in one direction
08:03 coppermine what can i check?
09:07 rue_house cant answer to someone who's not here
09:07 rue_house its a limit switch again, there is a forward and reverse limit
09:07 rue_house he hasn't bypassed one yet
09:07 rue_house how can we best use that knowledge to tease him?
09:08 rue_house (told him yesterday to bypass the two)
09:10 Steffann Don't
09:10 Steffann Why this channel is so quite .. the subject is so nice
09:17 parag0n we are all scary and geographically diverse
09:17 Steffann True, but the last part should matter
09:17 parag0n i'm buying a laser cutter next week :D
09:17 Steffann And we're not that far away from each other
09:19 parag0n true, but a lot of the more talky people in here are in australia and america
09:19 Steffann Why it's always about them? :)
20:27 Tom_itx .
20:27 Tom_itx o
20:27 Tom_itx O
20:27 dunz0r Hmmm. Why are all the fun robot challenges in the states for? Do you know how much a flight ticket to that place costs?:(
20:28 Tom_itx iirc india has some
20:28 Tom_itx and japan
20:28 dunz0r A ticket there is just as much :(
20:28 Tom_itx although maybe not now
20:29 dunz0r I'll just have to organize one for northern europe myself it seems!
20:29 orlok in japan, not being eaten by the toilet is a compitiion in robotics
20:30 zhanx orlok, the toilets are not that bad
20:30 zhanx just need to learn the buttons
20:30 dunz0r I once heard a very dirty joke about a toilet with an automatic tampon-remover and a man using it.
20:31 Tom_itx we don't need to know about it
20:31 zhanx noope
20:31 dunz0r I won't tell it either, it was not very funny.
20:33 rue_house whats the secret were keeping?
20:34 Tom_itx a best kept one
20:34 rue_house oooo THAT one
20:39 zhanx its a good secret
20:41 zhanx bored
20:41 zhanx in pain etc great night
20:42 zhanx i had the honor of holding the national colors today and i am paying the full price for my knee now
20:44 orlok hahah my daughter just pissed in my GF's face hahahahahaha
20:46 dunz0r Damn it. The only regional robot competition changed their rules. Now the competitions are too easy or Sumo. And in Sumo I don't have a chance.
20:46 dunz0r Unless I pour more money on my robots.
20:47 dunz0r Since money is(as we all know) great at diverting IR-light.
21:21 Tom_itx so zhanx what exactly happened to your knee?
21:22 rue_house dunz0r, too bad you cant build robots with the amounts of money I throw at them
21:23 zhanx remember the football injury?
21:23 zhanx it came back
21:23 Tom_itx oh
21:24 rue_house somehow I didn't think about sumobots as being the driving force behind cloaking technology
21:24 Tom_itx didn't have enough heal time?
21:24 zhanx guess not
21:24 zhanx pain free for 2 months
21:25 Tom_itx oh hey, do you want one of these touch things? i haven't had time to hook one up and try it to see how well or if it actually works but i did put an ohm meter on the switch
21:25 zhanx sure
21:25 zhanx can
21:25 Tom_itx it's a shot in the dark
21:26 Tom_itx but i thought about mabye copper plating the bearings or something to help the conductivity
21:26 dunz0r rue_house: You mean you throw to little or that you wish that I could spend as much as you can?
21:26 zhanx can't pay till after the 20th, i leave monday for baltimore for a bit
21:26 Tom_itx if need be
21:26 Tom_itx they're just sitting here where they've been since i finished the machine work
21:27 zhanx ok i will pm an address
21:27 rue_house have you seen what I make for the gobs of money I put into my projects?
21:28 dunz0r Nope.
21:30 dunz0r Hmm... maybe it's "Spin" I'm thinking of.
21:31 Tom_L ok
21:31 dunz0r Hmmm. Seems I was wrong. Spin seems quite nice
21:32 nz0r wrote about propeller boards in the wrong cha
21:32 dunz0r Isn't there some basic-like languge for propeller boards, or was that a nightmare?
21:54 orlok ngh
21:55 orlok i think i just saw a pile of P4's ge tthrown out heh
21:58 Tom_itx rue_shop, you reslated your boiler system yet?
21:59 Tom_itx rue_house, you lettin rue_shop freeze you out?
22:02 dunz0r orlok: They're not good for much. Use too much power to be useable in robotics and are too slow to be used for desktops(imo)