#robotics Logs

Nov 19 2011

01:01 rue_bed not sure how to make a nice slim force sensor yet
01:01 rue_bed I think I'll use a lvdc for the position sense
01:01 zhanx old school rap night for my programming muse
01:01 zhanx 800 lines later
01:01 zhanx :)
10:06 rue_house 800 lines of anything interesting z?
10:06 rue_house zh
10:06 rue_house hmm
11:46 theBear i'm not sure any of that made sense to me.... 800 lines of old school rap ? where does the muse and the programming come into it ?
13:27 aggrav8d printrbot is about to get full funding. $25k in only two days, nice!
16:07 rue_house morning all
16:07 rue_house theBear, see the airmuscle servo video?
16:07 Tom_itx afternoon
16:33 rue_house story of my life
16:33 rue_house my stove dosn't exist
16:34 rue_house sears - kenmore - model 970567211
16:37 Tom_itx what's the matter with it?
16:39 zhanx call sear
16:39 zhanx sears
16:42 rue_house they said to just call an appliance place
16:42 rue_house the appliance place never answered my calls
16:43 rue_house two of the borners are hooched, rusted apart
16:46 zhanx burners?
16:46 zhanx too easy they make replacement universal ones
17:05 rue_shop even if I have no idea what the model number is?
17:05 rue_shop zhanx you saw the air muscle servo?
17:06 rue_shop youtube... video...
17:06 rue_shop thought I might get more comments...
17:06 zhanx i saw it
17:06 zhanx liked it
17:07 zhanx link again will comment
17:08 rue_house it was really haard to do
17:08 rue_house controlling the airmuscle wasn't easy either
17:09 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2xWgEdiTwc&feature=g-all
17:11 zhanx commented and submitted to HaD
17:11 rue_house hu?
17:12 zhanx its great work
17:12 zhanx so i made sure other people will get to see it besides us :D
17:12 rue_house next I need to do up a fofce sensor so I can get a counteracting muscle working
17:13 zhanx and subscribed to your video feed so i can get updated faster
17:14 zhanx oh btw love that soldering iron
17:14 rue_house which one, the dollar store one?
17:14 zhanx the old green one
17:15 zhanx oh and the leather gloves
17:16 zhanx which i have said before
17:18 rue_house old green one!?
17:18 rue_house maybe you saw the solder sucker?
17:18 zhanx maybe
17:18 zhanx in video first 5 secs
17:44 Tom_itx rue_house, the model number won't do you any good anyhow
17:44 Tom_itx they want too much for parts
17:44 Tom_itx just go find generic parts for it in your boxes in the shop
17:59 rue_house IT WOULD HELP IF i KNEW WHAT MY STOVE WAS
17:59 rue_house I cant just walk into the generic stove and ask dor a gas burdern can I?
17:59 rue_house that more I cant ORDER ONE TO BE MAILED IN
18:00 Tom_itx take one with you and you can
18:00 Tom_itx easy as pie
18:01 Tom_itx how does a gas burner go bad?
18:01 Tom_itx was it borrowed to help a heat plant along????
18:27 zhanx its by diameter and plug for the stove if i remember right
18:36 Tom_itx zhanx which of the pdf's is the best to start on the arm?
18:38 zhanx umm not sure none of them really show programming
18:38 zhanx what would you like to do
18:38 Tom_itx i got the chip pdf's
18:38 Tom_itx look over the registers etc
18:39 zhanx that is what i normally use
18:39 zhanx just the pdf for the chip and go from there
18:48 zhanx ok everyone brought wine over so i guess i am hosting a wine tasting tonight... and yes someone brought a junk wine
18:48 Tom_itx save it for later on
18:49 zhanx its a 5 dollar bottle of white zenfendel (sp)
18:49 Tom_itx i never was much for wine anyway
18:50 Tom_itx gives me a headahce
18:50 Tom_itx headache
18:50 zhanx i actually hate it
18:50 zhanx but guests are guests
18:51 Tom_itx don't think i better try to tackle this pdf tonight
19:02 zhanx weak
20:15 Tom_itx rue_house
20:15 Tom_itx how can you get/display the filesize in python?
20:30 coppermine is skype realtime video?
20:30 coppermine good for robotics?
20:52 rue_house filesize in python
20:52 rue_house funny, I dont do much with python
20:52 rue_house let me thnk a sec
20:53 rue_house there's the old open it, seek to the end, and read the pointer location
20:54 zhanx neer done python. osp bad
20:59 rue_house Tom_itx, found it
20:59 rue_house a function call called stat()
20:59 rue_house Tom_itx, ?
21:01 Tom_itx oh
21:01 Tom_itx i figured you were busy
21:01 rue_house http://docs.python.org/library/stat.html
21:01 Tom_itx went to grab some popcorn
21:01 rue_house stat.ST_SIZE
21:01 Tom_itx i was searching with no luck
21:02 Tom_itx do i need to 'include' anything to use it?
21:02 rue_house http://docs.python.org/library/stat.html
21:03 Tom_itx i opened it already
21:03 rue_house says at the top what you need to inlcude, I cant find a better example
21:03 Tom_itx oh i see
21:04 rue_house thats good, I was applying all the C I could
21:05 Tom_itx i want to display the file size
21:05 rue_house <rue_house> stat.ST_SIZE
21:05 rue_house if the file is already open, use fstat
21:08 Tom_itx the filesize could change with the current file
21:11 rue_house i still dont know who or what had is
21:11 rue_house HaD
21:11 Tom_itx usb?
21:13 Tom_itx hardware acquisition data?
21:14 rue_house its from Z, I dont know
21:14 Tom_itx oh
21:15 Tom_itx you'll find out when they hunt you down
21:24 rue_house damn, I have to re-hang the 'no hunting ' sign at the door
22:12 Tom_itx now to figure out the syntax
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