#robotics Logs

Dec 09 2011

03:38 theBear heh
03:38 theBear dare i suggest the same applies to underruns
06:23 zhanx morning
06:25 Steffann Lo
06:25 Steffann We can have the same conversation as yesterday, but i'll skip it :)
06:26 Tom_itx good
06:26 Steffann Ha Tom_itx, you're also awake
06:26 Tom_itx morning
06:34 zhanx this i will go back to bed
06:34 Steffann Have a good nap
10:02 r0b-_ hi squinter
11:23 anx wakes bac
11:23 Steffanx Whoa, that was a long nap
11:24 zhanx pain med induced
11:36 zhanx Steffanx: thank the percocets for that
17:29 zhanx !assist robots
17:29 tobbor Possibly http://eds.dyndns.org/~ircjunk/robots
17:29 zhanx !assist robots
17:46 thylen http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/kitchen-robots-graduate-from-pancakes-to-popcorn-sandwiches
17:59 thylen The second video on that page makes me very angry.
17:59 thylen "We had given the robot the basic location of where the toaster should be on the counter, but the localization had drifte"
17:59 thylen NONSENSE
17:59 thylen cover that fricking robot with cameras.
17:59 thylen Have it check the actual position in real time.
17:59 thylen Why aren't they doing this?
18:00 zhanx lazy
18:00 thylen zhanx they have sensors and arms on these robots that run into the 10s of thousands of dollars!
18:06 zhanx nice
18:06 thylen I think I had this conversation in here before.
18:07 thylen You make a grid of 9 HD cameras. You use them to calculate depth using parallax. These are widely-known, off-the-shelf algorithms.
18:07 thylen The more cameras you have, the more accurate your parallax calculation becomes.
18:08 zhanx i manage to do it somewhat close with two webcams
18:08 zhanx and i am a beginner at everything
18:08 thylen Yeah actually you could spin the cameras into position and "simulate" more cameras than you have
18:09 thylen For a robot that's not on a timer, that is. Yesterday I was thinking of a google driverless car
18:09 KongfuPanda Hello robotics people !
18:09 zhanx key panda
18:10 KongfuPanda OMG, I want that pancake robot !
18:10 KongfuPanda hi zhanx
18:11 zhanx eat that much breakfast?
18:11 zhanx i want the ball bouncing one
18:12 thylen If you covered a google driverless car with 9 cameras on each side, for a total of 27, you would never ram into a pile of rocks and then spin your wheels until the engine catches fire.
18:12 KongfuPanda I want the white one
18:12 zhanx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfdHY26E2jc
18:12 KongfuPanda I think the white one is cleverer
18:13 zhanx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSKRgasUEko&feature=relmfu
18:15 KongfuPanda oh, I've seen this one :)
18:15 KongfuPanda if only they could make it like 10 time bigger and program it to cook for me
18:16 zhanx be cool
18:16 zhanx its why i need a 3d printer
18:16 zhanx so i can make my own
18:16 KongfuPanda yeah? nice
18:17 KongfuPanda is it true that you can buy one for ~800 pound nowadays?
18:18 zhanx www.mendelmax.com
18:18 zhanx that is 700 usd
18:18 zhanx all premium parts at that you can cut corners to make it cheaper
18:18 KongfuPanda is there a video of it working? would be nice to see
18:20 zhanx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TNCB2PqtQw
18:22 KongfuPanda so it prints on metal?
18:22 zhanx its new and the is the beta of it, no heated table on it
18:24 KongfuPanda I see
19:11 zhanx rue_house: home ?
21:05 the_jester rue here?
21:13 zhanx guessing not
21:14 the_jester hmm
21:15 the_jester belive it or not, Rue isnt at Home, Where could he be?, belive it or not rues not home
21:46 the_jester wow channel is so dead?
22:18 theBear nah man, not dead, you just gotta look harder :)
22:47 rue_house creation anneversary relation congrigation
22:47 Tom_itx ok laptop power jack swapped out
22:47 rue_house now complete
23:09 rue_house that stupid boiler is plugged right up
23:09 rue_house I'm wasting wood running it
23:10 Tom_itx water is plugged?
23:10 rue_house no the heats not going thru the boiler tubes, too much carbon insulation
23:10 rue_house maybe I shoudl dribble a little diesel down them }:)
23:11 rue_house that'll heat it all up quick
23:14 rue_house clear out the tubes
23:21 rue_house too much stuff going thru my brain, Ic ant think
23:21 Tom_itx maybe it's plugged up too
23:23 theBear she's all gummed up lad
23:48 hankers phew