#robotics Logs

Dec 29 2011

00:13 rue_house hi
00:14 Geneva_Mode How are you? <3
00:14 rue_house I dont know, there are an unfathomable number of factors against me, yet, somehow, I do still exist
00:20 Geneva_Mode Oh?
00:21 rue_house at this point in my life millions of things could have killed me
00:21 Geneva_Mode Oh?
00:21 rue_house and somehow, none of them have
00:21 Geneva_Mode Gotten lucky?
00:22 rue_house I suppose
00:22 rue_house how is it that you still exist?
00:22 Geneva_Mode Nothing's killed me yet.
00:23 rue_house how long do you thinkm you can maintain this state of affairs?
00:23 Geneva_Mode I don't really know, and don't really care.
00:24 rue_house so what do you care about?
00:24 Geneva_Mode Good question.
00:24 Geneva_Mode I just like to learn, share my views (which many people seem to disagree with), build, create, and just play.
00:24 rue_house sounds good
00:25 rue_house do these activities ever cause you stress?
00:25 Geneva_Mode Sometimes.
00:25 rue_house then you truely do care about them
00:25 Geneva_Mode Just now, in another chat, I had a politicial debate with someone.
00:25 Geneva_Mode We were talking about the prison system.
00:25 rue_house heh, dont get me started on politics
00:25 Geneva_Mode I'm not going into details.
00:26 rue_house what did you create lasT?
00:26 Geneva_Mode A partially completed model of a steampunk girl.
00:26 Geneva_Mode With Blender 3D.
00:26 rue_house :) cool
00:26 Geneva_Mode Oh, you've heard of it? :)
00:26 rue_house steam pump of blender?
00:26 Geneva_Mode No.
00:26 rue_house k
00:26 Geneva_Mode Blender 3D.
00:27 Geneva_Mode A modelling application.
00:27 rue_house I know blender
00:27 Geneva_Mode Do you use it yourself? :)
00:27 rue_house I'm a povray fan
00:27 Geneva_Mode Yes, povray.
00:27 Geneva_Mode I prefer blender because of how fast you can get stuff done.
00:28 Geneva_Mode And how it's represented. You don't have to render it just to see what a basic version of the mesh would look like.
00:28 rue_house but I box { <0,0,0>, <3,3,3> texture { pigment { Red }}
00:28 e_house
00:28 Geneva_Mode Povray's fun to play with, but also very fiddly sometimes.
00:28 rue_house :) yes
00:28 Geneva_Mode If you just want to model something, texture it, apply basic reflection or something, I would recommend Blender.
00:28 rue_house !assist robots/buddy_III/
00:28 tobbor Possibly http://eds.dyndns.org/~ircjunk/robots/buddy_III/
00:29 rue_house http://eds.dyndns.org/~ircjunk/robots/buddy_III/buddyCorrectedBig.png
00:29 Geneva_Mode Did I show you what I have in Blender so far?
00:30 rue_house http://eds.dyndns.org/~ircjunk/robots/buddy_III/dscn0370.jpg
00:30 rue_house no, lets see
00:30 Geneva_Mode http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/povraydude/basemesh_steampunk_girl.png
00:30 Geneva_Mode There it is. <3
00:30 rue_house ooo organics
00:31 rue_house are you familiar with bvh files?
00:31 Geneva_Mode No.
00:31 Geneva_Mode I box modelled that.
00:31 rue_house oh...
00:31 rue_house bvh is a motion capture format
00:31 Geneva_Mode Whilst following a tutorial.
00:31 Geneva_Mode Tell me more. :)
00:32 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrR8moC3qbA
00:32 rue_house I think if you dig around you will find that blender can import bvh sequences
00:33 rue_house (those are 3d sticks)
00:33 Geneva_Mode That song is bad and they should feel bad. But the 3D armature is awesome!
00:33 e_house clears th
00:33 rue_house ...
00:34 Geneva_Mode Sorry...
00:34 e_house chuckles and sm
00:34 Geneva_Mode <3
00:34 Geneva_Mode Hello, Eartaker.
00:34 Eartaker hi
00:35 rue_house I have a bunch of sample bvh files I found on the internet
00:36 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P75b7vqQWRQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1
00:36 rue_house thats a random different one
00:39 Geneva_Mode Cool. :3
00:39 rue_house see what you can find on blender and bvh files
00:39 rue_house you might be able to have more fun than you thought
01:01 Geneva_Mode Playing with Blender at the moment. :p
01:02 rue_house see any bvh stuff in there?
01:05 Geneva_Mode Not yet.
01:12 rue_bed I'm sure blender does bvh
01:19 Geneva_Mode It does.
01:19 Geneva_Mode Saw it on the Export options.
01:53 rue_bed I wonder if it can import
03:13 Geneva_Mode Anyone here?
03:14 Geneva_Mode Nobody?
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04:47 KongfuPanda morning ! I woke up earlier today
04:47 KongfuPanda yesterday was 12.30
05:32 Steffann Whoa, KongfuPanda
05:33 KongfuPanda yeah, it's a new record
05:35 Steffann w00t
05:43 KongfuPanda of how early I wake up
05:43 KongfuPanda I dunno, it's very weird. For the last 3 weeks I have been waking up at exactly 11.25
05:43 KongfuPanda +-3 minutes
05:44 Steffann No school/uni work?
05:44 Steffann I mean.. when i had that i sometimes had to be there around 8.30
05:44 KongfuPanda there's not alarm or anything. I just wake up, look at my watch and it's 11.25 every time
05:44 KongfuPanda weird?
05:44 Steffann Biological wake up call :)
05:44 KongfuPanda yeah, but why not 11.40 ? or 11 or something?
05:45 Steffann As your 'inners' for that :P
05:45 KongfuPanda Steffenn, yeah, we are on holiday till 1th of January. ~2 months break. Terms in Oxford are very short. Because I think they rent room to conferences and thinngs like that for profit.
05:46 Steffann *Steffann
05:46 Steffanx You really go to Oxford university?
06:18 KongfuPanda yeah
06:18 Steffanx me is jealous
06:19 KongfuPanda it's not so good
06:19 Steffanx Not?
06:19 KongfuPanda yeah
06:19 KongfuPanda I never liked it here
06:19 Steffanx It's a famous university isn't it?
06:19 KongfuPanda from accommodation to the way they teach and the system
06:20 Steffanx At least, they say it's one of the better universities in Europe ..
06:22 KongfuPanda true true, but for Physics there's the famous "tutorial" system. And basically tutors give us homework (usually for next week) and it's the main part. We don't even have to go to lectures if we want. But often this tutorial work is before lectures cover that topic, so we have to teach ourselves everything, which takes days.. and then lectures are not so useful anymore. It's so much work and stress
06:22 KongfuPanda and there's not much practical work
06:23 Steffanx Hmm, that sucks
06:23 KongfuPanda I really like practical experiements , even data analysis and stuff.. That's why I decided to build a small robot to do some practical things that I can touch
06:23 KongfuPanda and not sit for days in the library , trying to solve those bloody h\w questions
06:24 Steffanx h/w?
06:24 KongfuPanda homework
06:24 Steffanx Ah :)
06:24 KongfuPanda often the lecturers don't give any examples, just theory. But often it's impossible to solve a problem, that scientists took years to figure out in a day or so, if you haven't seen how it is done before
06:25 KongfuPanda and so what I end up doing every time is get a tonne of books and look for a similar problem in those books.
06:25 KongfuPanda because it's quicker that trying and trying and trying different approaches and all are wrong
06:28 KongfuPanda Steffanx, are you a student too? where/
06:28 Steffanx Not anymore
06:29 Steffanx but it's likely i will be next year
06:29 KongfuPanda where did you go to university?
06:29 KongfuPanda did you drop out?
06:29 Steffanx No, i'm a 'BSc' :P
06:31 KongfuPanda so which university and subject? if not a secret?
06:31 Steffanx The problem is.. we have academic universities and universities of applied sciences. I went to the second one
06:32 Steffanx Which is for less smart people or people who want to do more practical work/labs etc.
06:32 Steffanx EE KongfuPanda
06:32 KongfuPanda yes, and where?
06:32 Steffanx The UAS … you don't even know it problably
06:32 KongfuPanda .wik UAS
06:32 KongfuPanda oh, you don;t have physbot
06:33 KongfuPanda University Air Squadrons
06:33 Steffanx No, not that
06:33 Steffanx The only famous academic universities here a probably TU Delft, 'Leiden' probably too
06:34 KongfuPanda which country is that?
06:34 Steffanx http://www.eurogates.nl/en_dutch_universities_of_applied_sciences/
06:35 Steffanx The country above Belgium and left from Germany
06:35 KongfuPanda oh I see
06:54 Steffanx I'll probably continue my study next year KongfuPanda
06:54 Steffanx Not sure what exactly yet
06:54 Steffanx Maybe a Master in AI or EE
06:55 KongfuPanda cool cool
06:55 KongfuPanda do you enjoy EE?
06:55 Steffanx I prefer AI
06:55 Steffanx I'm more into the digital world .. which is sort of part of EE :)
06:56 Steffanx Masters in AI seem to be more about robotics and communication, so.. YAY :)
07:10 KongfuPanda cool cool
08:29 rue_bed ai in communications?
08:39 Steffanx Nah, Intelligent robots, so .. communication is part of that
08:41 KongfuPanda Steffanx, if you make skynet self-aware robot , I will give you beatings
08:50 rue_bed 'there's a wall in the way, so I assume when you said turn left you meant right'?
16:08 Geneva_Mode Hi. Anyone here?
16:15 Geneva_Mode Hello?
16:15 Tom_itx WHAT!
16:21 Steffanx Geneva_Mode !!!!!
18:55 Kimlaroux Anyone here knowledgeable in the use of chokes for noise filtering?
20:09 orlok ngah
20:09 orlok busy
20:09 orlok finally found my good set of hex keys, yay
20:09 orlok applied rogue to my telescope mount's ring gear and worm drive
20:09 orlok now its sitting there with a cordless drill attached, spinning away
22:47 Kimlaroux http://www.hawking.org.uk/ I beleive some of you might be interested in what this page says... in the middle, 2/3 down
22:56 rue_house er the radio is going in my truck
22:56 rue_house I think the voltage multipler for the variable capacitance diode is shot