#robotics Logs

Apr 18 2012

00:04 rue_house so I'm gonna stop
00:04 katsmeow-afk stop which?
00:04 rue_house eating
00:05 katsmeow-afk depending on how you define eating, food can be drinked
00:05 rue_house yourright, I'll have to stop drinking too
00:05 katsmeow-afk eating is an addiction, i have not has pasta in weeks, and i am wanting some, even tho i know i shouldn't
00:08 rue_house hmm, well if the gesture system didn't work cause of noisy input, then I wasn't doing it right
00:08 katsmeow-afk news show today: fighting increased rape in the usa military, TWO depts of the usa secret service involved in prostitutes, some ad for teen preganacy, then a promo for the bully movie, and then an ad selling testosterone to make men more aggressive ............ i don't understand
00:09 rue_house easy, left-hand right-hand
00:09 tsmeow-afk
00:10 rue_house I think its hardest to admit I screwed up if I have to say it when nobody otherwise knew
00:13 katsmeow-afk in food choices?
00:13 rue_house no
00:13 katsmeow-afk spoon feeding solarng?
00:17 furrywolf bbl, wolfy bedtime
00:17 rue_house meh
00:17 tsmeow-afk wonders if she should keep waiting on rue, or go fix di
00:19 rrywolf curls up next to katsmeow-afk for bedtime, since spacekitteh doesn't seem to be aro
00:21 tsmeow-afk fluffs furr absentmind
00:23 rue_house there is a good industry to make reliable things for, everyones always having to fix their dinners, we should make an indestructable dinner
00:24 rue_house one that wouldn't break if you tried and never wears out
00:24 rue_house bring back the words "lifetime warranty"
00:25 furrywolf mrrf :)
00:25 furrywolf bbl, bedtime
00:25 katsmeow-afk that's easy if you want the same dinner, or something very close, each time, but it's not easy to fix a spagetti dinner to be pizza dinner
00:25 rue_house if ther eis a problem, there is a solution
00:25 rue_house the verry nature of the problem defines the shape of the solution
00:25 furrywolf tv dinners. :)
00:25 katsmeow-afk a unbroken dinner thruout time never breaking never needing fixing, is easy for the same dinenr
00:26 rue_house see, you already solved it
00:26 rue_house now we just have to go into prototyping stage
00:26 katsmeow-afk i thought it was obvious
00:26 rue_house so if the meaning of life, but the question itself stumps most people
00:27 katsmeow-afk i vote for continuous extruder feed pizza dough machine, with a selection of possible inputs
00:27 rue_house I'd bed 30 mins ago
00:27 rue_house und my brain is off
00:27 katsmeow-afk life needing fixing? that's old news too, lookat the olde curse "may you live in interesting times"
00:28 rue_house dar I forgot to shave
00:28 rue_house again
00:28 rue_house back in 9
00:46 katsmeow-afk of the 200 47u caps i got for 99 cents on ebay, 1/2 of them (all by one oem) are 1/2 the rated stated value on a capacitance meter, the other half are exactly right on
00:48 katsmeow-afk of the 2000 47ufd i got for $1.04 on ebay, *all* are right at 40ufd
00:50 katsmeow-afk still, at a price of 0.052 cents each, prolly a good deal
00:51 katsmeow-afk yep, ~1/20 cent each
00:52 tsmeow-afk puts them all in series and charges them to 32,000 v
02:01 thylaneb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpFaN7nNV4
02:22 katsmeow-afk Daleks were so advanced they could travel thru time, but they still looked like upside down trash bins with acne
02:24 katsmeow-afk and what could they do? scoot slowly on perfectly level concrete or steel, not scoot fast, not scoot on dirt-sand-gravel-yards
02:31 Skwint in the next series, quad-copter dalek will take upper floors by storm!
02:38 ylaneb
02:42 thylaneb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYMdsY670pU
03:01 thylaneb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZiMmQgi0Q
03:06 thylaneb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMKX0gZqggA
03:30 Skwint actually, the history of sci fi robots is quite funny in a way
03:31 Skwint they are utterly pathetic from a mechanical electrical point of view, but able to hold conversations
03:31 Skwint reality is things that move so fast the human eye can't work it out, but still have to be programmed in C :)
05:51 dunz0r Skwint: Depends. In Asimovs books they have "positronic brains"
05:51 dunz0r Which are similiar to our brains
05:57 Skwint that ... supports my statement?
08:53 rue_house katsmeow-afk, iirc they should be 20% tolerance
08:53 rue_house so thtas pretty bad
08:53 rue_house katsmeow-afk, http://www.reece-eu.net/gallery/var/albums/funny/china-capacitor-scam.jpg?m=1272638161 did you try opening one of them?
09:15 rue_house I love the way , in the last video, the robot tracks the ball as it rolls back out of the goal
09:18 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qigO6QCsKSk&feature=related
09:18 rue_house hahahah so totaly unfair
09:19 rue_house hahahah second round its just lost
09:24 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP99ucYDFdA&feature=related
09:24 rue_house hahaha its polite for the goalie to help the opposing team complete their score
09:26 rue_house hahaha I think the game is taking longer than their batteries are rated for
09:27 rue_house hahaha entire team falls over, BATTERY BREAK
09:33 rue_house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsZbzbqRmH4&feature=related
09:33 rue_house hahaha
09:33 rue_house I have fallen and I keep getting up
10:02 DanFrederiksen hehe they are disturbingly incompetent
10:04 DanFrederiksen as I've said many times, we need some elegant tiny servo control boards. real servo, not RC bs
10:04 DanFrederiksen so some real robotics can be done. it's such an obvious need..
10:27 DanFrederiksen rue_house, how much power is your solar panels?
10:45 Steffanx nu
12:41 katsmeow-afk rue, i opened one, looks like 1/2 the foil isn't connected
13:03 katsmeow-afk ah, that's how the robot solves getting a drink from the fridge, it walks up to the fridge, and commands it to hand over the drink
13:04 katsmeow-afk otherwise, the task takes so long, the drink is alwasy warm by the time it gets to the human
13:16 katsmeow-afk "robot, get us two drinks", simultaneously, a cannon protrudes from the fridge and the robot turns to face it, <POW>?<POW> cans whiz thru the air at the robot, robot catches them hands them to humans, elapsed time: 0.78 seconds
13:18 LoRez percentage of drink humans are able to consume: 10
13:18 LoRez rest of carbonated drink fizz out of cans
13:19 katsmeow-afk i'd still like to see it ;-)
13:22 katsmeow-afk "robot, get us two drinks" , simultaneously, a cannon protrudes from the fridge and the robot turns to face it, <POW>?<POW> cans whiz thru the air and the robot misses them, the cans go thru the plate glass window, the robot runs after them, falling 2 stories thru the roof of the owner's car,
13:23 katsmeow-afk robot accesses the situation, attempts to drive squashed car to store for more drinks, runs over dog, drives thru gate, takes out the mailbox.......
13:59 Tom_L http://www2.electronicproducts.com/True_replacements_for_50_W_MR16_halogens_LED_bulbs_consume_84_less_energy-article-hlrc02_jun2012-html.aspx
15:12 katsmeow-afk "All bulbs have a 25� beam angle" , so off-beam they get really dim, which has been the complaint of led bulbs forever: to get high lumen ratings, they are focussed like flashlights, not like floodlights
15:13 katsmeow-afk (From about $26 in qty available now.)
15:15 katsmeow-afk 20w led floods on ebay for $4480 free s&h now : http://www.ebay.com/itm/5W-6W-9W-10W-15W-20W-LED-Ball-light-E26-E27-Screw-B22-Bayonet-Base-Lamp-White-/260876361018?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item8266e25092
15:15 katsmeow-afk 20w bare modules can be downright cheap
15:18 katsmeow-afk screwbase lite : LED E26 20W 20WATTS COOL WHITE CORN LIGHT BULB 120V ; Location: California, USA ; Buy It Now $29.90 ; Free shipping
15:51 katsmeow-afk "Alabama House passes bill bannning "made me fat" lawsuits" ,,, how about lasuits that Alabama made me stupid?
15:52 katsmeow-afk "Democratic Rep. Demetrius Newton of Birmingham said he opposes attempts to "close the courthouse" door to those jwho want to file lawsuits"
18:15 katsmeow-afk you is?
18:17 Tom_itx is not
18:51 katsmeow-afk people left
18:56 Tom_itx people right
18:57 sw0rdfish lol
18:57 sw0rdfish nice one Tom_itx
18:57 sw0rdfish and hello to the two of you :)
18:57 Tom_itx sry, i'm a little nuts. pic n placin smt tonight
18:58 katsmeow-afk you should have placed them where they belong the first time!
19:00 Tom_itx oh i know :)
19:01 katsmeow-afk rue has that lil arm you could prolly borrow to do that tideous stuff
19:02 Tom_itx i'm not sure it would be in tolerance for some of these parts
19:03 katsmeow-afk but we don't know till you try, and try it in your basement, ya know some mighty big electronics companies started down there
19:03 katsmeow-afk or in garages
19:03 Tom_itx yup
19:04 katsmeow-afk see that'r ue's problem, he has all that space under the north end of his place, and he doesn't use it
19:05 katsmeow-afk if his 12ft mecha walked out from under there at the right time, he'd be even more famous
19:06 katsmeow-afk and for all the right reasons this time
20:55 Tom_itx ok more boards in the oven
21:19 katsmeow-afk yummy boards! the ones with the metallic tangy taste?
21:44 zhanx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7pc1B3rnMY&feature=fvwrel
21:44 zhanx i think i figured out how i can make my delta bot on my cnc easier
21:45 zhanx but only time will tell
21:57 katsmeow-afk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCsP5y4BHV0
21:59 katsmeow-afk hydraulics instead of pneumatics, would make that a much faster and detail-controlled ride
21:59 katsmeow-afk i suspect with hydraulic fluid in tose, you could feel the gravel you drove over