#robotics Logs

May 23 2012

00:02 furrywolf wtf is a luskwood?
00:03 katsmeow-afk http://lmgtfy.com/?q=luskwood
00:03 katsmeow-afk i think all the cats on https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/36173?id=36173&search%5Blayout%5D=gallery&search%5Bper_page%5D=96 look alike, what a rip off
00:04 katsmeow-afk i'd luv to see some of those on a T800 tho
00:05 e_mohr falls out of his c
00:06 katsmeow-afk you should leave the arms on thos chairs, and set them to grab you before you fall
00:06 rue_mohr whelels slipped out for soem reason
00:08 katsmeow-afk oh, small frame
00:09 katsmeow-afk this thing is putting out two isolated 14vac lines now instead of 24vct
00:10 katsmeow-afk that will gimme +15 and -3 , perfect :-)
00:10 katsmeow-afk i can hang a 7805 off the +15 to be analog ref and be vcc for a avr
00:11 katsmeow-afk the TL084 can pull the IRF44 to +10, way saturating it as needed, and drop it to 0v or a lil below
00:12 katsmeow-afk pdip-40 isn't gonna fit on a 70x50mm pcb tho
00:12 katsmeow-afk going to haveto cut big ones down
00:13 katsmeow-afk i can't remember wher the nails are, but i nose my electronics ;-))
00:26 skimocha haha! [00:49] <katsmeow-afk> i never been on 2nd life
00:30 katsmeow-afk but i haven't
00:34 furrywolf grrr, plane is late, now won't be here until 11.
00:37 katsmeow-afk you going to do some traveling?
00:38 furrywolf I work as a courier, got a case of blood being flown in and rushed somewhere.
00:38 katsmeow-afk that's traveling
00:39 furrywolf yeah, to the airport then to the blood bank.
00:41 furrywolf 29% packet loss... bleh
00:41 furrywolf this same connection was 0.3% loss earlier today.
00:42 katsmeow-afk 1 sec
00:42 rrywolf wants to be in bed, not driving semi-hazmat around in the middle of the ni
00:44 katsmeow-afk no wonder my brain is off, the clock snuck around pact twalf ocluck aain
00:45 rrywolf tucks kat into
00:52 katsmeow-afk zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
00:56 furrywolf and now my connection has degraded to where I can't even irc. bleh.
08:58 rue_mohr dialup or wireless?
08:58 rue_mohr I'm betting wireless
09:23 e_mohr stret
09:23 rue_mohr I'm gone again tonight
10:02 Tom_itx aww
11:19 tsmeow-afk looooooooooooooks at rue and f
11:23 katsmeow-afk i can't believe i do not have a closeup pic of the entire tektronix 7103 face,, but then i can't understand why the 7103 is called "R7103" or "7103R" when the only other 1Ghz scope is the 7104 and it cannot be rackmounted
11:33 katsmeow-afk heh, the Facebook founder who renounced his usa citizenship put money into a new "facebook" startup called Quiki, but a quiki (used like "a tweet") requires Chrome browser to see it
11:33 katsmeow-afk http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/qwiki-obamas-secret-trip-to-afghanistan/ --- A Qwiki lives here but you need a modern browser to view it.
11:33 katsmeow-afk http://www.google.com/chrome
11:34 katsmeow-afk so i am guessing he also put money from selling Facebook stock into buying Chrome stock
11:47 katsmeow-afk also, all the news reports that Zuckerburg lost X amount of money witht he stock price collapse isn't entirely true, because it isn't counting the $1 Billion of his stock that he had instantly sold the very first day, he cashed out $1 Billion, he cannot loose that with stock devaluation
11:48 katsmeow-afk i'd be interested in knowing how many other Facebook principles instantly cashed out, and for how much, because if that was a trend, it points to fraud, knowing the stock was going to crash early
11:49 katsmeow-afk even if it would rebound, by cashing out when they did, they can pick up even more stock when it hits bottom
11:50 katsmeow-afk even if it is fraud, they now have the money to buy the legal system and stay out of jail
11:51 tsmeow-afk looks at G
11:53 GuShH o.o
11:54 katsmeow-afk i thought you'd comment
12:29 katsmeow-afk ah, this is how solar got all those ittybitty mirrors for that dish : http://www.ebay.com/itm/500-pcs-Mini-Mirror-Glass-Tiles-2-x-2-cm-/270870875530
12:30 katsmeow-afk or : http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mirror-Glass-Mosaic-Tiles-275pcs-/251044687990
12:31 katsmeow-afk there's someone over in .uk that's making ittybitty mirror pieces
13:41 lawltoad hi I was wondering what would be the best way to triangulate a robots position within a set field, Ideally within a centimeter or two
17:30 KongfuPanda you guys seen this robot: http://youtu.be/HuC6q9kbryw ?
17:52 ace4016 yes we have
18:52 zhanx got my new truck today http://tinypic.com/r/x3tr0x/6
18:54 orlok Ahh, nice
18:54 zhanx insurance and payment are cheaper than my car
18:54 orlok they are bigger than a hilux?
18:55 orlok Dont think i see any here
18:55 zhanx same size
18:55 orlok ahh.. whats the difference?
18:55 orlok trim/branding?
18:55 zhanx its a toyota hilux right?
18:55 orlok yeah
18:55 zhanx side the steering wheel is on
18:56 zhanx thats it, its got a 2" body lift and a 4" suspension lift on it. so its taller than a stock one
18:57 orlok Ahh, its a merkenized hilux.. designed more as a personal car than a work vehicle
18:57 orlok http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Tacoma
18:57 zhanx well its got the work package in the bed for this one
18:59 orlok hmm. the black 4wd in back to the future
18:59 orlok that was a hilux? or "toyota pickup" as the americans called it/
18:59 zhanx toyota pickup
18:59 orlok yeah, hilux for the rest of the world
19:00 zhanx but really they are the rest smae
19:00 orlok americans and your weird branding
19:00 zhanx yep
19:00 zhanx hilux parts are cheaper which is weird
19:01 zhanx also i got the manual transmission in it
19:01 lok still drives a 40 year ol
19:02 zhanx petrol is too much for that
19:03 orlok heh, apparently people are outside admiring it now
19:04 orlok 2.85l 6 cyl, 3 speed auto
19:04 orlok but it weighs 950kg
19:05 orlok the race spec models used to beat 351 fords around the track
19:05 zhanx nice
21:06 furrywolf grrr, fucking crappy connection.
21:51 zhanx ok truck is muddy ish now
21:58 Tom_itx it's a used truck now
23:00 katsmeow-afk ok, last transformer for the nite is epoxied
23:00 rrywolf hops on kat's
23:01 katsmeow-afk mouw?
23:01 katsmeow-afk i took pics of the process too, for uploadng later
23:02 katsmeow-afk how to make a single winding centertapped be a dual winding
23:03 katsmeow-afk and you cannot do this to all transformers, but if you need to raise the secondary volts by 10% , you can raise the primary a lot easier with a 12vac transformer
23:04 katsmeow-afk so to push one of my 12vac@8amp transformers to 13vac@8amp, all i really need is a 12vac@1amp winding to boost the primary, it's alot smaller and cheaper than boosting the secondary
23:05 katsmeow-afk unless yu're into transformer rewinding
23:05 katsmeow-afk and while i seem to keep doing it, i am not really into it
23:05 furrywolf last similar project I did was making an induction motor run the opposite direction, when it was not designed to do so. start cutting tape until you find splices, bring out more wires, swap them. :)
23:07 katsmeow-afk yeas, cap starts are alot easier, the wiring is already out where you can get at it
23:08 katsmeow-afk i went out on the back porch earlier, it's so nice when no one is burning garbage, and there's no gods barking
23:09 katsmeow-afk i could see the stars and hear the creek below
23:09 katsmeow-afk could not see the creek or hear the stars, but i don't mind atm
23:14 katsmeow-afk An intellectual prodigy, he was accepted to Harvard when he was just 16. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and he was teaching at U.C.-Berkeley when he was just 25.
23:14 katsmeow-afk And Ted has just started his 15th year at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo.
23:14 katsmeow-afk Ted, of course, is Theodore John Kaczynski
23:16 furrywolf you mean you can be both smart and insane at the same time? never heard of that before!
23:17 katsmeow-afk yep
23:17 furrywolf </sarcasm>
23:18 katsmeow-afk o
23:21 katsmeow-afk maybe we are just getting old, furry
23:21 furrywolf heh
23:23 tsmeow-afk drinks a protien shake with vitamin pill for breakfast, fish/flaxseed oils with meals, 500mg vitamin C 2x a day, and calcium ,, she ate none of that 20 yrs
23:24 katsmeow-afk and it's been years whittling out that plan of attack against aging
23:24 katsmeow-afk my one solder won't cooperate with me at all without the shake for breakfast
23:24 katsmeow-afk shoulder
23:24 furrywolf heh
23:24 katsmeow-afk now if only my fingers would cooperate
23:25 furrywolf I need to find someone who can cook good meals. these days I pretty much only eat microwave stuff and the occasional salad.
23:25 katsmeow-afk i am still afraid to eat veggies
23:26 furrywolf why's that?
23:26 katsmeow-afk as in being arrested, dragged into court, proving that i bought the veggies, and wasn't out crawling thru the garden, tending it, spying on the neighbors
23:26 furrywolf heh
23:27 katsmeow-afk i cannot stand long eigh to work the garden, it's not possible, but i can on my knees just fine, but i got arrested for that
23:27 furrywolf only suggestion I can think of is move. or call the mob and arrange for your neighbor to have an accident.
23:27 katsmeow-afk which is why abandonded the garden over 10 yrs ago, and have not eaten a veggie since, cept a few tomatoes in buckets on the roof
23:28 furrywolf my insane neighbor won't leave. the landlord has been trying to throw her out for close to two years now.
23:28 katsmeow-afk if she is legally evicted, the cops will do the throwing out
23:28 katsmeow-afk your landlord is too happy with her paying rent
23:28 furrywolf then she threatens to have him jailed on imaginary charges, just like your neighbor does to you.
23:29 furrywolf she hasn't paid a dime in ~5 years.
23:29 katsmeow-afk is she is mom or something?
23:29 furrywolf nope
23:30 furrywolf useless hippie that moved in with the useless hippies he was renting to, then refused to leave when he evicted all of them.
23:30 furrywolf she's never paid rent.
23:31 furrywolf the rest of them left when he gave all of them a 30 day notice.
23:32 katsmeow-afk then he never officially evicted her, of course, maybe he can't, praps if the gov knew the condition of the place, they'd have all the houses torn down, your's included
23:32 furrywolf yep. which is part of why he won't go to the sheriff to have her dragged out.
23:33 katsmeow-afk well then
23:33 furrywolf every time he tells her to leave, she threatens to make his life hell.
23:34 furrywolf I was talking to him earlier today, in fact. he'd just received a 20 page letter from her, detailing why he owes her tens of thousands of dollars (note she's never paid a cent of rent), and that it'd be easier for him if he just gave her the deed to the property.
23:35 furrywolf he wasn't quite sure what to make of it, and couldn't quite believe the level of insanity indicated.
23:35 orlok not one of those sovreign citizens is she?
23:37 furrywolf and yet, if we just dragged her out of the house, tossed all her stuff in a pile in the road, and padlocked the door, _we'd_ be the ones the cops went after, because the legal system is horribly broken.
23:37 katsmeow-afk technically, she can claim right of adverse possession, and go get the title herself
23:38 furrywolf her argument is that she shouldn't have to pay rent because of substandard living conditions, and because she's done work to the house (no, she hasn't - she's completely incompetent in every way), he should have been paying her for the last five years for her living there.
23:38 katsmeow-afk it's like a legal "squatter's rights" after various amount of years, since the owner knows she is there and has not had her legally removed, she is using the place, the owner isn't, so she gets handed the rights
23:38 furrywolf somehow the fact that this is not a logical conclusion doesn't apply to her.
23:39 katsmeow-afk you might wanna point this out to the landlord
23:39 furrywolf he is well aware of this.
23:39 katsmeow-afk her legal right to the title is growing thelonger she is there
23:39 katsmeow-afk ok
23:40 katsmeow-afk it may very well be easier on him to put her stuff out when she is away, and burn the place down,, or dozer it
23:40 katsmeow-afk she cannot produce a rental agreement right?
23:40 katsmeow-afk then 30 day notices are hardly relavant
23:41 furrywolf there's no paperwork whatsoever.
23:41 furrywolf it's part of the same parcel as my place, so she can't claim adverse possession, since she doesn't have exclusive use of the property.
23:42 katsmeow-afk the landlord has two lossy options, afaik, let here stay and she will eventually have the title to it, or burn the one place down to keep the other places,,, altho i recommend the dozer so the fire dept isn't involved
23:42 furrywolf the property is also used by the landlord and his son for storage.
23:43 katsmeow-afk she can claim exclusive use of the area she once did have a rental agreement for, even if it was 10 yrs ago
23:43 furrywolf she never had a rental agreement. she moved in with other people who did (although it was oral only), then stayed after the legitimate residents left.
23:43 katsmeow-afk the landlord also using it is pretty immaterial, it proves he knows she is using the property, and that he is allowing it
23:44 tsmeow-afk gives up and lets you 3 solv
23:46 katsmeow-afk ok, six 12vac@450ma windings, all done, 2ft leads coming out of the transformer like they belong there
23:46 furrywolf several people I know have offered to help drag her out and toss her crap in a pile, but the cops would probably support her, not us. because refusing to leave when trespassing is ok, while removing said tresspasser isn't.
23:46 katsmeow-afk right, you must wait till she is away
23:47 furrywolf she leaves the property once-twice a month, to do laundry, and spend the food stamps she scams the government for.
23:47 furrywolf she's perfectly able-bodied, but would rather be given money than earn it
23:47 katsmeow-afk that's enough time, and don't just put her stuff outside, put it off the landlord's property entirely
23:48 furrywolf the problem is she'll go to the cops and complain about the substand living conditions, including my place, and how the big evil landlord is trying to throw out the poor helpless hippie girl...
23:48 katsmeow-afk don't let other humans steal it till she gets back, you cannot just give her stuff away
23:49 katsmeow-afk not a problem, the landlord cannot upgrade the place with her living there, and she is squatting
23:49 katsmeow-afk the otehr places, i can't help with
23:50 furrywolf our current plan is to move a roommate in with her.
23:51 furrywolf she absolutely can't stand one of our friends, and he happens to be homeless right now...
23:52 katsmeow-afk ok
23:52 furrywolf unfortunately, the reason we haven't done this plan yet is he's out of state visiting relatives.
23:54 furrywolf might have to move someone else in, if he decides to stay there.
23:55 furrywolf it's a small cabin, no interior walls... one bed...
23:55 furrywolf when she moved herself in, there were two other people living there.
23:55 furrywolf so she can't object to moving two more back in.
23:57 katsmeow-afk i can imagine two men who she doesn't know and cannot stand, living in the one-room cabin with her, will cause some fireworks
23:57 furrywolf yes
23:57 furrywolf especially since our friend, after suffering head trauma in a car accident, is a bit, how should I put it, inappropriate around women.
23:58 katsmeow-afk if they get drunk and rape her, she can sue and get title and get people thrown in jail,, there's a line that cannot be crossed
23:58 furrywolf nah, he won't do that. he will, however, walk around naked, then claim she hates men when she objects.
23:59 katsmeow-afk that's going to be a fuzzy line there too, being the cabin is one room, and it's all sorta public/shared