#robotics Logs

Sep 10 2012

01:53 rue_bed "sometimes its ok for something to be wrong"
01:53 katsmeow-afk but how do you know?
01:54 rue_bed :) awe
01:55 e_bed tries to get back to s
01:55 katsmeow-afk i member watching newborn kittens try to drink from a bowl, they could tilt their neck at the shoulder, but they couldn't bend their neck
01:55 katsmeow-afk and no fine motor controls
01:56 katsmeow-afk it was like spash, splash, splash, and all that got into the milk was thir chins
01:59 katsmeow-afk <quote>Since Ryan was tapped to be the GOP vice presidential candidate he has consistently railed against the president for what he calls the "reckless" and "devastating" defense cuts, without mentioning that he actually voted for them.</quote> ditto medicare and health insurance
02:05 katsmeow-afk Ebay is trying to be funny : 1000 PC'S P/N 74LCX373WM $11.61 ==>> click on "see similar items" ==>> 500 PC'S P/N 74LCX373WM $99.99
02:45 orlok Daaaaw: http://182.160.128.150/Amelia.jpg
08:52 rue_house "my time is a piece of wax melting on a termite, whos choking on the splinters"
08:52 rue_house I wonder what meaning there is in that
08:52 rue_house I'm sure the bid will go high
09:05 AR_ anyone know of a source for a cheap infrared laser/led that emits a thin line several meters away and the reflection is visible to a camera day or night
09:05 AR_ ?
09:06 rue_house ir laser?
09:06 rue_house or led?
09:06 rue_house laser led or normal led?
09:07 AR_ well
09:07 AR_ i need to project a beam to detect an object
09:14 rue_house if you make a modulated bank of ir transmitters, you can use that
09:15 rue_house they have built in AGC and PLL to filter out noise
09:15 AR_ interesting
09:15 AR_ do you detect reflection or a line break
09:16 rue_house use line break
09:16 AR_ i would like to detect reflection
09:16 rue_house you can put it down the end of a pipe for extra masking
09:16 AR_ to have one compact module
09:16 rue_house then try it with reflection
09:17 rue_house you just have to mind, you cant give them continious signal
09:17 AR_ ok
09:17 AR_ or like i said, maybe if i had a line of IR on a surface
09:18 AR_ using a camera to analyze the line
09:18 AR_ to detect objects
09:18 rue_house its suggested t use 600us on, 1000us off
09:18 AR_ ah, thanks
09:18 rue_house my suggestion has one advantage, the parts exist.
09:18 AR_ yes, but i need a bit of a project
09:19 AR_ :P
09:19 rue_house you do
09:19 rue_house you have to make a controller pulse it, modulate the pulses, and detect them
09:20 rue_house http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/NE556NSR/296-13104-1-ND/484469
09:21 rue_house this controller might do some of it for you, they can be a challange to program tho
09:22 rue_house http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/SN74HC74DR/296-1204-1-ND/404914
09:22 rue_house that one might do the rest
09:23 rue_house http://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/ATTINY261A-PU/ATTINY261A-PU-ND/1914698
09:23 rue_house the price came down on those enough, they can do it all
09:24 AR_ yea
10:47 katsmeow-afk wow, orlok, one yr old?
11:11 sw0rdfish hey, how you guys doing?
11:11 tsmeow-afk looks at the
11:11 theBear meh.... ya know, i'm doing
11:15 sw0rdfish katsmeow-afk, lol
11:16 sw0rdfish I meant in general everyone here :D
11:16 sw0rdfish theBear, you bearing around and doing? huh?
11:16 sw0rdfish I see. :P
11:17 theBear erg, i just trying to maintain till the disturbed chemicals in my brain let go of the anger from the weekend
11:18 katsmeow-afk errr,, i thought weekends weret o get rid of anger
11:20 theBear me too, but mine was wasted for no apparent reason and no fault of my own, and i'll never get it back ! 2 days closer to death and nothing to show for it !
11:21 katsmeow-afk yeas, that was like last week forme, but there was also legal dangers and physical assault dangers as well, and the usual financial assault
11:22 katsmeow-afk about the only good things all of last week was alil soldering on the psu, and 6 baby green tomatoes in the roof garden
11:22 katsmeow-afk i am glad monday is here: the neighbors are gone back to work
11:23 sw0rdfish lolwut!
11:24 sw0rdfish "legal dangers and physical assult"
11:24 sw0rdfish sounds dangerously sexy!
11:24 tsmeow-afk throws sw0rdfish's ass in jail for his sexy fanta
11:24 sw0rdfish lool
11:24 sw0rdfish :D
11:29 katsmeow-afk damn, americans can't do anything right?? : "and 1.1 million attempt suicide, resulting in an estimated 37,000 suicide deaths each year" !!? that's only 3.4% success!
11:29 theBear hehehe
11:29 theBear course a humourless piece of shit would mention that most people 'attempting suicide' don't actualy want to die, but that ain't me
11:29 theBear heh, reminds me, wonder how the psycho that lives round the corner is doing
11:30 tsmeow-afk wonders how furrywolf is d
11:30 theBear not really, wonder if they're still thinking about me more than is healthy :)
11:31 theBear where is the wolf ? i haven't exactly been err, i don't know what happened here over the last week or 2
11:31 katsmeow-afk he got sorely peeved about finances, and left irc, leaving the bnc connected here
11:32 katsmeow-afk course, i wonder about zhanx and Rifraf too
11:32 katsmeow-afk i wonder about you too, bear :-)
11:34 katsmeow-afk is there an easy way, in an html doc/browser, to mouse-hilite some text and have it magically copied to another location in that doc in the same <div></div> when the mouse button is let up?
11:35 theBear we see rif sometimes, zhanx, i hadn't noticed, and me, jeez, no need to wonder, i'm surviving, that's pretty good
11:35 katsmeow-afk for instance, can that text be sent back to a server, and the server reformat the page witht he text int he new popsition, and refresh the browser display? like google now does when typing in partial search terms?
11:36 theBear you mean like dragging text ?
11:36 katsmeow-afk i have not seen rif in months, i just hope he isn't bothering the cows, but enjoys them and rafting on his stream
11:36 katsmeow-afk like drag-copying, but by script
11:37 theBear he ain't the kind to bother cows
11:37 katsmeow-afk you know how mouse-highlite text in a browser? do that, but when releasing the mouse, the script copies the highlited text to somewhere else
11:38 katsmeow-afk well, too many robots or windmills can bother a cow ;-)
11:38 theBear hmmm, i bet javascript could do it, not sure standard html/browser keeps track of mouse-highlighting
12:06 sw0rdfish katsmeow-afk, thought you were american yourself :o
12:06 sw0rdfish anyhow going cycling with my neighbor, cya!
12:06 katsmeow-afk and?
12:06 theBear that's not a very nice thing to say
12:06 tsmeow-afk growls at sw0rd
12:07 katsmeow-afk Three men have been arrested in Delhi for trying to board a flight with small primates hidden in their underwear.
12:11 theBear lol
13:16 sw0rdfish back!
13:16 sw0rdfish katsmeow-afk, and how come you talking about mericanos in 3rd person
14:20 wrapids What's the most reliable way to determine the displacement of a moveable object?
14:24 sherlock lasers
14:33 GuShH sherlock: why lasers? use a piece of string!
15:11 ShH is the unluckiest bastard on earth t
20:11 rue_house yay, one of my usb audio things arrived
20:14 GuShH rue_house: you'll notice they suck.
20:14 GuShH easy to burn them also.
20:27 Tom_itx rue_house does that make you an audiophool now?
20:35 rue_house I got a few, thay cant all suck
20:36 Tom_itx my afternoon/evening did
20:39 rue_house yay it works
20:39 rue_house now I can get rid of a pci audio card and put in another video card
20:40 Tom_itx heh
20:40 Tom_itx rue_house, have you figured out the pinout for the firmware you'll use for your board yet?
20:40 rue_house its in the configuration files
20:40 rue_house config.h and pins.h iirc
20:40 Tom_itx marlin?
20:41 rue_house yes
20:41 Tom_itx k
20:41 rue_house did you open the project?
20:41 Tom_itx i'm looking at a variation of it
20:41 Tom_itx for the delta
20:41 Tom_itx yes
20:41 Tom_itx i wanted to find the 'delta' part and have a look but i'm not sure where they stuffed it
20:43 rue_house well the sound card dosn't count as todays ebay item, it was over a dollar
20:43 rue_house so I'm gonna go open one
20:44 Tom_itx what drivers are you gonna use?
21:20 rue_house biab
22:18 rue_house Tom_itx, their 4 channel unipolar, fet based, 2.5A current limiting drivers I pulled out of photocopiers
22:25 katsmeow-afk 350 PCS P/N MJD127T4 TRANSISTOR DARL PNP 100V 8A DPAK
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22:25 katsmeow-afk Tomorrow, 10AM $9.99
22:25 katsmeow-afk 0 bids
22:25 katsmeow-afk +$9.95 shipping
22:25 katsmeow-afk that's $20 total, or 5.7 cents each transistor
22:26 tsmeow-afk takes 6 and makes rue a triple half-H 100v 8amp switcher "c
22:26 katsmeow-afk and sells it to him for 50 cents, andmakes money
22:44 tsmeow-afk grabs some mosfets and makes rue a 3x half-bridge 17mohm 40v 40amp switcher "chip" fo
22:45 katsmeow-afk and makes money
22:45 tsmeow-afk grabs some mosfets and makes rue a 3x half-bridge 17mohm 40v 40amp switcher "chip" fo
22:45 katsmeow-afk and STILL makes money
22:47 katsmeow-afk sadly, i know damned well no one will buy those from me
22:53 tsmeow-afk plays a lil solitaire before going to the cellar to break rocks and shovel
23:27 rue_house :)
23:35 EzCyclone Knock knock
23:35 rue_house knock knock
23:36 EzCyclone Well hey Rue, long time no see
23:36 EzCyclone How are ya?
23:36 e_house checks EzCyclones ti
23:36 rue_house I'm the same, but different
23:36 EzCyclone lol
23:36 EzCyclone You were building a big boat last I talked I think
23:36 rue_house interesting
23:37 EzCyclone why interesting?
23:37 rue_house dont recall ever having done that, but now I can check it off the "things to try" list
23:37 EzCyclone Was that not you
23:37 EzCyclone lol
23:37 EzCyclone ok
23:37 EzCyclone So what ya been up too?
23:37 rue_house about 5'6"
23:37 zhanx evening
23:38 rue_house look, its z!
23:38 zhanx just got back from la
23:38 rue_house la what?
23:38 rue_house la francis?
23:38 zhanx los angeles
23:38 EzCyclone ha ha funny rue
23:38 EzCyclone Any projects?
23:38 zhanx in california for a couple more days
23:38 rue_house zhanx, what did you step on?
23:38 zhanx people's ego's
23:39 rue_house zhanx, this is scarry, at this rate, you will be here 2 months ago
23:39 zhanx or was that eggo's
23:39 zhanx no i will be in north carolina in two months
23:39 zhanx wait no thats 3 months
23:39 rue_house you will be here 3 months ago?
23:39 zhanx i will be in texas i think then, need to check my training calendar
23:40 rue_house there is a us navy base on vancouver island, you should try being stationed there for a while
23:40 rue_house one of those listening posts
23:41 rue_house you could come over on the weekend
23:41 zhanx i would like to stay put for a bit, since july i have been training non stop almost
23:41 rue_house ah
23:41 zhanx wont stop till like dec
23:41 rue_house I paid $3 for a usb-> sound from china and its 100x better than the one I paid $25 for in vancouver
23:42 zhanx nice, i stopped at fry's yesterday for the fist time and bought a 60" led tv for the army
23:42 rue_house uh
23:42 rue_house isn't that in aus?
23:42 rue_house are you trying to obscure your position?
23:42 rue_house if so, your failing
23:43 zhanx no they got one in city of industry ca (that is an awesome name btw)
23:43 zhanx and no I am in the desert have to find me
23:43 rue_house desert
23:43 rue_house your remembering to check boots for scorpions right?
23:43 zhanx yep
23:43 rue_house (i the morning, by the end of the day its too late)
23:44 zhanx i know this, made the mistake once before and crushed a bug with the foot
23:44 rue_house <--- oh big surprise here
23:44 sherlock rue lives in canada, we have nothing scary here
23:45 sherlock except like, one spider
23:45 zhanx nope i stepped on that
23:45 rue_house we do too, we have like 2 or 3 spiders that can make you sick if you get bit by them
23:45 rue_house I dont know what they look like
23:45 zhanx spiders don't scare me
23:45 rue_house but I havn't been bitten yet, so its cool
23:45 zhanx i have seen some huge ones in some countries
23:46 rue_house yea
23:46 rue_house the cockroaches in aus are .... un-nerving
23:46 e_house glances to theB
23:46 sherlock black widow and brown recluse
23:46 zhanx very very crunchy to say the least
23:47 sherlock but fuck spiders
23:47 sherlock yaknow what sucks
23:47 sherlock BED BUGS
23:47 sherlock cant get rid of those, and they itch you to death
23:47 zhanx heard those are impossbile to get rid of
23:47 sherlock we have been treated like twice, and dried all of our clothes and all that
23:47 sherlock the whole building has issues with em
23:47 zhanx sand fleas suck too
23:47 sherlock my theory is that they are in the walls or something
23:48 orlok hey zhanx!
23:48 orlok http://182.160.128.150/Amelia.jpg
23:48 zhanx hey orlol
23:48 zhanx looking
23:48 orlok 11 months tomorrow
23:48 sherlock d'awww
23:48 zhanx that was fast
23:49 zhanx i thought you just were at the hospitol
23:50 zhanx she is getting big that is for sure orlok
23:51 zhanx sweet just got my flight confirmation, i will be in las vegas thursday!
23:52 zhanx orlok: she's got green eyes
23:54 orlok blue actually
23:54 orlok the green must be from the grass
23:56 zhanx k