#robotics Logs

Oct 03 2012

00:00 katsmeow-afk or if the file is frag'd all over the platter
00:00 rue_house linux dosn't frag
00:01 katsmeow-afk k
00:01 rue_house not sure how that works tho
00:50 katsmeow-afk a stack of 1" hds is over an increment of 1" ,, they are thicker than 1" :-/
00:52 katsmeow-afk i have a 17" wide 19" rackmount 5.25 tall 16" deep with 16 edge guides in it, i could put 32 drives into it
00:52 katsmeow-afk but at *over* an inch thick, the drives won't fit on edge
00:54 katsmeow-afk and the 5.25 tall box won't fit 5 drives stacked vertically with the edge guides intact
00:54 katsmeow-afk AAARRRRGGGGGG
00:55 katsmeow-afk if i make new top/bottom with no guides where the drives are, i can stack modules 5 tall 2 deep, and 4 modules across, and have space left over
00:57 katsmeow-afk or, 4 modules, 4 tall, 2 deep = 32 drives
00:57 katsmeow-afk i was trying to not use the module approach
00:59 katsmeow-afk or i make new top and bottom with guides 1.062 apart
01:32 ponon Would someone review my resume and give me some reccomendations? I am a 1.5 year EE who is looking for internships https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6n4yRvlPKTFNFpkQkFvX2xlTTA
07:39 katsmeow-afk good thing i keep up with what Tiggr's miners are doing, but i have never heard of Fuquay Varina and i have no clue why i need to know what places of entertainment, banking, or fastfood are there
07:43 tsmeow-afk notes Tiggr cannot go there anyhow because her power cord is too s
09:19 rue_house katsmeow-afk, laptop drives
09:19 rue_house 2.5"
09:20 katsmeow-afk i don't have some
09:21 katsmeow-afk i have a stack of six 3.5's out of crashed computers, and a box of others, and 8 more puters with 3 in each, i can box up all the data/programming drives in one box-o-32-drives, if i can make a way to share access and prevent winxpee from getting at them
09:23 katsmeow-afk the puters i have running cannot power more than 3 drives each
09:24 katsmeow-afk and given the bottleneck of winxp itself on the gigabit lan, and winxp itself, and the need to buy bigger psu for each puter, i don't think i will
09:31 rue_house a few 74138's on the drive select lines?
09:32 katsmeow-afk won't work, windoze will insist on caching the dir of everything, that could run into the 100's of gigabytes
09:33 katsmeow-afk i have dirs that take 30 minutes or more to just list the filenames in
16:52 katsmeow-afk http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00037/SC00037J.html
18:00 ZiauddinMK Hello, is this considered a spatial robot? http://oomlout.com/blog/2009/03/fancy_yourself_a_robotic_arm_d.html
18:06 home ZiauddinMK: derp
19:10 ZiauddinMK ?
19:10 rue_house katsmeow-afk,
19:10 rue_house can you help me decide todays $1 ebay item?
19:11 rue_house ZiauddinMK, I hate it when people build unbalanced servo things like that
19:11 rue_house not to mention using a servo as a base swivel like that
19:23 ZiauddinMK rue_house: isn't that caused by bad servo quality?
19:23 ZiauddinMK or is it a bad control?
19:26 rue_house no its bad engineering to put that much force on a little servo like that
19:26 rue_house and everything should be balanced
19:45 rue_house I need to turn the wheelchair motors on the new mowerbot into steppers
19:49 home rue_house: what if it was 2 servos?
19:49 home for the base
20:56 rue_house its baout proper mechanics, the mechanics of a servo aren't right to use like that
21:11 ace4016 you mean r/c serbos
21:11 ace4016 servos*
21:20 rue_shop4 yea
21:20 rue_shop4 I have how people stand them up and build robot arms on them
21:21 katsmeow-afk neither the shafts, the bearings, or the torque is stong enough
21:21 katsmeow-afk rue's tried it, so did Riff
21:31 rue_shop4 it'll work, it'll totter back and forth and eventually break
22:06 rue_shop4 another tiny10 application, encoder channels to serial stream
22:13 Tom_itx woot
23:01 rue_house damn
23:02 rue_house I have to code this in asm if I'm gonna use it on a tiny13
23:02 rue_house no wait, I can compile it to ask
23:02 rue_house asm
23:04 rue_house why do I have tiny85 code here, I have no tiny85
23:04 e_house checks his s
23:17 e_house looks all crosseyed at some tiny13 asm code he w
23:18 rue_house ooooOOOOooooo
23:18 tsmeow-afk watches rue blow bub
23:20 rue_shop4 4x tiny13
23:20 rue_shop4 0x tiny85
23:21 katsmeow-afk so on average, you have 2 tiny49's
23:24 rue_house hmm, I should look up a datasheet for that
23:26 tsmeow-afk was fudging on the numbers, i learned how to do that on the prez debates on tv to
23:30 katsmeow-afk i caught a cold, and i don't know what to do with it
23:31 katsmeow-afk i dunno if it was the cold weather, the cold rain, the cold wet boots, or shoveling the cold wet mud that did me in
23:32 katsmeow-afk point C was that taking vitamin C made me feel better, so something happened at points B or point A
23:33 katsmeow-afk afk
23:42 rue_house what I do with a cold is use it as an excse to look into someing involved that I need to focus on to understand, something new I want to know about
23:42 rue_house or know more detail on
23:42 rue_house things are less intimmidating when you know all about them
23:43 rue_house I'm tryign to spend my otherwise useless cycles working out how to reverse engineer the medium my conciousness exists in
23:43 rue_house I have determined that I need tools to be able to analize the technology
23:43 rue_house and that if it were anything else, I'd just throw it away and work something out from scratch
23:46 rue_house I dont know how to start with a system that uses nonlinear , volumetric data storage thats mixed with its processor
23:46 rue_house which is what I think it is
23:59 rue_house kat, do you know the frequency range of the human vocal tone?