#robotics Logs

Oct 16 2013

00:37 orlok hmm now i have that song in my head
00:39 orlok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8LzZpZVfxM
01:20 MrCurious what does the fox say?
01:21 Faek Tchong tchong tchong
01:30 GuShH MrCurious: probably wishing it had more memory... and wasn't on fire.
01:38 rue_bed got a few more jumpers on the hexapod
01:38 rue_bed and a collar on the boiler
01:38 MrCurious GuShH: look pm
01:47 MrCurious or not...
02:43 SquirrelCZECH hi folks!
03:03 MrCurious insomnia sux.
03:04 GargantuaSauce think of it as useful project time!
03:08 SquirrelCZECH :D
03:39 MrCurious had the coolest dream last night. was in a lightening storm where the bolts were 10' diamater, and lasted 20 seconds.
03:39 Tom_itx and you were inside it?
03:39 MrCurious it was 10k feet away
03:40 MrCurious well no it was hitting 1k feet away
03:40 MrCurious only slightly more alarming than a traditional strike
03:40 Tom_itx i had the reality the other day that a bolt of lightening hit ~50' away
03:40 MrCurious i had that happen
03:40 Tom_itx or less
03:41 Tom_itx now the tree has a burn streak down the side
03:41 MrCurious 3rd floor apartment, hit the other side of building, and we felt mager static, then heard bzzzzzzzzzzzt POP
03:41 Tom_itx there was no bzzzzz, just a BOOM!
03:42 MrCurious bet you wish you had it captured onhigh speed video
03:42 Tom_itx yeah kinda
03:42 GargantuaSauce being able to FEEL the electric field is definitely the best part of being way too close to a lightning strike
03:43 Tom_itx if you live to tell the story
03:43 MrCurious when it happened to us. we synchronouly ducked and proceded in without any hesitation or conversation. total instinct
03:44 GargantuaSauce or even if there's no strike but you're on top of a building or something near a lightning rod
03:44 MrCurious i got to see a tornado 1/2 to 1 mile away. ground rose up to meet th sky funnel
03:45 Tom_itx i've witnessed that
03:45 GargantuaSauce oh dear my mouser order has grown to $250
03:45 MrCurious DOUBLE DOWN!
03:45 Tom_itx feed it
03:45 MrCurious go for broke
03:45 MrCurious should add a BBB while you are there
03:46 Tom_itx it's always a sad feeling to receive those orders when most of it is SMT
03:46 GargantuaSauce bbb?
03:46 MrCurious beagle board black
03:46 Tom_itx beagle bone black
03:46 GargantuaSauce oh, eh i have enough socs to dick with
03:46 Tom_itx board
03:46 GargantuaSauce lots of dips in this order
03:47 MrCurious the smt orders makes me think of the scene from trainspotting... might as well **** .. for all the good it will do me
03:47 GargantuaSauce definitely taking advantage of their free shipping >$200
03:51 MrCurious watching news... wonder how america is feeling about that T-party(bagger) experiment they ran...
14:47 useless-afk wait, you said we are to *run* the country? i thought you said to *ruin* the country!
16:33 ace4016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rJwIhnFxuWQ
16:38 jumijoze military may fund this anime technology
16:39 ace4016 lol
18:47 rue_house I got the mp3 stereo for my truk!
18:47 orlok cool
18:47 rue_house but I dont know if I want to put it in cause I dont know if the radio will work ok
18:47 orlok USB/etc? or cd?
18:48 rue_house that said, the radio in my truck now dosn't work at all
18:48 rue_house uts usb/SD
18:48 rue_house with radio
18:49 rue_house oh and its got an aux in
18:49 rue_house cool
18:50 rue_house yea the tape and the radio in my trucks stereo now dont work
18:50 rue_house the radio kinda works, I can get 2 or 3 stations on a good day
18:51 rue_house I'm sure its just the varicap supply, but the tape dosn't work, and I already tried to fix that
18:56 useless-afk http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/10/amendment10-16-13c.pdf
19:29 useless-afk blueish = like blue ; elfish = like elf ; blowfish = like blowf ,,, what's a blowf ?
21:40 useless-afk By a vote of 81 to 18, the Senate sent the 35-page bill to the House of Representatives, where it was approved just a little over two hours later.
21:44 useless-afk both senators from alafuckingbama voted to keep the usa gov defunded and heading for bankrupt
21:45 GargantuaSauce and next we get to hear them all jerking off about narrowly averting an unprecedented crisis
21:47 useless-afk yeas
22:00 useless-afk it's going to happen all over again in January 2014
22:01 useless-afk the country may go down the tubes before then in preparation for it
22:04 useless-afk a number of banks and funds got rid of usa tresuries already, now everyone has anotehr 3 whole months to liquidate usa$ and move to anotehr currency
22:10 useless-afk that sound you will hear tomorrow morning when the banks open will be the sucking of value out to other countries as fast as anyone can do it,,,, and i am trying to figure out how that is supposed to help the usa
22:19 useless-afk the local tv station did not mention that this state's senators voted against the usa staying open and paying it's bills
22:32 GuShH go to #fatwhineyamerican
22:32 GuShH MrCurious: got the job?
22:33 MrCurious 5th interview fri
22:33 GuShH bah
22:36 MrCurious its in person
22:36 MrCurious and with HR and there is a test
22:36 MrCurious and its with someone i already spoke with
22:37 MrCurious i wonder if Iran or the T-party/republicans have done more harm to america...
22:40 MrCurious i guess GuShH is done with me...
22:42 MrCurious http://www.xmos.com/startkit
22:57 GuShH MrCurious: hm?
23:11 rue_house theBear, how you doing?
23:33 useless-afk so xcore is a faster parrallax puter
23:34 useless-afk no cpu gets exclusive use of the chip pins, and you never know which cpu has access
23:38 GargantuaSauce yeah i am very much not sold on that design
23:41 GargantuaSauce i like the fact that it has a "raspberry pi header" as if that's supposed to be some gold standard
23:42 useless-afk yeas, i wondered about using a 500mips chip as an addon to a Pi to get more io pins
23:44 rue_house I changed the 'throttle' of the boiler when I redid the collar, I think I dialed it down too much
23:45 eless-afk is going to be junking more stuff asap, 3 olde RCA U-View video decks to to scrap tomorrow, and a big HP 100lb flatbed scanner/pri