#robotics Logs

Dec 07 2013

19:29 Curious pokes the
19:42 GuShH MrCurious: window ac thermostat is buggered obviously
19:42 GuShH why don't you take the front cover off and get your dirty hands on it
19:42 MrCurious that was out of the blue
19:43 MrCurious how are your kitten and oder cat?
19:43 ShH replaced the carriage lock on his lathe, spent way too much time turning that little handle and lost half the day on a silly wood working pro
19:43 GuShH MrCurious: they're fine
19:43 MrCurious so you are keeping the kitten
19:43 GuShH It was named... nothing I could do about it...
19:43 MrCurious true
19:44 MrCurious its lilke 8C and rainy here
19:44 MrCurious day is a write off
19:44 GuShH 28�C clear
19:44 MrCurious nie
19:44 MrCurious nice
19:45 GuShH bah so I'm taking my time turning the handle with a very fine feed so it looks nice and clean... I finish tapping, I set the height stop... finish installing it, I drop a wrench on top of it.... of course it got marked.
19:45 MrCurious how goes your battle with the resort town over the abandoned house??
19:45 MrCurious ouch
19:45 MrCurious slap some tung oil on it
19:45 GuShH it's not abandoned I just don't go that often
19:45 MrCurious sand lightly, repeat
19:45 GuShH nah I could turn it again... but it's done.
19:46 GuShH much better than using an allen key
19:46 MrCurious you should put up a sign... "THIS IS NOT ABANDONED, IT MY HOLIDAY HOME"
19:46 GuShH nah even if you keep it tidy they know when there's nobody around ...
19:46 GuShH they even stole the gardening tools
19:46 MrCurious i saw a device that had some rgb leds on it
19:46 MrCurious it was esigned to fake a tv in a room
19:47 GuShH I got rid of the electrical service as to make it harder for anyone to use the place.
19:47 MrCurious get one of those, leave it on in a upstairs room
19:47 MrCurious solar powered
19:47 GuShH plus I was paying and not using it
19:47 GuShH MrCurious: you know how long the panel will last?
19:47 MrCurious they would steal it?
19:47 GuShH they let the brownies roam our land freely
19:47 GuShH this is what we get.
19:48 GuShH peru, paraguay, all that shit. yeah I'm racist, fuck them.
19:48 GuShH I would nuke them if I could.
19:48 ShH fr
19:48 GuShH Why is it that anyone can enter this country, freely
19:48 GuShH It's a stupid policy, they made it up just to get more and more votes, clearly.
19:49 GuShH MrCurious: And the worst part is the cops are doing nothing about it, they might as well be a part of it.
19:49 GuShH They never put them in jail, as their excuse is "I was hired, I have nothing to do with it"
19:49 GuShH no investigation no nothing it dies there.
19:50 GuShH There _are_ good people from those countries, but most are not.
19:51 GuShH it's got to be the inbreds.
19:53 MrCurious well
19:53 MrCurious in those countries dont they lilve off the land
19:53 MrCurious whatever they can find
19:54 GuShH MrCurious: I guess in most parts
19:54 GuShH peruvians here mostly sell vegetables and fruit...
19:54 GuShH I buy from their stores, that's why I say some are good people... but the rest I know for a fact are not.
19:55 MrCurious probably because chevvys dont grow on trees
19:55 MrCurious they just need your love and understanding
19:55 GuShH no, crooks need to be hang off their balls in front of their children.
19:55 MrCurious did i make you rage a little?
19:55 GuShH I'm always raging.
19:56 GuShH watching another "home restoration" show....
19:56 GuShH at least this one is realistic
19:57 MrCurious :)
19:58 GuShH MrCurious: what really bothers me is that it's not a simple robbery... they do that, but they also attempt to rent the place, to add insult to injury.
19:58 GuShH and it's all very organized down to an actual physical office for the real estate "company" (ghost, fake)
19:58 GuShH they even host their site off shore, with an international domain... to hide their details
19:59 ShH needs to make a ball turning attach
20:00 MrCurious dont turn angry!
20:00 MrCurious how did this beer get on my desk...
20:00 MrCurious i wonder if it will be my friend
20:00 GuShH Oh I want one! me me!
20:00 GuShH MrCurious: you can have one, just the one.
20:00 MrCurious you wouldnt like it
20:01 MrCurious its grown up beer. has a sophisticated hoppy taste that isnt for the beginners
20:01 GargantuaSauce i want a lathe
20:01 GargantuaSauce someone buy me a lathe
20:01 GuShH what
20:01 GuShH you call me beginner?
20:01 GuShH I've tried a vast amount of beers from all around the world"
20:01 GuShH !
20:01 MrCurious yup... you dont look the least bit blurry
20:01 GuShH GargantuaSauce: move nearby and I'll let you use mine
20:02 GuShH MrCurious: new neighbours... and they might start a massive construction project (new house on the side of the lot)
20:02 GuShH jeez...
20:02 GargantuaSauce i think i'll stay in my first world country thanks though
20:02 GuShH they chopped down most trees
20:03 GuShH and threw the trash on my walkway
20:03 GuShH no wonder I'm constantly annoyed.
20:03 GuShH GargantuaSauce: and yet you don't have a lathe in your "first world country"
20:03 myofevilrobots drinking a http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45/51480
20:03 GuShH your country is a lie.
20:03 MrCurious http://www.stonebrewing.com/ipa/
20:04 GargantuaSauce i am a plebian with a case of rickard's in the fridge
20:04 GuShH MrCurious: used to try one or two different beers every week, but now they're very hard to come by... no imports almost
20:04 MrCurious trick is to find the one you like, then maximize on it
20:04 ShH would even write rev
20:04 MrCurious beer: helping ugly people get laid since 1542
20:04 GuShH I was in beer advocate
20:05 MrCurious http://letsmakerobots.com/node/39387 now that looks interesting
20:06 GuShH looks like another sex toy to me
20:06 GargantuaSauce the gripper is cool
20:06 GargantuaSauce the linear axis is kind of infuriatingly shitty
20:07 MrCurious yeah, that can be improved on, but the fingers....
20:08 MrCurious i think a potentially profitable direction for robotics is farm robots
20:08 GuShH they already have lots
20:08 MrCurious made to operate in shitty environments (pun intended)
20:09 GargantuaSauce agriculture has been one of the primary targets of automation since before we even started calling it automation
20:09 GuShH GargantuaSauce: it's the beer talking for MrCurious
20:09 GuShH GargantuaSauce: why do you need a lathe?
20:10 MrCurious i am on my first sip... must be fast acting beer, or have a temporally active component...
20:10 GuShH MrCurious: how's your anxiety lately
20:10 GargantuaSauce well in general because i have a bajillion little things it would prove super useful for
20:10 GuShH such as?
20:10 MrCurious in 1 week, find out if project dies and we all get laid off
20:11 GuShH anxiety++ ?
20:11 MrCurious nah. i hit stage 5 of geiving about a month back i am all good with it now
20:11 armyofevilrobots Stone IPA is very tasty. :)
20:11 GuShH I had "hypokalemia"
20:11 GargantuaSauce in terms of today, i want to make a coupler for a 3mm bldc motor shaft to a leadscrew
20:12 GuShH GargantuaSauce: nobody from here can make you one?
20:12 GargantuaSauce ideally with a built in fan for cooling it and a slotted wheel for a photointerruptor
20:12 GargantuaSauce well i don't know anyone with one
20:12 GuShH to make that with a lathe you'll need a shitload of accessories, maybe you also want a mill
20:12 GargantuaSauce yes i do
20:12 GuShH that makes two of us, but where would I put it?
20:12 GargantuaSauce i want a whole machine shop at my disposal :V
20:13 GuShH who doesn't
20:13 GuShH one of these days you'll have it
20:14 GargantuaSauce oh and i mean six of them of course
20:14 GargantuaSauce because it's for a stewart platform
20:15 GuShH buy them? heh
20:15 GuShH you'd have to buy tools and materials for the lathe anyway
20:16 GargantuaSauce well yeah it would be cheaper to buy damn ballscrews and fancy cnc brushless servos that are made for each other
20:17 GargantuaSauce but in a more general sense i want to work with metal and learn to stop being stupid at mechanical design through practice
20:17 GargantuaSauce also need 2-dof gimbals at each side of each linear axis
20:18 GargantuaSauce planning on printing those but obviously brass or aluminium would do better than pla
20:18 GuShH what about ABS
20:18 GargantuaSauce abs is probably less suitable, more flexible so it'd need to be thicker and i'd need to use bigger bearings maybe
20:18 GargantuaSauce also it's a pain to print
20:20 GuShH I need to start anodizing at home
20:20 GargantuaSauce also i just ordered like $400 in electronics crap
20:21 GuShH you could've got a small used lathe for that surely?
20:21 GargantuaSauce shipping conflates that pretty significantly
20:22 GuShH I guess
20:24 GargantuaSauce anyway i'll soon have alllll the materials and tools for pcb etching and all the smd components i'll need to do all sorts of delicious robot controllers
20:24 GuShH mhh juicy controllers
20:24 GargantuaSauce i wussed out and got half bridge drivers as a crutch for my EEnadequacy, bjt-driven p/n fet bridges are still too scary
20:31 GargantuaSauce anyway i might be able to get away with just a hacksaw and drill press to make these couplers, shipping on brass/aluminium stock is frigging expensive though
20:33 GuShH lol
20:33 GuShH first world country eh
20:33 GuShH I got free s&h on my last alu / brass order, how's that?
20:34 GuShH pst.
20:34 GargantuaSauce well it's mostly not knowing where to look i think
20:34 GargantuaSauce like i was just checking fleabay
20:36 GuShH you'll just find assholes selling offcuts on ebay
20:44 Jak_o_Shadows You always find people liking mcmaster carr in america
20:44 GargantuaSauce they are kind of expensive but yeah they have amazing inventory
20:44 GargantuaSauce if only they fucking shipped outside the states...
20:45 GuShH you need a truck.
20:45 GargantuaSauce Due to the complexity of U.S. export regulations, McMaster-Carr accepts international orders only from our established customers. This decision also applies to orders shipping within the United States, because it is based on the final destination of the items. We cannot accept this order or future orders.
20:45 GargantuaSauce all my rage
20:46 Jak_o_Shadows US export restrictions are stupid sometimes/often
20:46 GargantuaSauce well that is not the real reason
20:46 GargantuaSauce the real reason is they supplied some stuff that ended up in iran or another nation with US sanctions
20:47 GargantuaSauce and got their asses kicked
20:47 GargantuaSauce i was trying to buy BOLTS
20:48 GuShH bolts!
20:48 Faek https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy
21:15 MrCurious hahahahaha
21:15 MrCurious saw that friday