#robotics Logs

Dec 09 2013

00:17 rue_house MrCurious, dont let anyone tell you about alibaba where bulk items are cheaper and your garunteed to get your item
00:18 Faek Hey MrCurious have you heard about this place called alibaba ?
00:18 MrCurious nope
00:18 MrCurious odd... no pricecs
00:18 Faek I heard it can help cure ebay addictions
00:19 MrCurious no prices couldbe a majorlimmiter
00:31 rue_house its technically alibaba express, they actually tell you the final price in each listing
00:31 rue_house http://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-and-original-1N5408-MIC-Hot-Sales/1029009164.html
00:35 MrCurious ebay seem to be cheaper
01:26 R0b0t1 GuShH:
06:01 GargantuaSauce aliexpress is pretty fantastic for quantity
06:03 GargantuaSauce their escrow service favours sellers a little bit more than paypal/ebay does though, and people are generally less concerned about getting perfect feedback --> customer service can be relatively lacking
06:51 chris_99 i love alibaba too!
06:51 chris_99 i've got a couple of things from there
08:48 michael_lee hive-mind, GargantuaSauce, do you buy things from aliexpress?
08:48 michael_lee Hello, GargantuaSauce
08:48 michael_lee sorry for misspelling hive-mind
08:49 michael_lee Is there someone working in RethinkRobotics.com?
16:21 MrCurious motivational posters... http://www.despair.com/
18:43 R0b0t1 MrCurious: Welcome to 2000
18:52 GuShH t
18:52 GuShH rp
18:52 GuShH err
18:52 GuShH R0b0t1: me too?
18:52 GuShH MrCurious: just tried a new beer, local brewed for export, not bad...
18:53 GuShH I guess it falls under craft brews
18:53 eadthem got the calipers in
18:53 eadthem metric and standard in 1 dial
18:53 GuShH http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16791/40767 must agree with the only review
18:53 eadthem absoutly perfect
18:54 GuShH I think he had it a bit warm though it should be served at 5�C
18:54 GuShH poured at 45�
18:54 GuShH but yeah too expensive for what it is, not enjoyable.
18:54 GuShH I think I've tried over 100 different beers, most are like that.
18:55 GuShH eadthem: how do you know it's perfect?
18:55 GuShH measured against a calibrated standard?
18:55 eadthem for what i do
18:55 ShH fr
18:55 GuShH what do you do
18:55 eadthem perfect that i was able to get metric and standard in the same dial calaper
18:55 GuShH ok gotta head back to the lathe and finish another quick project
18:55 GuShH my cheap plastic calipers are dual as well as my digital one
18:55 GuShH of course the digital does need an LR44
18:56 GuShH which I've changed once (lasted almost two years)
18:56 GuShH as the battery ages the caliper updates more slowly
18:56 GuShH until the contrast is too low to be seen under normal conditions and then it just won't start anymore
18:57 GuShH eadthem: but you can use them as analog as well
18:57 GuShH no analog dial though
18:57 eadthem ya analog dial potental to mesure greater than defined thickneses
18:57 eadthem err smaller
20:24 GargantuaSauce michael_lee: yep, not very recently though, switched to mostly using ebay
20:25 MrCurious hurray for ebay?
22:40 rue_house I wonder if I can plug a usb keyboard inot my android
22:41 LoRez if it supports OTG, you should be able to
22:44 rue_house hahahaha I can!!! sweeeet
22:48 e_house th
22:52 MrCurious BT keyboard
22:53 rue_house if I set up a wireeless router with no default gateway...
22:53 rue_house and call it "FBI surveylance van"
22:53 MrCurious i named my parents wifi Survelence van 7
23:15 GuShH rue_house: heeeey that's my wifi name
23:15 GuShH minus the typos
23:16 GuShH http://gushh.net/tmp/wifi.png
23:17 GuShH I'll let you in on a secret: there is no van!
23:30 MrCurious is there a FBI in agentina?
23:31 GuShH MrCurious: who knows