#robotics Logs

Jan 04 2014

13:11 MrCurious /join #dorkbotpdx
14:19 MrCurious raise your hand if you are so cold you are super-conducting... and throw a lightning bolt!
14:46 rue_house I'm in canada
14:47 rue_house I was thinking I should be wearing shorts today
14:47 rue_house It came to mind while I was scraping ice off the truck winshield
14:47 rue_house which annoyed me, cause its so warm out
14:49 GargantuaSauce it's still minus a bajillion here
14:49 GargantuaSauce need to deal with the 5cm of ice on every surface on monday when we get a brief thaw
14:50 GargantuaSauce fell down my back stairs carrying 3 cases of beer bottles to the car
14:50 GargantuaSauce not my brightest moment
14:51 robotustra_ YEI 3-Space Sensor 3-axis 9DOF Miniature Embedded IMU / AHRS
14:51 robotustra_ Attitude and Heading Reference System (TSS-EM)
14:51 robotustra_ works ok
14:51 robotustra_ but now I need to find communication protocol for that
14:52 GargantuaSauce that is pretty expensive, the onboard fusion better be worth it
14:54 MrCurious 3 cases of bottles?
14:54 MrCurious thats a habbit you got there mate
14:54 MrCurious :)
14:54 GargantuaSauce there was about 90 bottles in total
14:55 GargantuaSauce i just let that shit accumulate because i am a slob
14:55 MrCurious oh, wasnt a 1 week full on holiday bendder?
14:55 GargantuaSauce nah, i go through a twelve pack every two weeks or so
14:56 GargantuaSauce and these were my roommate's bottles also
14:56 GargantuaSauce i am very suspicious of the quality of that IMU
14:58 GargantuaSauce the spi clock limit of 6MHz screams low-end AVR
14:58 GargantuaSauce which means the hardware cost of the thing is probably like 20 bucks
14:58 GargantuaSauce if that
14:58 MrCurious i can see one possible application of eye tracking software... a google glass based system that deteccts when you elevator eye a woman, and delivers a mild electric conditioning shock... for rehabitation purposes
14:59 GargantuaSauce to her?
14:59 MrCurious that could result in the wolf whistle being shortened to a single note
14:59 GargantuaSauce i like that idea
15:00 GargantuaSauce robotustra_ do you have one of those?
15:00 GargantuaSauce what are the 3 sensors
15:00 MrCurious of cource i can imagine the yourube videos of gay men wearing it, and getting shoked "dang! i was just noticing how hideous her outfit was"
15:00 GargantuaSauce and the mcu
15:00 MrCurious file that next to drunks taking turns with anti-bark dog colars
15:02 GargantuaSauce that sounds like a good time all around
15:03 MrCurious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8e1mD3K2C4
15:05 MrCurious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwzpBBS4P-c better one
15:05 GargantuaSauce that dog knows what's up
15:30 GargantuaSauce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffo9gapjUlI heheheh
15:31 GargantuaSauce i just ordered a bunch of those stepper axes also
19:10 anonnumberanon https://www.youtube.com/user/AldebaranRobotics
19:13 GargantuaSauce the only thing less useful than a nao is a nao with an annoying voice
19:29 anonnumberanon Oh man I loved its voice. I think it is text to speech also, which if it is, that's a really good package. I searched for text to speech once for fun to try and record text being spoken but they are quite rare to find. I think text to speech might be a closely guarded technology, but I haven't checked the free-software resources yet.
19:42 GargantuaSauce wat
19:42 GargantuaSauce there is loads of tts software out there
19:42 GargantuaSauce it's an os feature in both windows and osx
19:43 GargantuaSauce and i am pretty sure that voice is not tts, it's way too emotive
20:17 MrCurious blah
20:49 Duzz o/
20:50 GargantuaSauce bluh my roommate got a job in toronto
20:50 GargantuaSauce now i have a 3br apartment all to myself
20:52 MrCurious dedicate a room as a office
20:52 MrCurious a room as a meker room
20:52 MrCurious a room for sleeping
20:52 MrCurious WIN?
20:52 MrCurious could always use the extra space to investigate that girlfriend thing you have been pondering
20:54 GargantuaSauce nope, want someone to stick around and pay rent
20:54 GargantuaSauce not someone i will piss off in 2 days
20:54 MrCurious 2 days... thats setting the bar pretty high isnt it
20:54 MrCurious suppose you could work out a daily rate
20:55 GargantuaSauce 15 seconds would be plenty i suppose
22:06 robotustra_ supid idiots entertainment
23:20 MrCurious damn but LVM is persistent