#robotics Logs

Jan 05 2014

05:50 monkers oh hai
05:51 aemquo Hello. o/
05:52 monkers got a dumb question, hoping there's an easy answer... whats the most efficient way to make AWD vehicle with 4 wheels turn ?
05:53 aemquo AWD?
05:53 aemquo Turn the wheels in the direction you want to go?
05:53 monkers well they dont turn
05:53 monkers they are mounted in position
05:54 monkers so one could just put 0 power to the left wheels and 100% power to the right
05:54 aemquo Mount legs on it and lift the vehicle, and turn in mid-air.
05:54 monkers lol
05:57 aemquo If no wheels are able to turn, then yes your above idea sounds good.
05:57 monkers but would having the left wheels at 1/4th power be better?
05:57 monkers so the right wheels arent carrying the full load of the chassis?
05:57 aemquo Why do you think that?
05:57 aemquo Depends. You could always TIAS
05:58 monkers yes some testing may be in order
12:44 GuShH_ MrCurious: it seems parting blades have agreed upon being my enemy today!
12:47 MrCurious oh no!
12:47 MrCurious last day of 3 week vacation...
12:49 GuShH_ MrCurious: slit my finger almost to the bone with the blade
12:49 GuShH_ the toolpost needs a longer handle, take note
12:50 MrCurious you go to the hospital?
12:51 GuShH_ why?
12:52 GuShH_ you picture me as a skinny fainting fag?
12:52 GuShH_ first aid kit is all you need unless you've got arterial bleeding
12:53 GuShH_ I wonder if I left the lathe all covered in blood, I was in autopilot
12:54 GuShH_ MrCurious: now I can't give the middle finger...
12:55 GuShH_ This is why a QCTP is ideal, you remove the blade and it's holder instead of leaving it on the opposite side, which is where this kind of thing happens
12:55 GuShH_ slip, bang, cut.
12:55 MrCurious so uhm, right,, yeah, whats th minimum number of fingers required to work a lathe
12:56 GuShH_ you would only lose a finger with this type of cut if you were in a damp war zone with no medical supplies
12:56 GuShH_ and only by infection
12:56 GuShH_ MrCurious: you need to learn first aid at least the basics
12:57 GuShH_ for your well being and those around you
12:57 GuShH_ those who don�t know how to act will probably live with the guilt for the rest of their lives
12:57 GuShH_ think car accident and you are the only one around
12:57 GuShH_ you just pull out your sleek phone, call 911 and go away or just stay to watch the fireworks?
12:58 MrCurious first world country, health insurance, convienent er
13:00 MrCurious but i suppose i could just wander into the forrest and male my owl pultice instead..
13:01 MrCurious you should CNC that lathe son....
13:01 GuShh_Lap2 pfft stupid wifi
13:01 MrCurious you should CNC that lathe up son....
13:01 GuShh_Lap2 MrCurious: this warrants 2 stitches but we'll see in an hour
13:02 GuShh_Lap2 CNC or not your hand would still slip while changing tools
13:02 GuShh_Lap2 of course if you had the money you'd get a tool changer
13:02 GuShh_Lap2 rotary or similar, like on a turret lathe
13:02 GuShh_Lap2 not easy to make one, it needs to be very stiff
13:03 MrCurious you mean like made of metal, and not local sourced chocolate
13:03 GuShh_Lap2 look at the geometry, dove tail and a steep angle
13:03 GuShh_Lap2 metal you can only machine with bigger tools
13:03 GuShh_Lap2 big knee mill for instance
13:05 GuShh_Lap2 MrCurious: so do you know first aids or not
13:06 MrCurious AIDS!
13:06 Shh_Lap2 has some medical training, in case you were wonde
13:07 MrCurious yes dude. i am fresh out of bed, i am just messing with you so i dont have to deep think before i wake up
13:08 GuShh_Lap2 isn't it late?
13:08 GuShh_Lap2 lathe
13:08 GuShh_Lap2 hahaha
13:09 Shh_Lap2 rolls ar
13:09 GuShh_Lap2 back to the lathe! nanana
13:15 MrCurious looks dangerous, here take this
13:15 Curious hands GuShh_Lap2 a small stuffed an
13:25 Shh_Lap2 wonders why MrCurious' stuffed animal has a hole undern
13:26 e_bed points out thats where you stick you hand in to operat
13:26 MrCurious dont you listen to them there stuffed animals, they are a bnch of bleeding liars
13:27 GuShh_Lap2 lol
13:52 MrCurious1 robotustra robotustra_ found the ideal computer for your robot... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/04/218248/intels-knights-landing-72-cores-3-teraflops
14:09 GuShh_Lap2 MrCurious1: if it's not russian made then it's not good enough for him
14:10 GuShh_Lap2 ok replacing the 5 gallon water jug wasn't fun with the messed up finger...
14:10 MrCurious1 has 72 cores.... should be enough for his creation
14:10 GuShh_Lap2 it's not
14:10 GuShh_Lap2 he needs over 9000 cores and it has to be russian
14:11 GargantuaSauce i'd go for one of those
14:12 Shh_Lap2 hands one to GargantuaS
14:12 GargantuaSauce thank you!
14:12 GuShh_Lap2 no more machining for today and no more target practice... I couldn0t hit a thing
14:13 Shh_Lap2 begins to steal
14:19 MrCurious2 now THIS is a tempting hybird car... http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173863-fords-new-solar-powered-hybrid-car-can-charge-up-without-plugging-in
14:20 GargantuaSauce lol
14:24 MrCurious2 hmmm irc problems today
14:25 MrCurious2 hows it going bear
15:24 theBear intel integrated video bios sucks balls, that's how it's goin
15:27 MrCurious2 i like my hd4000
15:28 GuShH_ theBear: look it's a whiny bear!
15:28 theBear grrrfrrr
15:28 GuShH_ MrCurious2: it turns out there was a pool of blood by the lathe!
15:28 MrCurious2 do a quick at count
15:29 theBear yeah, you never had to convince it that it was wrong about the native resolution of the lcd connected to it digitally... and when it's small you get every 2nd frame and the top of every 1st at the bottom of yer screen
15:30 theBear PLUS they put a blacklist of sensible modes in there so even if you do say, build a programmer and program a eeprom you got off some old ram that's not enough, that only changes things that don't matter, and even if you munge a registry the same overrides apply
15:30 ShH_ pats the
15:31 MrCurious2 sound horrible
15:33 theBear i'll have a fresh video bios with the right data ready soon, err, well, i forgot how shitty java is on windows, stupid editor been loading for 10 minutes... but that's just a bios module, afaict you can't inject any of the data, you gotta dismantle the bios using tools noone seems to agree on, insert the new vid-bios chunk, then somehow convince the bios mangler tools to recompress and checksum it all nicely, AND to change a handful of numbers to acc
15:33 theBear ount for any differences in size (and therefore changes of offset for other modules)
15:35 GuShH_ theBear: ever heard of Bajaj?
16:53 MrCurious2 getting so close
16:54 MrCurious2 now it pxe bootss, gets ip, downloads first file via tftp
17:45 MrCurious2 and finally we have a PXE VM boot under maas direction!
18:19 MrCurious2 finally, i am on fire with this install
18:52 MrCurious2 SWEET SUCCESS
19:06 monkers \o/
19:14 MrCurious2 indeed!
23:47 MrCurious2 3 weeks of vacation... going to have to work out how to do this comumting thing again
23:57 Duzz just starting or getting off of?