#robotics Logs

Apr 23 2014

00:13 rue_house silly games
00:21 Hyratel rue_house, so?
00:31 rue_house wrestless mind
00:31 rue_house I think the spark is back for summer
01:17 rue_bed armyofevilrobot1, as well as the apple IIe, I have a compaq luggable that might still work
01:26 MrCurious 5 hours to work out a 1 line fix
01:27 orlock Sounds pretty good
01:27 orlock I spent most of today trying to figure out one line of sql
01:27 MrCurious 20 minutes would have been better
01:27 orlock but then it would have been an "easy" problem, and what would you do with the rest of the day? waste it, i bet!
01:28 MrCurious this was an evening for fun thing
01:30 MrCurious the day had other frustrations :)
01:30 MrCurious but it too gave way to my will
01:31 lock waits for a 650 meg database import to comp
08:50 rue_bed hey rif
09:19 rue_house I suppose the next step with the arm is to fix the position scales so they match real world angles
20:20 rue_house wow look at all the interesting things people talked about today
20:20 rue_house I suppose the next step on my arm is to fix the position offsets and scales so they match the real world vaues
20:20 rue_house values even
20:21 Tom_itx ok finally updated phone
20:21 orlock rue_house: Ever bothered with compresses paper bricks for heating?
20:21 rue_house if not 3 cranks, how do you get ahold of the operator?
20:21 rue_house orlock, no
20:21 rue_house Tom_itx, :)
20:22 orlock even after compression, not very dense
20:22 Tom_itx S4
20:22 orlock so i cant see them lasting too long
20:22 orlock winter is coming
20:22 orlock expected to get to 1deg tonight
20:32 rue_house come to canada
22:11 rue_shop2 I lost my project again
22:12 Jak_o_Shadows ?
22:12 rue_shop2 found it
22:12 rue_shop2 6" peice of steel
22:13 rue_shop2 for some reason large robots are more work to make than small ones
22:15 Hyratel rue_shop2, well the forces go up by Size^2 as you get bigger
22:15 rue_shop2 no I mean , oh whatever
22:47 rue_shop2 4 hours over 16 weeks to mount a gearbox to a robot arm, 2 seconds to strip the gears
22:49 rue_shop2 ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
22:51 rue_shop2 16 months, not weeks
22:56 MjrTom so... Im sorry to hear that, but how does it take 16 months to mount a gearbox in a robot arm?
22:57 rue_shop2 its not a full time project
22:57 rue_shop2 it took 4 hours over the course of 16 months
22:58 rue_shop2 80W motors, guess I need to get in the habbit of using larger gears
22:58 orlock rue: feel a quake not too long ago?
22:59 Jak_o_Shadows arn't gears a thing you can work out easy enough?
22:59 orlock http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00n4im51#summary
22:59 rue_shop2 Jak_o_Shadows, all my gears are pulled from other equipment
22:59 rue_shop2 I dont make money on my projects, so I dont put more than $20 into them
23:00 rue_shop2 no I did not feel an earthquake
23:00 rue_shop2 I have never seen a special moon
23:00 rue_shop2 the world is only a figment of my imagination
23:00 rue_shop2 andthing you imagine I will never experiance
23:01 rue_shop2 so I'd prefer you didn't go on about how great you think they are
23:01 Tom_itx rue_shop2
23:01 Tom_itx you like your iphone?
23:01 rue_shop2 not especially
23:01 Tom_itx prefer android?
23:02 rue_shop2 its the work phone
23:02 rue_shop2 I was issued it
23:02 Tom_itx i knew htat
23:02 rue_shop2 the only android thing I have is a tablet, its ok
23:04 orlock i have a few android tablets - they are all crap
23:04 orlock but, thats a sub-$100 tablet for you
23:06 Tom_itx i'm not that 'into' any of it
23:06 Jak_o_Shadows I have written a few small apps
23:06 Tom_itx to do what?
23:06 Jak_o_Shadows Only have a cheap huawei phome
23:06 Jak_o_Shadows Uh, a laptimer for closed circuit racing and a robot control.
23:07 Jak_o_Shadows The robot control talks over bluetooth and uses the compass to get it to point in a direction
23:29 orlock fucking useless vac cleaner keeps overheating, been emptied too
23:29 orlock its "bagless" so it takes what looks like a car pod filter
23:32 lo hi all
23:32 Jak_o_Shadows hi
23:33 Guest21436 what is the difference between shield & screen in cable?
23:33 Guest21436 what is the difference between shield & screen in cable?
23:33 Guest21436 hello Jak_o_Shadows
23:34 Jak_o_Shadows hi
23:39 Tom_itx what was the android chat program?
23:41 Jak_o_Shadows Me? I just talked over bluetooth to a cheap bluetooth-serial adapter. It took dumb commands. I had it so that the robot would spin around to face a compass direction.
23:42 orlock nevermind, wrong channel
23:42 orlock but, thats cool
23:42 Jak_o_Shadows I didn't have input from the uC/robot working, but I was planning to. I gave up because robot couldn't steer straight.
23:42 Tom_itx no, there's an irc client for it i was trying to find
23:43 Jak_o_Shadows Ah. I use Andchat, sometimes
23:58 rue_house I have 3 more of the gear that stripped