#robotics Logs

Jun 20 2014

00:25 GuShH but today it was so cold the grease on the bearings was making the spindle very stiff, it took a while to warmup to speed
00:25 GuShH I'm not using oil anymore for the spindle though
00:26 rue_more I'm using 10wt.. I think... detergent free oil
00:27 rue_more but I'm worried about all the metal I saw comming out of the headstock bearing when I overoiled it
01:31 Hyratel general question - is it better to have limit switches Normally Closed, so in the event of a disconnected switch, it faults safe?
04:00 Tom_itx Hyratel, yes
04:00 Tom_itx http://www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/38-general-linuxcnc-questions/3213-bridgeport-interact-2-how-do-i-wire-limit-switches
10:04 mribeirodantas I have a .map file generated by the CARMEN robot toolkit. How can I read this file to apply a line extraction algorithm? (To solve the SLAM problem)
10:18 Carp i punched carmen into ros.org search and there's a quite a few topics about this
10:21 mribeirodantas Carp: lemme see..
10:21 Carp a lot of people asking questions i should say. i haven't gotten to toy with slam yet
10:22 mribeirodantas I see.
10:22 Carp reading the manual still.
15:35 MrCurious it appears that the Swiss, as always, are remaining neutral...
21:38 rue_more the new tanks are in the ground...!