#robotics Logs

Mar 21 2015

02:40 rue_house 0.7V offset there...
02:46 theBear if you say so
04:05 Anniepoo gol darnit - now I'm sitting here staring at a can of knox unflavored gelatin on Amazon and about to push the order button
04:11 rue_house ok I got my amp, but I want it different
04:12 orlock why?
04:12 orlock the gelatin that is
04:12 orlock ballistic gel?
04:12 rue_house its biased wrong
04:12 orlock fake body parts?
04:12 orlock special effects stuff?
04:12 orlock rue_house: oh - looking for ways to power my heated bed, realised i've got a dual output bench supply 0-30v per channel, but only 3A
04:13 Anniepoo social robot
04:13 Anniepoo 8cD
04:13 rue_house orlock, damnit man, just use unregulated AC!
04:13 rue_house ITS A HEATER
04:14 orlock i'd need a SSR for that though
04:16 orlock spent today moving crap out of the garage
04:16 orlock so i could take down some shelves, after moving more crap
04:16 orlock to rip out 3 panes of glass that were somehow being held in place by rotting to bits framing
04:16 orlock the wood was so rotted i could just rip it out and it fell apart
04:17 orlock put in 3 sheets of plywood instead
04:19 orlock going to build an enclosure for my printe ri think
04:19 orlock paranoid about fire risk
04:21 Anniepoo the enclosure would raise the temp. inside
04:21 orlock Anniepoo: thats another bonus
04:22 orlock Anniepoo: if its all metal fully enclosed it should help prevent any accidental combustion escaping
04:22 orlock i'll need to replace the single PLA bit of the printer with ABS though
04:54 stoopkid what kind of mcu's do you guys use for your projects
04:57 stoopkid also what exactly is a "shield" for arduino, it looks like they're just other chips that do things
05:09 Vetaxili My question is actually here... :-P http://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/6838/simulation-of-adaptive-robot-control-system
05:42 rue_house you want to know how to write an AI?
05:43 stoopkid rue_house: yes, strong AI
05:43 stoopkid rite nao
05:44 stoopkid i wonder what's the largest AI you could run on an ATTiny
05:45 stoopkid err, i guess largest is predefined, i meant best, largest learning capacity
05:45 stoopkid 8KB code space
05:45 stoopkid 512B SRAM, 512B EEPROM
05:46 stoopkid you could probably run a decent sized neural net on that
05:48 rue_house funny, I was thinking vector processor with 40G of ram
05:51 stoopkid ha
05:52 stoopkid i don't even know what to do with that much memory
05:52 stoopkid that'd be like if i got $10 billion dollars today
05:52 stoopkid i'd probably use most of it on a bunch of useless junk before anything else
15:00 dpy hi guys
15:00 dpy anybody here using gerbmerge?
15:01 dpy having a slight battle here with it... somehow it insiste on generating a silkscreen for the solder side
15:02 dpy out of nothing (the input pls file doesn't have a silk screen)
18:51 rue_shop3 I did it , I did it! I worked out how to make the knee and elbow joints for the mecha!
18:51 rue_shop3 sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
18:51 rue_shop3 no hole drilling
18:52 Anniepoo 8cD
18:53 rue_shop3 but I need to find bandsaw blades that dont cost $35ea
18:54 Anniepoo cheap bandsaw blades?
18:55 Anniepoo metal or wood? and if you're chewing up metal blades, are you running them on a wood bandsaw? (metal cutting bandsaws run at a diff. speed)
18:56 rue_shop3 meal
18:56 Tom_itx if you don't need the sharp part use crate bands
18:56 rue_shop3 metal
18:57 rue_shop3 heh
18:57 Tom_itx for the metal ribbon
18:57 rue_shop3 I broke one of the bandsaw blades, I'm on my last one
22:35 DagoRed ls