#robotics Logs

Jul 10 2015

00:58 rue_bed see if I can come up with a pwm amplifier for it
05:46 veverak well
05:47 verak usually solevs the problem that customer want to change/add some beha
05:47 veverak usually pretty simple
05:47 veverak and when I imlement it, I realize: "come on, rest of it doesn't make much sense?"
05:47 veverak and usually customer agrees and it turns out to be bigger change
05:48 veverak but I suppose that's what happens when you upgrade software little by little and patches stack up
09:14 rue_house the roots of bloatware
09:14 rue_house "can we add this feature thats unrelated to anything the software was designed to do?"
09:51 veverak well
09:51 veverak it's usually et least related
09:51 veverak only thing is that I don't consider myself perfect at patching it properly
09:51 veverak (it's not patching unfriendly)
09:52 veverak it's just that it's allready full of poorly made bullshits from previous person
11:10 jennie I have this motor and speed control, how do I run motor? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Traxxas-Velineon-VXL-3M-Waterproof-Brushless-Power-System-1-16-RC-Car-3370-/141492723125?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f19f9db5
19:54 rue_house jennie, first, stay in the channel long enough to get an answer
20:03 Hyratel1 http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Best-Selling-free-shipping-new-Sankyo-6MM-2-phase-4-wire-stepper-motor-micro-screw/2044172238.html
22:27 JEntrep anyone on?
22:34 Melite Yeah
22:34 Melite Hey
22:34 JEntrep hello
22:36 JEntrep have any cool projects?
22:37 JEntrep always interested in seeing what people are working on :)
22:40 Jak_o_Shadows 3d printer
22:42 JEntrep awesome :)
22:42 JEntrep using what materials?
22:43 JEntrep i mean the printing materials
22:53 ace4016 ceramics? because that would be cooler than the shitty plastics people have been using
22:53 slidercrank http://rt.com/news/272806-soft-3rd-printed-jumping-robo
22:55 JEntrep slidercrank, why are you linking to a russian propoganda website?
22:56 slidercrank does it matter what site is it? What propaganda do you see in that article?
22:56 slidercrank it's about a robot, not politics
22:57 JEntrep the very first sentence is: "Knowing that our great mother Russia is the greatest country on earth ... "
22:58 slidercrank oh, i didn't paste the link correctly: http://rt.com/news/272806-soft-3rd-printed-jumping-robot/
22:59 slidercrank I don't know where you took that line from
23:00 JEntrep I made it up ...
23:01 JEntrep interesting though