#robotics Logs

Oct 25 2015

06:39 veverak myyyy god
06:39 veverak item ordered 9 of this month
06:39 veverak nad it's still on airport near hongkong
06:39 veverak I suppose somebody wants to tell me that i should not build robot with servos
06:39 veverak :/
07:48 anonnumberanon veverak, are you making a hexapod?
07:48 anonnumberanon What kind of servos did you get?
07:51 veverak http://tote.readthedocs.org/en/latest/bom.html
08:31 anonnumberanon veverak, nice website how do you make that?. i made mine in html and css so any change takes a long time...
08:32 veverak anonnumberanon: not mine, deshipus work :)
08:33 anonnumberanon heh. so there is a clan..
09:15 veverak OMFG
09:15 veverak my y axis on reprap slipped again
09:15 veverak ....
09:16 [cube] lol
09:16 [cube] i hate that
09:16 [cube] because of that problem
09:16 [cube] i just redesigned my heated bed
09:16 [cube] literally last night :P
09:16 veverak ?
09:16 [cube] went from 3lbs weight
09:16 [cube] to 2 lbs
09:17 verak again moved "put encoder on y axis" up in teh TODO
09:17 [cube] was using aluminum plate
09:17 [cube] too heavy
09:17 veverak got carbon plate instead of glass
09:17 [cube] when printing fast it slipped sometimes
09:17 shipu onlys uses 5cm thick s
09:17 [cube] well i just made on out of glass
09:17 [cube] and made littl eholders to suspend it
09:17 deshipu every 3d printer I made is done like that
09:17 veverak so, mine is definetly lighter then usually
09:18 [cube] http://imgur.com/a/HTWXf
09:18 [cube] well this is new for me, i've been using a heavy sluminum plate since i started printing
09:18 [cube] a year ago
09:18 veverak hmm
09:19 [cube] i think this will dramatically improve the speeds it can handle
09:20 deshipu so far I made 0 of them
09:20 [cube] of what?
09:20 veverak [point is that I am running out of ideas how to make it work properly
09:20 deshipu of 3d printers
09:20 deshipu they are useless
09:20 [cube] whats t
09:21 [cube] they can uselful :P
09:21 veverak deshipu: not if maed properly
09:21 [cube] veverak, what do you think the problem is?
09:21 veverak [cube]: bullshit design ?
09:21 veverak moviny bed on which you print on axis that is moving fast
09:21 veverak is bullshit by design
09:22 [cube] yeah
09:22 [cube] i agree
09:22 [cube] the next printer i build will be 'smartcore' based
09:22 verak wanted to said e3d style pri
09:22 veverak but they looks same
09:22 veverak :)
09:22 [cube] i think smartcore is similare to ultimaker
09:22 [cube] it's a solid design
09:23 [cube] https://www.youmagine.com/designs/smartcore
09:26 veverak http://bigbox-3d.com/gallery
09:26 veverak I like this design
09:26 deshipu veverak: most of what you can 3d print I can cut much faster on the scrollsaw
09:28 veverak good luck with that
09:29 veverak deshipu: I am not "aweare simple 3d models" guy :)
09:29 [cube] deshipu: i doubt that lol
09:29 veverak [cube]: he got a point
09:29 veverak most of the people print things that doesn't makes sense to print
09:30 [cube] well
09:30 [cube] a 3d printer is only as good as the user
09:30 [cube] if the user doesnt know CAD then yes a printer is almost useless
09:30 [cube] printer can speed up lots of things and make sure hole alignments etc are perfect
09:31 veverak well
09:31 veverak nto close to perfect
09:31 [cube] measure things 'the old fashion way' is more of a waste of time
09:31 veverak not even close
09:31 veverak but good enough
09:31 [cube] yes
09:31 [cube] you design a part with low tolerances in mind
09:31 [cube] and sometimes i make them adjustable
09:31 deshipu [cube]: the thing is, I think with my hands, I need to hold it in my hands and try different fittings etc. before I can decide how exactly it should look like
09:31 veverak why not? :)
09:32 [cube] deshipu: i agree for some things
09:32 [cube] i have a full shop long before i had a printer :P
09:32 deshipu I usually make a prototype out of cardboard first
09:32 [cube] i use lego sometimes
09:32 [cube] for mechanisms
09:32 deshipu polymorph is nice too
09:33 [cube] i just designed a simple camera slider in 1 day
09:33 [cube] printed in another day
09:33 [cube] probably would have taken longer to do by hand
09:33 veverak anyway
09:35 deshipu I'm evil :(
09:35 [cube] http://i.imgur.com/vHYxS23.jpg
09:35 [cube] ok make that on scroll saw :P
09:35 deshipu I just did a horrible thing and now I can't wait for the people to discover it
09:35 [cube] heh what
09:36 deshipu cylon512: sure, 3 layers
12:42 veverak [cube]: tracks?
12:42 veverak or what is it?
14:06 rue_house Tom_itx, the rotor and dist cap look really bad, I'm gonna go over to the parts shop and see if they have new ones, as long as I dont turn the engine off I'll be ok
15:32 onnumberanon imagines an old Jeep fin
19:01 adam789654123 hello robotics
19:02 robopal hi adam
19:03 adam789654123 hello robopal
19:03 adam789654123 anything of mention going on?
19:04 robopal I don't think so
19:05 adam789654123 hell of an icebreaker eh?
19:05 adam789654123 nobody ever thinks so
19:05 adam789654123 i need a new line
19:07 psYbR i'm building robots
19:07 psYbR does that count adam789654123 :D
19:07 adam789654123 absolutely
19:07 adam789654123 are they evil?
19:08 psYbR actually I lied, I'm at work. But in general I'm building robots
19:08 adam789654123 haha
19:08 adam789654123 cool
19:08 adam789654123 what kind?
19:08 psYbR one has a flamethrower and sharpened titanium spikes so it's sorta evil
19:08 adam789654123 ohhh
19:08 psYbR but it'll be dressed up as Spyro the Dragon so it'll be cute
19:08 adam789654123 haha
19:08 adam789654123 what kind of robots?
19:09 robopal you participate in robot wars psYbR ?
19:09 psYbR http://i.imgur.com/Wam7lub.jpg
19:09 adam789654123 im working from the terminal
19:09 adam789654123 sorry
19:09 adam789654123 :/
19:09 adam789654123 no pics
19:10 psYbR i'll do you an ascii version adam789654123. Here it is from the side: <o=o>
19:10 adam789654123 cool!
19:10 psYbR haha
19:11 adam789654123 iv been developing and i havent been working on upgrading my new system
19:11 psYbR robopal: pretty much
19:11 adam789654123 so..... terminal mode for me..... for now
19:11 psYbR what are you building adam789654123 ?
19:11 adam789654123 a program
19:11 robopal in linux?
19:11 adam789654123 a programming framework really
19:12 adam789654123 im on linux
19:12 adam789654123 im programming in clisp
19:12 adam789654123 i finished a proto-version of an interupt framework
19:12 robopal dont you like working in X, something like fluxbox?
19:12 adam789654123 im using arch
19:12 adam789654123 and im busy
19:13 adam789654123 so i havent worked on the window stuff
19:13 psYbR sounds kinda like aiko_engine
19:13 adam789654123 what does?
19:13 adam789654123 "interupt framework"?
19:14 adam789654123 basically imagine that if you define a function, you could register it to interupt conditions
19:14 adam789654123 thats an integral part of this thing im working on
19:15 adam789654123 the interput conditions are checked each time prior to that function being called
19:15 adam789654123 i had an idea for a greenhouse pool thing
19:16 adam789654123 i thought maybe #robotics fans would find it interesting
19:16 adam789654123 a way to have a pool in a greenhouse in a potentially cheap way
19:16 adam789654123 a potentially cheap arrangement
19:17 adam789654123 any takers? ....... or perhaps the nutzo label?