#robotics Logs

Feb 16 2017

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12:22 AM z64556 is now known as z64555
01:19 AM Anniepoo: @zhanx, apologies, lost power here
01:19 AM Anniepoo: 8cD tiny town, edge of wilderness
01:20 AM zhanx: what is 8cd?
01:20 AM Anniepoo: case sensitive
01:20 AM Anniepoo: 8cD me smiling
01:21 AM Anniepoo: 8cd me with tongue out
01:21 AM Anniepoo: often 'cincentrating'
01:21 AM Anniepoo: tend to use 8c9 for delicious
01:22 AM zhanx: ok
01:22 AM Anniepoo: =8cO yu find them confusing?
01:22 AM zhanx: Anniepoo: writing frame work http://pastebin.com/uRzq6cyn
01:22 AM zhanx: nope
01:23 AM zhanx: 16 possible things one chip one program
01:23 AM Anniepoo: cool
01:26 AM zhanx: next is over the air programming
01:27 AM Anniepoo: I'm getting more interested in MQTT
01:27 AM Anniepoo: a messaging standard for IoT
01:40 AM rue_house: why didn't they use one of the hundreds of existing standards?
01:40 AM rue_house: like htcpcp
01:41 AM Anniepoo: because many such protocols are too heavy
01:41 AM Anniepoo: for an mcu
01:41 AM rue_house: hmmm
01:43 AM Anniepoo: it's a messaging protocol
01:43 AM Anniepoo: so it's above the application layer
01:43 AM rue_house: binary or ascii?
01:44 AM rue_house: packed ascii?
01:44 AM Anniepoo: ascii
01:44 AM rue_house: is the snail going to be an intranet thing?
01:44 AM Anniepoo: yes
01:45 AM rue_house: what is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?
01:45 AM Anniepoo: the pi finds a laptop acting as a router
01:45 AM zhanx: 42
01:46 AM Anniepoo: question given by final release...
01:47 AM rue_house: what is the relivance of co = Kc[E+(1/Ti) ? E * dt+Td*(dE/dt)]
01:48 AM rue_house: what is your favorite colour?
01:48 AM rue_house: what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
01:49 AM rue_house: WHO expects the spanish inquisition?
01:49 AM Anniepoo: i do
01:51 AM zhanx: is that a English swallow or a Stockton one?
01:52 AM zhanx: peer review of my code found a bug
01:52 AM zhanx: not a butterfly
01:53 AM rue_house: hmm
01:53 AM rue_house: ... my tablet crashed....
01:53 AM zhanx: tis ok bug was found
01:54 AM rue_house: ugh, I'm so late for work, er bed
01:54 AM zhanx: and i fixed 3 other based off it
01:56 AM rue_house: initialization?
01:56 AM synja: usually picked up by the compiler
01:57 AM rue_house: if I use 18tpi thread, with a 200 step/rev motor, and an 8x microstepping driver, whats the resolution?
01:57 AM zhanx: nope low level things
01:57 AM synja: aren't they the best :}
01:57 AM rue_house: .03 thou?
01:58 AM rue_house: wow, so, full steps would be
01:58 AM rue_house: about .3 thou
01:59 AM rue_house: so, I should be reverse gearing my cnc steppers
01:59 AM zhanx: 10 to 1?
01:59 AM rue_house: 1:3
01:59 AM rue_house: ?
01:59 AM rue_house: my mechanics will bend within about 5 thou at best
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02:01 AM rue_house changed topic of #robotics to: If you ask a question, you must wait for the answer. | http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/index.php | H is for Hyperdimensional
02:01 AM -!- #robotics mode set to -o by rue_house
07:11 AM LiohAu_ is now known as LiohAu
09:25 AM rue_house: zhanx, ok, the 12' hexapod would be a bad idea, too hard to manage where it puts down its feet
09:26 AM rue_house: it'd be stepping on everything
09:26 AM veverak: :)
11:57 AM SpeedEvil: Depends on the weight really, and the pad area.