#robotics Logs

Sep 24 2018

12:00 AM rue_mohr: thats for the morning for ya
12:05 AM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/robots/sparrow1/p1100739.jpg <-- exhaust / water ducts for mecha engine
12:05 AM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/robots/sparrow1/p1100740.jpg
12:07 AM flav0r: oh man this tv is upwards of 300 pounds
12:36 AM mrdata: TV?
12:37 AM mrdata: this is 2018
12:37 AM mrdata: i dont have a TV
12:38 AM mrdata: though i have five monitors i can watch video on
12:38 AM mrdata: the heaviest is a few lb
12:51 AM orlock: i have a all-in-one Android computer that has a built-in tuner.
12:52 AM orlock: It's a 52" flatscreen with 4k res.
12:52 AM orlock: i think they sell it as a TV. Dont know why, it's main purpose is Youtube.
02:50 AM dreampillow is now known as Guest68297
02:52 AM Jak_o_Shadows: rue, I have a gyro module
02:52 AM * Jak_o_Shadows looks for it
02:58 AM * Jak_o_Shadows does't find it
03:01 AM Jak_o_Shadows: I think it was plugged into the spare breadboard...
08:53 AM rue_mohr: Jak_o_Shadows, did you have it working?
08:55 AM rue_mohr: --
11:33 AM patr0clus is now known as s3nd1v0g1us
03:36 PM gallon is now known as Guest17016
06:01 PM flav0r_ is now known as flav0r
06:09 PM energizer_ is now known as energizer
06:46 PM zhanx: my new monitor is 55" and was on the side of the road, works just find
06:46 PM zhanx: fine
06:47 PM Tom_L: no cracks?
06:47 PM zhanx: nothing wrong with it
06:47 PM zhanx: its been on 4 hours now
07:04 PM rue_mohr: hah , nice
07:04 PM rue_mohr: today my house acumulated a colour laser printer and a box of valve springs
07:34 PM vampirewings: maybe they just put it down to rest and went for a glass of water
07:34 PM vampirewings: and then youc ame by and you stole it
07:40 PM zhanx: musing of a weirdo
07:50 PM flav0r: dude
07:50 PM flav0r: i got a couple color lasers recently
07:50 PM flav0r: i used to work in a building that has an e-cycle room in the basement/garage
07:50 PM flav0r: from time to time i take a look in there
07:51 PM flav0r: last week i got a couple nice core i5 comps
08:00 PM orlock: oh
08:00 PM orlock: i just clicked
08:00 PM orlock: you mean printers
09:22 PM rue_shop4: ok, well I bent 3 more pipes for the mecha
11:18 PM flav0r: dude what is it about low income workers at fast food places ?
11:18 PM flav0r: zero pride in their work
11:18 PM flav0r: dont give a shit etc etc.
11:19 PM flav0r: the kind of attitude that goes far in life !
11:26 PM rue_mohr: not paid enough to
11:27 PM orlock: flav0r: Did you catch something?
11:27 PM orlock: find a bug in the food?
11:28 PM flav0r: what does pay have to do with pride?
11:28 PM flav0r: should always be proud of your work
11:28 PM flav0r: just useless people
11:28 PM flav0r: bottom of the barrel
11:28 PM orlock: ...
11:28 PM orlock: have some pride in where you fucking eat then
11:28 PM orlock: stop eating at bottom-of-thebarrel fast food joints
11:29 PM flav0r: never know where a loser is gonna show up
11:29 PM flav0r: they are everywhere
11:30 PM rue_mohr: I'm not sure if their over 50% the population now
11:30 PM flav0r: most likely
11:30 PM rue_mohr: the stupid ones breed like you wouldn't beleive
11:30 PM flav0r: yes
11:31 PM flav0r: and i WOULD believe it
11:31 PM flav0r: i see it every day
11:32 PM flav0r: the total number of welfare recipients is NOT declining
11:34 PM orlock: PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = -100%, RTA = 768924975104.00 ms
11:34 PM rue_mohr: after all "why work for a living when you can get knocked up and live ont eh sytsem"
11:35 PM rue_mohr: orlock, you waited for that pong eh?
11:35 PM rue_mohr: oh, 1 hehe
11:35 PM rue_mohr: (negitive)
11:35 PM flav0r: dude its becoming a viable career option these days
11:36 PM rue_mohr: in the local town we call is SMOG Single Mothers Of Gibsons
11:36 PM rue_mohr: turns out that someone I met was trying to get me to knock 'er up, I didn't fall for it, she moved on
11:36 PM orlock: hack the gibson?
11:39 PM rue_mohr: if you look on the map there is a "sechelt" to the south there is a "Gibsons"
11:39 PM rue_mohr: welcome to my small coastal comminity
11:41 PM orlock: sunshine coast
11:41 PM orlock: heh
11:41 PM rue_mohr: I know eh?
11:41 PM rue_mohr: only two on the planet
11:44 PM flav0r: i was talking about needing to inventory my components
11:44 PM rue_mohr: you can sink 100% of your time into organizing
11:44 PM flav0r: some clown on #arduino mentioned a now defunct project called ecdb
11:44 PM rue_mohr: OR you can build thigns
11:44 PM flav0r: and how he had modified it in some way .. i dunno
11:44 PM rue_mohr: Tom_L, has a component database he wrote
11:45 PM rue_mohr: you can sink 100% of your time into organizing
11:45 PM flav0r: anyway i take a look at it .. install it on a webserver … then i look at the SQL behind it
11:45 PM flav0r: so ridiculous
11:45 PM flav0r: so i DISMISSED it
11:45 PM rue_mohr: if you want, you can come and sort 80lbs of screws, and log them into a database for me
11:45 PM flav0r: apparently that prject got merged into partsbox.io
11:45 PM rue_mohr: after that I have 5 boxes of random stuff, and its NOT just junk
11:46 PM flav0r: bottom line .. im now making my own
11:46 PM flav0r: because they dont really solve the issue of determining what parts are being used
11:46 PM flav0r: im gonna put everythign into bags and label the bags with a barcode or qr code
11:47 PM orlock: we have this thing here
11:47 PM flav0r: then make an app for my phone that can scan it and update the database on parts being used
11:47 PM flav0r: yah
11:47 PM orlock: it goes up 2 floors
11:47 PM orlock: big big metal box
11:47 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/shop/semiparts1.jpg
11:47 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/shop/semiparts2.jpg
11:47 PM orlock: vertical carousel
11:47 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/shop/semiparts3.jpg
11:47 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/shop/semiparts4.jpg
11:48 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/shop/semiparts5.jpg
11:48 PM rue_mohr: http://ruemohr.org/~ircjunk/shop/p1100621.jpg
11:48 PM flav0r: rue .. its JUNK until inventoried !
11:48 PM rue_mohr: I just have one of everything
11:48 PM rue_mohr: then I dont need to do all that
11:48 PM flav0r: well that makes it easy
11:49 PM rue_mohr: if I use one of something I buy 250 more
11:49 PM rue_mohr: ... each time...
11:49 PM flav0r: i needed a couple strawhat leds recently
11:49 PM flav0r: bought 400
11:49 PM flav0r: then DIDNT USE ANY !
11:50 PM rue_mohr: you can make current controlled resistors with them tho
11:50 PM rue_mohr: so I have 1000
11:50 PM flav0r: did i say 400 ?
11:50 PM flav0r: i meant 4000000
11:50 PM rue_mohr: your problem not mine
11:51 PM flav0r: they will declare war on your robot
11:52 PM orlock: robot combat in 2 days
11:52 PM orlock: i'm not competing
11:53 PM rue_mohr: my robot isn't a battle bot, its a utility bot
11:53 PM orlock: Snug Gove looks nice
11:53 PM rue_mohr: firewood _is_ easier to chop when your a 12' robot
11:53 PM orlock: Snug Cove
11:53 PM orlock: except for that weirs display glitch