#robotics Logs

Oct 27 2018

12:16 AM rue_mohr: he's been asking about player/stage and /or whateverits called and no, I dont do that high level junk
12:20 AM rue_mohr: if I want to control a robot with a keybaord, I use a 386 ont eh robot
12:20 AM zhanx: k
02:35 AM rue_mohr: ok, I cant get one of the bui objects to resize properly
02:35 AM rue_mohr: lots of motif examples tho
02:35 AM rue_mohr: and the more I work with this, the more it looks like html stuff
02:56 AM flav0r: what on earth are you doing dude ?
03:07 AM rue_mohr: I'm writing the first CAM program for linux
03:07 AM rue_mohr: the first working one
03:19 AM rue_mohr: hmm I just dont get it
03:19 AM rue_mohr: it should be resizing
03:20 AM rue_mohr: the list widget resizes if its right in the main window
03:20 AM rue_mohr: which seems to imply that the reszie message isn't being passed to it
03:20 AM rue_mohr: but that does n't make sense
03:20 AM rue_mohr: its one of the things that supposed to be automatically passed along
03:24 AM rue_mohr: geting closer but I have a order-of-creation issue
03:25 AM rue_mohr: Warning:
03:25 AM rue_mohr: Name: main_w
03:25 AM rue_mohr: Class: XmForm
03:25 AM rue_mohr: Abandoned edge synchronization after 10000 iterations.
03:25 AM rue_mohr: heh
03:26 AM rue_mohr: it looks like I need to learn a lot more about motif and its layout manager
03:27 AM rue_mohr: I thought all the objects were supposed ot automatically scale, but I'm missing something
03:27 AM rue_mohr: dont know if its a motif bug or if thereis something I' gneuinely missing
03:27 AM rue_mohr: I have an application
03:28 AM rue_mohr: and I put a form widget in it, and I put two scrolled windows in that, one of the windows has a list and the other has a drawing area
03:28 AM rue_mohr: the drawing area resizes just fine, but the list object wont
03:28 AM rue_mohr: same calls
03:28 AM rue_mohr: more or less
03:28 AM rue_mohr: wonder how the 3d prints are going...
08:12 AM VansFannel: Hi!
08:13 AM VansFannel: If I write some code to control a robot in ROS, what am I simulating? I think, I'm simulating its CPU, isn't it?
06:54 PM rue_mohr: why do you want to use ROS?
06:56 PM * rue_mohr sits down to have breakfast "whew, what a morning!"
07:01 PM Tom_L: you got your days and nights mixed up
07:01 PM * Tom_L reboots rue_mohr
07:02 PM rue_mohr: no, no, its been a hell of a morning
07:04 PM Tom_L: psu wouldn't boot the MB so i bumped up 50w and now it's working
07:04 PM Tom_L: so i swapped out the MB
07:05 PM Tom_L: 2 cases with what i thought were identical psu but apparently not
07:06 PM rue_mohr: hmm, so you dont have any better of a time than I do
07:08 PM Tom_L: i tested the MB a while back but it must have been with the other box
07:08 PM Tom_L: so now both Gigabyte MB are up and running
07:08 PM Tom_L: the I7 is slower than the I5 though
07:09 PM Tom_L: at least that's my first impression
07:13 PM Tom_L: i7 7700 @ 3.6Ghz compared to I5 6400 2.7Ghz
07:13 PM Tom_L: the I5 just seems faster, same ram
07:13 PM rue_mohr: yes
07:14 PM rue_mohr: the 850Mhz amd I ahve is faster than the 2.4G intel
07:15 PM Tom_L: but it's all good. the i5 is my main one anyway
07:52 PM rue_mohr: ;) this is going well
08:04 PM Jak_o_Shadows: I have yet to figure out what ehse are useful for: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-2-0-Female-to-Female-Socket-Panel-Mount-Adapter-Socket-Wall-Plate-Plug-Standard/32801834084.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.137.462d1a16repQE8&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_2_10065_10068_10130_318_10547_319_317_10548_5728815_10696_10084_10083_10618_452_10307_532_10131_10132_10133_204_328_10059_10884_323_10887_100031_320_321_322_10103,
08:04 PM Jak_o_Shadows: searchweb201603_55,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=cd524a8d-64c3-4e37-8ca3-d43f841b7e49-19&algo_pvid=cd524a8d-64c3-4e37-8ca3-d43f841b7e49&transAbTest=ae803_4
08:04 PM Jak_o_Shadows: ack, should've tidied the URL
08:30 PM apache8080: has anybody looked into using rust in robotics? seems like a language that would have a lot of upside in robotics
08:31 PM Jak_o_Shadows: If you're talking embedded, the problem is always support
08:32 PM Jak_o_Shadows: and then, once you've written your library in C/C++, how much do you want to rewrite?
08:32 PM Jak_o_Shadows: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/14cm-USB-B-Type-Female-Socket-to-USB-A-Type-Female-Socket-Panel-Mount-008569/263054096924?hash=item3d3f3efa1c:g:QeQAAOSwzhZbzeck:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true sort of thing is more useful, but I sorta want iit without the cord
08:32 PM Jak_o_Shadows: Ali has a version, but the cord is 50c long, which is a bit extremem for me
08:38 PM apache8080: I was thinking more from the algorithm/middleware side but I see your point on the embedded aspect
09:14 PM z64555: If you're doing simulations, then you can use whatever language you want that your PC can handle