#robotics Logs

Mar 21 2020

12:16 AM i-make-robots: https://www.marginallyclever.com/products/six-axis-joystick/
12:22 AM i-make-robots: goddamn that is a terrible picture.
12:22 AM i-make-robots: not enough hours in the day
12:28 AM rue_bed: ah yes, lots of nice offsets
12:29 AM rue_bed: did you see mine?
12:30 AM rue_bed: http://ruemohr.org/%7Eircjunk/robots/armcontroller2/p1070298.jpg
12:31 AM rue_bed: http://ruemohr.org/%7Eircjunk/robots/armcontroller/p1110218.jpg <-- rev 1 :)
01:11 AM i-make-robots: nice!
01:12 AM i-make-robots: I had much fun getting the cables to stop fighting my moves.
01:12 AM i-make-robots: mostly i was proud I got it down to ...45 minutes print time.
04:34 AM Jak_o_Shadows: I tend to agree about the xrobots guy
08:20 AM mrdata: i-make-robots, you're join/part cycling
03:13 PM aggrav8d: hello?
03:13 PM aggrav8d: why do i keep timing out...
03:29 PM rue_mohr: I dont know
03:29 PM rue_mohr: bad internet?
03:34 PM aggrav8d: must be.
03:34 PM aggrav8d: IRC 100yr out of date, perchance.
03:50 PM rue_mohr: aggrav8d, working on any apocalypse stuff?
03:54 PM aggrav8d: yeah, when PETG gets here I can start printing Prusa masks for my doctor friends.
03:55 PM aggrav8d: gonna hit up the plastics supplier and have them laser cut the clear face parts
03:55 PM aggrav8d: also trying to get people interested in the robot arms for doing remote work.
03:55 PM aggrav8d: 80cm >20N is able to do a lot.
03:56 PM aggrav8d: you?
03:57 PM rue_mohr: I'm not doing much
03:57 PM rue_mohr: been sleeping a lot
03:57 PM rue_mohr: I have a 4'x8' cnc I'm trying to make progress on
04:02 PM rue_mohr: charged the battery on the lawn tractor, repotted some plants
04:02 PM rue_mohr: I'm supposed to be assembling a fet driver board
04:02 PM rue_mohr: and rebuilding the front end to a filter profiler
04:02 PM rue_mohr: and writing some verilog for an encoder
11:58 PM mun: anyone know why a lot of robot arms are built using thick aluminium parts for the arm section rather than thin stainless steel?