| === jlamothe is now known as Guest47162 | ||
| === Sax is now known as Zhyr | ||
| _MST3Ker_ | hello folks | 15:18 |
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| _MST3Ker_ | no one here? | 15:20 |
| Zhyr | I am. | 15:23 |
| Zhyr | but I am on other networks at the moment.\ | 15:23 |
| _MST3Ker_ | ah cool | 15:27 |
| _MST3Ker_ | thanks for the response Zhyr | 15:27 |
| Zhyr | No worries. | 15:28 |
| * Zhyr is also searching for a better computer to run Linux on | 15:28 | |
| _MST3Ker_ | kinda a newb at this , so just testing the waters | 15:28 |
| azend|vps | I am | 15:28 |
| azend|vps | :) | 15:28 |
| azend|vps | _MST3Ker_: | 15:29 |
| _MST3Ker_ | hey azend|vps | 15:29 |
| _MST3Ker_ | :) | 15:29 |
| _MST3Ker_ | good morning | 15:29 |
| azend|vps | to you too | 15:29 |
| _MST3Ker_ | thanks | 15:29 |
| * genii makes more coffee and passes the mugs around | 15:29 | |
| azend|vps | hi genii :) | 15:29 |
| _MST3Ker_ | :) thanks genii | 15:29 |
| _MST3Ker_ | and hi | 15:29 |
| azend|vps | have you seen BobJonkman1 around? | 15:29 |
| genii | Hellos everyone :) | 15:29 |
| genii | azend|vps: Not actively, just idling | 15:30 |
| azend|vps | same here | 15:30 |
| azend|vps | not that I've been actively looking or anything | 15:30 |
| azend|vps | It's just nice seeing him around | 15:31 |
| genii | azend|vps: I have seen aruna a few times alately | 15:31 |
| _MST3Ker_ | so lots of regulars on this channel? | 15:31 |
| azend|vps | a few | 15:31 |
| azend|vps | but this channel has been dead for a long time | 15:31 |
| _MST3Ker_ | cool beans | 15:31 |
| * Zhyr is also relatively new. | 15:31 | |
| _MST3Ker_ | oh ok | 15:31 |
| * Zhyr is an IRC regular, though. | 15:31 | |
| azend|vps | you've just brought it back to life :) | 15:31 |
| genii | Mostly people from Kitchener, and a couple from Toronto ( me included ) are the usual suspects | 15:32 |
| _MST3Ker_ | oh boy, I feel special | 15:32 |
| _MST3Ker_ | oh nice | 15:32 |
| _MST3Ker_ | Kitchener... makes sense | 15:32 |
| azend|vps | _MST3Ker_: where are you from? | 15:32 |
| _MST3Ker_ | Ex-RIMmers? | 15:32 |
| azend|vps | ow | 15:32 |
| _MST3Ker_ | I'm from Tarana | 15:32 |
| azend|vps | wow | 15:32 |
| azend|vps | I can't even read that with a straight face | 15:33 |
| _MST3Ker_ | lol, read which? | 15:33 |
| azend|vps | [11:32:41] <_MST3Ker_> Ex-RIMmers? | 15:33 |
| _MST3Ker_ | ha | 15:33 |
| genii | _MST3Ker_: Kwartzlab people mostly, not RIM | 15:33 |
| _MST3Ker_ | ah, cool | 15:33 |
| _MST3Ker_ | I'm an engineer but not in IT | 15:33 |
| azend|vps | a civil engineer? | 15:34 |
| _MST3Ker_ | yes | 15:34 |
| azend|vps | cool | 15:34 |
| _MST3Ker_ | yeah, building stuff | 15:34 |
| azend|vps | building things which are guaranteed not to kill people just be difficult | 15:35 |
| _MST3Ker_ | yeah azend|vps..... if not, I'll move to Mtl. | 15:36 |
| azend|vps | *must | 15:38 |
| azend|vps | I'm in school for software engineering technology now | 15:38 |
| azend|vps | except my school is a total cop out and likes to offer programs that sound like real positions without actually being accredited | 15:39 |
| azend|vps | although my program is still pretty legit | 15:40 |
| azend|vps | most of my professors are alumni of UW for soft eng, math, or comp sci | 15:40 |
| azend|vps | but still no iron ring :/ | 15:41 |
| Zhyr | azend|vps, which school do you go to? | 15:41 |
| * bregma thinks the trappings of officialdom can be grossly overrated | 15:41 | |
| azend|vps | Conestoga College in Kitchener | 15:42 |
| azend|vps | I live in Guelph though | 15:42 |
| Zhyr | Ah. | 15:42 |
| * Zhyr is at Centennial for robotics engtech | 15:42 | |
| azend|vps | nice | 15:42 |
| azend|vps | have you worked with ROS yet? | 15:43 |
| Zhyr | Not yet. | 15:43 |
| Zhyr | Just finished my first year. | 15:43 |
| azend|vps | it's pretty fun | 15:43 |
| azend|vps | Zhyr: that's not an excuse :) | 15:43 |
| Zhyr | ROS? | 15:44 |
| _MST3Ker_ | oh nice ... I used to drive by Conestoga often | 15:44 |
| * Zhyr may actually know, but may not know the acronym | 15:44 | |
| azend|vps | Robot Operating System | 15:45 |
| azend|vps | Started by Willow Garage | 15:45 |
| azend|vps | now maintained by Clearpath Robotics | 15:45 |
| azend|vps | which is also in KW by the way :) | 15:46 |
| Zhyr | Haven't touched that. | 15:46 |
| * Zhyr will look into that once he gets his main laptop repaired | 15:46 | |
| azend|vps | it's an open source oslution for making different aspects of robots connect together | 15:46 |
| genii | I'm imagining my Roomba snuggling with the fridge now | 15:47 |
| _MST3Ker_ | they'd make awesome babies.... | 15:48 |
| bregma | do you guys play with things like the Beaglebon Black, Raspberry Pi2, or Intel Edison? | 15:48 |
| _MST3Ker_ | I'd keep my beers in it... | 15:48 |
| * _MST3Ker_ only plays with powertools | 15:48 | |
| Zhyr | I play with the Arduino, and am aiming to get a Pi for his birthday | 15:48 |
| genii | bregma: I have some MIPS dev boards right now, but nothing with ARM inside | 15:49 |
| * Zhyr also idles in #raspbian and #arduino\ | 15:49 | |
| azend|vps | bregma: yeah | 15:49 |
| genii | Specifically, these: http://www.elinux.org/MIPS_Creator_CI20 | 15:49 |
| azend|vps | they're cool | 15:49 |
| azend|vps | genii: the roomba runs ROS actually :) | 15:49 |
| genii | azend|vps: Cool :) | 15:50 |
| * Zhyr will be doing the basics of PLC in September | 15:50 | |
| _MST3Ker_ | I thought the Roomba ran on smooth flooring only.... does it do carpets also? | 15:50 |
| * Zhyr expects to blow up one or two PLCs before actually getting something to work | 15:50 | |
| bregma | I have Debian running on my Edisons and BBB but haven;t even had a chance to power up the raspi | 15:50 |
| bregma | gotta get Ubuntu on to them instead | 15:50 |
| azend|vps | _MST3Ker_: yeah | 15:50 |
| azend|vps | _MST3Ker_: just doesn't do stairs :P | 15:51 |
| azend|vps | it'll do couches if you give it a lift | 15:51 |
| _MST3Ker_ | that'll be the day | 15:51 |
| _MST3Ker_ | c'mon fellow nerdies, make it happen! | 15:51 |
| azend|vps | Zhyr: I never really got PLCs | 15:51 |
| _MST3Ker_ | I got potholes and bridges covered | 15:51 |
| bregma | azend|vps, does it at least do stairs in the downward direction? | 15:52 |
| azend|vps | they're just expensive ruggedized microcontrollers with already attached relays and power transistors | 15:52 |
| azend|vps | bregma: not if you want it to stay in one piece :) | 15:52 |
| azend|vps | actually, they have little sensors in the bottom of them to tell if there is a drop off | 15:53 |
| Zhyr | For my final year project, I have the option between a PLC and an Arduino for my controller for my project. | 15:53 |
| azend|vps | _MST3Ker_: make me a bridge between the floor and my couch :) | 15:53 |
| _MST3Ker_ | well, sounds good | 15:54 |
| _MST3Ker_ | I'll be needing a few thousand dollars and a few hundreds for overruns | 15:54 |
| azend|vps | Zhyr: are you more into the hardware portion or the software? | 15:54 |
| Zhyr | More into hardware, but I still have some software knowledge. | 15:55 |
| genii | What Roombas need is a stair attachment | 15:56 |
| genii | ...and maybe drapes | 15:56 |
| Zhyr | I could never get a Roomba. | 15:57 |
| _MST3Ker_ | no they don't genii.... they need googly eyes | 15:57 |
| _MST3Ker_ | and fur | 15:57 |
| Zhyr | The cat would sit on it and own it. | 15:57 |
| _MST3Ker_ | so people buy more because they'd be totes adorable | 15:57 |
| _MST3Ker_ | that's right... I said 'totes' | 15:57 |
| genii | Hm | 15:57 |
| _MST3Ker_ | yeah | 15:58 |
| * Zhyr is looking to getting a Lenovo X220T/X230T and putting 14.04 on it | 15:59 | |
| azend|vps | Zhyr: do you watch the EEVBlog? | 15:59 |
| Zhyr | negative - haven't been watching anything as of late. | 15:59 |
| * Zhyr was busy designing chassis parts before his main computer's HDD headcrashed | 15:59 | |
| azend|vps | _MST3Ker_: i think you may have just fouled your ring | 16:00 |
| genii | Zhyr: I was pretty impressed by that model, had to work on one recently | 16:00 |
| _MST3Ker_ | why is that azend|vps | 16:00 |
| _MST3Ker_ | because I don't speak code/hardware lingo? | 16:00 |
| Zhyr | I've run into the 220T models when I was a student at UOIT. | 16:01 |
| azend|vps | "[11:57:23] <_MST3Ker_> that's right... I said 'totes'" | 16:01 |
| _MST3Ker_ | ha~! | 16:01 |
| _MST3Ker_ | that's just my personality | 16:01 |
| Zhyr | And I've always wanted one since. | 16:01 |
| _MST3Ker_ | you'll see more of that nonsense later on | 16:01 |
| azend|vps | not many civil engineers who joke :) | 16:01 |
| _MST3Ker_ | yeah, more than Comp Sci..... | 16:02 |
| _MST3Ker_ | all us Civs were the drunks rowdy ones | 16:02 |
| _MST3Ker_ | we got kicked out of many organized activities for being idiots | 16:02 |
| _MST3Ker_ | The Mechs were not drinkers....though they tried | 16:02 |
| Zhyr | ah, the good old days watching engineering students outdrink other schols | 16:02 |
| Zhyr | schools* | 16:02 |
| _MST3Ker_ | we did it with other faculties | 16:03 |
| _MST3Ker_ | the Mechs had 3 ppl with alcohol poisonings in on of their smokers | 16:03 |
| _MST3Ker_ | f'ing rookies | 16:03 |
| Zhyr | At Centennial, it's always the engineers outdrinking the police students | 16:04 |
| Zhyr | It's quite a sight. | 16:04 |
| azend|vps | my program has too much work to be able to leave the house :( | 16:04 |
| _MST3Ker_ | c'mon azend|vps.... | 16:04 |
| _MST3Ker_ | you think I jerked it at my program? | 16:05 |
| _MST3Ker_ | you just have to get it done | 16:05 |
| azend|vps | social, work, sleep. pick 1 | 16:05 |
| _MST3Ker_ | and take some time to live | 16:05 |
| Zhyr | One misplaced symbol can leave you staring at the screen for hours. | 16:05 |
| * Zhyr knows | 16:05 | |
| _MST3Ker_ | true... I hated code | 16:05 |
| azend|vps | Zhyr: only first year :) | 16:05 |
| _MST3Ker_ | god I hated that | 16:05 |
| azend|vps | but I'm in soft eng tech so you get over that quickly | 16:06 |
| _MST3Ker_ | I was more into math and physics of it | 16:06 |
| Zhyr | I have machine shop in September. | 16:06 |
| Zhyr | I am friggin' stoked. | 16:06 |
| azend|vps | nice | 16:06 |
| _MST3Ker_ | nice Zhyr | 16:06 |
| _MST3Ker_ | that sounds fun | 16:07 |
| azend|vps | I have access to a nice bridgeport and lathe but I have no idea how to use them | 16:07 |
| azend|vps | I can do CNC though | 16:07 |
| Zhyr | For my 2016 birthday, I may ask for a mill. | 16:07 |
| azend|vps | :P | 16:08 |
| Zhyr | Machine shopfor me will be manual, though the school also provides CNC classes that are available during the summer. | 16:08 |
| azend|vps | good luck moving it without a forklift | 16:08 |
| * Zhyr is totally up for CNC | 16:08 | |
| Zhyr | azend|vps, a tabletop mill. | 16:08 |
| Zhyr | Not a full-scale one. | 16:08 |
| azend|vps | ah | 16:08 |
| * Zhyr is designing small robots up to the size of a basket, not xboxhueg bots | 16:08 | |
| azend|vps | I use one like this http://www.diyode.com/t/toolPics/tool_59_Orig.jpg | 16:09 |
| azend|vps | well attempt anyway | 16:09 |
| azend|vps | your standard el'giganto mill | 16:10 |
| _MST3Ker_ | I saw this guy machining a block of aluminum to make a cube inside a cube inside a cube | 16:14 |
| _MST3Ker_ | it was mesmerizing | 16:14 |
| Zhyr | I've seen the instructions on how to do that. | 16:15 |
| Zhyr | I forgot to save them, though. | 16:15 |
| * Zhyr derp | 16:15 | |
| Zhyr | azend|vps, http://www.sherline.com/mills.htm | 16:16 |
| azend|vps | ah nice | 16:16 |
| azend|vps | sort of like our CNC TAIG | 16:17 |
| azend|vps | https://www.google.ca/search?q=taig+mill&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIw6y9hMeKxgIVDwySCh3A8AAb&biw=1280&bih=699#imgrc=iw131YiLmKHt8M%253A%3BKxaRRgvcCaG5LM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.taigtools.com%252FImages%252Fcrmill1.JPG%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.taigtools.com%252Fmmill.html%3B300%3B377 | 16:17 |
| azend|vps | err | 16:17 |
| azend|vps | http://www.taigtools.com/Images/crmill1.JPG | 16:17 |
| Zhyr | Mhm. | 16:24 |
| Zhyr | I can get the mill and a kit for around 1.3-1.5 grand from Robotshop or Atlas Tool. | 16:25 |
| azend|vps | eww robotshop | 16:26 |
| azend|vps | they just buy cheap chinese crap like everyone else and then mark it up 10x | 16:27 |
| Zhyr | I get whatever I need from creatron or sayal directly (walk-in). | 16:30 |
| Zhyr | Tools, I usually get from Princess Auto. | 16:30 |
| Zhyr | Anything truly specialized, I usually talk to one of my profs or my program head - he knows where to get good stuff. | 16:31 |
| genii | Atlas Tool has almost everything | 16:36 |
| _MST3Ker_ | Hey now! no buzz marketing lol | 16:37 |
| genii | I got a decent metal break from there last time | 16:38 |
| _MST3Ker_ | princess auto is great... lots of little knick knacks | 16:38 |
| _MST3Ker_ | valves/ hose/equ. | 16:38 |
| _MST3Ker_ | its' quite good | 16:38 |
| genii | Cool | 16:39 |
| Zhyr | If I need raw material, I just drop by Home Depot. | 16:39 |
| * Zhyr can do some woodwork and can weld | 16:40 | |
| genii | Heh, yeah, I have a Crappy Tire welding machine | 16:41 |
| genii | ( mostly for fixing the fire escape at work) | 16:41 |
| Zhyr | I just need a extendable torch, and more fusion rods. | 16:41 |
| * Zhyr does not like electrode welding, fuckin' terrifying | 16:42 | |
| genii | With an instant-on helmet it's not so bad | 16:42 |
| Zhyr | Not even that. | 16:49 |
| Zhyr | just the fact thatI am working with a lot of voltage at once terrifies me. | 16:50 |
| Zhyr | Also, sparks jumping down your shirt. | 16:50 |
| * Zhyr knows the dance | 16:50 | |
| genii | I have a pretty good set of coveralls and a bib to prevent that :) But yeah hot slag really really really hurts | 16:51 |
| Zhyr | I usually have a cloth around my neck and a good jacket, since I am usually not doing protracted welds. | 16:52 |
| genii | Yeah, mostly I'm welding once a year for week or two here... fire escape repairs, making steel shelving, fixing busted shovels, things like that mostly. Maybe I should try to do something recreational | 16:55 |
| genii | Like a recumbent or such | 16:55 |
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