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peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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movax posted:

i want to make tacocopter a reality

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peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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i dont actualy know what that means but it sounds pretty good

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Apr 24, 2007

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SmokaDustbowl posted:

global priapism system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN0VtHez9xI

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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duTrieux. posted:

hey guys if i can't read music or play a piano but want to start to learn what i should buy i totally won't abandon this idea like all of my others

just get one of these and make with the beep boops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45d2Yomsct4

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3564010

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Apr 24, 2007

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echinopsis posted:

did u just bump this thread for your own thread


holy poo poo dude

well it is my idiot spare time project that i spent the past week on, so it seemed appropriate

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Apr 24, 2007

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WorkingPeer posted:

the original plans call for a set of 3 110v 300w immersion heaters, but i'm thinking of using a single 1000w (or 1500w) coil, so there's one less point of failure. my knowledge of electronics is terrible, though: does 1 1000w coil output (generally) as much heat as 3 300w coils? my other thought is that this would reduce the load on the solid state relay, which i gather tends to get very hot. does this make sense?
No. 1000W is more load than 900W. At 1000W/220V = 4.5 A. This is well under the 25A rating of your relay, but those SSRs are sometimes overrated and even then that rating is probably assuming an ideal heatsink. You might still need to heatsink it.


WorkingPeer posted:

speaking of failsafes, i think i'll add a circuit breaker, but i don't know what amperage i should use. the relay is rated to 25a, but uk mains are 13a, so i dunno which makes more sense for a breaker.
you should only be drawing 4.5 amp as above, maybe get a 5 or 6A breaker.

WorkingPeer posted:

the original plans call for you to use an immersible aquarium pump, but they aren't foodsafe or rated for anywhere near the temps sous-vide reaches. so i'll use this food-safe, rated-to-boiling one instead. i could mount it on a little probe like this
isn't your food sealed in a watertight bag? does it really have to be food safe? also that pump is rated to 65C, not boiling.

WorkingPeer posted:

i'd need a power supply for the pump, but i want the whole device to be relatively simple looking so i don't want to use a wall wart in addition to the existing ac in so i think i'll use one of these 12v led power supplies connected to the same circuit as the coil and pid. would that work?
an led driver might not appreciate an inductive load like a motor.

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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dur posted:

how much does it cost to go there and use their stuff?

its like 175/mo

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Apr 24, 2007

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01011001 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyiY_3cyEuo here's a robutt. only fell in once filming it, too

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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WorkingPeer posted:

yospos i'm going insane. it's poo poo i don't know all the way down.

like, what the gently caress is this?!?



jonny, pls tell me that you were as naive as i was before you built raspberry high...

PID is proportional, integral, differential

the overall concept is not that complex. you have an error function e(t) which is just (target value - measured value) for any given time t. now you calculate three different components of error

think of a line graph of your temperature on the y axis and time on the x axis

proportional is just how far away are you right now from target, this is the height difference for the latest point on the graph = e(t)
integral of the error with time tells you your history of cumulative error, aka the area under the curve = running sum of (e(t) * dt)
differential of the error is the rate at which you are approaching the target, aka the slope of your graph = (e(t) - (previous e(t))) / dt

dt is how often you take a temp sample in seconds or whatever (sample period)

each component gets scaled by its own K constant(Kp, Ki, Kd). you have to tweak these values to best fit your specific system

then you add up the three components and that gives you the value that you feed back into the system (heater pwm or whatever)

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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Mido posted:

yo could you recommend a good simulator? i keep finding lovely java ones but im convinced there's some nerdtool that is exactly what i'd like it to be (drag components onto a space and connect them and inspect voltage and see things happen etc)

you could try this one, it looks kinda polished but i haven't really used it
https://www.circuitlab.com/

i think there is also a fruit tablet version

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Apr 24, 2007

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hubris.height posted:

whats a good equation for culminative acceleration? currently i'm using

code:
 
velocity[0] += (math.ceil((random.randint(1,5)/6)*(velocity[0]^2))+random.randint(1,5))
and it accelerates alright but it seems to slow down a lot of the time too. any suggestions? just bouncing a pong ball off of all the walls, for now. want to make something out of it eventually though.

why are you storing velocity as int? why would a ball randomly accelerate? are you applying this acceleration only when it hits a wall? what are you even trying to do?

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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if you want smooth acceleration just add a constant to your velocity. you are over complicating this

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Apr 24, 2007

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hubris.height posted:

sorry to interupt flight sim chat but whats it called when you give a class or object the ability to be added or subtracted and how is it done wanna make the draw update and add velocity with as clean a look as I can

operator overloading
http://docs.python.org/2/library/operator.html

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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actually, more like this link
http://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#emulating-numeric-types

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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odark thirty posted:

can be simplified
unless he using python 3

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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or
code:
from __future__ import division

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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coffeetable posted:

i want that tshirt

no i will not fix your computer

he sells them in his store
http://www.eevblog.com/merch/

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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Jonny 290 posted:

i had to solder a couple wires in my car the other day and didnt feel like running an extension cord so i brought out an old screwdriver and a propane torch. old school style.

butane soldering irons are awesome for auto work

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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now throw some specularity on dat ho

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Apr 24, 2007

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ol qwerty bastard posted:

final thing for tonight: made the ball bounce around in 3d space with a light just off to the right of the screen



tomorrow perhaps... two balls! i already wrote the collision algorithm from my bouncysticky 2d ball program to work in 3d so that should be straightforward; harder will be getting the balls to cast shadows on each other

make the walls light up when you hit them

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Apr 24, 2007

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ol qwerty bastard posted:

i went back to my cloud whatever simulator thing and rewrote it using actual navier-stokes this time :pcgaming:
now it gets turbulent flow (that currently builds up and makes it go all hosed eventually because i haven't written any sort of proper planet-spin-is-imparting-momentum-to-atmosphere stuff, i'm just naively adding some constant to the x-component of the vector so it goes out of control, but for now it looks pretty cool and that's what i was trying to accomplish)


how do u make youtube not turn your pixel-perfect simulation output into a lovely blurry mess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcfzPZwxu80

the red is supposed to be little vectors showing wind direction but instead they are blobs and streaks

for example here is what one of the frames is supposed to look like:



gj
would you say you are pretty navier-stoked right now?

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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coffeetable posted:

what's the generator trying to optimize/what're the constraints other than "all rooms must be accessible?"

optimal buttcrack shaped rooms

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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my stepdads beer posted:

lol wtf happened to the title bar

owned

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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working on a python script to help me define box joints and t-bolts and have it all match up perfect for laser cut shiz


that piece is still wip

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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a soundtrack for the other video

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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oqb try pypy

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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i've been workin on a script to generate laser cuttable box joint shapes with bolts and non 90 degree angles. finished up this piece and cut my first prototype piece


pieces fit together great

its part of a delta style 3d printer

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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Sagebrush posted:

2.5 atmospheres really isn't that much. it's about the same as in a car tire or a soda can. you could do it perfectly safely with a piece of abs pipe if you wanted to, an explosion is going to be pretty mild

for comparison your average scuba tank pressure is about 200 atmospheres when full and people wear those on their backs
hell yeah make a 3000psi pressure vessel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wkgBPk0DWg

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Apr 24, 2007

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Sagebrush posted:

ya im getting ideas now for a system made from a piece of 3" pipe that you shove a bunch of apples into and charge up with co2 and put a burst disk on the end and then when they're done you serve them by cranking up the pressure and BOOM a bunch of fizzy apples shoot out into a stainless steel bowl and roll around with co2 steaming off


cut a hole, nothing. all you need is to get some of the oxygen into the acetylene tank and the whole thing will explosively decompose and level your house. those squat little containers are nasty little time bombs and i hate them very much. i try to use natural gas or oxyhydrogen and avoid acetylene entirely if possible

how does oxygen get in your acetylene tank

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Apr 24, 2007

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spankmeister posted:

actaulyl we're running out of helium and every time i see a kid with a helium balloon i get mad b/c we need it for sciency stuff.
*inhales helium balloon*
better start up the tokomaks bitch

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Apr 24, 2007

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01011001 posted:

a month later is kind of like "on the way". still doesnt do water-to-land transitions worth a drat but w/e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo4hs287His
more like roboderp

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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yeah bloom the gently caress out of that vidcon

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Apr 24, 2007

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echinopsis posted:

so this is culmination of preobaly a year or more of lots of fuckings round in ableton and trying to find a sound i really liked
its probably the first complete musical anything ive ever been content* with in my life, ever since i started playing guitar when i was 14
id appreciate some honest constructive criticism if you are down. i know this is yospos so im expecting nthing but the opposite
https://soundcloud.com/echinopsis/shaumber
excuse the hosed up long end tail of nothing bu noise i cant even export

i like ur mud boobs

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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WorkingPeer posted:

i need a heating element shaped like this for my project:



but i can only one, and it runs way too hot for my purposes. also its only available on ebay and amazon.

is there a digikey or farnell-like site where i can find a good, easily-searchable range of stuff like this, with reliable info about the manufacturer and ideally datasheets and other documentation?

looks like an immersion heater? maybe try mcmaster. also if it runs too hot you could probably just adjust the voltage being supplied to it. if its running off mains ac then a simple triac light dimmer knob should do the trick. a typical $10 one from hardware store supports up to 600W.

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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WorkingPeer posted:

i want to theoretically be able to order 1000 of these things
try alibaba?

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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i did a really simple 3d random walk thing that looks kinda cool
http://jsfiddle.net/x84T7/1/embedded/result/

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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actually its 6d :2bong: becuase it walks over color components too

peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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i added color cycling :pcgaming:
http://jsfiddle.net/x84T7/11/embedded/result/

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peepsalot
Apr 24, 2007

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continuous walk: http://jsfiddle.net/x84T7/12/embedded/result/

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