[Aardwolf]

Yay, my parents are home!

[watsisname]

My neighbor got drunk and fell down the stairs and broke his butt.  Apparently it hurts like a mother****er.

I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO! 
I WARNED YOU!

[z64555]

My neighbor got drunk and fell down the stairs and broke his butt.  Apparently it hurts like a mother****er.

I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO! 
I WARNED YOU!

Yep, it sure does. Especially if you have a desk job.

[An4ximandros]

Just spent almost an hour working on a flag and a logo for a little project of mine... only to figure out the measurements I took are all screwed up. **** 

Screw it, I'll just draw what looks good on my eyes.

[LHN91]

So apparently I and another guy in my Systems Development II course are doing a better job at administrating a server than THE GUY THE UNIVERSITY PAYS TO DO IT.   

We have a month left to put together the first couple iterations as a class of an open source web platform for use by the Food Banks of Guelph and a bunch of food activism groups as part of their initiative to better link producers and the public to food banks that need the goods. Wednesday morning we all showed up in the lab to get things rolling on the school server we had dedicated to our project, and that had seemingly taken months to get up and running. The server failed almost immediately and the system administrator is still trying to figure out what isn't working. So, we said 'to hell with it', and me and this other guy grabbed a couple of the old boxes I had laying around and made our own.

Neither I nor the other guy has ever done any remotely serious server admin, and yet here we are, after 2 days, running a pair of old P4 desktops (that I salvaged from the electronics recycling depot dropoff area at the Uni) on the floor of our prof's office as Ubuntu servers, and we have had more uptime and less issues with user connections and package setup than the server the school is providing for us. We've got our services up and running, our development libraries installed, and at least one other group has already built a skeleton website and has been serving it successfully.

[z64555]

So apparently I and another guy in my Systems Development II course are doing a better job at administrating a server than THE GUY THE UNIVERSITY PAYS TO DO IT.   

Yeah, I think Universities tend to get Seniors and Graduates as their TA's and lab techs... which wouldn't be an issue if they actually gave a damn about what they where hired to do.  I had a guy like that during my Electric Drives course, he had a problem trying to figure out which cable went were on the lab station we where at (which was kinda cool) just so that he could get the 3-phase watt meter working. He had at least 2 cables swapped, and I waited for about a minute while he was looking at the manual until I just went up there and swapped them to the RIGHT way to get things started working. 

Heck of a guy to hang out with, tho.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

I jus saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to Geico. 

[Nuke]

i wrote a little lua script to read the output of an accelerometer (part of a 10dof inertial measuring unit module) connected over an arduino via serial. im using iup so the output is shows up as gui elements rather than ascii. its quite impressive. now i need to figure out how to get data from the gyro, the magnetometer, the barometric sensor, and the tempurature sensors on any chips that have them (they usually do for thermal error correction im told). then i have to figure out how to control freespace with it. i also want to test gyro based head tracking. best $18 i ever spent.

yep i went ahead and tested the other sensors, they are working. some of the libraries i found even convert the data to useable units. i was shocked that the barometric sensor is accurate to about a couple feet. placing me exactly 25 feet above sea level (and the sea being a couple minute walk from here, down hill, its totally accurate).

[Nuke]

I jus saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to Geico. 

ive always assumed that if you changed your car insurance every couple of years, they would be so desparate to undercut eachother that you would pay practically nothing within about 10 years. though ive never concerned myself much with driving (legally at least). with insurance being mandatory and all, they will collect money no matter how little they charge people.

[z64555]

i wrote a little lua script to read the output of an accelerometer (part of a 10dof inertial measuring unit module) connected over an arduino via serial. im using iup so the output is shows up as gui elements rather than ascii. its quite impressive. now i need to figure out how to get data from the gyro, the magnetometer, the barometric sensor, and the tempurature sensors on any chips that have them (they usually do for thermal error correction im told). then i have to figure out how to control freespace with it. i also want to test gyro based head tracking. best $18 i ever spent.

yep i went ahead and tested the other sensors, they are working. some of the libraries i found even convert the data to useable units. i was shocked that the barometric sensor is accurate to about a couple feet. placing me exactly 25 feet above sea level (and the sea being a couple minute walk from here, down hill, its totally accurate).

Awesome, What kind of filtering and fusion are you considering? Complementary filters, some of the boxed Kalman filters, or maybe one of the "exotics"?

[Mongoose]

...why do I feel like Nuke is currently building a Metal Gear?

[Colonol Dekker]

If Nuke's Otacon, .........

[An4ximandros]

Don't forget the dinosaur screech!

[FireSpawn]

Or the suggestively placed laser.

[Nuke]

right now id be more than happy to have an autopilot for my r/c helicopter. after that, icbm guidance systems

i wrote a little lua script to read the output of an accelerometer (part of a 10dof inertial measuring unit module) connected over an arduino via serial. im using iup so the output is shows up as gui elements rather than ascii. its quite impressive. now i need to figure out how to get data from the gyro, the magnetometer, the barometric sensor, and the tempurature sensors on any chips that have them (they usually do for thermal error correction im told). then i have to figure out how to control freespace with it. i also want to test gyro based head tracking. best $18 i ever spent.

yep i went ahead and tested the other sensors, they are working. some of the libraries i found even convert the data to useable units. i was shocked that the barometric sensor is accurate to about a couple feet. placing me exactly 25 feet above sea level (and the sea being a couple minute walk from here, down hill, its totally accurate).

Awesome, What kind of filtering and fusion are you considering? Complementary filters, some of the boxed Kalman filters, or maybe one of the "exotics"?

i dont think ive gotten that far yet. so far im just reading the sensors over i2c and dumping the raw data to a console. next task is to figure out how to read all the sensors as fast as possible (so far ive only read one sensor at a time). then i will figure out what to do with all that data.

[FireSpawn]

Just had an intresting...."Discussion" on skype with one of my friends, because I called them up on the content of the stories they write and ask me to proof read on occasion. Content that attacks heterosexual people as being sick and depraved. His counter was that I must be a homophobe, my response was to tell him that discrimination against anyone, regardless of sexual preference or gender, was wrong and that they should know better.
A rather vibrant array of vulgarities folllowed my statement.

It makes me wonder sometimes, when people rally against something only to turn and do the same thing.

[An4ximandros]

Hah hypocrites, if it were up to me, no one would be allowed to show pride or disgust, if they did heads roll off immediately, Harkonnen style.

Tired of hearing about this **** when there is way more important things to be addressed on this planet, such as poverty and health.

[General Battuta]

Hah hypocrites, if it were up to me, no one would be allowed to show pride or disgust, if they did heads roll off immediately, Harkonnen style.

Tired of hearing about this **** when there is way more important things to be addressed on this planet, such as poverty and health.

Well we could all stop talking about it, and things could remain at status quo with gay people being dragged to death behind trailers. That would probably help you stop being tired of hearing about it.

[Scotty]

Theres absolutely nothing wrong with the concept of pride.  There becomes a problem when being proud of something impedes daily activities or imposes hardship, and even then there are some exceptions.

[z64555]

Awesome, What kind of filtering and fusion are you considering? Complementary filters, some of the boxed Kalman filters, or maybe one of the "exotics"?

i dont think ive gotten that far yet. so far im just reading the sensors over i2c and dumping the raw data to a console. next task is to figure out how to read all the sensors as fast as possible (so far ive only read one sensor at a time). then i will figure out what to do with all that data.

What chips do you have? If they're all on the same chip, it should be as simple as sending a special command to make it spill its guts in one swoop. I don't think the I2C protocol has a "call me back at x time," so if they're on different chips you'll probably have to poll each sensor in succession to get the data from them.