| --- Log opened Fri Sep 23 00:00:25 2011 |
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| 02:17 | < thalass|parenting> | http://pastebin.com/KXp7Gs0u |
| 02:18 | < thalass|parenting> | tharrr. |
| 02:18 | < gnolam> | ? |
| 02:22 | <@Derakon> | It's supposed to be a program to turn off the TV when his kid gets too close to it. |
| 02:23 | <@Derakon> | Put into a microcontroller attached to a sonar sensor and some means of controlling the TV, presumably. |
| 02:24 | <@Derakon> | The concept seems reasonably sound, though why are you sending the same signals on infraout for both cases? |
| 02:26 | < thalass|parenting> | that's the code for 'pause', which also unpauses |
| 02:27 | <@Derakon> | Ah. |
| 02:27 | < thalass|parenting> | brb. screaming baby |
| 02:27 | <@Derakon> | So it's not "disable power to TV", it's "pause playback". |
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| 02:32 | < thalass|parenting> | At the moment. The tv takes ages to boot so that seemed like a good way to do it. I might also send the mute command, too. |
| 02:33 | < thalass|parenting> | But does it seem like it'll go smoothly? i pretty much fumbled my way through the picaxe pdf files and wrote that. It must be easy if i can do it :P |
| 02:34 | <@Derakon> | Well, I don't know the language, but the structure seems sound, assuming everything does what I'm guessing it does. |
| 02:40 | < thalass|parenting> | neat hehe |
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| 03:24 | <@McMartin> | That said |
| 03:24 | <@McMartin> | Your one comment? |
| 03:24 | <@McMartin> | Don't comment like that. |
| 03:24 | <@McMartin> | That part we knew |
| 03:24 | <@McMartin> | Because it says so *right there* |
| 03:25 | <@McMartin> | The comment should be something like "ADC1: sonar sensor, result in cm" or w/e |
| 03:26 | <@McMartin> | Also, your program goes donkey-between-two-stacks-of-hay if the kidlet parts herself exactly 1m from the screen. |
| 03:26 | <@McMartin> | *parks |
| 03:26 | <@Tamber> | Which, because Murphy, will happen all the time? =p |
| 03:27 | <@McMartin> | Also, I just noticed that this language is, basically, QBASIC. |
| 03:28 | <@Derakon> | Mm, yes, better would be "if TV is currently paused and distance > 60" and "if TV is currently playing and distance < 50", or something like that. |
| 03:28 | <@McMartin> | (The other thing that's worth noting is that it appears to be tight-spinning in the normal case. You might want to have main begin with a 100ms sleep so that it only samples the world at 10 FPS. This will probably drop the power usage some.) |
| 03:28 | <@Derakon> | So that the trigger point for unpausing is further away than the trigger point for pausing. |
| 03:29 | <@McMartin> | The last robotty thing I built was from a mind-storms kit |
| 03:29 | <@McMartin> | Which mixed a motion sensor with a speech synthesizer and some cogs |
| 03:29 | <@Derakon> | What, to turn, face visitors, and greet them? |
| 03:29 | <@McMartin> | So it would cheerfully shout HELLO! at you when you walked by and then start pegging you with ping-pong balls. |
| 03:30 | <@Tamber> | haha |
| 03:30 | <@Derakon> | Awesome. |
| 03:31 | <@McMartin> | Sadly, the packed-in voice synth did not include an "Are you still there?" voice sample~ |
| 03:50 | <@Simon_Shine> | haha |
| 03:51 | <@Simon_Shine> | it never occurred to me to make Portal-like droids in mindstorm. |
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| 04:11 | <@Alek> | dude, that is win. |
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| 06:06 | < Rhamphoryncus> | Given that rapid power cycling is generally bad for electronics, I'd go as far as an exponential backoff |
| 06:06 | < Rhamphoryncus> | with a preferences for off of course |
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| 06:16 | <@Derakon> | Rhamph: he's pausing the TV, not power-cycling it |
| 06:16 | < Rhamphoryncus> | oh okay |
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| 06:31 | <@Simon_Shine> | oh no |
| 06:33 | <@Simon_Shine> | my university lab computer doesn't have HUnit installed |
| 06:33 | <@Simon_Shine> | can I borrow an account on someone's computer who has GHC and HUnit installed? |
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| 09:18 | | * McMartin purchases the Game Maker: HTML5 Edition thing with his beta discount |
| 09:18 | | * McMartin then proceeds to file three bugs - would have been four, but one was already reported. |
| 09:24 | | * gnolam stabs pydicom. |
| 09:27 | < gnolam> | One can either reference stuff by tag number (hexadecimal tuple) or directly by name. I.e. plan["0010", "0020"] or plan.PatientID. The former also returns some cruft I don't want. |
| 09:29 | < gnolam> | The latter is /supposed/ to be the standardized tag name. |
| 09:29 | < gnolam> | Guess if it's "almost, but not quite" so? |
| 09:30 | <@Tamber> | *chuckles* |
| 09:32 | < gnolam> | PatientID and BeamNumber are fine, but e.g. "ReferencedRTPlanSequence" is "RefdRTPlans". |
| 09:32 | < gnolam> | Rargh. |
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| 09:55 | < gnolam> | And you might be tempted to think that the abbreviations are consistent. I.e. "Referenced" is always shortened to "Refd". |
| 09:55 | < gnolam> | Not so. |
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| 10:04 | <@Tamber> | Oh, of course not. That would be too easy. |
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| 10:31 | <@McMartin> | OK, this looks like it's mostly working. |
| 10:31 | <@McMartin> | Now I just need to warp the interface a little more so that it looks right. |
| 10:31 | <@McMartin> | But that will not happen tonight. |
| 10:32 | <@McMartin> | And it doesn't seem to be able to run Hex Inverter yet. |
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| 17:59 | | * kwsn blarghs |
| 17:59 | < kwsn> | guess who has to write a serial driver by hand |
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| 18:21 | < Vornicus> | Clearly, PinkFreud does. |
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| 18:37 | < kwsn> | heh |
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| 20:12 | < Rhamphoryncus> | kwsn: the trick is to put in more jokes and references than actual code ;) |
| 20:13 | < kwsn> | hehe |
| 20:18 | <@TheWatcher> | Hey, it could be worse |
| 20:19 | <@TheWatcher> | you could be having to write a serial driver by toggling the frontpanel switches |
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| 20:51 | <@Namegduf> | // THE LINE USED TO BE HERE |
| 20:51 | <@Namegduf> | ~ Today's line of the day from work |
| 20:51 | <@Tamber> | ...haha |
| 20:51 | <@Namegduf> | It is spaced apart from anything else |
| 20:51 | <@Namegduf> | And does not make sense in context, nor to the person who must have written it at some point |
| 20:52 | <@Namegduf> | Not my favourite line from the project, that is "// TODO: Deal with the consequences of commenting this out." |
| 20:52 | <@Tamber> | ...ooh, consequences. :x |
| 20:53 | <@Namegduf> | Above a harmless-looking commented out assignment of a field of a structure I was entirely unfamiliar with that may or may not do anything anymore |
| 20:54 | <@Tamber> | Is there also "//TODO: Comment this properly" in there somewhere? |
| 20:55 | <@Namegduf> | I dunno, probably not. |
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| --- Log closed Sat Sep 24 00:00:41 2011 |