On Friday 31 October 2014 20:24:54 Kirk Wallace did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 10/31/2014 03:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> ...snip
>
> > That could be an SOA failure, where a bug spends too much time in the
> > transition between on and off and punches thru.
> >
> > TBT, most darlingtons are t
On 10/31/2014 03:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
...snip
> That could be an SOA failure, where a bug spends too much time in the
> transition between on and off and punches thru.
>
> TBT, most darlingtons are too slow, particularly for power drivers, to be
> suitable for such usage, and I would expect
On Friday 31 October 2014 12:53:28 Kirk Wallace did opine
And Gene did reply:
> In case anyone might be interested, I mentioned on IRC some issues I
> had with a blown out unipolar drive:
>
> http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/1-1a.jpg
>
> http://www.wallacecompany.com/machin
As Seb says, the properties in the hal module are thin wrappers around
rtapi_is_xxx.
hal.is_userspace is simply always the inverse of hal.is_kernelspace,
which is just rtapi_is_kernelspace(). This is true for RTAI and false
for uspace.
hal.is_sim is simply the inverse of hal.is_rt, which is just
On 31 October 2014 20:04, Dave Cole wrote:
> Perhaps they should fit the LAS system to the cargo bay of future
> Antares rockets? ;-)
That isn't a crazy idea. The reduced insurance premiums alone might
make it worthwhile.
No point for astronaut chow like the last one had, but for one-off
scienti
I work with a company that does machining and also repairs hydraulic
cylinders for everything from AG cylinders to excavator cylinders.
I think they buy most of their seals from this company and they buy just
a few at a time since every cylinder they get in for repair seems to be
different.
ht
On 10/31/2014 11:57 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> On 10/31/14 11:45 AM, Dave Cole wrote:
>> So if they did have astronaunts on this rocket they would have had to
>> make a choice. Kill the astronaunts by detonating the rocket, or
>> possibly kill civilians if the rocket crashes onto the mainla
I have a few of those, in a couple of boxes in my garage.
Ray
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On 10/31/2014 09:53 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> In case anyone might be interested, I mentioned on IRC some issues I had
> with a blown out unipolar drive:
BTW, the tool arm also stopped working. I thought the 4-way valve here
was the problem:
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/sh
On 10/31/14 11:45 AM, Dave Cole wrote:
> So if they did have astronaunts on this rocket they would have had to
> make a choice. Kill the astronaunts by detonating the rocket, or
> possibly kill civilians if the rocket crashes onto the mainland.
That's not right. Manned rockets have launch escap
In case anyone might be interested, I mentioned on IRC some issues I had
with a blown out unipolar drive:
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/1-1a.jpg
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shizuoka/Bandit_Stepper_Driver.png
http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Shi
On 10/31/2014 10:39 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> On 10/30/2014 06:09 PM, dave wrote:
> ... snip
>
>> Well, Russian built rocket engines incinerated more than a few Russian
>> cosmonauts.
>> Apparently, when they work they work well...and when they fail .
>> opps! At least we were not launching pe
On 10/30/2014 06:09 PM, dave wrote:
... snip
> Well, Russian built rocket engines incinerated more than a few Russian
> cosmonauts.
> Apparently, when they work they work well...and when they fail .
> opps! At least we were not launching people. ;-)
Going back to traditional rockets with a c
Even though I'm a fellow Citizen of Amerruca nowadays, it's pretty darn far
away.
2014-10-30 4:54 GMT+01:00 Jon Elson :
> On 10/29/2014 01:19 PM, Mark Johnsen wrote:
> > I had a great time in Houston at TX/RX labs as well. Thanks to Chris and
> > Roland for hosting and breakfast on Sunday!
> >
>
Did you solve the infinity problems you found last year?
2014-10-29 22:11 GMT+01:00 Christian Stöveken :
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Are you using genserkins for the R15?
>
>
> yes.
>
> --
> > I will look into the kernel check error next.
>
> I have some data for you on that. I see that pncconf uses the "hal"
> python module to learn about the system it's running on. This is a
> sensible thing to do.
>
>
> So in other words, in all three of the expected situations, the hal
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