I have 5 kids, went through the age where they believed we could not touch them. During one heated argument, they said they would call the police. I said, tell you what, let me do it.
So I called our local police, and the office came in and told the kids what I could do and what I could not do. And they also said if I needed it, they would taze them a few times for me, so I would not get in trouble...
Ok, I misunderstood you. If you want to place a gear on the end of a shaft, you will have to have a hub. This can sometimes be bought or made. More than likely you will need a gearbox with a shaft long enough on the output side, and a hub to mount the gear. The gear would then have mounting holes to mount flush against the hub.
Another option if the diameter is very close to the output shaft diameter would be using a pulley mounted on the output shaft, this is a inexpensive way if you don't know what ratio you need.
That is called a coupling. There are hard couplings, which are just holes drilled on center for the shaft size you are connecting (can be different diameters) and simple set screws to bind them to a shaft (usually a flat ground on the shaft).
Then there are couplings that have 2 or 4 teeth on each piece shaped like a X and have a "X shaped" donuts that couple the two shafts. Again the collar on each side has set screws to bind them to the shaft. (can be seen in above link)
I don't recommend any of the links above for purchase, just wanted to show you.
Above was a pun, on the town of Phoenix, Arizona, USA, which just happened to be the name of the lander. Sorry if you missed that connection. (btw their are lots of dust devils there, and the area outside of the city look quite similar to mars.)
There are tons of DYI's for this stuff out there. But what would be interesting, is taking a dead laptop display, and being able to rig it up to my pc, maybe hanging off the wall near the base, being able to display pictures, or data, not like being a second monitor which I have, but as a display of information like weather from my local station, or remote, or pictures or whatever.
It might be a stretch, but wonder if its setting on his desk.
These guys dont want to look, they want to create cost and confusion. Lawyers will not look, they just file papers, to force payments for somebody to look.
Worked on a bunch of large scale systems myself. The best were where they used a serial link that was read only from the large scale plc systems and feed to a sql system, which then fed a linux web server, with another net connection to the office network.
The plant network was not connected in any way to the office networks directly.
The only outside connection was logging in to a dialup to view stuff remotely.
I have done quite a bit of work in the scada area in the past. What we had was the machine network physical separated from everything.
A serial link was used to query the scada system and recorded all the interesting points.
There was no way to write to the scada system via the serial link. That system then dumped the data to sql databases, where it was then queried by the internal web server and provided lookups and pretty pictures for those that dont really need to know, but want to.
The webserver was then on the office network, but could also be accessed by dialup, the office network was not internet facing.
Think that is a bit more secure due to the fact that we actually took 10 minutes to think of a method that would be
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LHC Flips On Tomorrow
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Did you see my robot flailing its arms around? Was it screaming danger! danger!?
No not yet as noted above on the amount of energy used. Ill be sure to let ya know when its necessary.
As reported by CERN announced the success of the second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's beam synchronization systems which will allow the LHC operations team to inject the first beam into the LHC.
Some very cool pictures there too. Now what they mean, is a bit beyond my skills.
Now if I could just get that LHC song out of my head...
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Point taken on water temp, security and connections. Why not just have a submersible barge, and drop down to the ocean floor.
Makes it easy to moor. Fiber just lays on the ocean floor. Improved Security, and the water will be much cooler. Sort of a barge made like a giant heatsink. Mount the processors to the hull.
When the barge looses enough hardware, just raise it back up, service it and drop it back down.
Also reduced problems with being pitched around causing lost disk drives. Hurricanes? No problem.
I have seen the same in the semiconductor industry. I was automating Asia during the 80's and 90's. They were quietly spending billions.
I always wondered why the American companies in the US for the most part, couldn't get their act together on production efficiencies. They opted to send manufacturing overseas.
While I understand the overhead costs here were higher, I feel it was so they could "scale down" easier.
For me, it was ok while we were building the supporting manufacturing equipment here, but how long till Asia had the know how, combined with the cheaper overhead's before we would be out of the loop entirely?
Same for dell, while having contract manufacturing, and tech support overseas, whats left? Just a name and a sales system. How long till that can be done overseas? Well it can be done now. There are companies with the pockets than can setup a company here, manufacture there, support from there, and guess what, more of the profit from selling another computer will go there.
Really, its sad to say, but I believe in 5 years, dell will not exist. There will be a tipping point, where the profits will dictate that, and some overseas company will be able to sell for 5% lower than dell can operate at, then game over.
Government security - Na never been broken into... Military Intelligence - No explanation needed... Government efficiency - Yawn, we know how efficient they are.. Government organization - Ya right...
Slashdot Mirror
Actually I did change the forwarders and restarted the service, no reboot, just a bad description.
Rebooted the DNS server today cause things seemed funny ... maybe this is what it really was.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer, preferably on a leash.
While the corpse is still twitching, we are waiting for the formal burning, so its good that Groklaw keep up with the formalities.
And while it has been good to follow along, I agree it will be more for academia than for the casual web user.
Good Luck to PJ.
The model of investor expecting to make a quick buck off FOSS is broken. Not FOSS.
I have 5 kids, went through the age where they believed we could not touch them. During one heated argument, they said they would call the police. I said, tell you what, let me do it.
So I called our local police, and the office came in and told the kids what I could do and what I could not do. And they also said if I needed it, they would taze them a few times for me, so I would not get in trouble ...
Discipline problems went away after that.
Ok, I misunderstood you. If you want to place a gear on the end of a shaft, you will have to have a hub. This can sometimes be bought or made. More than likely you will need a gearbox with a shaft long enough on the output side, and a hub to mount the gear. The gear would then have mounting holes to mount flush against the hub.
Another option if the diameter is very close to the output shaft diameter would be using a pulley mounted on the output shaft, this is a inexpensive way if you don't know what ratio you need.
That is called a coupling. There are hard couplings, which are just holes drilled on center for the shaft size you are connecting (can be different diameters) and simple set screws to bind them to a shaft (usually a flat ground on the shaft).
Here is a simple hose style:
http://www.drillspot.com/products/45942/Dayton_2X498_100_22_Flex_Coupling
For vibration, or off axis loads there are flex couplings that can take up to say a 20 degree flex constantly.
Here is some bellow's style couplings:
http://www.directindustry.com/cat/mechanical-transmission-actuators/flexible-couplings-L-593.html
Then there are couplings that have 2 or 4 teeth on each piece shaped like a X and have a "X shaped" donuts that couple the two shafts. Again the collar on each side has set screws to bind them to the shaft. (can be seen in above link)
I don't recommend any of the links above for purchase, just wanted to show you.
As others have written there are a several places to get good parts. Of course it depends on the size of the sculpture, and weight of the pieces.
I build pick and place robots for a living, excellent resources are always good to have.
Besides Granger, McMaster there is also:
Standard Din sizes, and also american
http://mdmetric.com/
another good one stock drive products
http://www.sdp-si.com/
And If you need to handle larger loads, as I expect your sculptures to need. Seek your local power distribution company (as in gear boxes).
This is one of many (Motion Industries)
https://www.motionindustries.com/motion3/jsp/mi/index.jsp
for a large list click below
http://search.globalspec.com/productfinder/findproducts?query=gear%20box&se=ggka&setag=MOTN
Well I guess I got lucky, nice pictures and texture.
Think it will be called the Blue Sky Of Death now.
Above was a pun, on the town of Phoenix, Arizona, USA, which just happened to be the name of the lander. Sorry if you missed that connection. (btw their are lots of dust devils there, and the area outside of the city look quite similar to mars.)
I agree, Idea people seem to ever heard of the phrase: "10% Inspiration 90% perspiration".
They also believe the idea phase is worth 90% and the work worth 10%.
I recognize that place, it is just outside of Phoenix.
There are tons of DYI's for this stuff out there. But what would be interesting, is taking a dead laptop display, and being able to rig it up to my pc, maybe hanging off the wall near the base, being able to display pictures, or data, not like being a second monitor which I have, but as a display of information like weather from my local station, or remote, or pictures or whatever.
Now that would be interesting...
It might be a stretch, but wonder if its setting on his desk.
These guys dont want to look, they want to create cost and confusion. Lawyers will not look, they just file papers, to force payments for somebody to look.
Worked on a bunch of large scale systems myself. The best were where they used a serial link that was read only from the large scale plc systems and feed to a sql system, which then fed a linux web server, with another net connection to the office network.
The plant network was not connected in any way to the office networks directly.
The only outside connection was logging in to a dialup to view stuff remotely.
I have done quite a bit of work in the scada area in the past. What we had was the machine network physical separated from everything.
A serial link was used to query the scada system and recorded all the interesting points.
There was no way to write to the scada system via the serial link. That system then dumped the data to sql databases, where it was then queried by the internal web server and provided lookups and pretty pictures for those that dont really need to know, but want to.
The webserver was then on the office network, but could also be accessed by dialup, the office network was not internet facing.
Think that is a bit more secure due to the fact that we actually took 10 minutes to think of a method that would be
Did you see my robot flailing its arms around? Was it screaming danger! danger!?
No not yet as noted above on the amount of energy used. Ill be sure to let ya know when its necessary.
As reported by CERN announced the success of the second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's beam synchronization systems which will allow the LHC operations team to inject the first beam into the LHC.
Some very cool pictures there too. Now what they mean, is a bit beyond my skills.
Now if I could just get that LHC song out of my head ...
Read this:
http://www.esquire.com/features/recycle-e-ink-cover You will see instructions on proper disposal.
Point taken on water temp, security and connections. Why not just have a submersible barge, and drop down to the ocean floor.
Makes it easy to moor. Fiber just lays on the ocean floor. Improved Security, and the water will be much cooler. Sort of a barge made like a giant heatsink. Mount the processors to the hull.
When the barge looses enough hardware, just raise it back up, service it and drop it back down.
Also reduced problems with being pitched around causing lost disk drives. Hurricanes? No problem.
I have seen the same in the semiconductor industry. I was automating Asia during the 80's and 90's. They were quietly spending billions.
I always wondered why the American companies in the US for the most part, couldn't get their act together on production efficiencies. They opted to send manufacturing overseas.
While I understand the overhead costs here were higher, I feel it was so they could "scale down" easier.
For me, it was ok while we were building the supporting manufacturing equipment here, but how long till Asia had the know how, combined with the cheaper overhead's before we would be out of the loop entirely?
Same for dell, while having contract manufacturing, and tech support overseas, whats left? Just a name and a sales system. How long till that can be done overseas? Well it can be done now. There are companies with the pockets than can setup a company here, manufacture there, support from there, and guess what, more of the profit from selling another computer will go there.
Really, its sad to say, but I believe in 5 years, dell will not exist. There will be a tipping point, where the profits will dictate that, and some overseas company will be able to sell for 5% lower than dell can operate at, then game over.
cant help myself
Government security - Na never been broken into ... ... ...
Military Intelligence - No explanation needed
Government efficiency - Yawn, we know how efficient they are..
Government organization - Ya right
which can only be topped by:
Homeland security!
You rang?
best thing is to format your hard drives, and get out more.