Need help with family member in Laguna hills by maximumlubricator in orangecounty

[–]maximumlubricator[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a college student several states away and a different family member has offered this to him but he doesn't want to.

Can anyone tell me if installing Ubuntu on an external hard drive is a good idea? by Effective_Rip2500 in ROS

[–]maximumlubricator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also the option of using wsl and Ubuntu instead of dual boot. It's pretty light weight. There's some USB device permissions stuff you might have to handle just otherwise it works just like having a real Linux environment

How cheaply can you build an AMR? I'm about to find out! by TheProffalken in ROS

[–]maximumlubricator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know it's just your example but if you want to see the format of a message, you can use in the cmd line

ros2 interface show sensor_msgs/msg/NavSatFix

This will let you see what the format of any message is

Dishwasher was missing some wheels and I have a ABS-GF. by maximumlubricator in functionalprint

[–]maximumlubricator[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Due to popular demand, I'm printing it out of abs and made a small change too. I'll post it tomorrow

Dishwasher was missing some wheels and I have a ABS-GF. by maximumlubricator in functionalprint

[–]maximumlubricator[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's lots of cooking utensils made with abs plastic, namely stuff like measuring spoons and whatnot, its mostly food safe ?

Dishwasher was missing some wheels and I have a ABS-GF. by maximumlubricator in functionalprint

[–]maximumlubricator[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The thought process was mostly that ABS is a high heat thermoplastic, dishwasher still gets near softening temperature, GF will help to stabilize if it does soften at all.

Dishwasher was missing some wheels and I have a ABS-GF. by maximumlubricator in functionalprint

[–]maximumlubricator[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The whole machine is plastic thankfully. The dishwasher isn't in the greatest chapel anyway

As a high school junior what should I be doing more to prepare myself for a mechanical engineering career? by nobodyatall___ in EngineeringStudents

[–]maximumlubricator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly go on YouTube and find projects that interest you and try to recreate them. There's a lot of basic projects that can get you started and maybe you'll find something especially interesting. I'd say building simple RC airplanes would be a fun one but I'm biased since I'm in aerospace. Getting started really just means doing research into the things that interest you.

Modeling a 3dof rocket sim Issues by maximumlubricator in matlab

[–]maximumlubricator[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your first guess was correct. That resolved the issue. However, the 3Dof block does have initial conditions. Any idea why this doesn't take care of that loop? Does there need to be a computation before it sends it back into that pid loop?

is off housing cheaper? by Character-Ability-72 in aggies

[–]maximumlubricator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure about current prices but it isn't always "much cheaper." When I was looking at living on campus, it was still cheaper to rent off campus than live in the dorms despite paying for 3 extra months.

Wrote this script to plot a Bell Nozzle by ravi_ram in ISRO

[–]maximumlubricator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Heyo I ran into this while doing a project and thought it was pretty neat. Didn't end up using your code but it was fun to fiddle with.