User talk:Sebastien Bailard
Sebastien,
I know we touched on the topic of User:Mr. Bunny previously and even earlier discussed a better method then cut + pasting the example page for creating development pages (see reprap dev mailing list: RepRap Developments: Less vs. More). Unfortunately there are more of these each day and although I have let them go by in the past, slowly polluting the wiki with example content, making actual content on these pages nearly impossible to find in a sea of filler material however I have now become annoyed. I will now be taking an active stance on the issue and adding:
to the top of these pages. It is not a nice notice but it adequately reflects the fact that these wiki pages contain multiple screen-fulls of information which is not relevant to their topic. Please stop doing this, I did not want to have to take this course of action but this behaviour has not gone away after our discussion as I had hoped it would. I certainly did not want a sysop war and will voluntarily resign from wiki editing if necessary to prevent it. We can meet on IRC to discuss this if it would help. --TheOtherRob 04:01, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Delta
The robot now pictured on the Delta page? That is made of awesome. Thank you for building it and sharing that photo with us. --DavidCary 05:32, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
It's about as cool as it gets. I didn't do it, it is by User:Energetic and User:Reinoud I may have a go at helping Tim work on RBS --Sebastien Bailard 05:56, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
process
Dear Sebastien Bailard, I am mystified by the process page. It sounds like I caught the tail end of a telephone conversation, and I'm still only hearing half of the conversation. I'm guessing someone in Singapore wanted to know what process to use to decide which RepStrap design to use, and how to get started building it? I'm reluctant to touch that page, because maybe it's talking about some other process?
The process page reminds me of bootstrap jumpstarting programs -- software that, when you feed it information about what tools and raw materials you already have available, it spits out an overview of the optimal path towards high technology civilization. Each step names a tool that is needed later down the path, the typical time to make that tool, and lists the tools needed to make that tool -- tools that you hopefully already have by the time you got to that step. Vinge mentioned these programs in 1992. I hear that "technological recursion" is somehow related to this. I hear that "T notation" is good for describing this sort of thing. --DavidCary 15:06, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Process is one of the stub/working notes wiki pages I tacked up after I got a little frustrated trying to explain to an engineering student that he should "just build a repstrap using a tablesaw". ... Extremely frustrated.
I've cleaned up the first part of it, and moved it to What Tooling Do You Have.
T notation, aka "Tombstone Diagrams", looks interesting, but I have to be careful not to get too abstract or analytical. Maybe once my extruder works.
Want to do up an essay? --Sebastien Bailard 07:14, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
HeeksCAD
I would like to be able to upload the design files for some of my Mini Mendel work, but the Wiki will not allow me to upload .heeks files. I would prefer to be able to upload uncompressed files, just because they are easier to share, and I have not access to compression on 1 of the computers I work on.
Should I compress or wait for the wiki to allow for .heeks files?
- For your computer that does not have not access to compression, I assume it can access the web (otherwise, do your uncompressing using the computer you use to get the file off the web). You can zip and unzip (and work with a few other compression formats) online:
http://unziponline.net/index.php
http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php
http://lux.wen.ru/unzipper.html
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/03/like-winzip-gmail-can-create-zip-files.html
You also might ant to consider contacting the author of the CAD software that puts out .heeks files and see if they might be willing to adding the option to export data in a format that isn't quite so rare.
Guy Macon 16:18, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
