# 2017-18 Cross over recap.

Been a long time since I’ve posted anything. Mostly busy with working on my projects. An upcoming Cube that should become pretty interesting. I’ll post about it once things actually get somewhere..This time I’m waiting until parts actually show up.

I did some handwork a few weeks ago, making some masks. Which I’ll make a full post about one of these days. This was the end product.

These I 3d printed and eventually filled, sanded and painted.

Lizard Truth is finally a small business! Registered not only just a few weeks ago. Though maybe completely useless. As the reasons for making the business fell apart. But we’ll see.

I started to design an overcomplicated and over expensive laser cutter, and I even paid for it…We’ll see if it ever ends up going anywhere. But a fun project regardless.

I’ll attempt to document my laser cutter. As I build. But not promising 😉

# Reverse Copy Huntng

So, back in the day, when I first started making this website…nearly a year now, so my host provider tells me (cause they wanna get paid) I threw up some random image (The Mary lizard) I found once while duckduckgoing “lizard truth” I couldn’t find an original creator for it. Thankfully for metadata saved in the file, aswell as it’s original file name, the original creator in an attempt to check who stole their shit was able to find my website! And instead of being a dick like most IP owners, they very politely emailed me to tell me who they were and provided me finally a link with their content up for sale. So I very gratefully  updated their credit and now want to share with the rest of you This random internet persons redbubble. Please support this artist!

Thanks again HiddenStash for not being an asshole!

Oh here is their internet website

# Virtual Work

So We’ve talked about mdc equations before in math monkey. They are usually in the form $$m\: \ddot{x} + d\: \dot{x} + cx\: = 0\:$$

m Being the Mass, d the dissapation (dampening) and c the spring constants.

I won’t go into how one builds this equation up, there are many and I covered in math monkey pretty in depth on how to do it with the basic math pendel. One of these days I may get into a more indepth analysis of maybe a car or a real double pendle. Anyways, a part that wasn’t explained at all was the “Virtual Work” of the system, or namely the $Q\:$ part of the Lagrange equation

$$\mathrm{Q}=\frac{d}{dt}\frac{\delta\mathrm{L}}{\delta\mathrm{\dot{\phi}}}-\frac{\delta\mathrm{L}}{\delta\mathrm{\phi}}$$

So whats Q? Well according to wiki:

Virtual work arises in the application of the principle of least action to the study of forces and movement of a mechanical system. The work of a force acting on a particle as it moves along a displacement will be different for different displacements.

Or whatever that means. In mathemagics, it means this:

$$Q\:= \displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^{n}\mathrm{M_i(t)}\frac{\delta\phi}{\delta\mathrm{x}}+\mathrm{F_i(t)}\frac{\delta\mathrm{r}}{\delta\mathrm{x}}+\mathrm{F_{di}(t)}\frac{\delta\mathrm{r_d}}{\delta\mathrm{x}}+\mathrm{R_i(t)}\frac{\delta\mathrm{r}}{\delta\mathrm{x}}$$

Namely the Sum of the Moment, external force, friction and dampening times their directional vector components first derivative. Or Well thats what it looks like when I read it anyways. I still haven’t quite got the hang/understanding of it. But I’ve never claimed to know what I’m doing. Just that I look like I know what I’m doing 😉

Well to calculate all this out theres quite a bit of work to do. I recently had to do such a thing in a system I had to describe and while digging through my notes I happened to fall on a trick I seemed to write to myself in a exam cheatsheet. Normally, you would calculate the vectoral force (for dampening in this example) and multiple it with its directional derivative like so:

$$\mathrm{F_{di}(t)}\frac{\delta\mathrm{r_d}}{\delta\mathrm{x}}$$

F could look like this (or rather, does):

$$\mathrm{\underline{F}_{d}(t)} = -d \dot{x} \vec{e_x}$$

and r would look like maybe this:

$$\delta\mathrm{r} = x\vec{e_x} +y \vec{e_y}$$

So you can imagine there are a bunch of steps to get this done, each partial div. blah blah multiplying, blah blah.

Well good news everyone!

I guess it’s not a surprise cause I already said I found a cheat. Well here it is:

$$\mathrm{\underline{F}_{d}(t)} = -d \Delta\Delta\dot{x} = -d \Delta\dot{x}^2$$

Yay! I’ve tested this conjecture exactly once with 100% success rate. So that’s good math in my books. I wish I could credit where I found this from…but since it’s on my cheat sheet. I guess I’ll have to claim it as my own.

$\mathrm{e}^{\sqrt{2}}$

# Tentacle train

One of my “contracts” this last year was to build an animatronic tentacle for an art exhibition ( see #dokumenta14 ), While it worked well controlling with ones own hands….It barely worked well with the motors and electronics.

It’s the third week since the beginning of the exhibit I’ve been sharing with Valeria and some things have changed, been updated and the like.

First of the likes is the promised dipped skull and it’s development.

that was after 12 dips. I expected a particular kind of development, mostly that after enough layers some kind of face would be developed. Even surprisingly a nose! Though some more needs to be done…the mouth and the horn shouldn’t really be there at all.

Second of likes:

Maybe it’s part of the first likes. Either way it’s the parts that were dipped last week.

This is after the first cycle. They don’t really look spectacular in the first dippings, although you can see the skull then compared to the skull now.

Tomorrow, I will make a mother post about the upgrade to the animatronics.

$e^{\sqrt{2}}$

We had our official exhibition this past friday. Everything went pretty well, my robots didn’t explode, or burn anything down…Not that that should happen…but well, old machines can just…give up sometimes. I updated the dokumenta14 page with some photos…but here I’d like to post a video and a photo of what my robot actually does. There is also a little preview of whats to come in the following weeks.

The videos came from facebook, and Jan Hendrik Neumann, But they’re some nice videos. I may replace them later.

And for the small preview, for next week.

# Mighty Max Lives 2/3

I’ve been workin’ away on projects and being a half way good student…but terrible person. But in the meantime I’ve managed to get something done on Mighty Max. My Smoothieboard 0X showed up finally and I got straight to work on putting in in place.