Month

October 2016
31
Oct

File Safety

Today Aaron started looking at backing up the NUC as we have finally got most things installed and working. He did a lot of research trying to find a backup program that would backup everything on the NUC. The original plan was to have one that made an ISO however that didn’t seem to work well....
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30
Oct

Shellinabox

I continued working on the S.A.R.T Interface, this time adding Shellinabox. Shellinabox is web-based terminal, perfect for the S.A.R.T interface. By implementing a shell terminal, there is almost no need to actually connect a monitor to the S.A.R.T robot – anything can be done from the web interface. I installed Shellinabox with the following command: sudo...
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29
Oct

Reinstall All The Things!

Aaron and I reinstalled Ubuntu on the Intel NUC (It’s always good to have a fresh image) and started installing the webservers and streaming for the S.A.R.T interface according to my instructions here. To install the S.A.R.T interface, the first step was to install Apache 2. After reconnecting to the S.A.R.T access point and assigning...
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28
Oct

Boot Options

Aaron and I headed to the S.A.R.T workstation in the morning to resume working on the robot. First, we cleared away half of a second desk to use as the building/tinkering station. The tiny BreezeLite PC is no longer an option due to the Linux boot issues, so the team are now going to use...
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27
Oct

3D Printing!

After Jack found the cable holder clips Aaron started to print them, we used a MakerBot replicator 2 as this is a very fast printer. Aaron managed to print five cable holder clips, good thing was it only took 18 – 21 minutes to print them. At lunch time Aaron started sticking them to the wall, we used...
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26
Oct

Repurposing

We have two monitors at the S.A.R.T workstation. One monitor is usually connected to the S.A.R.T robot, and the other is usually unused. Until today. Aaron and I Jerry “Gerry”-rigged a monitor mount to accommodate the BreezeLite mini PC. The existing mount had to be adjusted to fit the new mount, but fortunately this doesn’t compromise any...
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25
Oct

6 Month Ban Lifted! We Think…

Today Aaron brought the chocolates that he promised to bring for IT Support. Aaron had an idea about how we could give them to IT Support. The idea was: What we need: 1x Ethernet cable 1x Sticky tape 1x Chocolate 1x “Fake” download bar. After taking the tape and ethernet cable from the IT staff room (that...
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24
Oct

BreezeLite Hype Train Crashed And Burned

Today Aaron got a reply from Leader Systems, they said that there was no BIOS update for the BreezeLite and that our best option would be to run it in a VM. Sadly that would be too slow for what we need it for. So it’s back to the intel NUCs. In the meantime, Mr....
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23
Oct

BreezeLite Disappoint?

Over the weekend Aaron had a look into why the breezeLite wasn’t running Linux smoothly, after looking in the BIOS he came across an option that said “OS IMAGE ID” From factory, you can get the BreezeLite with Android or Windows 10. Aaron set the ID to Android just as a test. Sadly this didn’t...
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21
Oct

Wi-Fi? Ha No.

Aaron and Matt went to IT to work on the BreezeLite but found out that google has been blocked, yet we could go to websites like speedtest.net or iinet.net.au.   After much messing around Aaron tried to install chrome, but that failed due to the fact that google was blocked. Matthew then tried to use...
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