Month

February 2017
28
Feb

Printing Process and First Print!

If you saw our last blog, you would know that we have had some 3D printer troubles over the last couple of days. We discovered that the issue was the SD card reader in the 3D printer that was causing the issue. Fortunately, the MakerBot has another way to print – via USB. The MakerBot...
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27
Feb

3D Printer failure

Today I needed to use the Xacto knife that we keep in the IT staff room, as I was using it I thought to myself, I should print a small cap for this as the blade could cut someone. I went online to look for a 3D Print file, I found this one here. I...
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26
Feb

Robot Design Recommences

Today I began redesigning the chassis for the new robot.  After discussing with Mr Elias, I had a few changes to the original design – the servos would be rotated 180 degrees to make enough room for the NUC, battery and voltage/current regulator. The servos were rotated along an axis that intersected the centre of...
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25
Feb

Move That Project

Today as I was walking into the student services hub to go home, I was approached by none other than Mr. Crane as we have been somewhat bugging him about the “Music Room” he told me that we had the go-ahead to move in, so I dropped all plans to go home just so I could...
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25
Feb

Windows Server 2016, that’s so last year.

After windows server 2012 didn’t know what an ethernet adapter was, I downloaded windows server 2016 (5GB) that only took 3 hours due to Australia’s internet speed. Once downloaded I went to install it on the BreezeLite, the BreezeLite has an interesting issue where the only USB that will show up is ones formatted in FAT32...
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24
Feb

Ultimate Power System!

In order for the S.A.R.T to be truly portable, the control panel needs to be portable too. We can’t have it tethered to a power cord, so we need to think batteries. Big batteries. Or, more accurately, big batteries in a small case. The computer-hardware-savvy among you would have realised that the title of this...
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23
Feb

indows Server + Breeze Lite = Great?

As part of our briefcase idea, we need a little PC to control the robot (we are ditching the laptop cause of size) I had the idea of putting the BreezeLite into the case as it’s very small. After a little bit of test fitting, I took it home to work on installing Windows Server...
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22
Feb

Briefcase Brief

This morning, Aaron and I walked into the IT staff room to find a pleasant surprise. A shiny new TREKA 700 plastic case was sitting on the desk. I started taking putting everything we needed into the case to test out placement and cable management. We’re going to have to get some shorter cables (or...
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21
Feb

FTP: Fix That Panel!

After the Great Permissions Blunder of 2017, the robot was shut down over the weekend. Initially I thought this could cause issues as processes would not be able to access certain files when they started. Surprisingly, there were absolutely no issues on boot. A quick test told us that the video stream and S.A.R.T Interface...
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20
Feb

FTP Failure

Well, this is awkward… So in the process of trying to give the MonstaFTP panel access to the entire file system, I needed to give the user www-data permission for the folder /var/www, however I ran the recursive command one directory above that – in /var. So now all permissions for that folder have been...
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