Month

May 2017
31
May

Robot Redesign Ruminations

Aaron and I had a long discussion about the robot design this morning, and we conceptualised a new orientation for the Intel NUC to allow room for the batteries and voltage regulator while still making the robot overall a bit smaller. The current robot may be slightly too long, and half of the I/O is...
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30
May

NUC Running on battery!

A few days ago Mr. Elias and I were having a chat about powering the NUC. He said that we should start looking at how much usable time we can get out of it while running on battery, so I went to JayCar and got two 2.5mm DC power plugs to connect to our voltage dropper....
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11
May

3D Printing Update

After printing some wheels in PLA I thought we could speed this up if I got the Ultimaker and started printing them on that as well. As I’m using the Ultimaker I’m using ABS to print the wheels, not only is it better quality it is also a stronger plastic so with that in mind we are...
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03
May

Better Than F5

Ever since I created the S.A.R.T interface, there’s been one thing that bugs us constantly, and that’s having to refresh the page to load the stream every time we restart it. Refreshing the whole page has other unwanted effects, such as closing the SSH connection, meaning you have to log back in if you were...
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02
May

Control Panel Creation

The final pieces of the control-panel-puzzle are in place, with the arrival of our new UPS and monitor. Over the past few days, we have assembled the control panel and even started testing it too. Aaron and I first prepared the case by giving it a good clean – over the past few weeks a...
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01
May

Wire up that UPS

As part of our control panel, we needed to extend the UPS power on cable this is because we wanted to be able to turn it on without removing the plastic every time. It should have been simple, go online and look for a 4 pin cable that is the same as what the UPS...
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