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...Read More

3 days ago, Aaron set up a fantastic little WordPress plugin that will send an email to every member of the team whenever a new blog post is created. This way, hopefully everyone can stay up-to-date on new developments that occur while they are “out of the office” so to speak, which I think is...Read More

On Wednesday the 15th, the team met at the school at 5pm to discuss the itinerary and travel plans for Japan. At the current time, it looks like everyone will be attending, which is excellent news! Now that everything’s “official”, hopefully we’ll start working on the new robot. So far, it looks like we’re ahead...Read More

Aaron, Riley and I were discussing an improved drive system over Skype when I quickly created this graphic. Our 4 wheel drive system worked exceptionally well at RoboCup in Germany, and we were thus hesitant to make any drastic changes. We’ve been discussing the issue on and off for a number of months, and we’ve...Read More

Day Eighty-Five was a productive day. At least, if you count paperwork as productive. Aaron and I worked on the To-Do List of Things To Do, which included Aaron moving the entire existing list to a google document. Hopefully, now everyone will be on the same page concerning things that need to be done, although...Read More

So we went to the S.A.R.T Workstation with the intention of setting up FTP transfer for the S.A.R.T Interface. We believe a web FTP client built into the interface would significantly increase the utility of the console and bring us closer to our goal of using the interface to control all robot functions – simply put,...Read More

I originally built the S.A.R.T Interface for a Raspberry Pi with only a fraction of the processing power of the Intel NUC that we’re using for the S.A.R.T v2. This means that the system information display of the interface reports incorrect statistics when used on the new device. I corrected the RAM usage statistic by...Read More

We’ve recovered the old SD card from the S.A.R.T v1. We’re going to use it to construct a streaming test on the Raspberry Pi to quantitatively analyse how much faster the streaming system on the S.A.R.T v2 is. We also need to update the IDs assigned to the servos. Currently, when the robot is instructed...Read More

As part of the Kaleidoscope Electives Showcase at St Francis Xavier College, the S.A.R.T team are showing their stuff at the Information Technology booth consisting of a number of technological attractions. Super S.A.R.T Stream! We created a S.A.R.T stream on the big screen, using the exact same technology as before. We’ve featured our $400 access...Read More

Our previous Wi-Fi tests were very successful, although they only tested the signal strength at a range, not the usability or quality of the connection. Now that I have installed the video streaming system, Aaron and I were able to perform a streaming range test today. Considering the NUC (the main computational unit of the S.A.R.T...Read More