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...Read More

With the robot well under construction, we’re soon going to need the S.A.R.T Control Panel in order to test it. With that in mind, I marked out holes for fans, cables, the power button and the power LED.   After lunch, Aaron and I went to the applied tech department to cut out the holes....Read More

So. We have a problem. Like Tom Hanks stranded on an island, level problem…. In short, stuff doesn’t work properly. Long version: The Robot’s current mounting system for the servo’s looks like this: Each servo is held on by four screws, one 3mm and three 10mm. Each of these screws need to be able to...Read More

I took the 3D printer home again this weekend and printed the 6th chassis prototype, with the extra room for the SSD underneath the NUC, instead of on the top of the robot. There were some minor design changes that were necessary to accommodate the SSD underneath the NUC.  The entire robot is about 5mm...Read More

After a discussion with Aaron yesterday, this morning I set up an experiment to test how long the UPS would run after being disconnected from the wall. The devices I connected was the BreezeLite mini PC, the Xirrus access point and POE injector, keyboard, mouse and monitor. The UPS was able to power these devices...Read More

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been running very low on 3D printer filament, only being able to print a few test prints every time a new shipment of filament comes in. Today we went on a hunt for the extra filament that we had last year. We looked in the old office, in the...Read More

Our current design has the UPS sitting in the pelican case like so: Unfortunately, in order to power it on, we would need to stick a finger down into the case and press the power button. This just isn’t as elegant and sophisticated as we would like. So, I decided we should rip the front...Read More

A short update. Each S.A.R.T model/prototype has a new and quite frankly, interesting addition or modification. Every time a new model is printed, something new comes along that needs to be added or measurements are a fraction of a millimetre off, thusly the never ending “Hamster-design-cycle/wheel” keeps rotating. Matthew latest brainchild is to add mounting...Read More

The site we got our original logo from updated their commercial use license, meaning we need to update our logo. Fortunately, this gives us the chance to put some more thought and effort into it! Here’s our old logo. It represents innovation and synergy and empowerment… Yeah. It doesn’t really represent us. We had some other designs,...Read More

After the excitement of Christmas wore off, we started to fit all the items into the case. We discovered that some of the new items were larger than reported online, and thus everything didn’t fit perfectly inside the Treka-700 case. Fortunately, we have another option. We’ve switched around the roles of our cases, meaning the...Read More