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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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...Read More
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
Powering the Robot The new Lithium Polymer batteries that we bought arrived a few days ago, so I started thinking about how we would power the NUC for any extended period of time. After some quick research on the internet, I found that at absolute worst case scenario the NUC draws around 2.5 amps. We were...Read More
As I am running Windows Server 2012 R2 I can use this to my full advantage, as the S.A.R.T robot hosts everything, including the troubleshooting guide to fix an issue if one were to appear, I thought to myself I should make a page that is hosted off the S.A.R.T Control laptop as a “backup”...Read More
