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S.A.R.T Original

All these posts have been written by the original S.A.R.T Team.

Riley Cockerill, Ryan Ewyk, Aaron Maggs, Jack Williams and Matthew Williams

08
Nov

S.A.R.T Workstation Cleanup!

After the SFX Kaleidoscope Electives Showcase, we kind of just dumped everything on our desk for someone else to deal with… After the cleanup, we started talking about reimaging the NUC to get a new clean image as the backup software we used didn’t work and started making errors despite been uninstalled (More on this later).
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07
Nov

Robot Recovery

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...
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04
Nov

Branded Booth

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...
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03
Nov

Significant Streaming Success!

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...
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02
Nov

More Ethernet Ports!

Aaron ran into a little snag after he made the NAS. Specifically, there was no way to connect the BreezeLite, intel NUC, the NAS itself, and our laptops. Aaron came up with the idea of using a network switch in order to connect all the drives together. He first tried to find a small one...
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01
Nov

Network Attached Storage

After backing up the NUC Aaron had an idea, the idea was we should set up a network attached storage server to make it easier to move files from the NUC to our laptops or to the BreezeLite, this would also act as the backup server for the NUC backups. Aaron started working on the NAS...
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31
Oct

File Safety

Today Aaron started looking at backing up the NUC as we have finally got most things installed and working. He did a lot of research trying to find a backup program that would backup everything on the NUC. The original plan was to have one that made an ISO however that didn’t seem to work well....
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30
Oct

Shellinabox

I continued working on the S.A.R.T Interface, this time adding Shellinabox. Shellinabox is web-based terminal, perfect for the S.A.R.T interface. By implementing a shell terminal, there is almost no need to actually connect a monitor to the S.A.R.T robot – anything can be done from the web interface. I installed Shellinabox with the following command: sudo...
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29
Oct

Reinstall All The Things!

Aaron and I reinstalled Ubuntu on the Intel NUC (It’s always good to have a fresh image) and started installing the webservers and streaming for the S.A.R.T interface according to my instructions here. To install the S.A.R.T interface, the first step was to install Apache 2. After reconnecting to the S.A.R.T access point and assigning...
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28
Oct

Boot Options

Aaron and I headed to the S.A.R.T workstation in the morning to resume working on the robot. First, we cleared away half of a second desk to use as the building/tinkering station. The tiny BreezeLite PC is no longer an option due to the Linux boot issues, so the team are now going to use...
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