A new project is in the idea/plan stage. It will involve buttons, old-skoolness, and screens(plural!). Details hopefully in the near future when it's more fleshed out of an idea.
New Project Brewing
Submitted by BlackPawn on Tue, 2011-04-05 02:40
Random Update
Submitted by BlackPawn on Sun, 2010-08-29 00:28
LANbox: Completely new build, specs may or may not be given sometime.
Double Cymbal Mod: Probably scrapped.
Cubecraft: Pretty much scrapped.
Zack's Custom Guitar: The body is cut and glued. Progress is paused mainly due to lack of tools(and motivation).
Hermes: Being used as a table, possibly as a server as well.
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Here's a random update on everything that's been happening, which will be read by no one. Currently there are no plans for more projects with the beginning of the Fall semester. A new project was started last winter though. The Segway Skateboard!
Update!
So I have been happily using my media PC for almost a year now, serving up internets and playing movies. There is one big problem with it though: it only has vga and s-video output. My TV only has DVI input and s-video, which means that I have been suffering though the horrible quality that is s-video spread out on a 55" TV. I was looking into buying a DVI graphics card, but have discovered a better solution.
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Submitted by Billxor on Mon, 2010-01-18 17:46
"maggie"
If you don't know, you don't need to know.
Winch, Wiring, and Preparations
As seen in our "to-do list" from Wednesday we made some more progress on Phoenix. The most important update yesterday was moving the winch. We took it off of the top of the robot, which was dangerously close to the electronics board (and very prone to getting stuck) and mounted it in the back, under the battery. We also installed two pieces of metal to act as a guide for the winch so that the cable wouldn't get stuck when reeling in and out.
Read morePneumatics!
This is a day late but I decided that I might as well post an update. Yesterday, Jan 12th, we brought the robot to the high school where the FIRST team works. We made a platform for all of the pneumatics... we still need to wire them up and add in some code support for them.. as well as find a use for them.
Read moreCreation of Phoenix
So one of our good friends referred us to a friend of his that was trying to get rid of "some robot parts". We drove to his house to meet him and were amazed at what we saw. He basically had an entire robot in his garage, along with plenty of scrap metal and electrical parts. Without any hesitation we crammed it all into our van (making the ride home pretty painful) and left.
Read moreNew CPU Cooler
So after upgrading the CPU, I ran into some heating issues... again. I tried a few difference cases to increase airflow, but nothing seemed to be enough to cool the CPU well enough. I ended up settling on a new CPU cooler (and am still with the original Thermaltake case). I purchased a small Zalman cooler that really did the trick. It has a reall cool speed controllers that I ran out of the a hole in the back of the case so I can adjust it when I start playing games or other heavy CPU tasks.
Read moreProgress on my guitar!
Submitted by Fluffy on Fri, 2009-06-12 02:39
Yupp.. did alot of work with a small post tonight. Hopefully Ill keep up-to-date with the updates :D
"Videos!" Update
Submitted by BlackPawn on Wed, 2009-06-03 23:14
We're back from vacation, and our video camera is shot, so we'll get some stuff out once we have a replacement or fix. We suspect it's a battery but it's probably something we can't fix ourselves. We are also opening an eye to the embedded Youtube channel viewer as well, so keep an eye out for that. We'll have a little blurb on our break soon enough, a lot happened so it's taking a little bit and we aren't exactly endurance writers.
