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Bilby Mark II (Part 2)

Bilby Mark II (Part 2)

Well, our new line following robot is done. With any engineering project, you can always do more, but after tidying up the program, and tweaking values for a few hours, we came up with a reasonable configuration, able to complete out test circuit in an average of 40 seconds.
The robot is much quicker making left turns [...]

Bilby Mark II (Part 1)

Bilby Mark II (Part 1)

Fun and games last night. Bradley Robinson (who absolutely refuses to have his photo taken) bought a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit. Brad has had it a few days before I had a chance to see it. When I first saw it it was configured as a walking bi-ped, though it more a shuffle than a [...]

Rocket Science

Rocket Science

When you declare war on the neighbouring dorm, make sure you have a weapon of mass hydration!
At short notice today we decided to build a machine to launch water balloons at the neighbouring building. With the aid of Levi, we designed, acquired parts, and assembled in a few hours a lethal water balloon launching sling shot.
The weapon [...]

Educational content = 0

A busy term is over. A term during which I watched helplessly as my in box filled up with unread news subscriptions. But its over now. Finished the subjects, finished the ITC307 projects, and 382 projects. Been back home for 2 weeks, been getting back into reading. Also been doing all those little things that [...]

Project Work

Spending most of my time working on our ITC307 project, and doing assignments due early next term.
Being able to find a bit of time now, i have been keeping up with reading, came across phpinsider.com, which has a dedicated Smarty forum. Spent a while looking to see if anyone else has been using smarty for [...]

Finish Term / Linux

Well, long time. Finished assignments, and end of term.
Spent a few days working with tapestry, trying to write a library. Seeing as there’s little documentation it was more or less trial and error, but got it working in the end. have an eclipse environment set up for developing it. Also wrote a tapestry filter to [...]

PostSecret

Been a while since my last post. Finished an assignment on tapestry (Jakarta, not weaving). There is a report on generating a sample app if anyone is interested. If there is anyone else out there learning tapestry, let me know, its hard to find resources.

Started implementing security into timeshare, its an uphill task, so many things [...]

Jennifer Will Drown

Battle of the bands comp tonight at the crow bar, the standard much higher than previous years. Completely blown away by the second band, “Jennifer Will Drown“, mostly by the guitarist who effortlessly played complex and beautiful melodies. Hadrien was most impressed by the drummer, who he saw perform with another band recently. The guitarist [...]