http://blog.peacocktech.com Hey.. That looks like fun Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:13:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2006/12/01/bilby-mark-ii-part-2/ 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2006/11/30/bilby-mark-ii-part-1/ 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2006/03/24/rocket-science/ 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/12/13/educational-content-0/ 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/09/22/project-work/ 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/09/11/finish-term-linux/ 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/08/30/postsecret/ 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 ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/08/25/jennifer-will-drown/ Made it to brunch today, for the first time in a long time. Spent most of the day looking at tapestry. Also got TeamTalk working between here and home. Remains to be seen how well it will work. Runs quite quickly, there is only one hop copared to two when ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/08/21/different/ Been (very) busy the last few days, although I don't have a lot to show for it. Installed MediaWiki on my Apache server (about my only success). Tried to get WikiPDF working. Its obviously designed to run on Linux. After a bit of tweaking I got it to generate latex, ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/08/18/working-hard-doing-nothing/