Got all the plastic laser cut this morning and have put everything together - this completes the hardware for my 3rd year group project. See more about it at http://csecar.wordpress.com
Designs to go with the parts mentioned in the previous 2 posts. Going to get these laser cut first thing tomorrow, then It’s time to get a buggy with a few hundred pounds of extra electronics running around. Cannot wait!
Designs from previous post printed with pretty much all the additional electronics for our group project.
I designed some parts for our group projects buggy. We need a perspex/plexiglass sheet to go between the front and back. This will hold all the additional electronics we’re retro fitting to our remote control car.
Going to print them out shortly :)
A whole load of nice parts from my new machine. There are still a few little bits that go wrong from time to time with the firmware, which is probably a setting I need to change, but on the whole its printing great!
The first perfectish part printed of a brand new reprap! There have been plenty of teething problems that I will try and update in the reprap wiki asap!
We have a blog set up for our third year computer science and electronics. We’re embarking on a mission to make an at least partially autonomous vehicle.
Team Fortress 2 in ubuntu 11.04
TF2 runs great in wine, other than one small issue - there seems to be something not quite right that causes some of the characters to appear white some of the time. The solution to this is simple, enable the developer console in the options, press ‘`’ and type:
mat_softwarelighting 1
Prepare for a few seconds of complete unresponsiveness whilst it thinks about that, then you should be alright. Do this in the menu screens before you’re actually playing because I’ve found that this can break things.
I have put this option in a autoexec.cfg, but I still seem to need to run it manually - will update this if I work out what’s going on with that.
This is only a workaround I know, but it makes the game playable, which is good enough for me :)
Coffeescript and Less Projects
Having done a lot of work with coffeescript and less as of late, I decided to make a github repo that has a template / skeleton project with a Cakefile that will make development quicker and easier.
The basic gist of this is that there is a script in the root directory that will watch and automatically compile your coffeescript and less files as you save them, giving you the advantages of these languages without the bother of compiling them every time you change them.
I know coffee does have the —watch option on the command line, but less doesn’t and there is scope to add many more features to this :)
The repo is here: https://github.com/benhowes/coffee-less-cake-starter
Give me a tweet if this is useful to you :)
Reprap - 50%~ish
Unfortunately there have been some significant delays on the extruder head that I ordered (waiting on the hobbed bolt), but everything other than that has gone very smoothly :) I’m going to pop back to Cornwall to finish it off when the rest of the parts are in.
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