So I’m showing off the skateboard at the Microsoft PDC conference at the end of this month in the lounge area. I’ll also be doing a session about Coding4Fun with Scott Hanselman , Dan Fernandez , and Brian Peek I really haven’t worked too much on it after Maker Faire due to work and it does have a few issues still. The chain issue is the biggest and will be solved … now. After 2 days worth of work and countless hours grinding, testing, refitting, and more grinding, I think I have a solution to my chain issue. My father asked me to take some shots of the gearbox so we may figure out a possible solution. After having countless hours of both of us saying our ideas were less than elegant (I think the nicest term used stupid). The biggest barrier was room to work with. The chain with the worst effect was also the one with no room. It has strengthening brackets on the top and bottom, is mounted directly under the frame strengthen bracket. I think we ...
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Monkey See, Monkey RedesignFrom: betterthaneveryone.com
Post Date: 2008-05-15 20:30:12
Something about saw dust that gets me all destructive. First a server transfer, now this. I’ve never been 100% happy with my design here at BetterThanEveryone and my buddy Jeff Couturier over at 10 Volt Media has been kind enough to hook a brotha up with a nice professional UX (user experience) spit shine. I’ve know Jeff for a while since he used to be a co-worker and love the stuff he does. Next time few times I’m in Chicago, I owe him literally a keg of...
more TTL to USB, work fast damn itFrom: betterthaneveryone.com
Post Date: 2008-05-14 21:21:45
So I have a TTL to USB adapter this time instead of a TTL to Serial, then Serial to USB adapter and it isn’t acting as fast as I think it should. The chip is a FTDI chip and I did see an interesting performance boost messing with an option. ...
more IMU mounted and alterationsFrom: betterthaneveryone.com
Post Date: 2008-05-13 23:08:53
I tweaked how I mounted the IMU along with I lengthened the wires that go from the speed controller to the batteries. The casing for the IMU, I’ll also mount 1 additional electronic board in too. I love the TTL to USB adapter too. 1 less wire, mounts so nicely. Pictures? sure. ...
more Seriously, 32mb? My cell has more memory than thatFrom: betterthaneveryone.com
Post Date: 2008-05-13 14:10:20
I just got my Canon Powershot SD950IS with a phatty 12.1 megapixel sensor and like the smart person I am, I forgot my 4gig memory card at my apartment. No biggie since the last 2 cameras I got from Canon also had a memory card in it. I figured nothing big or fancy but it should give me a few shots before I get to run home like a good little boy and pop in the bigger card.
At 12.1 mp, it looks like each photo will be about 3.5mb. That is at max, 9 photos. Wow. I can get a 4 gig card...
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