- Overlord: Day N-9
Nine days till IGVC. We finished the wireless emergency stop. We used Freescale Zigbee for radio transmission. Since the guy who is suppose to be working on this part has gone home, I ended up re-programming the chips. The hand held part will constantly sending out a message when turned on. The receiver on the [...]
- Overlord: Day N-10
Ten days until IGVC. We put the plastic sheet on the bottom of the center box to make it finalized. We also measured all dimensions of the electrical component that we are planning to put in there. Four Genesis batteries are not going to fit in the bottom layer because the motor could come into [...]
- Overlord: Day N-11
Eleven days till IGVC. Our Overlord is still not movable yet. Last time, we wire the robot, the wires burned during the test run due to the high power motors. Luckily, no electrical components are damaged. This time, we are trying to use 8 AWG wires. The software is pretty much done except that we [...]
- This Summer
My server has been shutdown and packed for the summer temporarily if not permanently. It depends on the next year’s housing situation whether I am going to set it up again or just host my websites on public services. I am glad that my blogs are hosted on Blogger which is not affected at all. [...]
