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12 O’Clocker: The Completion, and Überclocker Upgrades for This Year; Dragon*Con panel information 26 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
What a week! 12 o’clocker was completed early on, then I began to focus more intensely on upgrading and repairing Überclocker for this year’s competition. 12 o’clocker is currently working and undergo...
12 O’Clocker Epic Post 19 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
Damn. This past week -and-a-little has seen 12 O’Clocker basically go from a plate of aluminum to an essentially complete bot minus wiring. I’m making good time for Dragon*Con 2013 after all, it seems...
It’s Robot Season! Time for a tiny Überclocker. The Announcement of 12 O’Clocker 10 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
Wow, how’s it almost the middle of August already? You know what this means? That’s right. Basically, for the past few years, every late July and all of August has been spent rage-prepping robots for...
DERPDrive: The Assembly; Plus, Some Other Neat Parts: IG32 Gearmotors and Scooter Pulleys 6 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
It’s been a little while! My entire previous week was spent preparing and organizing the big summer MIT-SUTD go-kart race which went down on Sunday. Yes, that’s a thing. The summer class is not totall...
Melonscooter 2 Rage-Finish 25 Jul 2013 | 12:52 pm
Last week, I actually rage-finished not one but two projects in progress. First was Colsonbot, whose test came this past weekend at Bot Blast; and second was Melonscooter 2, which has been tested ever...
Colsonbot Rage-Finish and Bot Blast Recap 23 Jul 2013 | 11:38 am
Well, here it is! Colsonbot was finished in the intervening 3 days between the previous post announcing its arrival and when we all shipped off to Bot Blast. The event was a blast indeed, and I’m furt...
Loose Ends Roundup for the Week of the 14th: Adafruit Trip Summary, DERPDrive Painting, Melonscooter’s Battery, and What does a Colsonbot Do? 16 Jul 2013 | 02:04 pm
Here’s another one of those posts where I report up on like 17 things at once! Running (this time wholly my own – no more protection afforded by the likes of 2.007!) the summer go-kart class for the M...
Ask an Engineer References 14 Jul 2013 | 03:07 pm
In case you didn’t know (and you probably didn’t, given how un-announced it was here), I was invited to be on the Adafruit Ask an Engineer webcast as a special guest. Essentially it was aiming to be ...
Melonscooter 2 Epic Post 7 Jul 2013 | 02:20 pm
Much work has been done on Melonscooter 2 since the last week’s update. In fact, it’s so much that I’m wondering if I should split it up into two posts or not. Since that would be against the traditio...
DERPDrive: Structural Fabrication 2 Jul 2013 | 12:50 pm
Continuing on the DERPDrive after a quick melon break, here’s what all happened to get DERPDrive to an almost ready-to-install (mechanical) state. Bear in mind that at this point, the thing’s been sit...
