Friday, 11 December 2015

And the results are in - How did we do?

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Last Saturday Pi Wars 2015 took place at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, so I got up early (after a late night), packed up ...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot - Replicating components

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In my last blog post I listed a number of items I wanted to complete over the weekend and, well a few issues cropped up that took up a chunk...
Saturday, 28 November 2015

Its the final countdown! - One week to go

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This time next week I'll be in Cambridge participating in PiWars (Assuming no more magic smoke escapes from my robot) and I have a busy ...
Thursday, 26 November 2015

Soldiering on - Soldering on

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One of the issues I've had with previous robots (and other contraptions) is managing to plug cables in the wrong way round, something th...
Tuesday, 24 November 2015

'Tis but a scratch! - Up and running again

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Well after carefully checking all the components everything seems to be working, apart from possibly the UBEC that was powering the Raspberr...

Puff the magic dragon - uh-oh I see smoke...

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So this blog was supposed to be about how I decided I needed a bit more room inside my robot, how I switched to a large box, mounted the mot...
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Saturday, 14 November 2015

Job's done - Code complete-ish

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Today, at noon, was the deadline for the  Code Quality  challenge and therefore an obvious target to have my code functionally complete (The...