Month: April 2024
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Ready to go on a bot
I think this thing is ready to go on a bot for testing! I finished the calibration code today. Now it automatically enters calibration mode right after binding. It may not be perfect, but I think it’s usable. Next up, put it in a bot and drive it around!
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Snow is almost gone!
There are a few small patches of snow remaining. I’m sure they’ll be gone in the next day or two.
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More Pre-gardening
I did a bunch of transplanting today. Then I planted a bunch more seeds. This is a few tomatoes, mint, catnip, and a bunch of flowers.
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Going on a diet?
Okay, it may not have been quite as serendipitous as I thought. After adding up all the additional hardware required, I was well over 150g. I managed to lose around 8g today, but I still have about 10g of hardware to add to this pile. It’s going to be tight.
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Serendipity
When you try to build an antweight but you accidentally build a fairyweight that’s Serendipity.
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Malenki Integrated
Hand soldering QFNs is a royal PITA. But, two of the first three worked the first try. I’ll try reflowing the one that didn’t work.
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Alestorm
It’s starting! The crowd started chanting “Duck! Duck! Duck!” when they noticed the giant duck starting to inflate. They’re great musicians. Their songs are fun with easy to sing-along choruses. And you know they’re not taking themselves too seriously when they have a giant inflatable duck centre-stage. I haven’t been to a show for a…
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Exciting Mail
In today’s mailbag… after 59 days in transit wrapped in stretch wrap and bubble wrap my A7105 ICs finally arrived! This won’t be the easiest solder job, but it should be possible.
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Jittery Servo
This is supposed to be about 1.1ms. But for some reason, it jitters a lot. So, I had to give up on the servo library I was using. It obviously conflicted with something else I was doing… interrupts? timers? who knows? Sometimes that’s a problem with blindly using a library. So, I dug into the…