I helped another person out today with a flat battery. In this case I was able to jump start them without too much difficulty. I must get my own jump leads so Rob can have his back. :) Also, when I closed the driver door earlier, it made a lovely “ping” noise, like a metal… Read more
Ooops, I lied; I’d forgotten Rob took some snaps with his phone before our ENT presentation. They’re shuffling about uncertainly here. The quality’s hampered by the poor lighting, but they’re actually relatively good photos otherwise – especially given they were on a timer, so we had to guess as to the frame.
So today I finally got the transceiver for our ADD project working. It’s a trivial little thing; it just sends and receives 32 bits of data at a time over a serial connection, using Manchester encoding. It was relatively tricky to do, though; harder than I expected. Transmission’s easy; receiving not so much, as there’s… Read more
There’s been a surprising amount of interest from various 3rd parties in the autonomous UAV project Rob & I are undertaking this year. Today we learnt of yet another party that’s paying attention to us. Which is quite scary, really – Rob & I feel a bit that everyone’s taking it a lot more seriously… Read more
So we did our presentation, as planned, and it actually turned out reasonably well. We did another two runs through it before hand – at eight in the morning – and then had to sit through an hour and a half of other presentations… the third of which was actually of interest, but the first… Read more
So, we’ve just spent the evening working on our EMT presentation, scheduled for tomorrow morning. It’s coming together reasonably well, although I am still a bit nervous about it; I keep running a little overtime, and as usual can’t for the life of me reproduce any particular performance. I’m not good at repetition, evidently. Hopefully… Read more
Another Monday night, another J.D.’s. I hadn’t planned on going down this week, but Roxanne messaged me Monday morning angling for a lift, so I figured why not. I’m glad she did; it was pretty good. I headed off straight after my EMT meeting, finishing at four, and she & I wandered over to TGI… Read more