Will Jessop's Writings

Sailing, Food, Programming, Technology, and other things

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2013/October

Lenses
Increasing the field of view of the Raspberry Pi camera with cheap phone camera lenses

2013/September

First prototype robot base
I finished 3d printing the first prototype of my robot base
OpenSCAD robot base design
I switched from Sketchup to OpenSCAD
Trying out the prototype caterpillar track mount
I 3D printed a track mount for my pololu tracks.
Printing out a test caterpillar track and motor mount
The Hackspace 3D printer in action
Designing a track mount
Designing a track mount for my pololu caterpillar tracks. Sketchup is trying very hard to prevent me. Pololu track mount design in progress
Secret project - MotorPiTX motor board
I put together my MotorPiTX board and attached it to my robot.
Secret project
Designing a track mount robot, new motors
go-piglow, a lib for controlling the piglow in Golang
A Go library for controlling the Piglow board with example programs.

2013/February

Creating BERT dicts in Go
BERT is an interesting data serialisation format, I learn how to create them in Go.