Lot’s of interesting things at today’s Munich Hack A Day workshop.
Robots, Moog synthesizer, OpenCV
Plus, you can get a free whole body 3D scan 😉
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ROSCon 2014 – Chicago
This years ROSCon is held in Chicago.
http://roscon.ros.org/2014/program/
Yamaha DTX 550K drums
Entering the world of eDrums. After playing on that crappy Rock Band drums for to long. It was fun but not the real thing, so I had to do a serious upgrade.
The soft mesh on the snare is fantastic and offers a real realistic bounce.
Also I bought drum sticks from Zildjian Anti-Vibe 5A with carbon infills to dampen impact.
I did not yet try to connect “the real” drums to the PS3….. 😀 it is on the list
Arduino Day 2014
Today is Arduino Day !
Software Defined Networking – Event
Been visiting todays SDN Event at ExperTeach.
I love Software Defined …, definitely the future.
Parallel blogging at Google+
Most of my posts are now on Google+ since I’m getting more and more busy with kids and family and of cource work, so blogging at home is not an option anymore.
Visit my on the road blog streame here:
https://plus.google.com/+AndreasKobara/posts
FreeNAS 9.1.1 Upgrade
Today I upgraded my FreeNAS storage from 8.3.1 to 9.1.1 with all RAIDZ pools still alive, all new ZFS features available, no problems so far.
Further I printed lots of 90 degree makerbeam brackets, and uploaded all my design files to Thingiverse.
New head mount plate
To put the robot head on top of the maker beam chassis I needed a quick and dirty solution, so I simply cut off a CD jewel case, and used the plate for mounting.
Unfortunately the material, some kind of polystyrol I guess, isn’t very robust, easily to be scratched and simple to break.
Back to the 3D printer and I quickly designed a new head servo mount plate:
OpenSCAD designs for makerbeam spare parts
Only a few days after the maker beam starter kit arrived and I screwed together the robot chassis, already a lot of connector parts are gone.
Especially the 90 degree corners and the 90 degree flat angles.
Instead of ordering the next batch, I decided to 3D print them later, but first the design files:
Makerbeam teddy robot chassis
My makerbeam starterkit arrived, so I migrated the whole robot chassis from 3D printed parts to the more practical extruded aluminium profile beams. This way I can mount additional stuff everywhere and change minor things faster without the need for reprinting.
