Curses! Foiled again….

Look 3d printing! It’s happening… well for about 15 minutes before a motor burned out. There is a massive cloud hanging over this project… first with the webcams and now with the mould making. Let’s try to explain this. First, creating the 3d files for the moulds took much longer to complete than expected because [...]

Fear and loathing

I’m worried. I’m worried that I’ve taken on far too much. The technical setbacks are a constant drain on time and morale, and for the most part, unproductive. I spend 20-30 hours a week (that I really don’t have, given all my other responsibilities) solving problems and troubleshooting, when I ought to be conducting research [...]

Rapid Prototyping Update

Nope… didn’t happen. I showed up to my appointment this evening but it turned out that a job started this morning was only a fraction of the way complete and there was no telling when the process of milling the highly detailed work would end. For safety reasons, milling was to be suspended tonight when [...]

Webcam installation, part 4

Actually, this post ought to be called webcam “de-installation”. Yesterday morning, I called X10 and they agreed to take back their system.  I had the system up and running in two different locations (greenhouse and my office in the EV) for five days and here’s an unedited compilation of all the images that were recorded [...]

Webcam installation, part 1

It would make for very dull viewing, I know, but just once instead watching tv shows or movies with crazy, fancy marvelous technology, I want to see a near-hysterical character amidst a pile of wires, hardware and laptops, spending hours and hours trying to install software with and without technical phone support. Guess how I [...]