{"id":496,"date":"2011-12-16T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T08:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=496"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:28:49","slug":"project-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2011\/12\/project-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Project updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a brief summary of project progress over the last couple of weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"\u2018relaxation\u2019 project \u2013 \u2018building\u2019 an autonomous maze solving car\" href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/2011\/10\/28\/relaxation-project-building-an-autonomous-maze-solving-car\/\">Robot car<\/a>: finally ordered ultrasonic HY-SRF05 sensors. Initial testing shows stable accurate output, even without averaging. One interesting point &#8211; there are (at least) two different SRF05 sensors, with different chips and different pin-outs!<\/li>\n<li>Spent some time thinking of ways to help <a title=\"Treecycle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mgt-engineering.com\/treecycle\/features_frame.php\">Treecycle<\/a>, the discussion is at the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/xinchejian\/browse_thread\/thread\/337cd9dc1e2ea5b3#\">Xinchejian group<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ordered some ATtiny85 for <a title=\"Safer Alarm \u2013 7400 competition entry\" href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/2011\/10\/19\/safer-alarm-7400-competition-entry\/\">Safer alarm<\/a> project next steps, thanks to a bulk order through <a title=\"Xinchejian\" href=\"http:\/\/xinchejian.com\/\">Xinchejian<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Desktop Chaos!\" href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/2011\/12\/09\/desktop-chaos\/\">Desktop chaos<\/a> &#8211; my dream desktop workspace.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Testing continues to show promise, despite the misuse of CodeBlocks (C::B) for this purpose. Even when using very fragmented work habits 5, 10, 15 minutes chunks of time (forced due to my chaotic availability) and some unexpected testing of C::B behaviour after it&#8217;s process was terminated by a likely Ubuntu bug which closes the user session when logging back on after a suspend!<\/li>\n<li>Search (Recoll) and Sync (Unison) &#8211; both look promising, but some effort is required to create workable implementations, and especially to make more generic for wider public use when integrated with C::B.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Spending way to much effort on site upgrades, spam and reacting to vandalism from many different IP addresses. If anyone has good tips in addition to the official \/ common ones for Mediawiki, phpBB and on analysing Apache logs and good Unix automated site and MYSQL database backup, please use the about email to drop me a line (the site is still locked down as I do not have time to deal with vandalism at the moment).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a brief summary of project progress over the last couple of weeks: Robot car: finally ordered ultrasonic HY-SRF05 sensors. Initial testing shows stable accurate output, even without averaging. One interesting point &#8211; there are (at least) two different SRF05 sensors, with different chips and different pin-outs! Spent some time thinking of ways to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2011\/12\/project-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project updates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,17],"tags":[34,41,63],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-hardware","category-project-or-device","tag-chaos","tag-desktop","tag-robot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}