What a fun and productive day… The plane is starting to look really really amazing. Today we basically finished riveting on the top skin at the back. This just needed some planning as to how to do this – some …
I traced down the problem with the grounds I was having last night… I had mis-identified the ground wire. Therefore there was no ground connection. Simple as that. When I connected the correct wire up, it worked. I wasted so …
Short post before bed… I am building tomorrow, so I need my beauty sleep. But before falling asleep, I need to write some notes. I have just wasted most of an evening seaching for a problem with an RS232 stream. …
This afternoon I started on a project. Photos are here… I have not finished it yet though. I am having some wiring issues with this hardware though… More soon.
One of the problems with multi-processing is what is called a race condition. That is what happens when two processes are fighting each other for whatever reason – for instance one process says if a > b then increase b. …
I really did not realise how uncomfortable my work chair had become until I visited K-Mart earlier and tried out one of their office chairs. The seat was so much more comfortable than the one in my office – which …
This may sound really strange but I am writing this in the back of my car. No, not on the back seat. I am actually standing with the laptop on the back parcel shelf, whist I have some tracking hardware …
I got contacted overnight about the item on eBay I was waiting on getting paid for. The buyer has now paid for the item so things are good. I guess that means I will soon be taking the parcel (which …
I am not sure what happened by overnight my Web Server on my local server here died. After spending some time looking for what was happening I could not find a thing. The Web Server would just not respoond. It …
The more I see of the show ‘Commander in Chief’ the more I love it. There just seems to be thr right amount of drama in it, mixed with the right amount of humor, and the right amount of doccumentory. …
Tomorrow it looks like I will be doing some serious debugging of firmware. I have yet to work out what is causing the bug, or the extent of it, but it is definitely one that needs to be fixed. Working …
I have just got back from a run. Yes, I know it has been rather warm today, but I did wait until it had cooled down somewhat until going. I probably should have been waited another half hour or so …
It pays to be careful when using eBay to buy stuff. I was looking at buying a U2 Best Of CD. For some reason the price got to $50, which was a price I was definitely not willing to pay. …
The IEEE Spectrum Magazine has an article in their February issue about the coolest engineering jobs for 2006. Everything from mythbusting to building remote control planes to lighting design. Actually much of this sounds like some of the cool projects …
Last night I watched the rest of the Jean Michele Jarre DVD – including a documenty called ‘Making the steamroller fly’. I found the show facinating – since it described some of his history with music and the development of …
