I’ve just finished upgrading the blog from Movable Type 2.64 to Movable Type 5.0.x. The main reason behind actually getting around to doing this (the ‘update blog’s MT version’ “todo item” has been on my list for several years!) is so that I can integrate Rambling Comments with my other technical blogs. At present it’s just The Server Framework blog, but I have two more micro blog sites due in 2011 for products that I’m working on and I wanted to be able to include the entries from these new blogs into the main Rambling Comments feed.
I’ve put together a new website for my super scalable, high performance, I/O Completion Port based server framework.
This has all of the information that you need to decide if you can use The Free Framework or if you’d prefer to license The Server Framework. There’s also a new server example, WASP, which is a pluggable server platform that is available in compiled form and is free for non-commercial use. Over the next few months WASP will evolve to support most of the key features of the various options that are available with The Server Framework such as SSL, Managed hosting, UDP and TCP, etc.
My previous rant about DevPartner Studio (and especially the BoundsChecker portion of it) resulted in several emails from guys on the development team and a call from product owner at MicroFocus. They pointed me towards the latest ‘web sync’ (service pack) which was released shortly after my rant, explained how the issues I’d noticed had made it through testing and why they existed and commiserated with me over the state of support.
Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming. A full index of these articles can be found here.
I’ve been very busy with other things just recently and so I haven’t been able to spend much time on this project. Work has been busy as I’m working towards a new release of my code and my son Scott was born on 25th January.
Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming. A full index of these articles can be found here.
Once the servo controller code was feature complete I switched to looking at the hardware side of things and thinking about the next stage, the servo sequencing.
From a hardware point of view I had several things to work on.
Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming. A full index of these articles can be found here.
I decided to treat myself to an early christmas present and bought a 60W temperature controlled soldering station (a ZD-916 which I got from Maplin). All I can say is WOW. Suddenly I can solder neatly rather than making a smeary mess.
Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming. A full index of these articles can be found here.
For those of you interested in the kind of thing that this blog is about you might also find ChipHacker.com useful. It’s a ‘stackoverflow’ for embedded programming and electronics people. Hopefully it will become a useful resource!
Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming. A full index of these articles can be found here.
I now have an easy to extend PWM servo controller and the next job on my list of things to do is extend it so that it supports the functionality that I feel I need for correct control of my hexapod’s legs.
Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming. A full index of these articles can be found here.
Here are some links that may help once I move onto fabricating the various pieces required to build the hexapod’s body.
This is a simple 4 legged walking robot that was machined from an A4 piece of 4mm ply wood.
Previously published This article was previously published on lhexapod.com as part of my journey of discovery into robotics and embedded assembly programming. A full index of these articles can be found here.
A collection of links that I’ve been using recently for research.
Servos and robotics Hitec HS-422 Servo. The servos I currently have; likely not suitable for use as actual leg servos due to lack of torque. Useful link as www.
