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Shane Colton: EVER '11
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Saturday, April 2, 2011. The international conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies, except with the R and E reversed because it is French) is my favorite conference EVER. Last time, the Cap Kart. Crew and I went in 2009. Confused a lot of professors, and ate crepes. This time, Charles. And I went in 2011, confused a lot of professors, and ate crepes. Oh, and test-drove an electric box thing that (probably) ran on an Arduino:. All the Nissan Leaves were spoken for, okay? Fit well into che...
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Shane Colton: Flying Things
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Talon Quad) [ Post Archive. Cinestar 6 Hexrotor [ Post Archive. Turnigy nano-tech LiPo: 370mAh @ 3S. 4pcb is a micro-size quadrotor (4" props). It's named 4pcb because the entire structure is a single printed circuit board (printed by Advanced Circuits, http:/ www.4pcb.com. Fiberglass is pretty strong, right? After helping out with a previous quadrotor build. 4pcb uses hexTronik HXM1400-2000. The battery is a 370mAh 3S LiPo and the radio control is done via XBee. Here is some video of it flying:. Turnigy...
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Shane Colton: December 2014
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Saturday, December 27, 2014. Fun with Pixel Shaders. One of the things that saved my ass for MIT Mini Maker Faire. A modern (.NET 4.0) replacement for Microsoft's obsolete Managed DirectX framework. I was only using it to replace the managed DirectInput wrapper I had for interfacing to USB HID joysticks for controlling Twitch. For that it was almost a drop-in replacement. But the SlimDX framework also allows for accessing almost all of DirectX from managed .NET code. The task is as follows:. Anyway, deri...
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Shane Colton: Robots
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Vex 4" Omni Wheel. Pololu TReX Dual Motor Controller. Twitch, Jr. is a switched-mode omni-directional robot I modeled on Team 1565's 2008 FIRST robot, Twitch. I've seen pretty much every robot drivetrain there is, but I was mesmerized by the linkage steering/omni wheel combination. As an experienced robot driver, I could tell that the motions possible with this setup would be spectacularly fun to execute. So, I decided to build a small one for myself, working off what I could see in that video.
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Shane Colton: tinyKart: Round 1
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Monday, July 11, 2011. By popular demand, more picture of crazy vehicles, and less math:. Extrude.thin feature.mid-plane. That's the size of tinyKart. So I don't know, maybe it's not really in the tiny. Class, more like miniKart. But whatever, we'll still call it tinyKart since it's going to be 1/5th the weight of Cap Kart. A week or so later,. It's always fun to see your 3D model almost instantly become a real thing. Maybe we'll get in the 80/20 flipbook again. Et al, made short work of:. These shafts a...
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Monster Scooter Parts Blog: Scooter Accessories - Scooter Smartphone Holders & Adapters
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013. Scooter Accessories - Scooter Smartphone Holders and Adapters. Ac·ces·so·ry. Noun - something added to something else to increase its usefulness, utility, or aesthetics. Recently expanded our scooter accessories. Section to include a growing selection of Smartphone holders and adapters. Universal Grip Smartphone Holder. Our Universal Grip Smartphone Holder. Flexible Gooseneck Smartphone Holder. The Flexible Gooseneck Smartphone Holder. Is for you. Your mobile phone goes in...
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