• 0830: Received a text from Tom containing a highly compressed set of questions relating to the power board. Set about answering them when I got up.
• Processed some paperwork.
• Worked on Farnell screen scraping - progressing nicely. Some nasty problems involving Unicode strings getting munged about though.
• Read about John’s escapades.
• Had some xbee related conversations with Phil. Sadly massively diverged into setting up his ssh config.
• The random period of immense internet laggyness started early today. Around 7pm I guess. Moaned profusely.
• Performed a very short investigation investigation into radio modules for general stuff-monitoring projects. Decided that the CC2420 might be good - but a little expensive (~£5 a chip from Farnell). Will continue search for cheaper alternatives. Would be good to produce a large number of devices that use them.
• Looked for an extension lead casing manufacturer. Was pretty unsuccessful. Wanted to find an extension lead casing with space for some extra electronics in it…

Tags: development, electronics, Robotics, stuff, xbee

2 Responses to “Sunday 6th August, 2007”

1. Justyn Says:
   August 6th, 2007 at 8:36 am

   Does John have a feed for his blog?

2. rob Says:
   August 6th, 2007 at 10:01 am

   Already spammed him about that. I’ll generate one later if he can’t be bothered…

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