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A busy term is over. A term during which I watched helplessly as my in box filled up with unread news subscriptions. But its over now. Finished the subjects, finished the ITC307 projects, and 382 projects. Been back home for 2 weeks, been getting back into reading. …

Bilby Mark II (Part 2)

Well, our new line following robot is done. With any engineering project, you can always do more, but after tidying up the program, and tweaking values for a few hours, we came up with a reasonable configuration, able to complete out test circuit in an average of 40 …

Bilby Mark II (Part 1)

Fun and games last night. Bradley Robinson (who absolutely refuses to have his photo taken) bought a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit. Brad has had it a few days before I had a chance to see it. When I first saw it it was configured as a walking bi-ped, though it more a shuffle …

Rocket Science

When you declare war on the neighbouring dorm, make sure you have a weapon of mass hydration!

At short notice today we decided to build a machine to launch water balloons at the neighbouring building. With the aid of Levi, we designed, acquired parts, and assembled …

Creating an Ubuntu deb package repository (apt)

After several days on and off of tinkering, I have finally managed to create a complete Ubuntu package repository. There were several major steps/features required in this project:

1. Generating deb files



2. Generating repository file structure



3. Generating package files