New Carb

I found the previous owner got the rover running by slapping on a carb from a 70's Fiat. Its now in the scrap pile.

The beast now moves quite well under its own power. Stopping is an entirely different undertaking, as it has no brakes. Actually, there are no brake parts. They've all been stripped. Parts should all be here this week. Shout out to Peter from 3 Brothers Rovers who has been a real great source of reasonably priced parts and information.

New Fun

Its a BEEAUTIFUL 1956 Land Rover Series One 86".

FF in Dresden

Second in robot series from Molly the Munificent.

 

Just noticed Google Page Rank

I rank a 2/10. Its totally the sweet spot.

arg

I'm trying hard for SparkFun's free day, I had my shopping cart all full of goodies, but I just can't get through to the checkout page!

Been Busy

 
But I have managed to put together a McWire Cartesian bot for doing some CNC work. I'm hoping it is stiff enough for light aluminum cutting, if not I'll use it just for circuit boards. This picture has just the X and Y axes, but I finished the Z last night as well. Just waiting for stepper motors from the MakerBot store. I have an old dell server setup to run Linux EMC2 for the control and I'll be using Tom McWire's easy stepper circuit control.

woot.

Forgive me

I love physics jokes.

http://xkcd.com/45/