Maybe Cause of The Floor Surface?

This is one superb calculator. I persoanly would favor a TI-89 Silver edition, but hey, nothing's perfect. This calc comes preloaded with a number of cool stuff, even the periodic desk of components, a spreadsheet, and another applications including a few games! It's true self is proven with it is storage. It had 1.3 MB of archive space, despite having preloaded software program. This is really the brand new calc to have. I would say the TI-83+ SE, 86, and 89 are by far one of the best calc's to personal right now. If nothing, else, pick one of these. The 89 is greatest for individuals who want energy. It has a really highly effective processor (for a calculator) and it does have a good amount of RAM. It's display screen is an absolute pixel packer with it's excessive resolution. This is the calc to personal for advanced software program. The TI-83+ SE is the better of the low finish calcs in memory and processor velocity. TI has designed this calc to act like our hacked turbo calcs! It's fast! With that added memory, it'll be an excelent calc for storing plenty of games and purposes. The TI-86 is up there only trigger it is the fashionable version of the TI-85. It always was the king. I's the place all of it started. ASM and hardware hacks. THe TI-86 is so comparable, but just a barely up to date model. It's nonetheless my favorite calc interface. Simple, little screen litter. Not to say that the display screen is at a better decision than the 83+ SE. It's limitation in fact is it is RAM. If it had the big memory like the 83+ SE, it'd be king. It all comes right down to that memory. I can not wait to see what three years has performed to my beloved TI-86, and where TI-83 and 89 progress has led... You see, for the previous 3 years, I have been unable to graphlink. I had the outdated Grey hyperlink. It worked on my Mac... Till it died! I obtained a brand new Mac in 1999, a Power Macintosh G3 B&W 400. It's an superior machine, but it surely has no serial ports. I now finaly am worknig and am getting some extra cash in. I might be in a position to buy the USB graphlink. I additionally picked up translucent gray and green slide covers for my calcs. Translucent gray will go with either my 86 or 89 effortlesly, and my favorite coloration is green, so I had to have a type of. I will soon be testing all those things which have appeared in the last three years. Yet one more thing concerning the lack of a graphlink, was I could not risk opening my calcs, or Completely free what software program I did have installed! I can now finaly again up my 86, fix the backlight, and then restore the reminiscence. I'm additionally curious about expanders. I recal the E2 venture some time back. I used to be going to build one, but by no means obtained to it. I might additionally like to know if the TI-89 drivers have been ever completed. I would like TI-83+ SE drivers, but attributable to it's reminiscence, they are a decrease priority. Also, anyone know if they support sending of backups? Well... For that mater, if the people concerned, are even nonetheless involved. On another, non TI, notice, I will be getting a Nintendo Gamecube this November. Updates might be scarce, trigger right now I am working on dwelling improvements, and then, after i get time freed up from that (cause it is getting colder), I will be devoting my free hours to gawking at the graphics of my new recreation console and having fun with the excelent gameplay. I'm especialy wanting forward to a handfull of real gems I do know are comming it's method: Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Star Wars Rogue Leader, and Pikmin to name just a few. I've some buddies who can be very greatful after i decide up Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. I'm also very thrilled to hear that some of the greatest SEGA titles can be headed to Gamecube as properly. Phantasy Star Online and Skies of Arcadia to name a number of! I'll let you know one thing... I personal Skies of Arcadia on Dreamcast, and I'm buying it once more when it comes out on Gamecube. This sport is a gorgeous, beautiful game, and it is one in all my favourite games of all time. It ranks right up with the Zelda games and Chrono Trigger. This game makes me really feel like I'm enjoying a "Zelda RPG", if such a thing have been to ever exist, however in a distinct sport world. The sport focuses so much on exploration and discovery of the world. Rather than give you forty characters to swap out all the time, it focuses on three main characters (and three extra, of whom you can choose one at a time) and builds their character to factors that I havn't seen since SNES Square titles. This recreation is a real gem, and it was by no means correctly advertised or promoted by SEGA or Overworks. It fell by means of the cracks on the back of an exquisite machine that was killed whereas nonetheless trying to achieve it is prime! The Dreamcast model is a truely great spectacle, and even when the Gamecube verion becomes nothing more than a straight port, it would still be worth it. I own a Dreamcast and a duplicate of the original DC Skies of Arcadia. I will still purchase the Gamecube version, even when solely a direct port. I hope for enhancements. I a minimum of think about some loading must be diminished. One thing I will miss nevertheless... That loud Dreamcast drive mechanism Always giving freely when a battle is about to start out, reminding me to fast hit the menu and heal up... Whrrrrr-Whrr : ) What's acquired me disapointed though, is what Nintendo has accomplished to Zelda (hey look it is Power Puff Link! ) : Yeah, yeah... I do know the game will nonetheless have that Miyamoto touch to it's gameplay. Whether I tolerate it regardless of the graphic style will have to be seen. I know people who find themselves religious Zelda followers and are all out boycotting Zelda, and even Nintendo as a whole over this concern. For those who do not know, Nintendo has been dooing two things through the years... They have progressively made Link, the principle character in Zelda, younger and youthful. They have additionally been giving the sport a darker really feel to it. Last yr, at Spaceworld 2000, they demoed a video of a brand new Zelda featuring very realisticly rendered graphics of an grownup or older teenage link dueling with a viscuios looking Gannondorf Dragmire, his arch enemy. The sequence was breathtaking and movies of the occasion depicted people screaming and cheering out loud, even over the present ground noises over how amazed and excited they had been over this upcomming title... Well, Nintendo dropped a bomb on those folks this year at Spaceworld 2001: and H-Bomb!!! They revealed what appeared like a5-eight year previous link that regarded too scarrily like a girl and animated on the screen to appear to be a cross between Loony Tunes and Power Puff Girls. The graphics are stunning cel-shading based animation. It does not look computerish, but like it were hand drawn to match your strikes on the controller. Even the gameplay regarded wonderful! It's a spectacular sight, and video games like Jet Grind Radio have nothing on the animation on this new Zelda game, however technical prowess aside, that has NOTHING to do with why individuals hate this game. We, the followers, were promised a dark, life like Zelda adventure, and we're given a gorgeous, however undesirable Power Puff/Looney Tunes Link. I do not even mind the Cel-Shading render engine. I just down't perceive what brought on them to alter the fashion. They could have modeled the characters off the character artwork within the manuals of the previous video games, and then given the whole Zelda world a form of darkish anime style... But NOOOOOOO!!! If you are a Zelda fan, you want to let Nintendo know that we might rather desire dark anime type than Chibi Power Puff Looney Tunes Link model. It's the same engine! They nonetheless get their efficiency boots with the anime model, however they APEASE the offended followers who caught with them for therefore lengthy and now are runing into Nintendo's tuned backs. They have accomplished one thing horrible to considered one of the one "dark" games they've.

Sunday. 8/26/2001: My Robots Results within the Fair

My robots did quite properly on the county fair. I pulled straight blue ribbons for all 4. Spyder additionally received a Grand Champion ribbon! Very nice.

Tuesday. 8/14/2001: Of Robots and Ribbons

Well, I entered my robot's into the county honest. I had to make Walkman and Bronco compete in opposition to the same first place ribbon unfortunately, trigger I used to be restricted to wierd entry sorts such as "Working Model", "Metalcraft", and "Not Otherwise Specified"... Well, in a small rural county honest, you ain't gonna get "Robotics", "Electromechanical", Or "Technological Creation!" Point is, I obtained them entered. I certain hope they win some ribbons. Heck, I think Spyder alone impressed my interviewers enough to get the job I have now! Surely that beast has obtained to tug some type of ribbon! Well, That's it for immediately. I will try to get pics of my home and automotive over the weekend. I might do it as we speak or tommorow, but I won't. I'll procrastinate as common, so I'll skip just a few days in planning! : )

Sunday. 8/5/2001: Uhh... Woah! That was a very long time.

Things have positively changed over this time. Last replace was October of 2000. It's now August of 2001. It has been too lengthy! A combo considting of work, spectacular video games, and loosing my password to my account, having lots of stuff to do around MY home, and being lazy all led to virtually a year of nothing... No updates, no anything. Hmm... "MY home"... Yep, I purchased my own home! I'm out of college, working, and personal a home and a pleasant automotive. I work at a small motor producer, Tachtronic Instruments, as a technitian. I build and restore Amplifiers (a type of brushless DC motor driver). I additionally occasinaly do motor assembly and testing. It's a fantastic job. I get to do one thing I like, and it pays me properly enough! To think, I took Electric Motor Theory as a "filler" course! :) As for my home... It's a single story place. Basement in very excelent condition. It has three small bedrooms and one massive basement room within the back the size of all three bedrooms. There may be a big open space in the basement, living room, kitchen, and two bathrooms. My bedroom is the largest of the three. The middle one is now a retailer room, but I used to rent it I rent the basement bedroom to household. The smallest bedroom is my workshop. The previous proprietor had it converted to a laundry room. Meaning sizzling and chilly running water, and a drain. It has lots of windows, so great illumination. Also has the exhaust vent for the dryer. This is necessary. I purchased a sandblasting booth from my employer for $10. I modified it to take 120 volt home power instead of 3 phase industrial. I'm currently operating a small fan that vent solder fumes by the dryer vent. It's not too highly effective, however I intend to purchase an even bigger fan later and permanerntly mount it. I'm borrowing a Hakko soldering iron to assemble driver boards for the amplifiers I construct... I intend to buy my own Hakko as quickly because the money from my first work is available in. I will never use another soldering iron once more, not even Weller!!! I really like this thing! I also acquired a new car. I started off with that little pink 1984 Pontiac Sunbird Turbo. Loved that thing however the chilly killed it. I then got my mother's '87 Chevrolet Celebrity. It ran wonderfuly, though it regarded horrible. It hit a deer and the passenger facet headlight mounts were completely smashed up. I ended up fixing it with a pair of tractor work lights bolted to the body of the automotive! I once opened the sunroof and it flew off, almost taking my hand off with it. Do you know the curvature of the glass makes it pick up height like an airplane's wing? properly, now you understand that! I drove with rubbish luggage for some time and eventualy made a plexiglass replacement. I even had a bird make a nest within the rust gap of the driver's facet door once! : ) I by no means as soon as recalled that automobile having a major engine or transmission downside... ever! It finaly obtained an EST (Electronic Spark Timing) error. EST error will take out most automobiles in a mere 50 miles I hear, but this factor ran for a couple of year after! Seeing "EST Error: Don't Drive!" on an LCD readout ain't the most reassuruing factor, however it saved going. It's Tech 4 engine was a real work of reliability! My subsequent automobile was my mom's Corsica. it's an excellent car, but it at all times bugged me for some reason. I began to grow to like it, so after i finaly got rid of it, it kinda sucked. It was one of these "ghost downside" cars. It'd do something after which never do it again, so a mechanic may never fix it. That or it simply would not do anything for the mechanic. My current automobile is really nice! It is a light blue 1989 Pontiac Firebird Formula. This car is completely superb! You typicaly do not think of a V8, energy, AND fuel financial system as something that can all coexist, but they do in this car! I drove from my dwelling in southern Minnesota all the approach to Sommerset Wisconsin and again to select up some individuals from the 2001 Ozzfest live performance there. The entire distance from Sommerset to the Minnesota/Wisconsin border was cease and go. I aslo needed to drop them off on the best way back, which added an hour to the journey. All this while going a nice 70 and plus on the interstates and that i solely used 3/4 tank! Nice! When I'm not doing extra work building driver boards at home or attempting to sustain my house, I like to take a seat back an loosen up with a great vido sport. I received The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask mere weeks after my last update. That game was superb. I liked it. It was a a lot darker sport than Ocarina of Time was. It had way more character improvement for non player characters. This alone was a major enchancment over the earlier Zeldas. I moved on to Conker's Bad Fur Day and Paper Mario, which whereas both are good I've yet to finish. I then got Aidyn Chronicles. It's a very Ad&D sort recreation. It's important to be into that form of stuff or this recreation shall be merely tedious. It performs rather slowly, and battles drag out. The graphics and sound look first generation, but where it shines is the environments! Imagine strolling from one metropolis, via a vast forest and right into a mountain range without ever seeing a gate or load display! You possibly can literaly stroll for round half an hour should you go to all of the places avaliable. I mapped out a portion of the realm. It took a total of eight sheets of printer paper an array of 4 wide by 2 tall to map out solely the northern east west expanse of the forest. This doesn't embrace the mountain range or the southern forest space. 2 villages, a set of ruins, and a gate to a city reside on this space! The game is large! Most recently I have been taking part in the re-launch of Chrono Trigger on the ultimate Fantasy Chronicles set for Playstation. Chrono Trigger is a real basic in and of itself, and is my primary ranked console RPG of all time! Chrono Trigger has one close contender although. I beat this game final June, and the time I spent enjoying it was a few of essentially the most enjoyable I've had in a video recreation since Zelda first graced the N64... Skies of Arcadia for the Sega Dreamcast. In case you love RPGs and Zelda, then this is your recreation. It's an RPG that emphasizes on exploration an discovery. It FEELs so very similar to a "Zelda RPG" it is scary. Sure, different world and all, but the model is there. This recreation is digital addiction, and it absolutely sucked me in. This recreation is gorgeous, and it options a very simple RPG story line that focuses, fairly on constructing a dozzen completely different characters, builds on simply three major characters and lets you have a 4th. This really gave the producers of this sport the power to allow you to get to know the characters you play. The emotion and story on this sport is just so wonderful. It's a simplistic game. Just a fundamental good guys beat the dangerous guys and have some enjoyable on the way. It is a definite change from the fashion that Final Fantasy has taken. The battle system is just a little completely different, but I realy preferred it. It stresses special talents over staight out magic. Battles are very frequent, generally excruciatingly frequent, but it's managable. The voice acting is fairly lousy, but I did not care. it added humor! Hehe : ) I actualy ended up placing over 80 hours into this game. This goes to be a fast replace... nothing but a nes replace, simply to let people know I'm alive. I'll add some footage of my home and my new automobile to the web page shortly. Updates will not come usually, however they'll come. Rather a lot has modified since starting to work! I nonetheless have all of the TI associated stuff within the previous update laying round, however I still have to compile it into web web page format. I havn't had much time. I have not had the time to be taught programming on the Mac. I want to, but again, no time. Work is the very best precedence. I do know this page has made a difference though. Many peple contact me on a regular basis for questions. I have been trying to keep up with those at least. I'll see how the web page goes in time. The fashions part has not seen work since it's inception and has no content. I'll probably find yourself changing into a gallery for my fashions and never the as soon as proposed mannequin building heart it was intended to be. That just about would make it Misc part materials, however then my menu would have a gap! : ) Oh yeah, and I'm going o slowly phase out the small little bit of advertizing on my page. It's nugatory, and a waste of bandwidth. All Advantage was superior, but now they don't seem to be price something hardly. There isn't a extra point. I'm wiping all of it from my page. I believe it's going to be appreciated. Less muddle. I prefer it that approach. Well, It's time for me to call it a evening. Any longer and I'll have to change the date of this update to Monday! : )

Tuesday. 10/3/2000: New options to be added to TI section!

That is a really early Tuesday update (technicly, it is still Monday, but God forbid I update three times in sooner or later! :) I have aquired some new info that covers many TI associated hardware projects. These embody a RAM expansion for the TI-92, added info on the Electroluminescent Backlight, a potential RF link for Various TI calculators (unfortunately, I believe it nonetheless requires specialized software, and is not appropriate with TI's switch format, although I've theories about making it appropriate), and finaly the homemade paralel and serial link cables! I am additionally learning Macintosh software program improvement, and want to either create a hyperlink program myself, or attempt to get another person to start this challenge. I also am serious about USB expertise. If I can acquire enough information, I wish to provoke a USB hyperlink project. This is a long run plan however. Don't expect the Mac/USB hyperlink very soon. I ought to be beginning a job very quickly, so that is my highest precedence proper now.

Monday. 10/2/2000: TI Acceleration pages RESTORED!!!

That is an addendum to the sooner Monday replace. After determining a mistake in my login data, and fixing it, I was in a position to get again into my FTP account. Well, at this time I spent the time to scan and touch up the images and do the HTML required for all my TI acceleration ages to be restored! They are better than they were earlier than the crash that misplaced them, and that i even have more than I used to. I have all new sections for every calculator! No more TI-81, 85, and 86 on the same page. There at the moment are sections for the TI-81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 89, and a section that has info on each the TI-ninety two and the TI-92 II on the identical web page. Please be at liberty to take a look at the new sections. They are beneath "Acceleration" on the TI Calculators part.

Monday. 10/2/2000: Oops!

Hehe! I forgot the correct method of logging into my ftp account for this page. Also misplaced 1000 stored e-mails. Bad factor. Anyway, i just now discovered what I used to be doing flawed, and fastened it. I should be ready to add the updates to the sections. talked about within the last information item.

Tuesday. 9/19/2000: I have Found the TI acceleration information, plus extra!!!

Over a yr ago, issues with my site online, and a tough drive crash simultaneously knocked out a portion of my webpage. I've spent a while researching over the web and have finaly gathered up the data that I misplaced so long ago. I believe I actualy have the data now to rebuild these lost parts. I also found some new stuff!

Tuesday. 9/19/2000: Spyder Lives!

Yes, you heard it proper! The long delay for the reason that last replace was spent doing a number of issues, together with work on Spyder! Spyder now walks, and fairly nicely! I plan to rubberize the legs for added traction, and i can be doing additions to Spyder, but for now, it does work. Go to the robotics part to view the new info on Spyder. There are additionally 2 new movies. You may entry them from the Spyder web page within the robotics part. In different information, There appears to be a sudden curiosity in TI-Hardware. I have been getting mails from folks with all sorts of questions about turbo upgrades. I'll point out just a few often asked questions here: Turbo:

The TI-81, 85, and 86 turbo upgrades are very similar, and are on the identical web page. Some people have seen conflicting directions. Here's the actual deal. Put a switch in sequence with the original capacitor for a fast/regular turbo swap for these three calculators. You don't even need so as to add the 1 pf capacitor until you experience graphics coruption (usualy garbage on the screen, or traces appearing that do not belong. If these problems seem, solder a 1 pf Capcacitor (easily avaliable from a bundle from Radio shack with quite a few values of pf valued capacitors) accross the terminals of the switch. That is the most very best turbo method for the three calculators talked about above. The eighty two and 83 are similar to one another, but they're very "finicky" about these values. I misplaced a big portion of my old web site, as well as backup recordsdata some time in the past. I have not been able to find this data and after i do, it will likely be imediately posted. Try Dimention-TI or ticalc.org to go looking their databases for different people's websites (I imagine they probably have links). SPinTerface:

I don't consider the SPinTerface to be almost as useful because it as soon as was. Back when the Expander SF was round, it was the best improve. Now that almost all present units of it is kind (such as the Extender II) are 2 chips at least, and draw extra energy when active. The ideal arrangement is a Module port on the actual machine for reminiscence expansion. There are just a few SPinTerface applications. If you can do it with the hyperlink port, I recomend it. Should you realy want one however don't want to switch the calculator to such an intensive degree (and never drain the calculator batteries so rapidly, it may be more reasonable to build the SPinTerface in a small project field with a self contained battery and a link cable (or socket to plug your hyperlink cable into it). Memory Expansion:

I have been unable to contact the person who designed the EII. His web page has both moved or disapeared. I don't have the flexibility to recreate the EII microcontroler. I don't have the hardware or the source code to take action. If anybody is aware of where both the EII web page or Bryan Rittmeyer (sp?) is, let me know. That is the person to contact. I'll continue trying to find info. I do have a supply that made PCBs for it at one time. I do not know if the project was transfered to him or not. As with all new information, it'll be posted right here once i be taught of it. Well, finaly, I have been slowly adding photographs and shortly plan to rebuild a lot of the website. Stay tuned!

Sunday. 7/23/2000: No replace since WHEN!!! We're back!

How do I put this... OUCH!!! The Richfiles was down for a very very long time. I can not even recall how long. It's been even longer since an update! The problem is that I had new content material however had not done the HTML, so now I have a whole LOAD of photos and information that haven't any pages utilizing them. It's been so long since I may even acess the server that I've merely forgotten what's what. This has led me to at least one solution... Undergo the entire site. Rebuild, restructure, recycle, and even change. I have already moved all video off server. They are now hosted at Apple's iTool iMovie theatre. I've direct links to them, as well as iMovie theatre pages, and a semi opperational mirror of the Richfiles on the Apple iTools homepage. Hopefuly, with sme more work, I can create a fully practical mirror there. I love iTools from Apple! Free 20 MB of homepage area/web laborious drive. The laborious drive mounts on your desktop and and also you drag files to and from it like you would any native arduous drive. Beautiful integration! Anyway, We're back, and that i will be looking to work on my web page very quickly. What are the plans... First, restructure the templates (the elements that apply accross the net page). They need dire updating and work. I'm also going to attempt to work out the zero border problem, if I can determine WHY it occurs. Suggestions are welcome. Second, I believe I'll restructure the TI section. The TI section is the oldest section, and it's the section that holds essentially the most importance here. It is the very purpose I'm on this server. I must go through and reduce out the out of date material, the sections I can't full, as well as useless devices (the EII exists, but nor the Expander II... for those who remember it). The TI-Basic programming section prooved to have coding dificultys from the start, and i've seen an abundance of coding websites on the market, so I am passing the duty to them. RIP programming section. I'll keep my archive, however it will be small, and named that... The TI program archive. Maybe I can update it too. I'm also dumping all .SIT format information. it'll all be .ZIP, since now, even the trusty Macintosh comes normal with Stuffit Expander and the flexibility to decompress .ZIP files. Third, the Models part may have one thing achieved with it. Currently, it is a mere shell of the page I was once gonig to do, however it had no content material. I meant to make the Richfiles into a type of hobby central. Unfortunately, it has not occurred, and until I improve to my next Macintosh and get my own excessive velocity line and convert this one to a devoted server, or an alternative choice opens up, that will not occur. Therefore, the Models part shall be pulled out and put into my local archive. In it is place might be a brief Models page that reveals photographs of my most prized hand made models. It won't be the proposed buildings, trains, vehicles, layouts, suggestions, ideas, and techniques site that I wanted in the far past. Whether I fully kill the models section and place the scaled back "picture album" of my models into the Misc part, or whether I go away the fashions part, however only embody the picture web page, has yet to be determined. Finaly, my favourite of my current hobbys, the robots. New photographs sit within the server, and I'm undecided they have connections to any pages. I don't even know. I am havily considering, not solely the entire rewrite of theTI part, but also the rewrite of some parts of the robotics part. Well... With luck, I will be working soon. That means earnings, and revenue means extra uncooked materials for tasks. I'm desparately wanting to get a TI-89. I want to do just a few minor mods and post the outcomes right here. I feel that may spark an interest in my TI work once more. My eighty two was damaged, my 85's batteries have died and my graphlink is gone. My 86 is my only calc that remains to be in actual use, and but I fear to upgrade it since my graphlink is gone and my favourite ASM programs are put in. My ninety two obtained bought to a frien who needed a calc badly. The deal was, after i had money, and if he didn't need it anymore, I may get it back... some idiot stole it from him although. That has hampered the manufacturing of STICK Fighters ninety two by... uhh... a lot! My 83 was not often used, so I bought it. My 86 and eighty five are keepers. Although I've been by a number of 85s and lots of refits, it accommodates some of the unique components that have been included with my very first respectable TI calculator. It has always been there, and as soon as I get batterys and my graphlink, and a computer that can run it, Daedalus is going right again from whence it disapeared! :) As for the robots... Quadrapod is actualy making some progress. I may be saving my house made controller for a custom constructed Lexan or PVC Quadrapod using mini servos or even gear motors. It'll be round 2/3 the scale of the Lynxmotion kit, and if it is fabricated from Lexan, or Plexiglass, ought to be 100% transparent. It is going to either use the custom controller I designed, or a complete new one. I may ditch the 6 Nv loop and change it with a branched bicore or a master/slave bicore. It could end in a quicker and extra stable walking gait. It could additionally incorporate sensors to detect objects and edges. I are not looking for this thing walking off tables like a certain Walkman did at the Tv studio. This can be an autonomous machine, though I'll have override switches. It won't be possible to carry a digital camera. I would like it to incorporate a reasonably large network of neurons that I can just play with to expiriment with various behaviors. I need the robotic to in fact keep away from obstacles and edges, however I additionally what it to do something aside from stroll till it encounters such a thing. I need it to interact. I need a mass of optical sensors. maybe with the sensors and a community organized good, it may possibly present some signs of interesting emergent conduct. Also, if coloured Lexan is avaliable, I could attempt to make it green. Imagine a clear green robot strolling accross your lawn, trying to chase your pet! :) Expect some type of update quickly, if nothing prevents it... (Oh! Who am I kidding! It'll probably be another month at this rate! Maybe I'll get lucky and build up a while... or that all necessary ambition thing! :)

Sunday. 3/12/2000: Oh my GOSH!!! The Richfiles is Back!!! Now with an autonomous Powerbook & two new movies!

Well, after the server got here up, shortly after March began, I decided to replace... Well, there wasn't yet any way for me to do this till a few extra issues acquired reconfigured. I finaly received the information to connect to replace, and it looks like I'm set! There are two new videos avaliable of Bronco and Walkman (the large one, my first bot). They are larger than some of my others. They show better details of the gaits and their speed. Each tile on the flooring is precisely 12 inches (one foot) long. That's about 30 CM in metric. Video is real time pace I've begun planning for BEAMac, an Apple Powerbook 1400 gone cellular. No, the factor ain't a CPU primarily based bot. It's a BEAM primarily based robotic that will seek gentle and journey around avoiding obstacles. I'm still making an attempt to find out what I want it to do, and how, however for starters, it'll be a basic photovore with a light monitoring head (one axis, vertical motion). I wish to make it capable of major autonomy. Because of the big size of the area I plan to use for the photo voltaic panels (the screen area), I can afford to throw in quite a lot of circuitry. There may be sufficient area for it! 9 volts @ 60 mA for a budget $6.00 photo voltaic panels and if I can find a 9x7 inch photo voltaic panel, I want to get it instead, since I might then fill the entire screen area. I wish to get a pair of VERY high quality gear motors to drive the bot, and a caster wheel to path the back end. I'm pondering of utilizing an inverted trackball for that job. I need it to have a excessive capability battery that would run it at night time. Unlike most of my bots that are luminously challenged, I want this factor to flaunt all that battery energy when it get's darkish by way of multicolored LEDs. If I mount them on the again panel, I can slide the transparent or the opaque panel over it if I determine I don't desire the light (like if i am sleeping and it's bugging me). Loads is still simply theory and ideas, but I'll add to the bot as I do more. For starters,it will be a combo photovore & mild monitoring head. I'll add new things as time passes. It'll basicly be a fancy version of Megavore, however using a special Nv/Nu configuration. It backs up after which spins in place when it encounters an object, as an alternative of doing the standard prompt spin. I also intend to have it arrange to shut the solar panel if it contacts anything. or lean it back if it contacts anything whereas transferring forward, so it may clear it. If it get's darkish during such a maneuver, I want it to reverse it is course and switch around. There are a number of behaviors I want to implement. I believe I have a technique to do it as nicely. I just need to do it appropriately, and that i need to have the ability to tie output into single inputs. I imagine this may be performed with diodes. BEAMac should be considered one of my most interesting wheeled robots ever. It'll look nice, have a wealthy set of behaviors, and naturally, be the reincarnation of my trusty old Macintosh! :) R. I. P. "Reincarnated In Pieces"!

Thursday. 3/01/2000

Today. 3/12/2000: New Bot on the way in which, and man is it a child!

Hehe! Walkman, don't step in your little brother! Walkman Jr. is on it't way! It's a small 1.5 inch lengthy (that might increase or lower by a fraction either approach). It's pushed using a dual coil electromagnetic "solenoid" drive. It can doubtless utilize solar energy, and DOES include a reverser!!! Even gramps cannot again up! I'll have to give Walkman Jr. the round diffusion panel head like the original has (or fairly had, since it's pieced together from the remanents left after it is accident at the studio and doesn't look as good). I'm including a page describing it. It's going to include documentation, schematics, and especialy picture and video! : ) Oh, and what happened with the names??? My first robotic was referred to as Walkman Jr. All of a sudden, I'm calling it Walkman and the brand new little one, Walkman Jr. Well, I never noticed it as a Jr. I at all times forgot to write or say the Jr. part, and it is not realy a Jr. to any of my very own bots. It was impressed by Mark Tilden's Walkman, but I feel it is grown out of being Jr. Now he has a little bit bro, and i've determined to call the little guy Walkman Jr. I hope this goes properly with the plenty. If I'd have identified I may even have created one thing so small, I probably would have reserved the title! Hehe! Look ahead to more data on Walkman Jr. Soon!

Thursday. 2/24/2000

Today. 3/12/2000: Server Problems... And Solutions, ixMicro, and NEW Videos!

Well, as a lot of you've seen, my web page, as properly because the host and every other web page they hosted, has been down for almost a month! I was unable to contact the server administrator. The only address I knew was his deal with by way of the server. In fact, because it was down, I couldn't contact him. Well, after digging around another sites (they'd an identical TI calculator theme), I used to be in a position to get his ICQ number. I downloaded the ICQ program onto my Mac and looked for his quantity. Gave me one other e-mail deal with, and sure enough, I used to be capable of contact him. He said they were getting a brand new server, and if luck held out, that it would be up by the start of next month! That made me completely satisfied! After all, it'd have been nicer if he'd have introduced it! Either manner, I'm joyful to listen to he did not die or anything! :) Oh, and there are two dates above... When i wrote this, and when it actualy went up. Hopefuly, the difference will not be extreme. Well, What's this ixMicro factor in the headline??? Well, My new video card is an ixTV Tv Tuner/Capture card from an organization known as ixMicro. Well... ixMicro simply announced that they are closing doors! AHHHHHHH!!! Well, I've modified the $34 (with S&H) card to now present video outputs (it is imagined to be solely for input). It solely outputs the Tuner video, but it's enough for what I wished. I'll even be getting a grade for the undertaking in my Enrichment Lab II class, which is all about doing your personal tasks. Well, I doubted anyone was even there to hear, much less would actualy consider it, however I despatched an e-mail requesting technical info on the card... Well learn! I don't even know if anyone is checking these addresses anymore, however news states that ixMicro is closing doors. I've had a pair problems with some capture, but basically, I've been pleased with my ixTV card. Anyway, I'm going to college for electronics technology, and one class is basicly doing our personal projects and targets after which documenting them for grading. One challenge was including video and audio outputs that pull straight off the tuner so I can attach my Commodore Computer monitor to it and use it to look at Tv by means of the pc. I wish to do far more expirimentation with the card. I'm disapointed that you simply guys are shutting down. You will have the very handy Dual monitor card that was an excellent solution to the multi monitor users who hate losing Apples pathetic 3 PCI slots. It's unfortunate, but factor occur. My question is, if you guys are shutting down, the place does the technical data documenting your video cards go? If you aren't going to be within the buisness anymore, someone else will have to offer updated drivers for hardware for future OS and machine models, otherwise, an enormous number of people can have a major funding turned to rubbish. As for myself, I'm fascinated about working with the ixTV & ixTV/FM hardware, for college. I wouldn't ask were you still in the buisness, however since you are shutting down, I'd like to know if there is any technical data, data sheets, papers, diagrams, documentation, maybe even schematics or block diagrams for any of your former products (the Turbo Tv, ixTV, and ixTV/FM specifically)? I don't know the way many individuals make such requests of you, however... well, it ain't the Apple II days anymore. You aren't getting the schematic in your computer off the back web page of your handbook. It's tougher to be a hobbyist as of late, and it is ahellofalot more durable to be a student, when you must have your work graded! Again, I wouldn't even ask when you have been nonetheless going sturdy. The one purpose I ask, is I don't desire the info to go down the drain, and change into utterly inaccessible. I'm HOPING somebody is on the other end to recieve this e-mail. If anybody recieves it, and isn't qualified to reply it, please, I beg you forward it to somebody who can. Thank you!

Well, my reply was even more fascinating! Hi: Thanks on your e-mail and i empathize 100% with you and the dozens of different prospects that are e-mailing me. I have asked if there is a method to launch the code on the web and am awaiting a response from the previous IXMICRO President. Give me a reminder again at the end of the week.

Well, that is bought to be the primary time I've actualy bought a optimistic reply on that kind of subject! The only cause this may very well be doable is because they're closing doors. With any luck, I can get technical documentation for other playing cards too. It'd be fun to experiment with these things! If I can get the information, and I'm allowed to, I'll put up it here, or if it's to giant, offer it at request. I'll possible take away this tackle inside a month or two (when ixMicro is completely disbanded), as to forestall this man from getting excessive requests for stuff he cannot do. Lastly, I'll mention the videos. First, you may catch four clips from the Algo's Factory Tv present that featured three of my robots. Included is the Intro Theme, a video exhibiting Walkman Jr. and a Solarbotics photopopper, a video of BORIS, and the closing credits (no music, it bought corupted throughout seize, plus it is annoying! You possibly can see a shot of the original Walkman Jr. (witht he home made gear box driven by a walkman motor, and the motor that's now Bronco's waist motor). Along with the videos I put up a day or two earlier than the server went down, there at the moment are 2 new movies. One is of Bronco, and the opposite is of Walkman Jr. Both show obvious improvement over the Algo's Factory videos. First off, I'm using Strata VideoShop for enhancing video as a substitute of Quicktime. More choices, including titleing and results. I have the robotic's identify on black and fade into the video, and then fade out at the top of the video. I constructed a easy "Cambot" out of a Robotix set. It features a shade micro digital camera on an extending arm and a motorized drive that enables it to comply with alongside aspect of a robotic. Works great! You'll see how the robots are adopted within the video. Check them out! You will discover them beneath the Robotics part in the Navigation bar (or at the bottom of this web page for frameless viewers). Wednesday. 2/09/2000: Short video clips from Algo's Factory!

I've uploaded quick video clips so that you can download. I had some hassle encoding audio, so some files have no audio or have static in spots. I figured I would as effectively put them up in your viewing pleasure. These movies show the intro (with audio), closing credist (no audio), and video of Walkman Jr. and Photopopper on display, in addition to a 4th video of BORIS walking (slowly, cause the youngsters drained the batterys!!!). The BORIS video features a CG animation describing the movement of muscle wire. It ain't much, but it is something. I'd also like to publish greater high quality video of Walkman Jr, Bronco, and Megavore. Other bots will get video as it's added. I have a remote online laborious drive. If the bandwisdth is an excessive amount of for the server, I'll move the files there and hyperlink to it. It's supposed to carry 25 MB and help an online web page. I'll most probably transfer all video there anyway, if I get time to determine how to make use of it. I'm also going to start a few of my robotics work again, and this time, it's for school!!! I determined to take a break to save lots of my work for school, and to catch up both mentaly and financialy... Well, no less than I caught up mentaly! :) Click to reach the Algos Factory Page instantly. It also might be discovered beneath the "Misc" part in the navigation bar. Monday. 1/28/2000: Oh my gosh it's been some time!!! Updates, All Advantage, A video card, TI Upgrades, School, projects, occasions, and stuff basically that has waited since final Millenium!

I'll start by saying what I did to the positioning... Well, it isn't a lot. I up to date the copyright data (and added it for that matter to a few of the older pages) in order that it now reads Copyright © 1996-2000. I additionally added some extra text beneath the All Advantage banners. I will be blunt right here... I've been signed up with All Advantage since I got my G3. Being the moron that I'm, I used to be not utilizing it, waiting for the Macintosh version to be launched. Well, it completely passed over my mind that my Soft Windows 98 Pc emulator can do web entry and even do it at a really acceptable pace. I logged onto All Advantage on the VERY finish of November and it labored, but solely made a couple bucks, trigger I didn't have time to construct up my hours. The subsequent month, things changed drasticly!!! I had my hours maxed out, and never only that, but DOUBLED in a mere 10 days. I had constructed up $22.20 with the couple bucks from the end of November and the month of December. That paid my web entry for a month, but All Advantage sends out checks after thaey cross $20, to save the cost of sending $5 checks. Reasonable. Unfortunately, I wasn't making $20 a month, solely about $18. Well, I got fortunate. I signed up a couple of referals (actualy, they signed themselves. I don't even know who they're, I simply have the hyperlink on my web page and my e-mail signature). Point is, I now get over $20 a month, with NO carry over from the previous month. I've FREE internet access. The more referals I build, the extra I make, and the more referals thet my referals make, the extra I make and it goes on for a few levels. The way it really works, is you obtain a view bar. It has just a few easy buttons and a banner ad, like those which might be on the top or bottoms of assorted internet pages. It sits at the top or bottom of the window and takes little house. It runs on 800x600 screens or larger. It masses banner provides each so usually, and really un noticably too. There are 2 Pc variations. One is an easy version and one has lots of options like a search and menus and favorite websites stuff. Kinda cool. The Mac version is in beta take a look at. Unfortunately, that means it is not a regular downloadable item. I do nevertheless feel this system is nicely on it's solution to completion. I only have an occasional glitch right here or there. Functionaly, it really works completely. Were it not for occasional freezes, I'd say launch it. I hope to see it relesed very shortly.

I also thought I'd mention the referal kings! Basicly, the more referals you and your referals and so on have, the more you make. I'm sure you may have mates and household and maybe nicely trafficed web pages to spread the phrase! Anyway, there are some people on the market that have over a thousand referals. some have over 10000 referals. I obtained a good snort when i noticed it, but 2 of them had their automobiles profesionaly decaled with the All Advantage internet address, slogan, and their referal ID number so drivers that saw it may sign as referals to them! HAHAHA!!! I wish I was making enough to get profesional decal jobs for my automotive! Hail to the referal kings child! : )

If you need more information on All Advantage, then click here. I'll explain a few things. If you would like to sign up, go ahead. I'm including the link under to go directly to All Advantage's net site and join. I Highly recomend it. I understand the money move could also be small at first, however it'll grow, and the more effort you place into making it develop, the more money you get in return. Paying for web access itself is a breeze, and I believe It's properly worth the hassle.

Join All Advantage with the reference ATL 147 and begin making money! The more referals you get, the more cash you may get! Starts at $12.50 a month! You solely must surf 25 hours a month, that's lower than an hour a day to make this work! I do this in 10 days, simple!!! Well, the persevering with video card drama... I appear to have discovered a deal I am unable to go up. It seems that an organization is selling surplus ixMicro ixTV playing cards for $30!!! They even embrace a 3 month warantee, so it isn't an as is deal! In less than a week, for a complete of $34 even, I'll have a Tv/Capture card in my Macintosh!!! Whoo Hoo!!! I still need a Video card to drive my second monitor. I'm seeing some interesating under $one hundred 3Dfx playing cards. I even noticed an Ix Micro card for a measly $149. I would like one with video out nonetheless. The explanation I desire a 3Dfx card instead of the ATI card, is that I need to be ready to use graphics acceleration on the opposite packages I have that require 3Dfx and won't do RAVE or OpenGL. If I can not discover a 3Dfx card with video out (or higher,a dn all in one with a tuner), then I'll get the ATI. If there are conflicts with the ATI and the ixTV, then I can ditch the ixTV with mimnimal loss. $34 compared to $204??? Either method, I get what I've needed for a while and without any actual bills! I bought a load of tools, some parts, and a cooling fan for my laptop for over twice that amout! (I'm going to over clock the pc after warantee runs out). Witht he cooling fan, my processor heatsink is now cool to the contact, even under prolonged operating periods! That's a G3 for you! The thing is a low energy chip, and therefor generates Little or no heat. I still prefer to be protected. Next undertaking must be a failure alarm to alert me if any followers ever fail. I shouldn't want to worry. Most over clocked G3s do not even want a fan as lengthy because the case is closed (air has a circulation path that cools the complete factor. a part of the design. That's why the brand new iMacs do not even want fans!). You may be all for figuring out what robotics initiatives are in mind... Well, I havn't executed a lot of anything. I'm attempting to save my work for CLASS!!! I am taking Enrichment Lab II, which is a 2 credit score tech course that allows the scholar to create his or her own customized course to teach any factor they need, so as to gain "official" recognition of their skill and earn credit. I can say I build robots as a interest, but it may impress individuals more once they hear I aced a class on the topic. Projects under approach are the completion of Megavore, Hexapod, a light monitoring head, some neural expiriments, and if time and money allows, I'll work on MECI IV M, Spyder, and Quadrapod. Ironicly, Quadrapod is the very best on the checklist of possible candidates for the class venture because of it is more conventional mechanical style. Unfortunately, The cost of servos and the equipment is still my disadvantage. We'll need to see. I'll also include work with the faculties robotic limb and I'll attempt to get in some Microcontroler work as properly. I'll undoubtedly be doing logic, as it's a specialty of mine. There was talk on the BEAM Robotics mailing list o presumably making a tiny 1 neuron expirimenter's machine. It could be used like a DIP or liek hextiles that attach from end to finish to form networks. The topic has recently died down, however I'm hoping that the one that introduced it up carries by way of with the undertaking! I've been recieving an increasing number of TI hardware requests. Will you construct this. Are you able to fix that. I've decided I'll post an inventory of things I do: Turbo: $10 alone, or Free with 20+ order.

Speakers: $10 alone, $5 with $20+ buy, or Free with $30+ buy.

AC energy Supply: $20

Compact AA Battery Expander: $20

AA Battery Expander w/case: $30 (case can store small gadgets and has a door on it).

EL Backlight: $Forty (Works for all TI-8x besides 89 and 80).

Overhead LED Illuminator: $30 (lights LCD from above. Useful on 89)

Shipping is $5 on average.

Labor varies relying on ease of upgrade. Miscelaneous equipment or elements:

Link port to earphone adaptor: $5

Temperature sensor chips: $5 I not do the SPinTerface, as it is out of date. It's useful for individuals how have small units that want small amounts of power, however it's primary purpose was to build a cartridge primarily based ESF system, built into the calc. Unless you are a hardware expirimenter, or personal a few of the original ESF chips, it isn't very helpful any extra. The Temperature sensor is a ache, and i additionally no longer construct it, however I do have many chips left and can sell them for $5 each. Also discover that I don't have EL panels or inverters in inventory. I must order them. This will take some time, and I want people to comprehend that. I can build the Overhead LED illuminators extra rapidly, but once more, I must order parts. I can do Turbo and Speaker upgrades usualy in an hour or two. Also, I don't do orders earlier than cash arrives. I have made and exception and it's a ache, but I am managing. Also, time is a serious thing. I've faculty. College requires work. I haven't got a lot time, subsequently, I've increased the costs on a pair items, as they have not been price the effort in the past. I usually broke even, or bought pair for one or two lunches. I'm not doing this any more. If individuals want the advanced upgrades, they should pay for the work involved,a dn not simply the components. I cannot be doing this any extra, and infact, I will not be. I do know some people will complain, however that is the best way it is. Often I recieve requests, and so they by no means pan out to something. I'll honor present orders (as in, the one I'm working on now) witht he original costs, however new orders (any I havn't started), will follow the above costs. I remember when I used to be again on the TI-Hardware mailing listing. I did a turbo with a micro swap to select pace for $20 complete. That's Like $15 and transport. Peopel began complaining "hey, that swap cost's $1.20, and also you solely need wire and maybe a $.59 cent capacitor or two! Stop over charging us and ripping us off!". I defined that I wasn't going to do the turbo at no cost. I eventualy lowered to cost to $10, and it'll keep there, however I let myself be influenced. I've misplaced orders this manner, but it surely also assures that I filter out the individuals who don't have the money to pay (which is why I now REQUIRE money to begin the order). The costs are non negotiable. I have let folks negotiate me down to a $5 profit. That's complete rubbish!!! From now on, it's take it or go away it. I'm TOO BUSY in college to do an order for all the things and only make $10. It's absurd. I hope I don't sound to rough, but it's either increade prices and make them non negotiable, or cease doing orders. It's your selection to do the improve or not. For essentially the most half, turbo and audio system are so low-cost, they will stay free for many orders. I can also drop them a price if an order is near where it would normaly. There, I'll most likely nonetheless be a nice guy! : ) I've also been going to craft exhibits. My mother creates fabroshe eggs (I haven't any CLUE learn how to spell that word! :) and I've been driving and helping in setup. I've additionally obtained plans to incorporate neural technology into one for the mere beauty of the "flashy" LEDs. We've one huge composite egg (made from many smaller shell items) that has a "Crystal City" in it. It's lovely, but static. the extent of it is interactivity is that the central dome modifications color as you have a look at it from diferent angles. A more open one, with flashing and alternating LEDs could be very great, and as a result of a topic I read on the BEAM robotics listing, I'd wish to make it interactive! touch points to bias timing and possibly even buttons surounding it may impact the best way it seems to be! It would be interesting to see what is possible. I am curently trying to create the HTML and pictures for my Mother's internet site, which is able to function thumbnail galleries of all her carved, painted, and decorated eggs. Whn it is completed, I will publish a hyperlink within the hyperlinks section, and also have a hyperlink to it from the Index page as effectively as the navigation bars if room permits. Monday. 8/30/99: Floor Monkey working and new Solar robots. MANY tasks. Back in class!

Well, that is fascinating. The final three updates have been to the day, precisely 1 or 2 months apart. I need to update extra. after all, I might be using replace time for building! :) Anyway, Floormonkey works, and it works nice. I solely must throw in a biasing trim pot to center it is mild sensitivity. I really like this robotic. It hums, buzzes after which squeals when placed in mild, it turns itself away from gentle sources, and in sure light ranges (darkish, however not too darkish), it is eleven pairs of (asthetic) thoracipods will start to chatter against one another as the motor begins to oscilate at a frequency near the metal's resonant frequency! I'm very glad to see this very unexpected impact! Also, I got a free Solarbotics Photopopper. Excelent equipment! My second decent photo voltaic robotic, and the one one which still works. I have an image of it and my previous Solarbotics photopopper. Notice the different motors and PCBs. the PCB on the old one is darker and an older model I consider. the new one is red. The brand new one additionally makes use of the Namiki motors Solarbotics provides. it "pops" not less than once each couple seconds in sunlight. It's nice! The next solar undertaking to complete is Megavore, and restoring my other photopopper, the Old photovore (nonetheless, a photopopper although), and my SEII Solar roller that expirienced sudden vertical deceleration syndrome (In different phrases, it hit the floor!). I also intend to do some work with reversers and end Hexapod. I'm attempting to determine if visible sensors are in any respect possible for it. I would like it to see objects before it hits them, even if it is with feelers. I also need edge detectors on it. I used to be going to replace with the new pictures earlier, however my password had been modified. Things are back to regular now although. Sunday. 7/30/99: New Images! New Robots! Models coming quickly! TI-Turbo quickly!!!

Well, This must be a report! precisely 2 months!!! I havn't delayed any updates that long for fairly some time! Well. Excellent news! I have a digital digital camera! It's an Afga CL30. It is very nice. There are new photos of Many of the robots. I also have two new robots; Sunbird and Hexapod. Sunbird is a 2 diploma of freedom mild seeking head. Hexapod is a tiny 6 legged walker, It also has a very "box" like form. I havn't purchased components for the longest time. I have to get more electronics. I will even be finishing up the TI-Turbo sections, and also start the Models section by including photographs of several buildings and different fashions that I've built. Sunday. 5/30/99: Images have shrunken!!! Faster loading! PCB structure correction.

I've gone by many of the images on my web page and disovered some of them were inadvertently saved at 100% quality. Although they may look good, the high image high quality is excessive and memory consuming. Often 50% is enough, and a few photos have been capable of go to as little as 20% (if you do not thoughts some artifacts within the picture). Thumbnails and "non-important" pictures (primarily stuff from the misc section) have REALY been decreased. Robot and TI (and after i get round to it, mannequin) pictures all will remain fairly higher quality. They're the primary focus of this page, and will stay clear and outlined, nevertheless, I am nonetheless decreasing the quality enough to Try too keep photos under 10-20K. Some had been 40-50K or even more! Yikes! Along with the image measurement reductions, I additionally corrected an error on the PCB for the 6 Transistor H-Bridge. The transistors were ALL drawn backwards (cause by drawing the top of the board as a substitute of the bottom. The wiring was proper, just the orientation of the elements was improper. For those who made PCBs of the 6 Transistor H-Bridge, and have bother, you could flip the transistors round. The PCB image is now right. Tuesday. 5/24/99: Bronco Completely completed! Walking BEAUTIFLY!!!

Click, click, Click, click on, Click, click, Click, click! Such a fantastic sound!!! I finaly completed it. It took me from Superbowl Sunday to a few month ago to actualy buy the LM7805 voltage regulator, and took until at this time for me to get off my butt and set up it (reveals how busy (and lazy) I'm)! Anyway, I only had an LM340 on it, which may solely handle a hundred mA, and wouldn't run the bot for more than about 5 seconds earlier than overheating. I put in it temporarily, simply to test it. The sequence was right, but it by no means had the power to walk efficiently with that LM340. I finaly obtained off my butt and installed it (as well as a centering spring between Bronco's legs and oiling all of the joints in my robots). It really works soooooooo nice! It even seems to stroll straight (it's going to walk straight, and out of the blue change angle slightly. Maybe cause of the ground surface???). For these who have by no means seen it, it's a three motor walker with a 6 Nv branched Bicore on a homemade PCB and three freeformed six transitor H-Bridges. There are older pics of Bronco in the robotics part. I need to update them, but ATI retains delaying the XCLAIM VR 128 Tuner/Capture/Video card I ordered to use with my video camera. MacMall has the card on backorder from them! March 15, April 1, May 1, May 7, May 10, May 14, May 24, and now June 1st!!! What's up with that!!! Those dates are the dates they instructed me they might HAVE the card!!! I'm REALY getting annoyed. After all, that ain't as dangerous as the delay on the JoyPort USB. SEPTEMBER!!! I assume I can wait to use my N64 joystick on my Mac... LITERALY!!! Yikes! Tuesday. 4/20/99: Turbot, Megavore, and TI Custom Cases!

I have added the TI Custom Case section, with pictures, the Turbot and Megavore part to the robots pages, though there is primarily simply photos (More info will come sometime). I also created sooner loading, smaller thumbnails for the robots, all at a uniform 1.2 inches vast (undecided why I picked that, other than it is the first worth that turned up on the width by the auto proportion! Hehe! : ) Monday. 4/19/99: Misc part up!

The Misc section is just about full. I'll add new matters and data when they occur sooner or later. There will even be more detailed information on initiatives (measurements for Sunbird chair, schematics for initiatives). Those need to look forward to now although. Sunday. 4/18/99: Misc part up!

Well, there may be loads of stuff in the brand new Misc part. Test it out. I'll work on more later tonight. Saturday. 4/17/99: Spyder Pictures up!!! Mechanics complete!

The title explains it all! Hit the robotics section from the Navi bar (or the links table at the tip of this web page if you are using the no frames model). You'll see spyder, and drool!!! I'll soon have a brand new picture of Floor monkey, the new Megavore (9 volt 60 mA solar panel!), a complete LOAD of pics for the brand new Miscelaneous part, including my private data (it is moving), info on my poor, poor Sunbird, my computer systems, and my other projects, and there might be images of the TI-85 custom case! I'll need to obtain the whole Model page off of geocities, and that's not a priority. I stay up for not being tired, so I can keep my eyes open lengthy enough to do multiple web page. Again, the brand new templates assist. this update took lower than an hour, and that being drained, unresponsive, and eating. Hehe! ( : Why the Spyder section first? Because I've had a number of requests for the images, and it was a easy update. I'll do extra Sunday, when I'm rested. Thursday. 4/15/99: Welcome to The Richfiles: Version 5.0!!!

Hehe! I really feel like I'm anouncing that new Sci Fi channel factor! ( :

Initializing Upgrade... Welcome to The Richfiles: 5.0! New sections, New Topics, New Looks! For the primary time since the web page first cut up into a multi web page version (2.0), the links at the bottoms of the pages have been forgoten and uncared for. The no frames version of the site relies on those, and that i've by no means even had an opportunity to check it. The No Frames hyperlink would appear to disapear each different version. NO More! If hyperlinks are the heart of the web, then this web page just acquired a triple bypass and a full coronary restructuring! Hehe! ( : For the first time ever, the links at the bottom are uniform, and the paperwork actualy observe a name format! I can update simply! Add one link to a Topics web page, and then create a new web page from the common template reserved for every section. That, and the truth that by early May I