Sorry for the OT post...feel free to hit delete now, if desired. Well, it's a lazy Sunday afternoon, and I came into the office to do a bit of soldering work on some of my old BattleBot motor controllers. Mike will probably remember these...they're from "Twister", and one is the controller I blew up by dropping a screw onto it about an hour before my first match.
Anyway, what ever becomes of old BattleBots that have outlived their prime? Well, around here, the motors (two heavy-duty industrial Baldor DC Servo motors) and controllers become the guts of a parade float :-) In case you haven't heard, this July 4th is the first annual wIndepedance day (as declared by the Desktop Linux folks: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3432021257.html). In honor of this watershead event, I am working on a parade float for my neighborhood 4th of July parade, which will feature "Tux" sitting on a 4' x 5' wooden platform (think "desktop"), and probably carrying an american flag (or maybe with an "Uncle Sam" type hat), with me sitting in Tux's belly, driving. Anyway, right now, there are just a bunch of pieces strewn out on my garage floor, but as things get more interesting, I'll take some photos and post them online. I'll probably even send some in for the desktoplinux.com essay contest (they say a picture's worth a thousand words :-) Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) P.S. Yes, I do live in a neighborhood that still has picnics, parades, progressive dinners, and even our own mayor! (Potwin Place, in Topeka, KS, if you're really curious...a victorian neighborhood developed in the late 1800's) ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
