See log entry #2 here. I am making progress on the straight-line ball lifting mechanism. I’ve already cut and welded the frame rails and the motor mount is already been drilled and is ready for use. The frame rails are built from 1/8″ mild steel “bars” that I…
Continue readingThis post turned out to be wrong. The email subscribers stuff is not working at all. There is a problem with my WordPress installation and publishing always fails the first time I do it for a new post. A second try at publishing works fine. It may be…
Continue readingI had a running error, or something like that, in the Linkage program. I had targeted 30 frames per second for animations and I used a 33 millisecond target time for each frame. If a frame took less than 33 milliseconds to compute and draw, I would add…
Continue readingI have a specification at work that says my software needs to see a URL like this: https://blog.rectorsquid.com/derf?test={id}&test2={data} and then open the URL as if it were something like this: https://blog.rectorsquid.com/derf?test=12345&test2=hellothere I first wrote some code that would split the input using the open curly brace as a…
Continue readingI had to write code to show a variable-sized set of images in a view. Each mage fades in then shows for another 5 seconds before the next image fades in. I found some code at Stack Overflow that was partially complete and hinted at a way to…
Continue readingWindows 11 doesn’t let us place the taskbar on the side of the screen. Let’s count how much vertical space is taken up by things that are not the document that we are editing: title bar, tool bar, status bar, scroll bar, task bar, the measurement bar in…
Continue readingAnno 1800 is a board game designed by Martin Wallace (Brass, Rocketmen). It is a medium to heavy game that takes at least two hours to play. I played it for the first time a few days ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Anno 1800 is a crafting game…
Continue readingI exchanged emails with a nice guy who was interested in the Linkage program. He had some useful feedback and also some suggestions and comments about an issue I had with triads. A triad, as I use the term, is a link with at least three link connections…
Continue readingI am not a mechanical engineer but one thing I understand is ambiguity in linkages. It may be because I have a brain that is good at analyzing mechanical connections or because so many people send me mechanisms asking “why doesn’t this work?” Either way, it’s fairly easy…
Continue readingI’ve been torn on changing the test software from using splines as a sort of decoration on links into actual links themselves. There is no reason to drop in a spline as a drawing element then add a slider to it to turn it into a cam when…
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