Now if only I could say the same for the website!

The switch to PHP 7.3 has caused me a lot of grief on the main site, the forum was fine. So although I put the site back "on the air" yesterday it isn't really finished yet. I cloned it, so I'll experiment with the clone and then apply the changes to the production site afterward.

What exactly is being changed on the website? Nothing seems different.

real life has temporarily interrupted my studies

Pretty well the story of my life.

I just got sidetracked from the work I'm doing on the website because my Mom dropped her pedometer and the display is going nuts. I tore it apart but unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it, so I'll "fix" it by ordering another one on Amazon.

And all the "real life" going on next door has made it just about impossible to make ANY video anymore - Regular videos, DB1 videos, Patreon videos or even the "explainer" videos I'm creating for this forum. 

Yesterday I filmed for nearly four hours, and the result is about 6 minutes of actual video!  I had a few flubs, I always do, but most of my time was spent refilming interrupted takes.  So my soundproofing project has now become my top priority!

Real Life really stinks sometimes!

Maybe I should have mentioned my car is smaller than DB1... Link to it's topic

Anyway, it's working again. Still some unexpected behaviour of my right motors though. Sometimes they don't seem to work and after connecting them to 12V and GND they immediately spin and (often) start listening to the motor driver (Pololu Dual VNH5019 Motor Driver Shield) again. Likely something I should look into soon.

As a response to a British Government road safety campaign (speed kills), Jeremy Clarkson (ex Top Gear) said: "Speed doesn't kill,  it is a sudden and unexpected deceleration to zero that kills"!

Find out how to crash

I think we've got crashing figured out pretty well... all it takes is getting too close to the ground 

I really want to get everything of my car repaired and fixed today, so I can start working on it making it drive itself around the room.

I hope you have a big living room

Posted by: @dronebot-workshop

had a long period of absence from the forum in October and November

We've all missed you !

Merry Christmas !

Your absence has forced me to try to learn ROS on my own rather than just stealing the code from you. Turns out it's both harder and easier than I thought

I'm sharing what i have, but real life has temporarily interrupted my studies 

The aliens flew thousands of light-years across the galaxy looking for a place to crash land and still stay alive to claim the insurance money!  

You would think space aliens would have better things to do than insurance fraud

Can you imagine the monthly payments for the 2nd death star ?

Ununpentium" Latin one, one five

Interesting. I thought that name was a joke

Check the ufo pages instead of the official docs to see the cool stuff

As an aside... we've all seen ufos. 

Think about the name and look up in the sky

It's  flying, and you don't know what it is, so, that automatically makes anything that flies that you cant identify, a ufo

As another aside, the chances of space aliens landing on the white house lawn and officially announcing themselves is 50/50... either they will or they won't 

Posted by: @twobits

AWOL

I'll never understand why humans insist on reverse engineering crashed UFO's

I mean, they crashed

How good can they be ?

There is a simple explanation. The aliens flew thousands of light-years across the galaxy looking for a place to crash land and still stay alive to claim the insurance money! ? ? ?