Dr. Jason W. Ellis' Blog on Science Fiction, Research, Pedagogy, Computers, and LEGO
As you can see in the picture above, I finally received my assortment of gears and rods from ebay seller specialty_bricks. Through no fault of his own, it looked like I wasn’t going to receive my gears at all. The seller shipped the gears in a nice polybag envelope with First Class Parcel and Delivery …
Continue reading “Differential Gears for Lego Robot Fred Arrived!”
iOS 4 installed without a hitch. R2-D2 is proudly displayed as my new wallpaper underneath my home screen apps. I had already backed up my iPhone with iTunes 9.2, so the update process took about 10 minutes, which it did seamlessly while I was doing some writing in Pages. I will play with the phone …
Continue reading “iOS 4 Installed on my iPhone 3GS Without a Hitch”
I left iTunes downloading iOS 4 while I was running errands. Now, it is installing. Other updates: Waiting on a very important fax. Dropped off book for Dawn at the post office. Talked to Dave for a minute outside SFH–he’s out of the hospital and taking it easy.
I have been interested in Lego’s Mindstorms robotics systems: RCX, NXT, and NXT 2.0, but I have been wary of investing the $200-300 in the base system without knowing if I could build a robot that would be interesting to me. Brick sorters, Rubix cube solvers, printers, etc. are interesting, but I would like to …
Continue reading “Lego Power Functions and Building a Remote Controlled Robot”
I replied to a listing on Craigslist in the Akron/Canton area for a garage floor covered in Legos. On the day before my last PhD exam on Philip K. Dick, I drove down to North Canton to take a look Rick’s collection. Rick told me that he was getting out of the Lego selling business, …
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