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  1. thegoodhen
    Today it's the 1st April. And when my Internet connection stopped working yesterday, it felt like the guy who came to fix it was early.
     
    It all started with occasional dropouts in the connection-Skype logged out just to recconect in lickity split. Although it wasn't too bad, it surely bugged me as any obstacle between me and ponies would.
     
    Then suddenly I started hearing voices. Not because of lack of mlp in my brain, as I soon realised, but because there was somepony behind my door. I opened up.
     
    "Hey there, we were just fixing your internet connection. It will work a charm from now on."
     
    Ever since then, my Internet hadn't been having dropouts. The bad thing is it didn't have them, as it didn't work at all.
     
    I gave it some time. At around 4 PM, I called the company.
     
    "Hey there, um, I am just wondering if you would know what is wrong with my internet connection?"
    >"I am sorry sir, but we are not aware of any complications. I am there in half an hour."
     
     
    2 hours later
     
    "Hey there, sorry for bugging you, but... could you please look at it?"
    >"Sure, I was juuuust about to leave! :3"
     
    So the guy I was calling comes to my place. He takes a look at the locked case network switches are stored in and asks innocently:
     
    "Who has the key? :3"
     
    "Well... you should have it..." I reply.
     
    "OH! Very well, let me see... Not this, not this one... Hm... I don't have it. But that doesn't matter! :3"
    "How come?" I say in confusion
    "Well, I don't have a backup switch. I couldn't fix the problem anyway."
    "Soo... what shall I do?"
    "Don't worry, I will call you tomorrow at... say 9:00?"
    *sigh* "Okee Dokie..."
     
    10:15 am
     
    I call the guy and ask him if he is going to do anything about it.
    "Sure, I am there in half an hour at max!"
     
    An hour later
     
    He comes to my place once more.
    Looks at the locked box and says innocently:
     
    "I don't have the right key."
     
    "Sooo... what now?"
     
    "I must have in car! Hold on for a minute!"
     
    Half an hour later
     
    "I found it!" says he with victorious smile, putting it in the lock.
     
    the lock resists
     
    "Hm... on the second thought..."
     
    He tempers with the lock for a while.
    Eventually, he gives up and pulls a giantflank screwdriver out of his bag.
    The lock didn't resist for much longer.
     
    "Um... excuse me, do you by any chance have a two way splitter? Because... I couldn't find a big enough network switch, so I brought two small."
     
    I, together with my mum do our best to find a splitter, turning the once cosy flat upside down in process.
    Eventually, we find it.
     
    "Nevermind... one of the switches is broken. It wouldn't work anyway."
     
    He unplugs the device and then plugs it in again. It's fixed.
     
    "Hm... it seems to work. if it doesn't, just lockpick this lock with a screwdriver and restart it. :3"
     
    So... it works. For now. :3
     
     
    Did ya miss me? :3
  2. thegoodhen
    So, I started working on my robotic platform...
    So far, it consists of one can lid, one metal bar from old cd drive, some cardboard, wheels, motor and lots of hot and super glue...
     
    I apologise for the way I talk and also for the video quality... O_o
     

  3. thegoodhen
    So, I finished the robotic undercarrige...
    Video goes here so that it shows in preview

    http://youtu.be/wpuuMhfeIMk
    Technically, I've been working on it for 3 days. However, I've been working on the current version for 2 days only, plus it's been literally like 5 minutes today, so I'm not sure if that counts... I just wanna go ahead and say it's been made in a single day, you know...
    I'll eventually add some electronics to it. But goal of this project was to only make mechanics, and I've succeeded. It is powerful enough, fast enough, reliable enough, big enough to hold electronics, simple enough for maintenance to be easy... Plus, which is slowly becoming standard among my projects, it's made out of junk. Here is the list of parts once again:
     
    Wood, presumably from old ironing board
    jar lids
    film canister lid
    various stuff from old cd drives
    rubber band
    pencils
    wire insulation
    scroll wheel from an old mouse
    ballpoint pen fills
    hot glue
    superglue
  4. thegoodhen
    Okay. So I revisited the robotic platform. Made it from scratch.
    Stuff I used:
     
    3 jar lids
    2 bars from cd drive
    2 rubber bands
    2 pencils
    1 insulation stripped from wire
    1 film canister lid
    1 strange stuff from cd drive O_o
    wood
    hot glue, superglue
     

  5. thegoodhen
    Hey guys! I figured out I might as well put this little thingy here since I have this new bloggish stuff...
     
    It's a hidden stash in table. you press a button hidden on the bottom side of the table and the stash comes up, revealing pens and pencils
     

     
    In case anypony would like to recreate it, which I doubt, here ya go...
    http://www.instructables.com/id/Electronic-automated-hidden-stash-built-into-table/
  6. thegoodhen
    I will be 100% sincere. I haven't made any progress at all.
    If anything, I have gone backwards. It isn't even working the way it has been before. It jams just to let the motor itself spin freely without any traction whatsoever the next second... -_-
    I am disappointed. I'm remaking it now...
    Here is the video, if you really wanna see it, which I doubt...

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