Well, so whats been going on with me lately?

Well, mainly the usual eat, sleep, work, repeat cycle, but with some fun bits in between.

GPH (the makers of the GP2x) have dumped the company who was making the firmware for the 2x, who had been holding back progress on all fronts, and hired their own coders! This, coupled with their acceptance of the homebrew & development communities is great, and they're already working on replacing some of the worse bits of the gp2x code with new ideas :D

So, last week a thread was posted on gp32x, the biggest English-speaking gp2x forum, with a call to design a new interface for the gp2x's main menu, after reading through the thread, i took a couple of the better ideas, and gave them a bit of photoshop flair!

Other things... well, i've started work on a new robot, nicknamed spybot for now, until i can think of a better name! Its a tracked robot, with a servo-adjusted wireless camera, and is still very much in the design / prototyping stage!

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I saw this while perusing slashdot tonight, its basically a fully functional transforming robot!

Which all in all, is pretty damn awesome!

I FINALLY got some time to work on Rex again, after building parts of the motor modules oh so many months ago... without further ado, here are the pictures:

The bits for one of the wheel mountings

The concept on how the mounting should look

Cut a hole with my holesaw... cost £10 for a set of 6 about a year ago, best buy ever!

3 screws later, and the motor / gearbox / wheel assembly is attached to the motor mount base

Add some shelf brackets (they're cheap, strong and right angled, perfect really!) and one motor mount is completed!

The same thing, from a different angle

Repeat again, and we have two! this is shown on top of the base chassis i built 5 months ago (speedy project i know)

So we're one step closer to the completion of the chassis! next up, attaching the batteries!

Some pictures of where i am at the moment with Wrecs, my robux robot :)

The bits of Wrecs i''ve currently built

The wheel mountings, with the motors attached

A closeup of the wheel mounting brackets

What Wrecs will look like with the wheels fitted

Next on the plan is getting hold of some M8 threaded rod to attach the motors to the wheels, down the central axis, and working out some kind of motor mounting to attach the motors to the base plate of the chassis.