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This is an account of all incidents involving [[haksaw]]. | This is an account of all incidents involving [[haksaw]]. | ||
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| + | Haksaw apparently did not learn from previous encounters with forcibly moving servos/motors, and manually moved a servo wired in to a 5v rail on a breadboard power adapter. The generated current put too much voltage backwards through the regulator and blew it. | ||
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| + | '''Total Damages:''' ~$3 | ||
== {{date|Dec 17 2012}} == | == {{date|Dec 17 2012}} == | ||
Revision as of 21:27, 13 March 2013
This is an account of all incidents involving haksaw.
13 March 2013
Haksaw apparently did not learn from previous encounters with forcibly moving servos/motors, and manually moved a servo wired in to a 5v rail on a breadboard power adapter. The generated current put too much voltage backwards through the regulator and blew it.
Total Damages: ~$3
17 December 2012
Haksaw peddled too hard on the generator bike built by Remowylliams, causing the magnets to come off the fly wheel and attach themselves to one of the iron cores in the transformer coil. This broke one of the magnets, and a few pieces of plastic on the bike itself.
Total Damages: ~$25
8 December 2012
Haksaw got married.
Total Damages: ~lifetime of financial ruin
4 December 2012
Dan9186 handed Haksaw a printed piece of a MendelMax at which point Haksaw broke it within 5 seconds of it being in his hands.
Total Damages: ~$0.10
17 March 2012
A Pololu stepper driver caught fire during an early prototyping session of the DoodleBot. A bright warm flame was said to be seen from outside the shop. The stepper driver was declared a total loss with the accompanying breadboard suffering scorching and slight melting.
Two other casualties were suffered that day, resulting in three dead Pololus.
Total Damages: ~$38.00