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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 attempted using the sonar on his quadcopter under the water. It didn't make it out of the swamp. | ||
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== {{date|Mar 13 2013}} == | == {{date|Mar 13 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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 21:38, 3 June 2013
This is an account of all incidents involving haksaw.
1 June 2013
Haksaw attempted using the sonar on his quadcopter under the water. It didn't make it out of the swamp.
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