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6:25 pm
February 12, 2008
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robotman
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Hi there everybody!
It's me. Another straggler from AAR (or DAAR, as I affectionately called it one time).
Hello ash. Hello Kym. Looks like a nice site you guys have got here. (I'm not sure though who is actually maintaining/moderating the site so correct me if I've credited someone wrongly!) Hopefully I'll contribute something useful for everyone.
And it looks like there's some other weary bodies here from AAR too. Hi Bones. Hi Dingo. And has anybody seen Don? Can you guess who I am? Sure you can! Gosh, I hope you don't say that you don't really care… Man, that'd be a real bummer!
My background: Primarily pokie machine programming (console games in a previous life), and hobby digital electronics, but looking forward to losing [even] more hair coming to grips with analog. And I know I will no doubt enjoy light (aluminium) metal working in the future too.
Cheers for now
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1:27 am
February 13, 2008
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ash
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Hey mate, glad to have you on board! 
The current split seems to be *mostly* Kym on fresh content and interesting projects and me on… site admin and attempting to build every awesome thing I see in the 5 mins I have free for dev every night
My main issue at the moment, if you can call it that, is that robotics has so much potential at the moment that I am really finding it hard to focus on any one aspect! Should I work on some face detection/recognition software? Should I be building a little bot for mapping research? Should I just be playing video games instead? (fight the urge )
Anyway, I'll stop whinging now Enjoy the site and don't forget to let me know if you have any ideas for improvement!
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4:29 am
February 24, 2008
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Hi Rod,
How's things? I take it it's you Rod.
Cheers
Bones
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11:29 pm
May 27, 2008
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Gillerire
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I'm just going to jump on the back of this thread since robotman suggested I come join you guys over here.
I have been using the DAAR forum a little to get some advise on 433MHz transmitters and receivers. I'm hoping to build a simple wheeled robot base that I can add to and experiment on while learning about different things. If I have the time and motivation I'll try to add some pics/plans or maybe start a blog.
Nice to meet you all.
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3:54 am
May 31, 2008
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ash
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Welcome to the site Gillerire
Feel free to drop any questions about anything in the forums or in comments. I'm sure one of us here will be able to help you (or at least point you in the right direction)!
ash
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6:46 pm
October 28, 2008
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robotman
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said:
Hi Rod,
How’s things? I take it it’s you Rod.
Cheers
Bones
Hi Bones.
Yep it's me, Rod. Sorry for the late reply! To be honest I don't think your post ever showed up in the old Drupal version of the forum – I would have replied otherwise.
Talking about forums, this new WordPress one sucks too, or is just me and the layout seems all strange and why can't I mark all topics as read considering that I've read them all before while under Drupal? And … and … and … Well, I think it's going to take some getting used too. Sorry Ash. I know you put a lot of work into the migration and I'm happy you are doing this for us so please don't get upset. Anyways, how does the site itself feel to *you*?
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1:46 am
October 30, 2008
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ash
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Hey Rod
Well to be honest its in a bit of a mess at the moment! My main issue was getting a single log-in to work with the blogs and the forums. In hindsight it may have been a better idea to just go with PHPBB or something and have the project/blogs as a separate thing. Argh, hard to know sometimes.
I am still working on it slowly but yeah I am not really happy with the forum software, it was just the best integrated I could find.
…Also everyone has disappeared somewhere all of a sudden
Anyway what do you reckon about switching to a pure forum based implementation? I really want to give everyone the capability to blog about their projects etc. but not to the detriment of the rest of the site.
I look forward to hearing more feedback from you guys. In the meantime I'll continue posting stuff and trying to find some sort of solution.
AUSROBOTICS IS NOT DEAD!
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5:40 pm
October 30, 2008
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robotman
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Hi Ash
Thanks for not being offended by opinion of the new site!. I'm not sure why everybody might have disappeared but it might be because of the confusing navigation that's needed to get around here!
I think that having PHPBB will be a good thing. A pure forum implementation with a forum section set aside for blogs called "Blogs" with sub-forums titled under the name of members could be a good solution. I guess you would need to create the sub-forum titles and then assign the appropriate member priviledges such as Moderator etc. so they can control their own "blog" (sub-forum) and any replies that are posted. (But of course the member should ask for a blog first – there's no point in creating hundreds of unused blogs!) That should work, shouldn't it?
eg:
Blogs >> Ash >> The Horrors of Drupal
Blogs >> Ash >> More Horrors of Wordpress
Blogs >> Kym >> Bioloid
Blogs >> Kym >> Rampant Robots Terrorizing the Neighbourhood At Night
Blogs >> Rod >> My Project
Blogs >> Rod >> My Other Project
Blogs >> Rod >> My Ramblings
etc.
I could, for example, create as many threads of topics as I wanted, each related to a particular interest of mine. It might be a better blog solution than using a dedicated blog engine. Text, pictures, links, replies, searching, sorted by date. It's all there in the forum, just like in a blog page, and without any new things to learn. It seems a simple solution that won't look too dumb-bum, will it?
Thanks
Rod
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10:04 pm
October 31, 2008
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horar
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I agree that a bulletin board based solution would be much better generally than trying to integrate blogging software. So long as you can tag certain messages as blog entries and then get a date/time sorted list of those, you are only a click or two away from using a BBS as a blog anyway.
For what it's worth, I'm still working on some new software that I hope will solve all these problems. There is a sandpit version online at http://robots.infurl.net which has registration and posting functionality. Still got lots of work to do implementing searching and tags and making it look pretty.
Cheers,
Andrew
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6:23 am
November 3, 2008
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ash
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Thanks for the replies and advice guys, haha it's hard to notice when someone replies!!! :\
Yeah, I am used to blogging rather than forums but it seems that most people are used to forums. It's just personal preferences though really. I'm cool with switching to forums only if everyone is used to that. Basically all I want is a 'Projects' system to easily collate the progress of peoples projects together in one place.
I might have another look at PHPBB this weekend and see how hard it would be to get it integrated and the users migrated.
Blogs >> Ash >> How to build a robotics community extremely slowly by excessive web-development
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