DefCon Bots

05 04 06 00:09 by Nexea
I am in the process of working on a project for the annual DefCon Robots competition.

This year, the project revolves around creating a robot that can automatically aim and neutralize infrared LED targets.

The official website is available here: DefCon Bots Website.

Like so many of my projects, there is a lot to do.

Here is the basic design for the manual control:

Turret Manual Control



See you in Vegas!

Marketplace Preview

03 04 06 15:08 by Nexea
If you're interested to see what I am working on now, check out the BBN Marketplace.

I admit it's got a ways to go, but you can test purchasing of products as well as download a few things. I'll keep you posted.

BBN Updater Split

14:41 by Nexea
I am refactoring a lot of the BBN Updater code to work with the soon-to-be-released BBN Marketplace. Soon, when a product is added to a player's inventory, it will allow users to update manually via the website or automatically through the updater.

There is a lot of work that is still needed to be done, but I am making quite a bit of progress.

Discordi Installer Bug Fixed

14:40 by Nexea
There was a problem with the Discordi installer. It was fixed last night. Hopefully this bug will not occur again.

The server that sent the Discordi installation files was not sending the correct file requested to the BBN Updater client. As a result, when the updater program tried to verify the files, it would download gibberish and report it was corrupt (as it should). I redid a bit of the code on the server side and it works now.

New Dev Blog Created

14:01 by Nexea
I have decided to consolidate my developer posts into a unified web log system. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I am using Pivot, a open-source PHP blog.

This will hopefully make it a bit easier to inform viewers of my progress with Discordi, Blue Box Network, and any other project I am working on.