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| 1/1/2008: Took some photos of the chassis set up and of my completed sound system. I was able to get a Nextar 1 Gb MP3 player at K-mart on sale for $21. So for nw my MSE is complete. The way I'm running my sound is: I took the 4 Sound files from the group and added some mousy sounding R2 files and made 3 blank tracks. (15, 30 and 60 seconds long) and made 6 copies of each. I uploaded them to the MP3 player and play them on random. The MSE seems to be alive in a sense... It just randomly starts talking. Worked out pretty neat. I've uploaded some pics on how I set it up in my Shell. | |||||||||||||
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| 12/26/07: Over the last 17 days I've been busy completing my mouse droid. And I'm done. Except for the sound. My ZUNE won't play the sound files I have and I have't been able to track down new sound files. I made the side greeblies from 6x4 inch PCB from Radio Shack. Which I believe to be the ideal size for Max's shell. And for the details I used the IC from some old RAM I had. The Greeblie Trays on top I made cut out from an old PC cover and the greeblies are just bits from fiber optic cable covers and connectors and electrical components from an old mother board I have. I was saving the old dead PC to fix it and build another PC. But I finally got my 2nd PC up and running, which is newer and I don't need 3 PCs.... Any ways, back to my MSE. I'm still working on a sound system and eventually I will be redoing the chassis of it. The RC car I got has a really sucky run time and I can't find spare batteries for it. They also take forever to charge. | |||||||||||||
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12/9/07: Over the weekend I painted my greeblie trays and got an RC car. I used the New Bright Ferrari F430. Not 100% but it worked. I'm a lil bit out of touch with the whole RC car thing. As you can tell by the video. I actually crashed it 3 times :( In time I'll become a better driver. Videos a lil dark. I'll take a better one later on. |
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12/5/07: The plastic trays were too big , so I made new ones out of metal with my new Dremel 400 XPR (I love this thing). Once I had them cut out, I couldn't bend the back piece. So I scored out a line to thin out the metal there and was able to bend them by hand. I will finish them when my greeblies come in.
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| 11/29/07: I started to assemble my greeblie trays. The lower pieces on the front that I had cut were too long and not quite straight. I will be making another set next week. | |||||||||||||
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| 11/28/07: I trimmed the edges of the MSE shell and test fitted the greeblie trays. They seem a tad big to me, even though I followed club plans. I still need to glue them. I will do that tomorow. I also had to rewash the shell to get all the plastic dust off. | |||||||||||||
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| 11/20/07: Started work on the Greeblies. I think the bumps of the material adds to it. Got the "trays" done. I will be ordering the rest of the fiddly bits this week. | |||||||||||||
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set up's a lil ghetto. But works so far. All I have to do is glue
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11/19/07:
Washed it! Nice and shiny.
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