TheKSmith (About That…) Hobbies, Life & Random Goodies

17Dec/111

Death Burro part 6: into the (corporate) wild…

DeathBurro was released as 1.0.0.0 beta yesterday!

beta = coded till the last minute and didn't test

i took donkey into Aimee’s work during her department’s Christmas lunch. we had a little trouble getting on the network, all were either secured with EAP-TLS or browser login & terms-acceptance pages. there are ways to make this work, and so we’ll get it going eventually.…

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20Nov/110

Death Burro part 5: where the hell is donkey?

santa's workshop

donkeys cause trouble. they aren’t called asses for no reason.

quite a while back donkey started actin real funny like. turning off randomly, locking up the screen, not coming on at all on the first try. eventually, even when he would spring to life, the touchscreen input was upside down (making it nearly impossible to just navigate the options screens to reset him)……

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16Jun/110

Death Burro part 4: them’s tha guts

this post will serve as the hardware manual for Death Burro for those that will own him soon, so they can continue where i leave off on the next version!

here was donkey yesterday, guts masked ready for a final coat of flat black to cover some scratches and what not.…

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6Jun/110

Death Burro part 3: before giving life…

so i promised next time we’d be stuffing the donkey, but i had to take a step back for a last few things. i beat him up pretty bad, but he’s wearing makeup to cover the cuts and bruises, so no-one has to know!

i received a request from the lead dev where donkey will end up that he be painted flat black.…

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27May/110

Death Burro part 2: deconstructing donkey

at first, i approached the donkey from behind….

i already had some LED strips that i was planning to use in the donkey. my thought was that if i put them inside of him, light would pour from all the little welding holes. i figured i could just open him from an existing seam on the bottom, shove everything inside, drill a hole for a power port and be done.…

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20May/110

Death Burro, an embedded programming & hardware interface experiment

i call him Death Burro

make the donkey light-up when someone breaks the build” – that’s how it all started….

 

backstory

so my GF Aimee is a Software QA – at her work they have an internal application named Death Burrito which has a donkey logo (that’s it’s own story). so i guess this actually started when someone bought one of those little road-side welded metal-art sculptures of a donkey in for the team.…

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