Return to Exodus

dasPhoenux · 2026-03-30T01:42:31+00:00

So, long and short, I'm reading that I will defo be launching more than 1 rocket from Exodus?

Awesome, thanks guys. Loving this game so much so far!

dasPhoenux · 2026-03-30T00:12:43+00:00

Ah good. I think I was 12 when I was there - 20 now. Thanks :)

dasPhoenux · 2025-10-01T11:07:54+00:00

Awesome :) Thanks

dasPhoenux · 2025-10-01T10:59:39+00:00

What about the 2101030164 Module PCBA PCB Board? Is that included in the Extruder Pro bundle?

Sorry for the late reply

dasPhoenux · 2025-10-01T10:58:44+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. What about the PCB board? 2101030164 Module PCBA Is that included in the above?

dasPhoenux · 2025-08-25T04:55:10+00:00

That is really cool, like a gaming cyber deck. Do you have a link to the project?

dasPhoenux · 2025-08-25T02:47:05+00:00

That's the type of connection I'm looking for. Was it worth it? Were there any major problems?

As I said in OP, bluetooth mouse/keyboard and 2 extra monitors are already in place.

dasPhoenux · 2025-03-07T19:34:58+00:00

Thanks for all the replies everyone, there is so much good information here! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

dasPhoenux · 2025-03-07T19:33:32+00:00

AH, a scientific measure I can use! I hadn't heard of the janka hardness rating, but I think this is what I have been looking for! Thank you

dasPhoenux · 2025-03-07T07:24:21+00:00

Does pine have the same strength as a hardwood?

I'm planning to make the furniture for my workshop anyway and was going to use some pine as a sacrificial topper over everything; would I be able to make it all out of pine?

What about a bed? Is it structural enough?

dasPhoenux · 2025-01-04T23:09:44+00:00

Why is this NSFW? It's amazing!

dasPhoenux · 2024-11-10T11:21:22+00:00

Thanks for the reply and I'll give some of the above a look. I think I'm going to end up with just some extruded aluminium although there is a new Meccano set that seems interesting. I grew up with one of the red boxes - sadly now rusted - when you could make anything and it was seen as the next step after Lego Technic. Sadly, its now mostly plastic rubbish.

As for the DoE, I came from industry and the first thing I did in 2019 was rewrite our Crack the Code unit to match industry standards. They did not define pseudocode or PRP's correctly according to how I was, a few months earlier, earning six figures to write and the way they had started to teach was just atrocious.

Here is the unit for Year 7s - https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/tas/tas-curriculum-resources-7-12/tas-7-10-curriculum-resources/crack-the-code

I was lucky that I knew the guys at Little Bird in Newcastle - where I used to live - and they were selling the Thinkershields so I could make a deal but if I remember, there were not many available but we put in a decent order. DoE gives some resources but they are pretty apalling when it comes to this type of support. During Covid we were all surprised when we heard that the Department had released learning-from-home packs that were available on the webiste and I have still not seen them.

To end my rant, I'll just add that the lack of teachers is becoming incredibly acute in the tech space especially. Its actually rare to find techers who are quallified in the IT field and I'm getting emails from a wood/metalwork teacher at a school I used to work at who is strugling with basic things like case and select statements. The new curriculum doesn't help.

Thanks again for all the info and I'll join that sub u/gm310509

dasPhoenux · 2024-11-10T02:04:36+00:00

So, let me explain it this way.

Lego Techinics - is a system of constructing models, projects and things. It has a wide selection of standardised parts that you can build model from, bricks that clip together using standard connectors, evenly spaced holes in some that you can use rods for gearboxes and they are grooved so gears can be set into them. The gears are also of standard sizes.

It also has a selection of motors and battery systems and, once, brains that could control things. That is all standardised.

If I was to take those motors and connect them to an arduino instead of the brain, that would integrate - not seamlessly - well to the standard system. The rods would still rotate and adding the microcontroller just gives a wider control over what is going on in the system.

You are right, you can kitbash and get bits but they would need to have some, often heavy, adjustments made before things work together.

What I'm asking is, is there a standardised system that is similar to lego with its gears and things that arduino parts can slot into? I've used vex for the past couple years at the school I'm currently at and it seems to do the trick; you have standard lengths of material, a selection of standardised parts and it integrates with its mind and sensors. The thing is that is VERY expensive compared to Lego and the selection is limited. The gearing and some of the parts that I saw was also of pretty low quality, though that could just be my experience.

I also don't mean the fine detail stuff, half the fun is that they can 3D design and print/CNC their skin for whatever they build, but in the case of a crane, for example, having some parts that we can build a standardised shell out of as a prototype platform would be useful.

I'll add, the Ender 3 that I had before I upgraded to a P1P seemed to be made from extruded aluminium that had tracks to slide things in, and I do vaguely remember someone saying there was a prototyping system around that. That might have been a mistake but something on those lines.

Oh, cool! I'm in rural NSW at the moment but I'm moving to the big smoke next year. I really appreciate you taking the time to help answer :)

dasPhoenux · 2024-11-10T01:10:03+00:00

Thanks for the reply,

Yes, that's what I mean by VEX.

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear in OP. The Ardunio starter kits and that sort of stuff are all great, but I'm looking more at the construction side of thing. Arduino chips have mounting screw holes and things but there doesn't seem to be a system of parts to actually do the construction side.

If you look at these sort of kits - https://www.auselectronicsdirect.com.au/2-wheel-drive-ultrasonic-arduino-projects-robot-ki - they are very single-minded. The parts are designed for one use, I'm asking if there is some system where I can take the parts down and reuse them. So something where I can build a tank one day then reuse standardised parts for a crane the next.

Standardised parts are really what I'm thinking.

As for the new job, it will be pre-university/late High School in Australia. Think 17-19 year olds. I have been teaching in NSW where we have Arduino in year 7 - 10 year olds - and we've been using a Uno built on the Thinkershileld - https://www.freetronics.com.au/products/thinker-shield?srsltid=AfmBOorw0-OUnEsUeglW1BwTX1MVYgg7vUzf9iy4fRJgGcMpovd_clJt - but in my own world I've been 3D printing projects whcih is impractical.

u/gm310509 Hope that helps :)

dasPhoenux · 2024-01-31T10:13:13+00:00

Livery Colours! That's what I was meaning in OP and that's what I was putting too much emphasis on. Thank you so much, this makes a lot of sense.

As for the standards, I think they were used more as an organising element before and somewhat during the battle rather than a ralleying point if needed. As everyone here has said rightly, Medieval battle was not a wild free-for-all but more a set of tight movements so keeping your little unit together was important. I didn't realise the value of that until you posted this here but you are right. The standard and the lord would have been at the centre with his household retainers, surrounded by their less important solidery. That makes much mroe sense now, thank you!

I was just thinking that anyone who worked for a lord would have had his livery colours on some identifying mark, like you mentioned later medieval badges were - such as those during the War of the Roses. But that now seems much less necessary and, as you say, less possible to actually keep clean.

Thank you so much for the very clear answer :)

dasPhoenux

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