Post:Monitor Gantry Mk. 2

From Fozzee.net

It's been a crazy week, and the quality of my web site updates shows it. This week, I've taken two characters in AO to level 100 (giving me 3 total characters above that point). I've also been working on the new incarnation of my monitor gantry. This one is entirely made of angle iron and will be much stronger and more compact. Basically, the arced frame is made of 1.5" angle (three segments) and the monitor brackets hang on larger chunks of angle. The brackets will be clamped to the gantry in a way I haven't quite figured out yet. Lots of precision drilling involved, and I discovered that something in my clamping setup wasn't quite square, as the prototype bracket sits just a tiny bit out of square with it's associated pan-tilt module. Either way, I can probably adjust that out when I clamp the bracket to the rail.

Also this week, I finished my garage door monitoring system. Basically, it flashes a light upstairs if the garage door is open. Yes, it's mundane; it's taken too long and it's excessively complex, but I feel that it's mostly "done right" in how it's looping system works (think like an alarm system)... It should be very reliable.