Re: Robostix issues

Albert wrote:

> Has the website that published your robot design recovered from its 
> slashdotting yet?

We made it!  For those interested: we were posted at 10PM EST and 
stayed in the front page until 1PM the next day; thereafter we stayed 
on the "Hardware" page until the next day after that.  Most of the 
slashdot effect occurred prior to 11AM.  This is the low-tide period 
for Slashdot, so our server got somewhere around 60,000-80,000 unique 
visitors and around 300,000 hits.  Had we been posted at, say, 3PM EST, 
I'd guess we would have been hit by three times that many.

As to the robostix: there are some physical design flaws in the first 
revision, the biggest being the inability to access the MMC slot with a 
standard-sized MMC card (which is what we have in all our gumstix!)  As 
to the tight fit: this definitely needs to be fixed, but it's easily 
enough done: Gumstix just needs to widen the board by 2mm on either 
side of where the gumstix fits in.  Last, though Brian didn't mention 
it, our robostix is significantly bowed.  It's not flat.  I wonder 
what's causing that.

Sean



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