When the Load Shifter was shifting the buckets it tended to get held by the grabber from the ball dumper. When the mover finally gets freed it jumps to its final position which sometimes caused the bucket to jump over the empty bucket mover. It also caused enough strain on the long bar connecting the Initial Drive Assembly to the Load Shifter module. Over time this even caused the Technic Bush 1/2 (4265c) to slip.

I have overcame this issue by making a change to the pin on the Ball Dumper that should make sure the grabber does not sit too close the the load shifter. I my build the single long Technic Pin (6558) did not do the job good enough. The following two parts are used to replace the single Technic Pin

After reviewing all of the build instructions again I found my timing issues and have been able to resolve them, yay!!

Initial Drive Assembly

In the beginning of this year I became aware about something called a Great Ball Contraption, GBC for short. Basically it is a ‘machine’ that has the sole task of transporting balls from one module to the other. When I saw the video from the one that was built by Akiyuki, I just had to built it.

I have been using Blot.im as my blogging service for almost a month now and I am extremely satisfied with the service itself and even more so with the support giving by David Merfield via email and twitter.

This was a very welcome change after having used scriptogr.am for the last 3 years.

I was not completely satisfied with the way the Archives looked within the design template I was using.

The script used to update the Tag Cloud has a couple of issues.

1. Tags are not counted correctly when the Markdown file has been saved using DOS/Windows style line endings
2. All Markdown files are included even if a file contains a scheduled post

Recently I updated the layout for my blog to include some buttons at the end of each post so readers can easily share it to some social platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Google+). The service I had selected for this was ShareThis.

Lately the Mac Mini was getting somewhat slow again. Looking at the Activity Monitor showed the process mds to take up 90-100% CPU for one of its cores. The mds process is one of the processes related to the Spotlight feature of OSX.

Activity Monitor - High CPU usage