Archives for January, 2009

We’re knocking off work for the day. We’ve made a significant amount of progress on the theme, which is looking pretty excellent. It’s not quite ready to go live yet, so we’re reverting back to the normal one, but it’s almost there. I think we will be able to finish it entirely in one more [...]

Things are moving along as far as themes go. A semblance to our old site is emerging. There are plenty of links that we are currently lacking, but most of the basics are there. Right now we are trying to figure out the galleries.

We’re doing some work on the WordPress theme. We’ve got the basic template structure created, and we are working on populating it with some skeleton content as we start to do the layout. This is extremely exciting.

We’ve decided to move the entire site to WordPress. This requires redesigning everything from the ground up. We’re in the process of moving the content we put up last night to some WordPress pages. The next step will be building our own template from scratch. I haven’t done this before, although I’ve done a lot [...]

Last night Harpo and I spent some time on adding content to our site.  We have a steady but slight stream of traffic, which makes sense; we are unique, but do not really have that much showy stuff to show for it on the web right now.  As we got going, developing our theme throwing [...]

Well, we’ve explored our options. But they don’t work. Both Will and I devised separate systems for transferring the torque from the “gears” (which we are now referring to as the “quote-gears”) to the differential. Both systems were hampered and ultimately made useless by the actual geometry of the pieces. Axles stick out and interfere [...]

Several major redesigns later, we’re still having problems. Although the “gears” we installed are pretty much the burliest thing ever, the gears between them and the differentials are not. On the side of the car that has an extra gear (so that the two pairs of wheels turn in the proper direction), the whole gear [...]

We’re putting the car back together, slowly but surely. We’ve just completed one major redesign of the central chassis frame, and are working on another. It is rather agonizing, but we’re hopeful that the car will be in much better shape after we’re done.