Nathan Stratton's Homepage » Add new tag http://www.robotics.net Sun, 02 May 2010 14:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fun with PVC pipe http://www.robotics.net/2009/05/22/fun-with-pvc-pipe/ http://www.robotics.net/2009/05/22/fun-with-pvc-pipe/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 21:30:12 +0000 nathan http://www.robotics.net/?p=56 When I was a young I got a bag full of 3/4 PVC pipe cut to different lengths with a bunch of fittings for my birthday. It was such a cool gift! As a dad, I could not wait until I was able to do the same for my son. It only cost about $30 to get 20 feet of pipe, pack of 90^, pack of 45^, pack of Ts, 3 sprinkler heads, 2 3/4 valves, and a few other bits.

Joshua called it “Sprinkler Machine”

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]]> http://www.robotics.net/2009/05/22/fun-with-pvc-pipe/feed/ 3 Mounting a 2.5″ hard drive in slim floppy bay http://www.robotics.net/2009/05/08/mounting-a-25-hard-drive-in-slim-floppy-bay/ http://www.robotics.net/2009/05/08/mounting-a-25-hard-drive-in-slim-floppy-bay/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 00:34:42 +0000 nathan http://blog.robotics.net/?p=13 I have been looking for a way to move to removable 2.5″ boot/root disks on our servers. I am using all of the 3.5″ removable trays for storage leaving only a slim floppy bay in the case.

Supermicro 836S2-R800V

Supermicro 836S2-R800V

After much searching I found Thermaltake ST0002Z, a dual 2.5″ hot swap enclosure that mounts in a standard 3.5 inch floppy bay.

Thermaltake ST0002Z

Thermaltake ST0002Z

The two hot swap bays are actually 2 units that are bolted together making it very easy to take this apart and get yourself a nice 2.5 inch SATA bay that will fit in a slim floppy bay.

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