Loose Ends #8

 

Here is the right side (standing behind), without the space port.  It may be hard to see, but above the power well on the plateau, there are two exhaust ports for the garbage collectors.  You get a better look in this blow up.

Below are some pictures of the detail in Maintenance Control and the Cyber Cafe.

 

Ore Processor - Part THREE

 I am including a few pictures that I took during the build.  This is not done yet.  The conveyor belt in the front does not always hold the crystals securely when operating.  So there is more work to do here.  I have been leery about running it full time at shows.  If the crystals fall off, then the conveyor belt could jam.  To get them out, requires to disassemble the front part.

 

I also want to add some mechanism at the end of the back conveyor belt to intimate that there is crushing going on.

 

 

 

Updating Android

So the last six weeks or so have been spent trying to update the Play Store to Android 15.  Every August this needs to happen.  While most updates are fairly mundane, for whatever reason this one was not.  

One reason was the compiler also made major changes in how it operates with Android.  Once I figured out what was happening there, then the debugger was having issues.  Part of this appears to be related to the latest version of OneUI on my S23.  

I was also operating under the constraint that the firmware in the hardware devices that out there, cannot be changed.  And there a lot of Bluetooth 4.2 devices, which is also a constraint.  In the latest versions, there is a lot more initialization/verification in the connection.  Plus it determines what version of the firmware is present and then loads the correct User Interface, based on this and what device is connected.

I also test with four devices with varying versions of Android, Samsung Tab A7, Samsung A53, Samsung A13 and a Samsung S23.  The Android version varies from 13 to 15.  

Well now that is done, I can move on to the next thing.