The second incid­ent after our hil­ari­ous booster explo­sion happened today: A bat­tery of NuBot star­ted to burn but was extin­guished quite quickly. This was actu­ally the more funny part of this hap­pen­ing as cloud of CO2 (I sup­pose) star­ted spread­ing across their team area.

Don Miquel de Homer just sent me some pic­tures; sorry for the cam­era shake but hey, it happened quite unex­pec­tedly (again, I sup­pose so :D).

NuBot’s Burn­ing Bat­tery Attraction

Extin­guished Bat­tery Fire

Not Fully Func­tional Any More

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The new web­site for our robotic soc­cer team is now online. The main site is based on Joomla (1.5.0-rc3 so far; yes, you won’t believe it, we’re really using a release can­did­ate of Joomla for a pro­duct­ive site!); the blog is still based on Word­Press and will stick with it.

There are still enough lay­out issues and a miss­ing login form. The new web­site now provides a more verb­ose inform­a­tion on our team and robotic soc­cer, though. Due to the lack of a loc­al­izataion plu­gin for Joomla 1.5, the main con­tent is cur­rently only avail­able in Ger­man. The blog is only avail­able in English.

Due to some miss­ing parts of System.Net.NetworkInformation, I’ve writ­ten a (very basic and libc-based) wrap­per to col­lect net­work inter­face address inform­a­tion from the sys­tem. It calls getifaddrs, walks through the ifaddrs struc­ture and cre­ates a man­aged counterpart.

NetworkInterfaceAddress.cs

Even though it may be imple­men­ted way too com­plic­ated or con­fus­ing, it might be use­ful for someone out there.

Update 2009-01-01: Well… first, the down­load didn’t work any­more. Second, there was a bug in the code :) Both short­com­ings are fixed now :)

I worry that I’m illegal as of last night:

http://www.ccc.de/updates/2007/paragraph-202c
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/90223