Week Review 10/4/2024

Updating my Hugo Theme

When I tried to build my website on FreeBSD I noticed that there were some problems with my template. I realized that it was because many of the features that were being used in my template Hugo Blog Awesome were deprecated. Thankfully it is still being updated, and I was just using an old version.

I had never updated it so I head to lean a little bit more about git. I use git submodules for my website which are optional, but I like that it comes bundled in with the git repository. I found that I only needed to run git submodule update --recursive --remote.

Helping With Shopping Cart

Tanzerul finally got the axle kit he ordered on Amazon. It came in many parts and he needed some help assembling it. The kit came with wheels, a chain, pillow block bearings, a break disk and break calipers.

This axle is not exactly quality, but it is probably good enough to do the job given that we will not be driving it at go-cart speeds.

There were no instructions with the kit but it was fairly intuitive. The only real missing piece was that it did not say how much to torque the bolts down by, so hopefully our guess was good enough.

The other issue with the axle is that it is a little bit shorter than the shopping cart is wide so it will take some engineering to get it to fit on the cart. Currently the plan is to weld some tube stock to extend the back and connect the axle behind the shopping cart.

Helping With Golf Cart

Ben has been working on getting the shopping cart mechanically ready to be have autonomous steering. He needed some help getting a bearing into the housing. It was an interference fit meaning that it needs to be pushed very aggressively into place because the hole is intentionally a little bit smaller than what needs to be placed into it.

It was in a location where we could not hammer the bearing into place because of an unfortunately placed support.

We looked around for a car jack that we could place against the support to push the bearing into place, but we could not find a jack.