I made two mistakes while building this model: I misplaced a few parts (that was fixed rather easily) and I misjuged the overall height of the model when setting up the camera. Hence, in the timelapse, unfortunately you can’t see the top of the model being built.
When building the second “standard” model contained in the Dynamic XL kit, I made a slight mistake with the wheel at first which resulted in steel marbles flying all over the place. Obviously I didn’t film that…
This model was relatively easy to assemble, but there’s a catch - literally: Unless all of the parts of the stair slide smoothly past each other, the push rods will start to bend, which is obviously not good.
Among the presents this year was a huge box of plastic stuff (fischertechnik Dynamic XL). Since I haven’t built something with fischertechnik for some time now, I’m going for the “standard” models from the instruction booklet first. Here’s the first model - a relatively simple chain conveyor:
This is a repost of an article originally posted to the SAP Community Network, extended by a proposal I made later in the discussion. Introduction In the last years, ABAP development has become a lot easier. The individual developer’s perspective has improved considerably through advanced tooling (ADT!), better online documentation and community support. When I started ABAP development around 2001, you still needed a dedicated machine with quite a price tag only to run the development system of our landscape at a decent speed. Today, that’s easily accomplished using a virtual machine, even on cheap off-the-shelf hardware (which is obviously not recommended for a production system, but hey – what do you think the average Hudson CI server in a small development shop runs on?). With pre-packaged demo systems, a complete ABAP development environment is in reach for most people – I just installed a system a within a few hours (including downloading 15 GB of installation files, setting up the VirtualBox server and the underlying OS, while doing other stuff alongside). If you don’t want to run the system on your own hardware, you can get a CAL account and run the systems in the cloud as well. ...