TCRG July '01 Meeting Pics

July '01 Meeting Pics

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Photos courtesy of Jeff Sampson
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Dan Larson brought his PC board making equipment. This is a positive photo-resist process from Injectorall, Inc. http://www.injectorall.com The precoated PC boards are available through DigiKey.	Dan made this motion control board for his FRED robot using a laser transparency and Injectorall positive photo resist. The schematic entry & PCB layout were done with Eagle 4.03.	A 'bug' that Brianna Larson made from a Radio Shack kit.	The bug attacking the camera with it's chompers going.
Dan Larson brought this X10 camera and LCD TV.	You can see that it works pretty good.	Kris Schneider was selling these embedded laptop things.	Brynn Rogers was giving away a big box of PC type motherboards.
Some of the people. (I can never get everyone in the same shot)	Rand Whillock gave a slide show presentation of his trip to Robot Wars in London.	People watching Rand's presentation.	Rand brought two models of the 'House Robots' from Robot Wars.

After the meeting a group of us got a personal tour from Bruce Shapiro.
www.taomc.com
Bruce creates high tech gadgets and artwork. He has various creations at the Science Museum.
Everything below is his except for the lawnmower. (Maybe that belongs to him also?)

(Turns out he did the big "tubes" display in the main lobby also.)

The sand sculpture.
Another view of the sand
dunes.
The sand sculpture has a
rotary table and a linear
actuator.
The sand sculpture uses a
magnet to drag a steel ball
through the sand on top of
the canvas sheet.

There were two robot lawn
mowers in the class room.
These were about twice the
size of the I-Mow lawnmowers.
A 3-axis mill that Bruce uses.
Two relief sculptures. These
were actaully done on a
bigger mill.
A collection of stepper
motors and drivers.

This looks like a rotary
plotter or cutter.
Some kind of mad scientist
hat. (These have probably
been outlawed in most of the
civilized world.)
A collection of Bruce's
artwork.

This was some kind of
automated dispenser for
sediment experiments.
Patterns cut into a round
tube.

And in case you wonder where
all this took place, we were
right here.

The sand sculpture.	Another view of the sand dunes.	The sand sculpture has a rotary table and a linear actuator.	The sand sculpture uses a magnet to drag a steel ball through the sand on top of the canvas sheet.
There were two robot lawn mowers in the class room. These were about twice the size of the I-Mow lawnmowers.	A 3-axis mill that Bruce uses.	Two relief sculptures. These were actaully done on a bigger mill.	A collection of stepper motors and drivers.
This looks like a rotary plotter or cutter.	Some kind of mad scientist hat. (These have probably been outlawed in most of the civilized world.)	A collection of Bruce's artwork.