May '03 Meeting Pics

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Photos courtesy of Jeff Sampson
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We started out in the lobby.	Bill Arden brought RackBot and Jeff Sampson brought the new Research 3 robot.	Bob Proctor brought his robot he is working on.	Top view of Bob's robot. It has a ring of red and green LEDs.
Front view of Bob's robot.	Bill Arden found this at Dexis. It is a ring of stepper motors. Each motor has a magnet attached.	Bill had his wood plaques he cut on his laser cutter.	Alan Kilian brought his Trippy robot. He also brought Bruce Shapiro's Angie robot.
We moved downstairs to Bruce Shapiro's lab.	Rob Turner showed us his prototype leg for his Predecessor robot.	Here is the leg in normal position.	Side view of the Predecessor leg.
Rob shows the leg extended.	The Predecessor leg will use these window motors from cars.	Rob Turner has made these modular components for his Predecessor robot.	They snap together like this.
Side view of stack.	Another view.	Jeff Sampson's Research 3 robot.	Terry Schumacher brought his robot. This is a prototype for a lawn mower robot.
Another view of Terry's robot. You can see the MiniRoboMind board.	Duane Anderson brought a video tape about robots. We watched it on Bill Arden's RackBot robot.	Bruce Shapiro has a new laser project he is building for the Science Museum.	Closeup view.
The laser looks like this in the dark.	Someone brought this OWI robot arm.	A girl is showing us how the arm works.	Dennis Dierks trying to stack objects.
Brian Schmalz made this new Lego robot.	Brian's robot on the floor. [I should have gotten a better picture.]	Brian Schmalz brought this PICkit 1 kit.	Someone had this line follower.
The excitement was too much for Bill Arden.	Bob Proctor made this motor controller board. It has an Atmel CPU and a MOSFET h-bridge.	The impromtu base was constructed for Bob's motor driver board.	Alan Kilian is checking the ultrasonic frequency of a range finder that Peter Ellison brought.
Peter Ellison brought his Fire Fighting robot.	No, Look this way...	Richard Piotter is explaing his BEAM robots.	One of Richard's walkers.
Richard explaing his yellow walking robot.	Closeup of Richard's yellow walking robot.	At Applebee's Bruce showed us a pnuematic valve assembly he got at Dexis.	Some of Bruce's 1000 motors he bought on eBay.
The contract (on a napkin) between Rob Turner and Bruce Shapiro. If Rob can get his RoboCities to work, Bruce will find a place to display it in the Science Museum.	Some napkin designs.	Some more napkin designs.