Jeff Sampson brought his Research 3 robot. It is green this month. |
Craig Smith came all the way from Wisconsin with his R2-D2 robot. |
It has this access hatch on the back. |
Thre are some controls that use an R/C receiver. |
He got an autograph at one of the Star Wars conventions he went to. |
The head comes right off. You can see the lazy-susan bearing on the right. |
Craig used a phone plug in the center as a slip ring for power. |
Another view of the plug and the gear that turns the head. |
R2-D2 |
R2-D2 |
R2-D2 |
A blurry picture of the fiber optic panel. These lights flickered in waves of patterns. |
Jeff Hove checks out the R2-D2. |
Craig had this photograph of his R2-D2 and his C3PO robot. |
Bill Arden brought his RackBot robot. |
Bill also made this mirror positioner using stepper motors. |
We watched the DPRG Roborama tape on RackBot's VCR. |
Jeff Martin brought a friend's projector. He connected it to RackBot and projected the image on the movie screen. |
Rand Whillock brought some Lego robots. |
Here are two of his Lego robots and the programmimg laptop. |
A side view of the forklift style robot. |
His bulldozer type Lego robot. |
Bruce Shapiro and Alan Kilian are working on a massively parallel stepper motor project. |
This design is based on hexagons. The printout is life size. |
A prototype stepper motor driver circuit. |
Bob Proctor worked on his stepper motor driver. |
This is his prototype using an Atmel STK500 eval board. |
A demo of the prototype board. |
He is putting the driver on this perf board. |
This is the schematic. |
Here he is soldering the wires on the board. |
Terry Schumacher brought his lawn mower robot prototype. |
He is showing it to Bruce Shapiro. |
Peter Ellison brought his fire fighting robot to work on. |
Peter also brought this big piece of black paper. He and Rand talked about duplicating the DPRG Roborama events. |
This is Bill Arden's Micro R/C line follower his is working on. |
Ron Jesme brought this Micro R/C car he got at Target. |
Ron is driving his Micro R/C car on the Quicktime course. |
Brian Schmalz brought his Lego robot to work on. |
I see he also brought his BitScope that he built from a kit. I missed this at the meeting. |
Back view. |
Bottom view. It uses stepper motors from floppy disk drives. |
Top view. |
As we were leaving this girl was getting ready to do some tight rope walking. |
She has a harnass on so she doesn't fall. |