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