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Photos courtesy of Jeff Sampson
Click thumbnails for a larger view.
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Peter Ellison made this new
robot. It uses the Rabbit
controller. Here is he giving
a demo.
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It has a Polaroid sonar on
the front to get range
information. The sonar is
mounted on an R/C servo. The
small yellow pulleys on the
wheels are for encoders.
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It uses DC gear motors for
the main drive wheels.
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It uses drill batteries.
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Another view.
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Another view.
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Top view. You can see the
Rabbit module on the carrier
board. There is also a slave
board and a motor driver
board.
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The slave board has a Basic
Stamp and an H-bridge driver
board. It looks like this
board is driving the R/C
servo for the sonar.
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The dual H-bridge driver for
the main motors.
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Jeff Sampson brought his
engine/generator project.
This is the front view.
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Back view. The starter relay
is hanging on the wires on
the left.
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The flywheel cover removed.
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Bill Arden gave a talk on
his new demonstration project.
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He is making water based
devices that will represent
electronic devices.
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Bill is building a
switching power suplly that
runs on water pressure. So it
has a square oscillator
driving a transformer. The
other side of the transformer
has a rectifier and filter
capacitor.
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This is his
"MOSFET".
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This is the output stage. It
has a "capacitor"
and a "diode" on a
"PC board". All
done with water.
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Alan Kilian describe his
round stepper motor project.
Just like Animanemone, but
round.
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This is Alan's stepper
motor circle, his Trippy
robot and his Oscar robot.
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Alan is explaining the
holonomic drive on his Trippy
robot.
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Terry Schumacher explained
his robot. It is a prototype
for a lawn mower robot.
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Top view of robot. You can
see a Mini RoboMind board, an
LCD and two custom boards.
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Another view.
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Driving it around on the
tether.
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Peter's robot and Terry's
robot.
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Terry Schumacher brought in
these two robot books.
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There was some discussion
about ignition systems.
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And some talk about mapping.
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And Bill couldn't believe
someone would put a complete
battery charging system on
the free pile.