TCRG March '04 Meeting Pics

March '04 Meeting Pics

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Photos courtesy of Jeff Sampson
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Jeff Sampson brought his STK500 and module stuff and some LCDs.	Alan Kilian had a bunch of stuff.	Bill Arden brought his RackBot.	Brian Schmalz showed off his Bit Scope and his lego robot.
Andrew Walradth got this Basic Stamp kit from phanderson.com	Chris Dwan is using GCC AVR on his MacIntosh computer.	This is his setup with a USB/serial adapter and the AVRISP.	He is programming this board from AVRProject.com
It has an LCD display on it.	This is a prototype of the robot he is making.	Jeff Dege brought a Fisher Technik arm.	This is the controller for the arm.
The arm in action.	Jeff Dege is also working on this electronic speed controller.	Wayne Rademacher brought this airplane and custom motors.	The airplane.
Some of his motors. These are motors from disk drives that he has rewound.	A small motor on his airplane.	Back view of same motor.	A bigger motor. (Without the magnets.)
A smaller motor. (With the magnets.)	A small motor mounted in a ducted fan.	Peter Ellison brought this PIC-AXE controller. (The 8-pin chip.)	A closer view.
Richard Piotter made this 'portable' computer.	It is an LCD display bolted to a computer case. He also bolted a handle to the top for easy transport.	He has some kind of game adapters on the side. He got his Xilinx eval board (pictured) to program at the meeting for the first time.	Lewis Dickson made this robot.
It has DC gear motors and a controller on the top.	It has an Atmel CPU for the controller.	Some parts for future robots.	Lewis is also experimenting with encoder disk patterns.
Terry Schumacher brought his lawn mower robot.	Bruce Shapiro made this 'Ribbon Dancer' project.	It has two stepper motors, a long fiberglass stick and a silk ribbon on the end.	Alan is making patterns with the ribbon.
The 'Ribbon Dancer' in action.	Bruce also had his stepper motor controlled water squirter thing.	Stuff on the free pile this month.	More stuff on the free pile this month.