November '04 Meeting PicsClick thumbnails for a larger view.
The junk table this month. |
The other end of the table. |
Bruce Shapiro gave away this whole box of gear motors. |
This cute memory board was up for grabs. |
Digging through the goodies. |
Kenneth Kern got this working laptop off the junk table. |
Bob Proctor leading his robot around. |
Bob's robot. |
Alan Kilian's nano robot. |
Bruce is working on a new design for his Sisyphus project. |
The design puts both motors below and has a vertical coaxial shaft rather than a motor on top with slip rings. |
His mechanical drive system works like this. |
Dan Larson put an optical encoder inside an R/C servo. This is single phase and not quadrature. |
The optical detector is inside and looks at the first reduction gear. The gear is painted half black. |
He chose to remove the electronics board to make room for the optical emitter/detector pair. |
Dan Larson also made this morse code generator with his STK500 board. |
Jeff Sampson has these new motors. |
Possible wheels for Jeff's new motors. |
Terry Schumacher brought his eMow robot. He is discussing it with William Crolley. |
Terry working on his software. |
Bob Odegard is working on a stereo vision system. Here he is explaining it to Alan Kilian. |
Bob's vision system uses two web cameras. |
This shows the right and left images. Below is the result of edge detection. |
Bob gave me his actual bit map files and I created this composite image. |
Lewis Dickson is creating a new maze competition. |
He gave out these sample tiles for people to experiment with at home. |
Alan's nano robot following the maze. |
Another view. |
People listening to Lewis' presentation. |
Brynn Rogers brought his Cyclops robot. |
Richard Piotter's collection of BEAM robots. |