The first junk table. |
The other junk table. |
There a whole box of the Turck sensors. |
Nicad batteries and chargers. |
Data books, R/C transmitter and a scanner. |
An HC16 development board. |
This is the pile of crap that Richard Piotter collected. |
One table full of robots |
All this is Bob Proctor's. He has a couple eval boards for the new Circuit Cellar competition. |
Bob Proctor made this PID motor controller for DC motors. He is talking to it with a pocket computer. |
Close up of Bob's controller. It uses an Atmel Mega48 and does quadrature decode. |
Robot on left is Peter Ellison's. The robot on the right is Rick Eller's. |
Close up of Rick's robot. |
Rick's robot. |
Rick's robot. |
Rick's robot. |
Rick's robot. This has an OOPIC controller as the lower board. |
Rick's robot. A sharp distance sensor and several IR proximity detectors. |
Rick Eller also had this 4 legged robot. |
It walks sideways like a crab. |
Close up. I think this one has an OOPIC also. |
Shoulder joint. |
Knee joint. |
Peter Ellison's robot again. |
This is the custom board he had fabricated. |
Alan Kilian's robot platform. He bought a whole bunch of these on eBay. He is using an Axman switch controller. |
Philip Malmstedt is driving Alan's robot. |
Richard Piotter is making digital readouts for his lathe and mill. |
Ron Jesme has a new flying contraption. |
Top view. |
Side view. The metal box on the left is the LiPoly battery. |
Coaxial drive gears. |
Ready for a flight. |
It works!!! |
Flying in the hallway. |
Lewis Dickson is creating a maze using black tape on white plastic. |
People gathered to watch the maze competition. |
Rand Whillock is getting ready to run his Mindstorms robot. |
Rand turns it on. (And gives it a few words of encouragement.) |
Rick Eller starts his robot. |
Rick's robot. |
Bob Proctor's robot. |
Bob's robot again. |
Rand's robot on the other maze. |
Peter Ellison runs his robot along with Bob's robot. |
The two robots chasing each other. |