June '05 Meeting PicsClick thumbnails for a larger view.
Michael Walsh brought his robot. |
Interior view of Michael's robot. |
Kenneth Kern is working with stepper motors. |
Carrie Dickson brought her line follower robot. |
Richard Piotter brought his collection of BEAM robots. |
Some of Richard's robots. |
Bruce Shapiro brought his Bit-to-Bytes-to-Bots stuff. |
Bruce brought this revision 1 egg plotter. |
Bruce's PC printer port to stepper motor setup. |
One of Bruce's Shimmybots. |
Bruce found these new stepper motors. |
Brian Schmalz made this version of an egg plotter. |
Brain made this USB to printer port adapter. It can be used when your new PC doesn't have a printer port. |
Brian wrote this egg plotter control program in Liberty Basic. |
Bill Arden brought his BattleBot. It now has wheels instead of legs. |
Another view. |
Another view. |
Another view. |
Bill is cutting these steel plates with his CO2 laser. |
Here you can see how fine the cut is. |
He welded the plates together to form a box beam for his BattleBot. |
Another view. |
And Bill broke down and bought this fork lift. |
I (Jeff Sampson) brought my Research 3 robot. |
I played backed the log file at the meeting. |
People watching the log file. |
Closeup of the entry to the lobby. |
Weeks after the meeting I tweaked the rotation and distance scale values. Here is level 5. The blue line is the robot position. The red and brown are the left and right sonars. |