October '05 Meeting PicsClick thumbnails for a larger view.
We had lots of new people. So Alan introduced himself and then we went around the room and introuduced ourselves. |
Some people chillin' before things got started. |
Jeff Sampson brought his Research 3 robot. Here it is being driven by ??? |
A pnuematic project from Carlton College. |
A omni wheel robot from Carlton College. |
Another view. |
A tracked robot from Carlton College. |
A close up of a track. |
Bruce Shapiro demoed his newest Ribbon Dancer. |
He is running it from a laptop computer using QBasic and DOS. |
One of the patterns. |
Another pattern. |
Another pattern. |
Another pattern. |
Terry Schumacher's Atmel AVR smart battery charger project. |
Richard Piotter's robots. |
Peter Ellison's new robot. |
That is an encoder on the front that runs from one track. |
Front view. |
Bottom view. You can see the line follower board. |
Alan Kilian gave a talk on Mini-ITX boards. He is running Linux from a compact flash card. |
This board is mounted in a metal case. |
The top of the case has a wireless access point attached. |
This board is mounted in a case made from K'nex parts. http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/knex/ |
He can talk to the board through an ethernet cable or through the wireless access point. |
There are stepper motors on the top of the K'nex case. (Left over from the Anianemonea project.) This web page runs the stepper motors. |
Thre was a big free pile. |
Digging to the bottom of a free box. |