July '08 Meeting PicsClick thumbnails for a larger view.
Bill Arden had a whole box of boards with Mega16 controllers. |
Jeff Sampson brought his red robot. |
A close-up view. |
Another view. |
Ben Johnson (center) is going to MIT now. He stopped by on break. |
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Jean-marie Bertoncelli brought his robot. |
It has lots of stuff on it now. |
This looks like a Parallax Propeller board. |
Another controller board inside. I think this one also drives the motors. |
Side view. |
Explaining. |
Front view. |
Iso view. |
Pan/tilt unit. It looks like it has a CMUcam2. Three sonars. Two fixed Sharp I/R proxitiy sensors and one moveable. And a passive infrared sensor. |
It uses R/C servos for pan and tilt. |
Explaining. |
More explaining. |
Bruce Shapiro brought his 'Rope Spitter'. |
Here it is not spitting rope. |
Here it is again spitting like crazy. |
And this is what happens when you whack it. |
At the bottom end it piles up and kinda squirms around like a snake. |
Bill Arden did a soldering/desoldering demo. |
His setup. |
Some parts he took off. |
Bill's line follower. |
Richard Piotter's BEAM spider robot. |
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