![]() Jeff Sampson brought his Research 3 robot. It is green this month. |
![]() Craig Smith came all the way from Wisconsin with his R2-D2 robot. |
![]() It has this access hatch on the back. |
![]() Thre are some controls that use an R/C receiver. |
![]() He got an autograph at one of the Star Wars conventions he went to. |
![]() The head comes right off. You can see the lazy-susan bearing on the right. |
![]() Craig used a phone plug in the center as a slip ring for power. |
![]() Another view of the plug and the gear that turns the head. |
![]() R2-D2 |
![]() R2-D2 |
![]() R2-D2 |
![]() A blurry picture of the fiber optic panel. These lights flickered in waves of patterns. |
![]() Jeff Hove checks out the R2-D2. |
![]() Craig had this photograph of his R2-D2 and his C3PO robot. |
![]() Bill Arden brought his RackBot robot. |
![]() Bill also made this mirror positioner using stepper motors. |
![]() We watched the DPRG Roborama tape on RackBot's VCR. |
![]() Jeff Martin brought a friend's projector. He connected it to RackBot and projected the image on the movie screen. |
![]() Rand Whillock brought some Lego robots. |
![]() Here are two of his Lego robots and the programmimg laptop. |
![]() A side view of the forklift style robot. |
![]() His bulldozer type Lego robot. |
![]() Bruce Shapiro and Alan Kilian are working on a massively parallel stepper motor project. |
![]() This design is based on hexagons. The printout is life size. |
![]() A prototype stepper motor driver circuit. |
![]() Bob Proctor worked on his stepper motor driver. |
![]() This is his prototype using an Atmel STK500 eval board. |
![]() A demo of the prototype board. |
![]() He is putting the driver on this perf board. |
![]() This is the schematic. |
![]() Here he is soldering the wires on the board. |
![]() Terry Schumacher brought his lawn mower robot prototype. |
![]() He is showing it to Bruce Shapiro. |
![]() Peter Ellison brought his fire fighting robot to work on. |
![]() Peter also brought this big piece of black paper. He and Rand talked about duplicating the DPRG Roborama events. |
![]() This is Bill Arden's Micro R/C line follower his is working on. |
![]() Ron Jesme brought this Micro R/C car he got at Target. |
![]() Ron is driving his Micro R/C car on the Quicktime course. |
![]() Brian Schmalz brought his Lego robot to work on. |
![]() I see he also brought his BitScope that he built from a kit. I missed this at the meeting. |
![]() Back view. |
![]() Bottom view. It uses stepper motors from floppy disk drives. |
![]() Top view. |
![]() As we were leaving this girl was getting ready to do some tight rope walking. |
![]() She has a harnass on so she doesn't fall. |