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Photos courtesy of Jeff Sampson
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Lots of junk this time

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The first junk table.
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The other junk table.
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There a whole box of the
Turck sensors.
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Nicad batteries and chargers.
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Data books, R/C transmitter
and a scanner.
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An HC16 development board.
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This is the pile of crap that
Richard Piotter collected.


Lots of robots this time

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One table full of robots
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All this is Bob Proctor's.
He has a couple eval boards
for the new Circuit Cellar
competition.
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Bob Proctor made this PID
motor controller for DC
motors. He is talking to it
with a pocket computer.
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Close up of Bob's controller.
It uses an Atmel Mega48 and
does quadrature decode.
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Robot on left is
Peter Ellison's. The robot
on the right is Rick Eller's.
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Close up of Rick's robot.
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Rick's robot.
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Rick's robot.
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Rick's robot.
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Rick's robot. This has an
OOPIC controller as the lower
board.
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Rick's robot. A sharp
distance sensor and several
IR proximity detectors.
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Rick Eller also had this 4
legged robot.
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It walks sideways like a crab.
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Close up. I think this one
has an OOPIC also.
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Shoulder joint.
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Knee joint.
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Peter Ellison's robot again.
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This is the custom board he
had fabricated.
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Alan Kilian's robot
platform. He bought a whole
bunch of these on eBay. He is
using an Axman switch
controller.
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Philip Malmstedt is driving
Alan's robot.
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Richard Piotter is making
digital readouts for his
lathe and mill.
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Ron Jesme has a new flying
contraption.
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Top view.
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Side view. The metal box on
the left is the LiPoly
battery.
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Coaxial drive gears.
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Ready for a flight.
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It works!!!
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Flying in the hallway.


The new maze contest

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Lewis Dickson is creating a
maze using black tape on
white plastic.
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People gathered to watch the
maze competition.
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Rand Whillock is getting
ready to run his Mindstorms
robot.
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Rand turns it on. (And
gives it a few words of
encouragement.)
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Rick Eller starts his robot.
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Rick's robot.
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Bob Proctor's robot.
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Bob's robot again.
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Rand's robot on the other
maze.
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Peter Ellison runs his
robot along with Bob's robot.
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The two robots chasing each
other.