March '05 Meeting PicsClick thumbnails for a larger view.
The junk pile started off with test fixture components. |
They looked like this. |
And this. |
Then Bill Arden brought some more normal junk. |
There was a discussion about artificial intelligence. Or lack there of. |
Jeff Sampson has his sonar ring working. (Photo by Alan Kilian) |
Side view. |
Jeff Sampson is working on these PC boards. |
Alan Kilian brought his Trippy robot. |
Bottom view showing the Omni Wheel drive system. |
Bob Proctor showed his LCD adapter board. |
Back side of the LCD adapter board. |
Terry Schumacher is working on his battery charger code. |
Lewis Dickson is making more line follower maze sample tiles. |
Lewis Dickson is explaining Carrie Dickson's new robot. She was out delivering babies or saving lives. So she couldn't be there. |
Carrie's robot. This is built on one of Alan Kilian's bases he bought off eBay. It has a Mega32 CPU. |
Richard Piotter is doing emergency surgery on his RoboSapien. |
Ooh, there's gunk in his shoulder. |
Brynn Rogers had this line following prototype board. It has 3 RGB LEDs and 4 photo transistors. |
Brynn also brought this top he got on close out at Walmart. |
A single row of LEDs create numbers as it rotates. (Photo by Alan Kilian) |
Here it just started spinning. Behind you can see his line follower board. One LED is red and one is green or blue. (Hard to tell with my cheap camera.) |
They were confusing the top by placing a magnet next to it. This is considered cheating in most civilized parts of the world. |
Bob Proctor's line follower robot. |
Bill Arden made this robot based on Alan Kilian's eBay robot bases. |
Bill Arden donated this pile of old Atari computer stuff to Richard Piotter. |
Lewis Dickson's line follower mazes. |
This is a sample maze. As soon as it gets mastered, it will change to some other interesting pattern. |
Jeff Hove brought his coil gun he made. It shoots BBs and nails. |
It uses a photo flash board from an old camera. |