A Blog for Robot News, Opinions and My Pictures that are Robot Related.
Roboton - 1) Abbreviation of Robot Town. 2) Abbreviation of Robot Autonomous.
Friday, July 30, 2004
2004-02-15 - Joint FRR and DARC meeting - meeting at a hobby store North of Denver
One of Ed's robots
My demos - Tunabot and DARC Board
Dennis describes his biped
Biped walker in action
Dennis talks about a Sumo Robot
Ed Rupp talks about his robot
Kerwin talks about his robot and the DARC Board
Under the hood of a DARC Board robot
Dennis Clark describing a robot
Giving presintation, talking about Thereminvision
Talking about Thereminvision
Describing the Roomba (I believe this is Terry, the originator of Thereminvision)
Descriving Thereminvision
Another Sumo. I belive that is a compas on top
Checking ultrasonic ranging
A speaking board
A neat collection of robots
2 Sumo robots
Sharing ideas
FRR members and DARC members compare notes
Another neat object finder
A biped robot from above - the demo was rather impressive
Ed's neat custom robot, experimenting with Thereminvision
Homebrew sumo - interesting offset wheels
Programming a DARC Board
Ed's Object FInder
Thereminvision Prototype robot - very neat!
Thereminvision robot and a Roomba - First time I'd seen one in action [live]
2004-02-15 - Closeup of MCU and Motor driver board on Terry's Prototype Thereminvision Robot
Thursday, July 29, 2004
2004-02-08 - DARC Board Blank Top, No Questions Asked Inc
2004-02-08 - DARC Board Blank Bottom, No Questions Asked Inc
Closeup of the top of the board - note CMP1 can be used for a fourth servo, and is sometimes referred to SRVO4 in the the doc - You can also see where I chose to use a 5-pin header for the programming plug instead of the standard male: I did this so I could use the same programming cable I used with the TTT board
Closeup of the soldering. My 11yo helped with a lot of the soldering. He did a pretty good job. But it certainly doesn't look machine soldered! :)
Back of the soldered DARC Board
2004-02-10 - Completed DARC Board, before adding the chips - You can see how I soldered the power regulator a little higher and bent it over the board so that it wouldn't stick up so much higher than the rest of the components