Monday, September 26, 2005

Robots to Face Off for $2M Pentagon Prize

DARPA challenge part 2.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Elvis the robot cat

Elvis the cat was involved in a tragic accident with a truck and lost the use of it’s rear legs, so Carlo Bertocchini developed a ‘robot platform’ to give it back mobility.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005


Aug05 DARC Meeting - LED Emitter

Aug05 DARC Meeting - Building an LED Board

Aug05 DARC Meeting - My Bot

Aug05 DARC Meeting - Assembling

Aug05 DARC Meeting - DARC-Board Wired-In

Aug05 DARC Meeting - Cds Sensor

Aug05 DARC Meeting - Parts All Over

Aug05 DARC Meeting - Under Construction

Aug05 DARC Meeting - Hands-on

Aug05 DARC Meeting - Workspace

Saturday, July 02, 2005

Robot cleans pool without poles, hoses

TheStar.com - Robot cleans pool without poles, hoses

Another unique feature is a diagnostic computer chip that allows the machine to measure the length, width and shape of the pool — as well as how dirty it is.

Once that's done, it creates a program based on that information to clean that specific pool. "It can't miss any spot because the machine knows what pool it's in," he says.

Two models are available, the Bravo, which costs $2,000 or the Viva, which costs about $2,400 and comes with a hand-held remote control that allows for spot cleaning.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

DARC Meeting - FIRST Robot

I attended the monthly meeting of DARC - Denver Area Robot Club - this past Saturday.

The meeting was well attended - there were more people than average. A lot of people came to see the special demo of the local FIRST robot. Built and run by a local high school team. The high schoolers did the real work - the teacher really kept to his advisor role, letting the kids do the work. And they took 3rd place!

The FIRST robot was quite impressive. It was rather peppy. It was very interesting to hear about the robot and the adventure involved with building and running it. 2 of the core of the high schoolers came to demo the robot along with their teacher/advisor.

Also Kerwin showed off his boat-bot to be, and the modifications his Mars rover has been given.

A pneumatic walking robot, under prototype, was shown. Some very nice work going on there.

Pictures below.

Control board for FIRST robot - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Describing the FIRST robot - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot showing it's reach - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot demo - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Kerwin checks the reach of the FIRST robot - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot - demo - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot - drive - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot - one of the builders - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Describing the great pnematic system of the proto-walking robot - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Mini-FIRST in action - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Mars Rover - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Another DARC-Board robot - sitting on a chair - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Proto-walking robot - sits around - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot in action - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Kerwin shows off his latest - boat-bot to be - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Hacked toy tank - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

DARC-Board robot - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Hefting the proto-walking robot - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

Checking out the insides of a DARC-Board robot - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot - slide arm from garage door opener - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

FIRST robot - gears - DARC Meeting 5/7/2005

DARC Meeting 5/7/2005 - FIRST mini bot

Sunday, April 10, 2005


IEEE - Region 5 - Robotics Contest

IEEE - Hey, that robot looks like a house!

IEEE - Another workspace

IEEE - Robot with lots of wires and black tape

IEEE - Wood framed robot

IEEE - Looks like they used Pics on the protoboard

IEEE - Adjusting a tracked robot

IEEE - Lego frame and camera

IEEE - A view of a lego frame with a camera

IEEE - Hot Wheelz

IEEE - An interesting mix of parts on this robot

IEEE - A few robots at the workspace

IEEE - Solid looking box

IEEE - Looks like they started with an RC car