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