Look at all those connection points!

Closeup of power corner

2003-04-16 - Z8 Encore package

2003-04-05 - DARC - Kerwin showing how the red platform robot works

An Atmel TTT bot on a nice red platform

Ed starting his object finder

Ed's object finder on the challange

Showing a CMU cam in action

Front of a CMU cam

An OOpic driven robot with it's cover open

Closeup of the back of a CMU cam board

Demo of a CMU cam

Robots on the table

A robot with a caster

Another view of the sumo robot that starts out standing vertically

A couple of Sumo bots - the foreground robot starts out standing upright, and drops to it's wheels

Closeup of Ed's object finder

Closeup of an Atmel 90S2313 on a TTT board

Closeup of another's TTT Atmel board

2003-04-05 DARC - No people - Object finder challenge in lower right

2003-03-24 - Workbench - building and testing my custom I/O and motor driver boards with my HC11 controller board

Top of my custom I/O and motor driver board - this board combo provides 6x8 switch matrix and can drive 10 motors - with room and logic on the motor driver board to contol 2 more motors

Back of my custom I/O board and motor driver boards, hooked up

Back of my home-brew I/O baord, buffered input on lower left, data bus from the controller board on the right

Back of my home brew motor driver board

Closeup of the back of the 5 8-bit latches on the motor driver board

Closeup of the back of the H-bridge section of my home-brew motor driver board

Closeup of the back of the motor driver board - H-Bridge circuits on the left, 8-bit latch chips on the right

Closeup of the back of the 6x8 switch matrix I/O ports

2003-03-24 - Closeup of the 6 bit output, 8 bit buffered input custom board

2003-03-17 - The I/O board and motor driver board sitting on top of the HC11 board

Top of I/O board with all the chips installed - all the chips are labeled with stickers - the 2 horizonal chips are L 6-bit latch out, R 8-bit buffer input, for use in an 8x6 switch input matrix

The top of the motor driver board - only one 8-bit latch and one H-Bridge chip installed - seperate power for the motors is the plug in the middle on the right

The backs of both the I/O board and the motor driver board

I/O board back - you can see the ribbon cables at the top that go to the motor driver board

Overview of whole motor driver board - H-Bridges at the top, 8-bit latches at the bottom - you can see there is room for one mroe set of chips on the right if I wanted

Back of motor driver board, back of 3 H-Bridge chips - output to motors is at the top in this picture

Closeup of the motor driving wiring - this is the back side of a dual H-Bridge chip

Closeup of motor driver board - red wires are logic, green wires are power to the chips and output to the motors - the copper colored wire is the motor source

2003-03-17 - My homebrew HC11 I/O + Motor driver board - Closeup of wires on the motor driver board

2003-02-15 Joint DARC and FRR robot clubs at Acroname - 3 wheel, multi-direction robots playing follow the leader, CMU Cam watching the orange ball

Ed setting up the object finder challenge

The two groups chatting about robots

Inside the furry robot

Demonstrating The Stampy Class Fire Fighting Robots

Robot Parts

2003-02-15 Joint DARC and FRR robot clubs at Acroname

Side of Ed's object finder

R2D2 robot toy - very cute!

Prototyping a circuit - a learning experience