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

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

2004-02-07 DARC Meeting - Wood framed robot

Checking out the object finder robot on it's side

Checking out the robot with two DARC Boards

A robot with 2 DARC Boards

Robot and pieces, including a radio transceiver

Talking robot tech

DARC Board kits

Describing the camera and sensors

A neat custom robot with a nice wood frame

Checking out the code

Testing the camera

A completed DARC Board

Chatting

Robot workcenter :)

Servo controller board

2004-02-07 DARC meeting - finishing up

Packed up almost ready to go

2003-11-15 - Joint FRR/DARC meeting at Acroname

Describing a sumo robot

A cool homebrew robot with a ping pong ball as a rear caster!

Ed always has a bunch of interesting stuff to show

Newer version of Atmel/TTT board on a sumo robot

FRR group brought a lot of robots with them!

Acroname giving a demonstration of their latest offering

Another view of Dennis' object finder

Sumo ring - 2 robots

Demonstraiting a robot that can follow an orange ball

Getting ready for sumo robot

Closeup of two sumo robots pushing each other way back

Two sumos - neither can get under the other

Sumo in action

Sumo - Free for all!

When all else fails, read the manual - Heck the manual puzzled me too!

Sumo! Watching the robots take turns trying to push each other out of the ring

Ed and Dennis starting their large class sumo robots

Large class sumo - sensors are locking on

large class sumo taking on a standard class sumo

Two large class sumo robots competing

Acroname robot - orange case