San Diego Robotics Society Meeting Sat. Mar. 5th, 2005, 1pm-4pm Only a slight, temporary change to the Monthly meeting. Due to a scheduling conflict, I am...
I *finally* bought a Roomba. Target has one Red model for $150. Fry's in San Marcos has the grey and white Discovery model, which is the one I wanted, for...
The Roomba Discovery comes with a remote control. The remote has a "Clean" button, which will start Roomba cleaning, even if it's on the Home Base. What I...
Scott, You should be able to build a simple device to do that yourself with the microcontroller of your choice and an IR led. Bruce. ... From: Scott Mummert ...
Scott, I'll bring Rocky and something to present. FYI, you could probably adapt Timmy! as a base. Just need fairly high resolution quadrature encoders. I...
Alex, Yes, I would like to still use Timmy! as my base. I'm going to try and keep a low profile (no pun intended), so my arm can reach the ground. And Timmy!...
Bruce, Yeah, I could roll my own...but I'm thinking more along the lines of buying a programmable remote control. I see one on eBay for $26, but they want...
Alex, [snip] ... [snip] I think Scott was using the Maxi-Dual H-bridge when he brought Timmy! to RSSC. I recently switched to this from a home brew unit as...
Jeff Shirley
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Mar 3, 2005 10:16 pm
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... Timmy! to RSSC. ... sure of ... heat sinks. ... LM18201. ... Jeff, I was using the Maxi-Dual to drive my arm motors, but not my main drive motors. I'm...
Oh, it probably can support it just SMOP (small matter of programming ;-) I guess I'm interested in adapting it since I have a couple wheelchair motors also...
Alex, ... Devantech makes them. They are a stock item at Acroname. Jeff. ... [snip] -- Jeff Shirley uber-spam@... "Bill Gates is filthy rich, but...
Jeff Shirley
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Mar 4, 2005 3:46 pm
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Hi Alex: It should be a SMOP but if its a pain to rewrite , then a 74x00 NAND gate would do the trick, or even a 2:1 Mux I think a 74x157 basically it...
steve vorres
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Mar 4, 2005 4:42 pm
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Here you go: http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/md03tech.htm They're very nice, but expensive, about $100 each. Scott...
Now that I am just $300 and 50 man-hours away from having my own Leaf, I started thinking about what it could do. And I came up with something! Carla The Dog...
Hi Scott. ... [snip] I think this is a great idea! I had similar thoughts years ago about using a Remco "electric eye" kit to turn on a light or alarm to stop...
Jeff Shirley
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Mar 4, 2005 7:39 pm
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Yep, looks like mode 2 should work. ... From: "Jeff Shirley" <bucky@...> To: <SDRS-List@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:43 AM ...
Hi, folks. I'm normally a lurker here, but figured I'd chime in because I love both robots and dogs (not necessarily in that order). ... Personally, my dog...
Say, wouldn't a nice RB5X chassis save you on the build time and materials? ;) ... From: Jeff Shirley To: SDRS-List@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 04,...
Hi, I haven't been to one of your meetings before and am wondering if anyone is welcome to come to the meeting this saturday. If so, where is the address of...
EVERYbody's welcome! For directions with mapquest, go to sdrobotics.org, & click on future meetings. We generally discuss and show our ongoing projects. And...
Jeff, I need to do some thinking about the configuration for the Leaf version of Timmy! I want to keep a low profile, and have the arm able to reach the...
Robin, DEFINITELY come to the meeting this Saturday! 1pm to 4pm. Alex doesn't bring Rocky every time, and he is bringing Rocky tomorrow. Rocky is *the* most...
Scott, This is something Leaf could do easily using the "navigational" sonars! Great suggestion!! Bruce. ... From: Scott Mummert To: SDRS-List@yahoogroups.com...
Ethan, Very funny - encourage the dog to eat your robot, by covering the bot in Nyla-bone! I like your video with your black lab chasing Sandwich. Carla The...
The trouble with using a robot to train or control a dog is that the robot is not fitting into the social pecking order of the dog, and the dog will ignore it ...
Scott, One of my dogs cannot tolerate the Polaroid sonar on my robot, the other doesn't seem to even notice it. If yours is like my intolerant dog, it will...
Then just to follow up on Gary's post: Leaf does have some vision capability already including motion detection (thanks to Robin Hewitt's programming efforts...
Jeff, Very interesting! You do know your dogs. I believe the dining area smells like urine, even after $600 or so worth of professional cleaning, new padding,...
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