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steve vorres
svorres@...
May 1, 2005 11:58 pm
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I thought I remembered in a meeting earlier this year that the plan was to have November talent and line following contests with a practice line following...
Hey Jeff, I have a legos line follower that's never had a chance to compete. I have the tiles too. And I *think* I can make it to a meeting this month. - Robin...
I'll bring the tiles to the May RSSC meeting Jim Ubersetzig ... From: SDRS-List@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SDRS-List@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Smith ...
Hello all, I have finished a project where I needed some printed circuit adapters to mount a 16-pin SSOP package (surface mount .025" pin spacing) to a DIP-16 ...
Hi Steve. [snip] ... [snip] What do you use for pins? The standard 0.025 square posts are too big for most DIP sockets, and I have not found anything with a...
Jeff Shirley
bucky@...
May 5, 2005 9:49 pm
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SDRS Meeting Sat. May 7th at Fry's Electronics, 1-4pm For the 2nd and last time, we are meeting at Fry's Electronics in San Marcos. This is due to reasons...
Hi Jeff, For pins I use a Mill-Max part, available from Mouser. The Mouser p/n is: 575-643506. The Mouser web site will have a link to more information, but it...
Steve Roberts
sroberts@...
May 6, 2005 1:08 am
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... Scott, Are you saying we can bring our robots into the cafe and run them? I'd planned to demo some new capabilities I've added to Mabel. Can you let me...
Tom moved to the San Juan islands 3 or 4 years ago, I don't know if he still monitors this group or not. I don't have an e-mail for him. Anybody? Bill ... ...
Hi everyone, I just signed on to the list. My 7 year old son is very interested in building things, and specifically interested in robotics. I stumbled across...
I can not speak for the group as I live far away. But I can ask a few questions: Do you want you son to be excited about math? Do you want your son to be...
Robin, I'm sure you can bring Mabel into Fry's. Steve brought his Scorbot in last time. They may object if you start driving her around, unfortunately. I...
Thanks Scott, that clarifies things. She doesn't need to drive far, so I'll bring her and see what happens! See you tomorrow, Robin Scott Mummert wrote: Robin,...
... I would recommend the LEGO Mindstorm robotics invention kit. I have a 6 year old grandson who loves it. He can, and does, write and download his own...
Melanie, I'm afraid that our particular meeting isn't suited for a 7 year old. We don't do very much education. Occasionally, a speaker will get into technical...
Hi Melanie, Are you familiar with FIRST? That's a robotics competition for school kids: http://www.usfirst.org Your son's school should be able to help him get...
As far as the LEGO Mindstorms system goes, the best support and information on the Internet regarding that system is at: <http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics/>...
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) is holding an online symposium on July 7th. The list of speakers looks pretty good and I thought that some of...
Hi Melanie, 7 years old can be a bit early to get in to this but then again it might be the right age for your child. Mozart started pretty young also. I...
Thanks so much to the people who have responded to my email. I had heard of Lego Mindstorms, but I didn't know what they were. We homeschool, and in our group...
I spent a year in a full leg cast at age 6. Someone gave me an "erector set," a mechanical assembly toy popular for many years, which I played with for much...