Contests, discussions, plans for the future --- at the Robot Society meeting ! The meeting will be Saturday February 9, in the Electrical Engineering...
Jim, The business meeting used to start at 12:30. Can you confirm the new time of 1:30. Thanks, Jeff. ... -- Jeff Shirley bucky@... "Bill Gates is...
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Feb 7, 2008 4:44 pm
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Hi all, Well I stuck it out a year but after considering that year I am choosing to close shop. I have started to ask my vendors what i can return, and will...
Hi Brian. I'm very sorry to hear your news. I know everyone at RSSC had high hopes for your venture. Jeff. ... -- Jeff Shirley spam-toad@... "Bill...
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Feb 8, 2008 5:37 pm
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Hi Folks, Hi folks, the minutes for the Feb meeting have been posted. http://www.rssc.org/meetings/minutes0208.pdf Thanks to Ken for all the GREAT photos. I...
Hi Martin Thank you for the fine-quality minutes of the February meeting. Your effort is appreciated. Jim Ubersetzig profmason2 <mmason@...> wrote: ...
Hi everyone... Just wanted you to be aware of the TechShop San Diego group.... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techshopsd/ and www.techshopsd.com we are...
Martin, There always seems to be great interest and great participation in the sumo contests. I'd like to continue to encourage those contests. I also like...
Bruce, [snip] ... [snip] I don't think the task seems simple at all, in fact I think you've done a great job of detailing just how complex it is. You might be...
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Feb 12, 2008 9:37 pm
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Hi Jeff & Bruce Have you seen the Robomaid on the iRobot web page http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=296 This is what my very first robot design was going to...
Jeff, Cool! It looks like it's a LynxMotion arm/gripper riding on a Roomba - not a bad design. For our contest I think that an arm/gripper just sitting on ...
Hi RSSC members: I just ordered this robot arm / gripper: http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_3081288_A_quick_order_E_true It uses a pushbutton...
Hey Bruce, I don't know about this product in specific, but I've used their USB servo control board in the past and it was flawless. Very use to install and...
Padu et al, Thanks. I've also used Phidgets - and I too have had a good experience with them.... so I'd like to use them for this project. My question really...
Hey Bruce, I had some students use this arm and a voice activated module to control it. The project had to do with having a voice activated robot arm and it ...
Walter, Thank you for the feedback! I didn't stop to realize that the Phidget has 8 relays and the robot arm needs 10 to fully control it. If hits arm is ...
Bruce, and my other friends at the Robot Society You don't seem to be aware of the structural changes that have been made at the robot society. Robots that are...
Hi Bruce Thank you for entering into the spirit of our June 2008 "Pick Up After The Kids" robot contest. I wish you well, and will help you in any way that I...
Walter et al, I did a little more searching and found this Phidget PC USB interface: http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=1012 It has 16 outputs -...
james, Just what I was thinking! Dr. Bruce. ... From: james welton Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [SDRS-List] RSSC contests roborealm...
Hi Bruce, Looks like a nice interface. This board contains power transistors. These transistors only act as a simple switch between the load and ground. So,...
An understanding of "GROUND -". This device states "The outputs do not provide power they just act as switch to ground". This would seam to be a disadvantage...
Hi ShaneO, Yep, this is a common electrical design technique. They switch a NPN transistor to control the ground or negative side of the load. The folks at...
Martin, Sure, I'll get the meeting notes. Alex ... From: Martin Mason To: SDRS-List@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:06 PM Subject:...
I agree with Steve on having to add the relays to this other board. If you go with the first board you will be able to control all the motions (on-off) and can...
Just saw this two handed robot at http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-02-20_120190597.html It appears to have multiple fingers on each...
Hello Robot Society members. Just want to remind you that the "Tool Use Workshop" and general social gathering will be this Saturday, Feb 23. Hours are...
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