... Has anyone answered yet? If they've been answering off list, shame on them! Share with the rest of us. Here's what I know of. Most of these have websites...
11509
nightz13
Aug 1, 2002 8:05 pm
Hello SRS, I am looking for a DAQ (Data Acquisistion Card). It needs at least 13 Digital I/O (CMOS) and 1 channel of A/D. More channels of each is acceptable....
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Mike Panetta
ahuitzot
Aug 2, 2002 1:39 am
Does anyone here have any experience with Verilog? If they do could they contact me off list, or give me a list of links I can go to with pointers on how the...
11511
Charlie Heath
charlieheath...
Aug 2, 2002 4:06 am
Barrie, You could try GJ's Hobbies in Vestal, NY. They used to be at 140 Vestal Parkway East (Rte. 434) but moved to Washingon St. a few months ago. They ...
11512
Bruce
brucel42
Aug 2, 2002 5:06 am
Hi: CNN web site had a brief story about a military robot they've deployed in Afghanistan - nothing serious, appears to be a Battlebot sized platform, tank...
11513
Steve Greenfield
alienrelics
Aug 2, 2002 6:07 pm
... Hype is part of marketing. The key behind their chip is that it is just that- a chip. IE, I don't have to put together a collection of chips and parts to...
11514
Michael A. Greene
publisher@...
Aug 2, 2002 9:35 pm
To clarify a couple of items recently seen on the news: Several companies have robots currently operational with DoD and CIA (and law-enforcement), They are...
11515
John W. Bramblet
jwb@...
Aug 2, 2002 11:02 pm
Thanks to everyone who responded. We have filled the SW position. We will have an M.E. position coming up shortly. I will post the full details here next week....
11516
warrenhb
douglas_warr...
Aug 3, 2002 12:21 am
I've always used thinking similar to yours - to be conservative, you should not exceed the current corresponding to the power the whole pot can dissipate. In...
11517
Bob Dyer
bobdyer53
Aug 3, 2002 12:48 am
Doug, Thanks, I'll check out the spreadsheet. The question is moot now. I was able to find this rule of thumb for max pot current: "If the manufacturer ...
11518
John W. Bramblet
jwb@...
Aug 3, 2002 12:49 am
... Just a couple of comments on the above: The PackBot was originally developed by Grinnell More at Real World Interface or RWI prior to their merger with IS...
11519
goforitxx
Aug 3, 2002 1:21 am
Is there a link to the CMU camera from the SRS web page?...
11520
erik w.
bscandanavia
Aug 3, 2002 1:58 am
Ičve using an RC car type ESC in my robot with forward/reserse/brake does anyone know what the input PWM to the ESC should be to activate the brake on ...
11521
Chris Myers
Chris_Myers
Aug 3, 2002 2:47 am
Typically it is about the first 10% in the reverse direction. [--------FWD--------][N][-B-][---REV---] (proportional representation.) Forward, Neutral,...
11522
David P. Anderson
dpa@...
Aug 3, 2002 6:19 am
Hi I've added some new images and mpegs to my robots webpage, especially for the HC11 controlled LegoBot. http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/myrobots.html and...
11523
oric_dan
Aug 3, 2002 5:29 pm
Following upon previous postings --> for anyone interested in multi- legged walkers, I put up a couple of new pages describing some of my recent readings...
11524
pjc309430
Aug 3, 2002 5:54 pm
Hi David, Very neat pages, thanks for posting the links. (I always look forward to updates from your webpage, which I have bookmarked). Nbot looks good;...
11525
glacier762000
Aug 3, 2002 8:04 pm
The Rossum Project has just posted a new utility for composing and printing a pattern for an optical encoder wheel (an incremental type encoder). The author, ...
11526
gene98329
Aug 4, 2002 5:09 pm
For those who haven't heard Bill and I are going to be camping at the 'Twin Harbors State Park' (just south of Westport, Wa.) We would like to invite everyone...
11527
microboter
Aug 5, 2002 3:34 am
The only thing bad about looking at all the great stuff at David's site is I realize how much yet I have to learn! Very nice, I love the 2 wheel balancing job....
11528
SeattleRobotics@yahoo...
Aug 5, 2002 2:02 pm
We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Monday Night Chat Date: Monday, August 5, 2002 Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM PDT (GMT-07:00) Monday Night Chat...
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Doug Kelley
douglasdrewk...
Aug 5, 2002 2:45 pm
Hi Gene, Are you doing a cookout Saturday evening? Doug...
11530
TechHeavy
Aug 5, 2002 4:45 pm
I'm assembling 40 surface-mount PCBs for a Burning Man art project: <http://www.sowbug.com/tqw/>. I have hand-soldered 16 of them and am looking for a quicker...
11531
Ned Konz
nedkonz
Aug 5, 2002 4:58 pm
... I'd recommend using paste unless the boards are *very* heavily reflowed. Also, you can't trust the temp settings on the dial of a toaster oven. Many of...
11532
oric_dan
Aug 5, 2002 6:27 pm
... ............ It's a little hard to make it out from the pic, but are their little springs pointing front and back on Nbot? ;-) How far over can you pitch...
11533
David P. Anderson
dpa@...
Aug 5, 2002 10:44 pm
Hi ... No little springs! There are some pieces of rubber hose used as bumpers, necessary on a robot that falls over from time to time... The safe angle...
11534
herosformula
Aug 6, 2002 1:02 am
I remember you talking about sensor drift issues. How about a curved tube with conductive fluid inside? Sensors detect when the fluid has moved, sort of like...
11535
SeattleRobotics@yahoo...
Aug 6, 2002 1:02 am
We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. Monday Night Chat Date: Monday, August 5, 2002 Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM PDT (GMT-07:00) Monday Night Chat...
11536
Kenneth Maxon
kmaxon2002
Aug 6, 2002 1:14 am
Yes, You need the solder paste. First there is not enough paste on the individual pads unless you have a solder paste silk screened on your boards after the...
11537
oric_dan
Aug 6, 2002 4:58 am
... Actually, I was only being half "flip". :) I was thinking it would be useful to have a fail safe mechanism to get Nbot back up if it falls over. Either...
