I'm still alive.

More than willing to help you out making PCBs - or even with electronic
design if you need some pointers.

THOUGH - If you want me to do anything give me spec and a dealine. I am
notoriously bad at project management and organsing things.

andrewm

>From: "linus_dillon" <ldillon@...>
>Reply-To: robot_sig@yahoogroups.com
>To: robot_sig@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [robot_sig] Kick Start
>Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:39:10 -0000
>
>Hi all.
>
>Just wondering if there was any activity? I'm starting to get back into
>the robotics stuff, trying to avoid the mistakes I made last time (too
>ambitious, and when my projects dragged on with little to show for it I
>lost interest). Plus the new Lego Midstorms stuff is soon to be released
>here, and that looks interesting as well. In fact there seems to be a
>building buzz around at the moment about making things (robotics,
>electronics, mechanics, etc etc).
>
>Anyway, I'm prepared to help out this time if needed. Maybe we should
>get some idea first of who/how many are still interested?
>
>To help kick things off, I have the following books in my collection
>which I'm prepared to lend if anyone is interested:
>
>The Robot Book / Richard Pawson
>Good basic book on robots in general, with projects using LEGO Technic
>and Fishertechnik)
>Electronics - A Basic Course / Rodney C. L. Edwards, Douglass F. Meyer
>Takes you from know no electronics to being able to handle and design
>circuts featuring transistors, logic gates, amps, etc etc.
>Making Printed Circut Boards / Jan Alexson
>Good book on making PCBs for the hobbyist. Covers several techniques.
>Extreme Mindstorms / Dave Baum, Michael Gasper, Rapl Hempel, Luis Villa
>The Unofficial Guide to Lego Mindstorms /. Jonathan B. Knudsen
>Lego Mindstorms for Dummies / Michael Meadhra, Peter J. Stouffer
>Note that all these Minstorms books cover the older style system, not
>the soon to be released NXT.
>The Robot Builders Bonanza - 99 Inexpensive Robotics Projects / Gorden
>McComb
>The Robot Builders Bonanza 2nd Edition - 99 Inexpensive Robotics
>Projects / Gorden McComb
>This last one is pretty good (covers the lot, including electronics and
>things like IR range finders, compasses, etc). I'm happy to give the
>first edition away to the first person who asks for it.
>MAGAZINE Real Robots (first issue through to around issue 54)
>
>-Linus
>
>