I'm curious to know if anyone has used the SparkFun wireless transceivers (with the Nordic chip). I am able to program the chip, and to receive noise with 8...
I'm curious to know if anyone has used the SparkFun wireless transceivers (with the Nordic chip). I am able to program the chip, and to receive noise with 8...
I saw a notice for a Marsrover lecture 3/15/07 by Kobie Boykins from JPL, who claims he played a "major role" in building them. Not cheap: tickets $10.50 -...
walsh036@...
Mar 3, 2007 9:13 pm
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I am working on a remote presence robotic project and am currently investigating different methods of handling packet priority scheduling. I need both fast...
... 2. more portable. ... Bandwidth limiting can be done by sending out the packets from the application at a set rate. Use micro sleeps. For a networking...
... 1. I am using winblows PC's on both sides. The Linux TCP/IP stack would just be a nice place to get a bunch of source code that handles a TCP/IP stack. 2....
This processor is driving me nuts. The fan turn on temperature is really close to the alert temperature. I have it working now by disabling the Fan control...
With XP, don't expect to have your mouse give data to your application 100% of the time on time. Many games have had to make special workarounds for this...
... I plan on using a processor and a modified joystick. This will let me bypass the computers and connect a serial cable directly to the robot for testing. I...
... In the Linux world they keep changing things on me so I'm hopelessly out of date. I still admin a few servers, but it is mainly maintenance type stuff....
Don't throw away your dead Dremel. Winter is a great time to tinker!!! P.S. the on-off switches on these thing like to fail also, good thing I saved dozens of...
I see the meeting comes pretty early this month. It is next Thursday, 3/15/2007. (Just a reminder to Dave Overkill, the meetings are the third Thursday of the...
Jeffry Sampson
jsampson@...
Mar 9, 2007 6:48 pm
605
Oh, could someone take a digital camera to the meeting and get some pictures? Just in case people actually bring robots this time. (I have noticed that very...
Jeffry Sampson
jsampson@...
Mar 9, 2007 6:55 pm
606
About the parking situation... someone should check that TCRG still qualifies for the refund. The Minnesota Astronomical Society (MAS) has meetings at the...
Jeff Have fun in SUNNY Seattle Bill Count me in for Applebee's Robots I'm still working on the PCM (Power Control Module) for my robot. I have it charging the...
Terry Schumacher
Terry.Schumacher@...
Mar 9, 2007 8:19 pm
608
Jeff and Alan, Are you guys leaving us for the Seattle Robotics Society? http://www.seattlerobotics.org/ ________________________________ From:...
I'm back to trying to define a motor driver module. (again...) It will use TO220 mosfets and IR2110 mosfet drivers. I bought a whole bunch of IR2110 chips on...
Jeffry Sampson
jsampson@...
Mar 9, 2007 9:31 pm
610
I checked. It look like their meeting is the day after we come back. So we are going to miss both meetings. -- Jeff Sampson (651)605-8884 HSS Group - Mendota...
Jeffry Sampson
jsampson@...
Mar 9, 2007 9:38 pm
611
... (I have noticed that very few robots show up anymore. Hence my previous question "Is anybody working on robots?") Well, I'm sure there may be some upraised...
I love this thing. You can catch the full video here: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/beer_launching_refrigerat.html and his website is here: ...
Am I crazy? Or do these squiggles look like Mona Lisa? http://www.taomc.com/teaching_machines/eggbotkit/monasmudgecu_800.jpg How did you pull that off? -- Jeff...
Jeffry Sampson
jsampson@...
Mar 11, 2007 1:07 am
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I thought it was John Lennon... ... From: Jeffry Sampson To: tcrobots@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 7:07 PM Subject: RE: [tcrobots] Re: March...
... They need not be mutually exclusive :-) John Lennon? Dude, step back from your monitor! ... I can't remember how I happened upon this site, but it blew me...
Pull it off? Easy! Insert ludicrous comment, followed by elipsis... (Which for me sometimes doubles as the smiley emoticon.) See if anybody notices. It was...
Hello I am in need of an 600v momentary contact switch. I have one on my air compressor which my brother hooked up wrong today. Now it is welded in the "ON"...
I looked at my compressor a little harder and found the following: My contactor is a A-B 702-BOD93 (hopefully still OK), my green button is a 800T-A1...