[chbot] Christchurch Robotics Meeting Report Wednesday 16th, April 2008

[Richard Jones]

Hi Stephen,

You are the first to reply so consider the Propeller Proto board yours.
I'll bring it into Chch on Monday.

Cheers

Richard

Stephen Irons wrote:
> My son has a Tamiya line-following snail kit that we have modified to
> use a PIC to control its motions. It could definitely use a brain
> upgrade, so ...
>
> if the Parallax Propeller board is still available, we can probably use it.
>
> Stephen Irons
>
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>> Christchurch Robotics Meeting Report Wednesday 16th April 2008
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>> The second meeting of the year attracted about 20 people (sorry I forgot to
>> count and only 9 signed in). There was a nice age range from 12 upwards,
>> some new faces and some coming by recommendation. The gold coin collection
>> netted $15, thanks for your donations, they go to Science Alive and are
>> very much appreciated. With folks saying they will be along next time we
>> seem to be growing our number of regulars. 
>>
>> Attending Robots and Topics
>>
>> Mike Pearce kindly donated lots of spare components to the group and many
>> boxes were trawled through and parts taken away for building into robots.
>> There is still heaps left so I?ll bring what is left to the next meeting.
>> Thanks Mike for your generosity.
>>
>> We had a talk from 12 year old Tayler Stuart about the Lego RCX walking
>> Robot that he built and brought along. Thanks for bringing it along Tayler
>> and we hope to see you and your family again.
>>
>> Carl brought along a propeller ADC circuit with 3 ADCs almost running on a
>> single board. The ADC uses the propeller chip in Sigma-Delta mode and just
>> four passive components. We didn?t fix it on the night but hopefully
>> we?ll get it going soon, either with shorter leads or maybe a software
>> fix.
>>
>> I (Richard Jones) brought along the propeller proto board built onto a two
>> wheel plus two castor platform with motor driver for micro mouse maze
>> solving. I gave an introduction to micromouse based on info from Peter
>> Harrison site here: http://micromouse.cannock.ac.uk/ and showed the Python
>> micromouse simulation running on Mac OSX.
>>
>> Andrew McDougal has very kindly returned the Parallax Propeller proto board
>> that he won a couple of meetings back. It is available to the first person
>> to reply on condition that it returns built into a robot or doing something
>> of relevance to robotics.
>>
>> Also I have a couple of Microsoft optical mice with faulty buttons
>> available for robot building. Just email me via the list if you would like
>> one. These are the single chip sensor mice that do USB and PS2. I don?t
>> think you can use this chip to get the picture or quadrature signals like
>> you could with the early optical mice.
>>
>> A wooden robot was also bright along but I didn?t get to meet him until
>> he was going through the door.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for coming and for joining in the lively discussions. 
>>
>> Our next meeting is on Wednesday 18th June 2008 when we will have our usual
>> show and tell format followed by a talk from Hanno about interfacing to
>> devices that he has on the Dancebot (accelerometer, gyro, compass, tv
>> camera etc). Do check out our site http://www.kiwibots.org just in case of
>> any late changes or additions.
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