It’s Tulip Time in Holland Michigan!
Ok enough on that subject. It’s also FIRST robotics competition season across the country. This year 3 teams from the Holland area are heading to Atlanta for the national championship. Good luck!
My own challenge, to develop a TableBot from my VEX kit is progressing nicely.
TableBot version [...]
My work on the TableBot continues. I now have a basic program that, in pseudocode:
10 move to edge of table
20 back up
30 turn around
40 go to 10
Here is a video of my first test, with Maggie, my assistant.
The programming and design have some obvious issues. The main problem is that the table [...]
I spent the afternoon working on a simple robot. It’s great! This first pciture shows my initial build of the manual’s Square-Bot, and Felix the cat investigating. I quickly tore that apart, and moved on to a robot designed to operate the TableBot parameters as outlined by Camp Peavy. The TableBot [...]
In highschool I worked for Rhino Robots of Champaign Illinois. Production was in a machine shop, where we created most parts and assembled the Rhino XR-1 robotic arm. The arm was targeted towards education and expermentation. It was a great experience.
In the 90’s Lego came out with their Mindstorm set, that featured [...]