Thanks to Solarbotics
My robotic wanderings
| Pager Dissection |
| Dancin Hampster |
| Parts |
| PCB Bug Semi Tutorial |
| Solar Cell Tutorial |
| Miniball |
| Simple-Bug |
PCB Mill
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| AVR Stuff |
| Turbot |
| Ezekial 2,0 |
Symets |
 Solarollers |
 Photovores |
 Heads |
 Sumo |
 Other |
Hello, My name is Jon Peterman I have been involved in robotics since 2003
Apr
29, 2007
Caitlin and I built the crackerbox
amp featured in MAKE vol. 9
Mar 1, 2007
the boards for the mill
have been etched and most of the components are here.
I found a you tube video from March
of 2004 when Dan and I went to
SF and appeared live on The ScreenSavers. The projection unit still sits here
awaiting a cabinet. I have a Summa plotter for my sign
business and the power supply went
out and they wanted $239 for a new one so I just frankensteined one in that
was given
to me by John Olsen, it works great!
Jan 26, 2007
I've finally done some more work on the PCB Mill the Z axis is done and the
artwork for
the circuit boards is ironed on to the copper ready for etching.
Our family also moved
last September and I now have a 22' X 30' shop with 14' ceiling and a separate
office
so I now have lots of room for all of my experiments and tom foolery.
not much work has been done on the biped but I have collected parts for a new
servo controller board using info from the lynxmotion site for the ssc 32.
I've also recieved a Dell computer with lcd screen that has now been repurposed
into a dedicated projection screen dvd player. I'll put up some pictures when
I build a cabinet, but dont hold your breath.
Aug 11, 2006
I bought the third issue of robot magazine
(two months ago)and inside was an article
on a 6
servo biped so naturally I had to give it a try. I'm using the homework
board from my 2 motor toddler experiment.
Dan Gates
recently moved to Canada).
and parts have been collecting for the 2ft X 4ft router more photos of the mill
coming soon.
soon also. I purchased one of lady adas mini pov kits and downloaded her code
and discovered I don't like C, I also tried the C tutorial at smiley micros
and I just don't
get it
just buy one for about $150 but wheres the fun in that, and besides I'm too
cheap.
May
6, 2005
Added some videos of some of the bots
Right click and save target as..
cool hack today using a TFT (LCD) flatscreen monitor as the basis of
a projection TV with the help of an overhead projector. It was too cool
seeing a 4ft by 6ft screen on the living room wall so I'll be adding this
new project to my list and letting you know the results
winter term on my Lathe.
Last Fall I also bought a shoptask 3 in 1 machine but
it is in dire need of a complete rebuild and that is coming along very slowly.
All this and I built a hovercraft for the kids the first of March.
Jan 8 2005 well not too much going on lately last Nov I cast another part for
the lathe
and earlier this week I went back to college for some more machine shop classes.
I also created
a FLED pcb for some upcoming classes, which reminds me, for the fall term at
Brighton
Academy Dan and I taught some 9 to 12 year olds how to freeform their
own robots it
was very challenging and that is how the pcb came along it should help the next
class
move along a little smoother. Breadbot got a new
body courtesy of Dan Gates it now
is housed on a Budget
Robotics round platform, I also reworked a few of my BEAM bots
and they perform much better now. I built another PCBug and installed sensors
and it performs
as well as my sons Solarbotics photopopper. I also built a Line following mouse
using the gm-10
gearmotors from Solarbotics, a compaq mouse, and an audio amplifier.
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Next Meeting Saturday Aug 12
6:00pm, Pizza Hut ne 6th st.
Grants Pass, OR.
The
Art of Motion
The
Workshop.Ca
Ray-Vin
Build
Your Idea
BotArt
Wolfgang
Robot
Room
