[Robotgroup] [RE] So.. been Robotin' long? :)

[Leslie Filip]

I saw that association but as I said, I couldn't make it snappy.

Les


On 14 Nov 2006, at 3:49 PM, Clendon Gibson wrote:

> You should have talked about the bridge of his nose...
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Leslie Filip <lfilip at mac.com>
> To: Austin Robotgroup Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:39:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] [RE] So.. been Robotin' long? :)
>
>   "The big problem I had to overcome was the powersupply switching
> nose from the computer."
>
> You have to watch out for those power supplies. I, too, have had one
> or two switch their noses with the computer's nose when I wasn't
> paying attention. Sorry, but I couldn't think of any snappy comeback
> using "bridge", which also has to do with power supplies and noses.
>
> Les
>
> On 14 Nov 2006, at 12:55 PM, Mark Hinkle wrote:
>
>>
>>    I built my first robot in 1993.
>>    I bought a cheap Radio Shack remote control car and and a
>>    walkie-talkie. I designed a circuit (wirewrap) that used telephone
>>    touchtones for collision avoidance. IR sensors (three in front
>> and one
>>    in back) had a range of three feet and operated at a frequency of
>>    1kHz. The sixteen combinations meshed well with the 16 available
>> tones
>>    for the touchtone encoder. The tones were transmitted via the
>>    walkie-talkie to another one at a remote computer (an IBM 8086 PC,
>>    which is what we had in the class labs in those days).
>>    A decoder translated the tones back into TTL and were placed on a
>>    custom ISA card I built (wirewrap). The computer software
>> (written in
>>    hand-coded assembly and some C) determined if the car was about to
>>    crash and then sent a segnal to a relay card from Metrabyte that
>> was
>>    wired to the car's remote control.
>>    Thus, I had C.A.R.R., or Computer Assisted Roving Robot.
>>    I built it during summer school in a special projects class (I
>> was the
>>    only student in it) that was taught by the department head.
>>    I passed.
>>    The big problem I had to overcome was the powersupply switching
>> nose
>>    from the computer. Those things were NOISEY. Wirewrap doesn't lend
>>    itself well to noise immunity.
>>    I still have CARR... somewhere... in a box... someplace... in
>> multiple
>>    boxes, actually.
>>    Sorry. No photos.
>>    Mark
>>    ---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------
>>    Subject : [Robotgroup] So.. been Robotin' long? :)
>>    Date : Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:27:22 -0600
>>    From : Vern Graner
>>    To : Austin Robotgroup Mailing List
>>    Ok, so how long have *you* been involved in robotics? I found this
>>    photograph that tells the story for Kym & I:
>>    http://www.notepad.org/robo-wedding.jpg
>>    Photo was taken at our wedding in April of 1987... Back when I had
>>    hair!! :D
>>    Bonus points if you can tell me the type of robot pictured there
>> (and
>>    yes I still have it!)
>>    So any of you have any early photos or stories to share? :)
>>    Vern
>>    ---------------------------------------------------------
>>    My parents just came back from a planet where the
>>    dominant lifeform had no bilateral symmetry,
>>    and all I got was this stupid F-Shirt.
>>    ---------------------------------------------------------
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