[Robotgroup] Basic Stamp Success

Fri Jan 18 17:07:33 PST 2008

Scott, I was impressed that you recognizes the bass clarinet and  
sorry I didn't talked to you about it. I will soon violate the  
integrity of it by texturing and painting it. Give me a reason not  
to, as I as a musician and respect instruments. Is it valuable? I  
swapped my son's go cart about 25 years ago at a pawn shop for it. He  
was appalled.  Prof. C.

On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:24 PM, LHudson wrote:

> Well there were a lot of Show & Tells last night I can see why Vern  
> might have wanted to keep the meeting going.  And I felt like a  
> moron so I thought I'd just wait for an opportunity to post it.
>
>   Before I actually started messing with electronics, I read an  
> article about the Chinese economy.  It boiled down to the fact that  
> the most efficient and cheapest way to manufacture tiny electronic  
> circuits is not with automation and robots, but with tiny Chinese  
> factory girl hands -- China's most abundant natural resource.  This  
> is the main reason why a lot of our electronics are made over there.
>
>   I now have much respect for those tiny factory girls... soldering  
> is definitely not an easy skill to master.  Much harder, at least  
> to me, than the bass clarinet (I'm still scratching my head over  
> Prof. Conrad's bass clarinet thingie).
>
>   Scott
>
> Denise Scioli <morg80 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> And, Scott, I remember you asking about "Is this the portion for  
> asking questions" when the video was over. I think that it wasn't  
> noticed as that was what you were wanting, rather, I think Vern  
> didn't realize that. Am I right? I just got to thinking about this  
> just now. We always want questions, questions mean that thinking is  
> involved, and I think your questions would have been perfect last  
> night!
>
> Denise
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:49:52 -0600
>> From: eric.g.lundquist at gmail.com
>> To: robotgroup at puremagic.com
>> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Basic Stamp Success
>>
>> Scott,
>> To pull up the excess solder try using solder braid. I have seen  
>> it at
>> Radio Shack and Frys.
>> I am sure that if you bring the board in next week that folks  
>> would be able
>> to tell if it was salvageable or not.
>> - Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/18/08, LHudson wrote:
>>>
>>> I am pretty comfortable with simple BS2 programming. I wouldn't mind
>>> sticking around offering tips and unsolicited commentary, but the  
>>> meeting
>>> ran kinda late last night....
>>>
>>> I do have a BOE-Bot kit, but I will be using it for more insidious
>>> purposes: I plan on attaching the servos to a pan-and-tilt kit  
>>> that I
>>> bought online for $10, and then making a robot head out of the  
>>> rest of the
>>> BOE-Bot, using the serial connector to a PC running a DOTNET  
>>> application. I
>>> also have a disassembled Little Tykes Hummer and two motor  
>>> controllers -- I
>>> had to buy a second one because I trashed the first one due to my  
>>> lack of
>>> soldering ability, which is why I thought the video last night  
>>> was awesome
>>> but also sort of hilarious.
>>>
>>> And now I also have a Rhoomba.
>>> :-D
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>> PS -- I did have a ton of questions after the video, like suchas for
>>> example can a trashed motor controller be fixed? One of the holey  
>>> things
>>> got solder oozed into it from soldering another part, and there  
>>> is another
>>> place with all the wires sticking out, and a huge clump of solder  
>>> attached
>>> to them all. Also, if the microprocessor gets really really  
>>> really hot
>>> while you are soldering it to the board, is that bad?
>>>
>>>
>>> Denise Scioli wrote:
>>>
>>> The Robot Group is so nuturing, especially to a real novice when  
>>> it comes
>>> to programming. (You have to know, it took a year and a trilogy  
>>> novel to
>>> discover what the Dominion was in Deep Space Nine).....
>>>
>>> Whitney (Rick's daughter) and I both successfully (with guidance  
>>> from RG
>>> members) made the servos turn, and......hooray......did the Pizo  
>>> speaker
>>> make noises. Thanks Eric, Paul, Marvin, Derek and others for  
>>> their help and
>>> encouragement. It is simpler than it appears. Good work Whitney.  
>>> I hope you
>>> can continue to come to the meetings.
>>>
>>> Scott, do you have a Boe Bot, and do you want to learn this with  
>>> us or do
>>> you already know how to use Basic Stamp?
>>>
>>> Denise
>>>
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