http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/ The Seattle Robotics Society Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56:41 GMT Markus Lampert http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41332 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41332 Thanks Don, now I want to move to Atlanta ;). I love the contests and I also love that almost all are custom bots. I especially like that there is an overall Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:31:46 GMT Peter Balch http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41331 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41331 Alex I presume you're not wanting to talk to the USB interface - that's very hard work to do it yourself. And you're not wanting to use a big processor board Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:03:24 GMT alexandre almeida http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41330 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41330 Recently I came across webcams for around $5. I was thinking in using (hacking) one of this devices to get my hands on the image sensor. Apart from the USB and Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:08 GMT David Buckley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41329 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41329 The text of the page is here http://www.davidbuckley.net/DB/sidetable/NextAge2009.html.txt sidetable is a temporary place for stuff from Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:02:37 GMT oric_dan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41328 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41328 ... For some reason, when I tried to translate that page using goole, it indicated it did the tranlsation, but never showed the page. Other japanese pages did Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:05:20 GMT jamericanfreddy http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41327 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41327 also on seeker,where did you placed the compass and the GPS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:21:11 GMT don clay http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41326 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41326 For those of you on multiple lists, this is the same email as originally sent to Front Range. Here are a wealth of bot games in the Polyathlon. Polyathlon Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:45:39 GMT David Buckley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41325 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41325 Now after Willow check out http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20091119_330030.html and watch the video its easier if you get Google to translate the Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:52:21 GMT Steven Kaehler http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41324 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41324 Greetings Everyone, Come on down to Renton Tech College this Saturday for a great monthly meeting! We'll be in K-202/203 this month (note slight location Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:18:56 GMT oric_dan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41323 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41323 ... That makes more sense. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:03:25 GMT David Buckley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41322 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41322 ... No its not the ethercat clock speed, its the frame rate, ie they want to read every sensor every millisecond and write to every effector every millisecond, Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:52:13 GMT oric_dan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41321 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41321 ... There you go. You already did that too. LOL. ... I must be missing something here. 1 Khz sounds awfully slow for anything complicated. Who would purposely Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:06:42 GMT Alan Marconett http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41320 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41320 Easy for you to say! I did catch the part about the helicopter, and I basically know how the squash plate works, and how the helicopter files (quite Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:43:45 GMT David Buckley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41319 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41319 After unloading it from my car I used to ride on Victoria on the way into the university! The idea Willow have is all the effector and sensor data for the Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:27:22 GMT David Buckley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41318 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleRobotics/message/41318 Well it is simple really! If you remember he mentioned the knee as being similar to a helicopter on 6 short tethers (see the pdf). Now that must require a