Ongoing Projects
Mobile Robot
My students have mounted the microcontroller(s) and h-bridges and are now using the robot as a learning platform. Check here for the latest updates, pics and videos.
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Lego Mindstorm NXT
After being involved in FLL for the past two years as a Technical Judge, I finally broke down and bought one for myself in Dec 2007. Check here for pics, software ect when I get the time.
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One Laptop Per Child
After hearing about the One Laptop Per Child project, I decided to do the "give one / get one" deal. I will write a full review on it when I have had more time to play with it.
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Automation Direct Field Point Modules
Experimenting with a Field point module and LabVIEW / OPC Software
Got the OPC server working and now I want to create software that will allow me to control and see the status of the Field Point Module via the web. Starting with some base software I found on the web and working on figuring out how it works before moving on.
My notes on this ongoing project can be found here.
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PromDisk III
Bought an industrial computer off Ebay. It came with a PromDiskIII board installed. This card allows the computer to boot from PROMS on the board, that act like a disk drive. The company that built the board no longer supports it, but I want to put MY programs on the PROMs and boot to my programs. Here are my notes so far.
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PLC-730
Bought two old PCL-730 I/O Cards off Ebay and am adding circuitry to interface them to an A/D Converter for my Microprocessor class to fool around with.
Haven't gotten to finish a website for this project yet, but all the files associated with the project can be found here
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Robot Arm Rebuild #2
Purchased an old Robot Arm (LabVolt ArmDroid 1000) off of Ebay. This was in better shape than the RS-2200 (see "projects on hold"), but did not come with the external control box. My notes contain all the information gathered about the reverse engineering of the control board and how I was able to connect the arm to a computer via the parallel port, and the software development to operate the arm.
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