PARTS Projects

Come on down Monday night and join in on the BrushBotComm activities.  We’ll be continuing with the IR receiver transmitter protocol development and mounting the boards on to brush bots.

6/28, 7pm bRrainSilo

http://brainsilo.org/wiki/Location

Hope to see you there!

Monty

The next group project meeting is Monday evening — same time, same place:
6/14, 7pm bRrainSilo

http://brainsilo.org/wiki/Location

How many people want to build up some BrushBotComm boards using the Tiny84 at the meeting?  (Tiny44’s are still out of stock)
If there’s enough interest, we’ll do it — please reply on the mailing list, or below, with the number of Tiny84 based boards you want to build.

For those with a board already, let’s start working on the Rx/Tx protocol now that we have the IR working, and figure out the best way to strap these boards onto the BrushBots!

See you all Monday!

Monty

No project meeting this Monday 5/31 as it’s a holiday.  But don’t let that stop you from dedicating your three day weekend to concocting the best IR communication protocol the Portland area has ever seen!  Or just kick back and enjoy some nice BBQ weather.  Whichever.

It would be cool to hear about any progress with the latest (ver0.3) IR Tx/Rx code that was released a couple weeks ago though.  Anybody try it yet?

Next project meeting: June 14.

Monty

New to the Portland area, therefore, new to the Parts group.

I’m currently working on a rather large robot that will use several microprocessors. I have just added AVR processors to the list of processors that I work with. Now to get them to all talk together. More later as I am sitting in the April meeting now…..

Hi folks, I created a Flickr pool for us.  You have to be approved to join in order to post new photos to the pool.

Here’s the link:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/portlandrobotics/

-Pete

The bRainSilo remodel progress is looking good for a group project meeting on Monday, so we’ll follow-up on the BrushBotComm board build we started a couple Saturdays ago.  We’ll continue assembling boards for those that didn’t get theirs built last time, and hopefully we can start programming them.

Time: Monday 3/22, 7:00pm
Location: bRainSilo: http://brainsilo.org/wiki/Location
Bring:

• BrushBotComm boards if you already have them, built or not
• Money if you haven’t paid for boards/parts yet
• Soldering iron — if you have a decent one with a fine tip.  We still need to solder up some programming cables.
• Desk lamp if you can — we didn’t really have enough light last time
• Vision enhancement devices — I’ll bring my stereo-microscope and what magnifiers I have, but I think we could have used more last time

See you Monday!
Monty

What would happen if we had swarm board development at BackSpace on a day other than Dorkbot Monday. Granted, lead and food don’t go together. There is not a lot of exposure to lead.  The meeting at the University was low key enough that I don’t think anyone would mind too much if we did the same thing on a slightly smaller scale. Limit people placing parts on boards to 4 and “baking” to 4 at the same time.  And, the process is close to smoke free. That might allow more people access to the venue without much hassle.

Beginner CTL: TBD

Advanced CTL: Surface Mount Circuit Board Soldering (Scott Dixon, Jim Larson

Announcement: the rules for the new PARTS Indoor Challenge are posted. Get your robots ready for the April 3rd Meeting!

After the main meeting, the group build of the BrushBot controller will take place.  Those not participating in that may want to go watch the rest of the Autodesk Oregon Regional FIRST competition at the Memorial Coliseum.