Vancouver Robotics Club, April 2013

Always great stuff at the Vancouver Robotics Club. Next month is RC vehicles. I hope my HOG drive is ready by then. I’m already getting ready for the Vancouver Maker Fair 2013. Have you got your tickets?

Bob gives a short class on PWM signals and how they work with servos.

Christian has been building his first robot. It’s up and running around, which is huge step. Christian and his dad show up every month and always have smart questions.

Liz & Jonathan are make me a little envious. They can talk robots all day, every day.  Between them they have enough great ideas to keep 6 people busy for a long, long time.

Liz & Jonathan own a lot of robots of various sorts. So many that they brought one of their custom robots in this box that was “just lying around”.

Crafting together a crawling robot.  The parts required a bit of massaging – and by “massaing” I mean “drilling out the holes until they fit”.

At the VRC meeting I used my 3D printer to print a piece I designed the day before, and then when I got home installed it on the pan/tilt head I’ve been working on.  It’s the one below the big gear that holds the motor and small gear in place.

Here’s a wide shot so you can see it better.  The two gears on the top left are from a Greg’s Hinged Accessible Extruder. The one in the bottom center I designed myself.