[Vanhackspace] Arduino Night at VHS - Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

[karl brown]

On Tues, June 8th/10
Karl will be giving a short intro on motor controllers covering:
-DC motors,
-Stepper motors,
-Drivers for steppers and DC motors,
-How to avoid killing your micro computer with a motor controller.

Wishing you all the best,
-Karl

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:29 PM, karl brown <
senselessactsofkindness at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> Since RobotMonth will be using the Hackspace Blue Plexiglass robot bases, I
> thought folks might like  a little history about the Blue 'Bots:
>
> Just after the dinosaurs died off (1982), I began teaching Robotics at
> Vancouver Community College.
> By 1992, I had simplified the training robots down to a base very similar
> to the Blue 'Bot bases.  They were popular, and were used world wide in
> basic robotics training (the University of Oita in Japan bought 30 of them
> for their AI lab).
> I will be demonstrating one of these vintage robots, as well as giving a
> short introduction to the Blue 'Bot bases (which were made back in 1996, so
> they might require a tune-up here and there) on Tuesday (June 1).
>
> I hope this will help give everyone a start on designing their hardware &
> software for Robot Month at Hackspace.
>
> Wishing everyone the best,
> -Karl Brown
>
>
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