{"id":344,"date":"2009-08-09T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-08-09T16:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T00:56:44","slug":"vancouver-robotics-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Robotics Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the monthly meeting of the Vancouver Robotics Club. There were some really cool projects to see. I took my <a href=\"http:\/\/tincantools.com\/product.php?productid=16133&#038;cat=0&#038;page=1&#038;featured\">Tin Can Tools Hammer<\/a> project along to show everyone what I&#8217;ve been working on. Most recently I&#8217;ve been connecting it up to a touch screen using I2C. When its done I&#8217;ll post more about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p_2048_1536_D37446AD-7162-458D-8830-A29414A870C1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p_2048_1536_D37446AD-7162-458D-8830-A29414A870C1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"4-legged walker\" title=\"4-legged walker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-343\" \/><\/a>James brought a beautiful four-legged walking robot project. Its still a work in progress but as you can see from the photos it is very well crafted. Here is a <a href='http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Walker1.mov'>movie<\/a> of it walking. James describes it as &#8220;swimming&#8221;. He wants to redesign it to add another servo to the lower leg to enable more precise movements and better walking. I&#8217;m sure it will be amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Ian brought his hacked Roomba to show off, here is a <a href='http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Roomba1.mov'>movie<\/a> of it wandering around the floor. At about the 6 second mark you can see him driving it from his tablet computer; his Rooma has a Bluetooth link, and he wrote some custom software to drive it around. Later in the same video (around the 10 second mark) you can see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_itemId=1570\">Metal Insect<\/a> robot wandering into the frame. For a while Ian was &#8220;herding&#8221; it around the room!<\/p>\n<p>By the way all of the video was taken with my iPhone 3GS then resampled in QuickTime Pro to be a reasonable size download. Neat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the monthly meeting of the Vancouver Robotics Club. There were some really cool projects to see. I took my Tin Can Tools Hammer project along to show everyone what I&#8217;ve been working on. Most recently I&#8217;ve been connecting it up to a touch screen using I2C. When its done I&#8217;ll post more about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machining","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}