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Leadership
- Club President: David Baird, dbaird@ee.nmt.edu
- Club treasurer: Ian Bernstein
- Web page contact: David Baird, dbaird@ee.nmt.edu
- Please direct general robotics club related email to robotics@ee.nmt.edu
Membership and Opportunities
Anyone interested in robotics is encouraged to visit the club.
There are no regular meetings planned [yet], but please feel free
to contact robotics@ee.nmt.edu.
To become a member of the robotics club, just attend our meetings
every now and then. You can also sign up on our SA club member list
which we will try to have available at our events. We should also
have a booth on club fair day in the SUB.
To be taken off of the emailing list, please email robotics@ee.nmt.edu
with remove in the subject line. To be added, please email
robotics@ee.nmt.edu with add in the subject line.
Meetings
Meetings are every Thursday at 7pm in Workman 196 (south side).
Go here for information on what happens at the meetings: here
Dates
- January 23rd - This web page was created
- January 29th (Tuesday) - Reserved Workman 101 for Feb. 8
- February 8th (Friday) - Robotics Club Seminar Series (more info)
- February 8th 7pm (Friday) - SA Club Budget Workshop
- February 13th 2002 - Club Fair
- February 14th noon - Club Budgets Due
- Thursday February 14th 6pm - Club meeting Workman 196 (and Valentine's day) (more info)
- Thursday February 20th 7pm - Robotics Club Meeting Workman 196
- Friday February 21st 6pm - Robotics Club Meeting Workman 196
- March 15th - Trinity $20 USD registration deadline
- April 5th and 6th - robo02 regional Trinity qualifier in Boulder, CO (more info)
- April 20th - Trinity registration closes
- April 21st - Trinity competition
Low Cost (<$50) Microcontroller Kit (preliminary)
Please contact the president or robotics@ee.nmt.edu if you have any
opinions or ideas for this kit.
Preliminary kit contents with pricing estimates (note that
none of this is currently offered - it is still in the planning
stage):
- Wall transformer ($10)
- 5, 12, 13.5V power supply with current limiting ($10)
- Basic board for PIC:
- PICmicro microcontroller with ADC ($6)
- Access to every pin
- In circuit programming
- [Controllable] Oscillator
- Add on board:
- 1 of n decoding (to select registers and latches)
- Expanded IO with registers and latches
- R-2R ladder for digital to analog conversion
- Opto-isolators on some inputs and outputs
- LED 7-segment display
- LED bar graph display
- Anticipated software on a CD ($1 for media cost):
- Linux and DOS/Windows C and/or assembly compilers
- Linux and DOS/Windows software to access the programming hardware
- CD with datasheets and application notes for the PICmicro (permission
needs to be granted from Microchip to do this)
- Robotics Club presentations archive
- Additional parts
- Solderless bread board ($10-$20)
Presentations archive
Old pages
Links
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