1 built, 4 more to go.
Wish we had more time to build more during the meetings.
Next meeting June 8.
Robot Build
Category: Project
Are you Ready for International Nodebot Day?
This Saturday, we are hosting an event in celebration of International Nodebot day.
We will be building little sumobots using lasercut frames and simple electronics powered by Arduino and the Johnny-Five javascript library. When we finish our bots, we will test them out in the sumo ring!
Nodebot Day Celebration 7/29
Our Nodebot Day celebration is coming up. We are the only place in California currently scheduled to host an event. (and, of course, this is pretty awesomely nerdy stuff!)
Please let us know if you'd like to join us on 7/29.
May Computer Club Coding Meeting
Last meeting, we created Dodge, a video game where you move your dinosaur out of the way of falling rocks.
In this meeting, we will be creating a game similar to Flappy Bird, Pitfall and Defender, or for the modern among us, Geometry Dash. This one is called Platformer.
Come join us on May 20 at 11a at our Club Garage!
You can see a playable demo version here:
The Simplebot goes Wireless!
It's Sumobot fighting time!!
Originally posted for Facebook, this shows the simplebot using the Captain Arguino Arduino board from www.podpi.com being controlled via AJFisher's UDP transparent bridge to Johnny-five over Adafruit Industries' ESP8266 "Huzzah" development board.
This design was adapted from Andrew Fisher's article in Make: JavaScript Robotics by Rick Waldron & Backstop Media.
I control the bot using W, A, S, D.
Mendocino Motor
Besides it having a cool name, I think it's very cool tech and something we could totally build in our club. It would be awesome if we could attach a workload to it...something like a water wheel to it to lift water up to some height and then feed, say, a small aquaponic garden....
Allow me to introduce you to Flopsy the Skull Bot!
Something we are working on for our next meeting.... I think it needs eyes that light up...
Type Bot Lives!!
Neo, Emily and I built this following instructions from a special edition of Make:. We're going to build it at our next club meeting!
https://youtu.be/6umtQcop2kU
Servo’s Dashboard Challenge
Hi Club Members!
This is one way to build the replacement gauge for Servo's Dashboard.
Please ensure that you have the appropriate materials before you start this challenge. Materials such as: Scissors, x acto knife, glue/cement, some cardboard or plastic and either some colored pens/pencils or a color printer and some software will be helpful. I used Microsoft Excel and a color printer for this, but you can use anything you like!
https://youtu.be/RABGaFkCg90
Fritzing!!
To me, this is a particularly amazing and useful tool for electronics enthusiasts.
Here's a quick overview: