Ongoing Projects
Mobile Robot
A few years ago I purchased a Lynxmotion Tri-Track Robot Base. So far it has been used by students for various projects. You can find some info on this robot's past lives here.
Now I am going to strip it down and rebuild it using a Arduino Duemilanove, a L298 Compact Motor Driver , a VEX 6-channel R/C Controller/Receiver (more info) and some sensors and use it for autonomous and remote control robot demonstrations.
I started a engineering journal on this project, which can be found HERE but it will be a very rough website while the project is in progress, then I will go back and clean it up after its completion, so bare with me.
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Magnetic Card Swipe Door Lock w/ Internet Administration
A long time ago, I got some magnetic card readers. Now I plan to use them, with an Arduino Uno and an Ethernet Sheild to create a Managed Access System. The system will allow users to access a room using a magnetic card swipe, but I also want to be able to view logs of entry, add or delete authorized access over the internet.
Project notes are available: HERE.
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Lego Mindstorm NXT
After being involved in FLL as a Technical Judge, I finally broke down and bought one for myself in Dec 2007. Check here for pics, software ect when I get the time.
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PromDisk III
Bought an industrial computer off Ebay. It came with a PromDiskIII board installed. This card allows the computer to boot from PROMS on the board, that act like a disk drive. The company that built the board no longer supports it, but I want to put MY programs on the PROMs and boot to my programs. Here are my notes so far.
The only thing left to do to complete this project is to create a program that will create the disk image (as a .BIN file) to burn to the PROMs.
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PLC-730
Bought two old PCL-730 I/O Cards off Ebay and am adding circuitry to interface them to an A/D Converter for my Microprocessor class to fool around with.
Haven't gotten to finish a website for this project yet, but all the files associated with the project can be found here
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