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Photo's and Video's of 2006 Event here!

Robot Builders Meetings "RBM"

Each Saturday @ 10:00 am Aerospace Museum

Come on down for a coffee and build!

 

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PCB Layout On-Line Workshop  Nov 2003

Here's a series of activities which should be of interest to robot builders basic to advanced!  Check out our online PCB Buildfest

How do you make Printed Circuit Boards?  Check out our tutorial and quick-start pages to get going with EasyTrax PCB Creation program from Protel.

Parts Sources and Retailers

Where do you find materials for your robot?  Where are the best places to go shopping in Southern Alberta?  Check out Jim and Kris's excellent summary here!

 AVR Resources

The WCRS has really been taken with these great microcontrollers from ATMEL...  Check these out!

 Quentin's great compilation of ATMEL AVR micro resources... all web-friendly.  If you want the CD version ( for you modem users ) contact us!
 Craig Limbers transcript (borrowed from http://members.shaw.ca/climber/avr.html) discussing the ATMEL AVR advantage!

Jim and Chris's Materials Management resource

Here is the excellent primer on working with metals and plastics for your next sumo robot!


How does your Sumo Wrestling robot measure up?

Here's Russ Hersberger's excellent presentation on measuring the dynamics of your mini-sumo's motors...

Motor Math for SUMO Robots (Powerpoint)


Molding Tacky Tires

Quentin's experiences molding soft, grippy robot tires.

 


Marauder

Dave Hylands excellent pages describing this champion robot.


Seeker

Jon Hylands excellent pages describing this beautiful robot.


Getting Started with Robotics

Jim and Kris's handy kick-start talk.