[Blackpool] Hello

[Arthur Garlick]

Hi,
Thank you for the friendly replies, and yes, I hope to see you all on the 16th!
 
Regards
 
Arthur
 
 
 
> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:04:48 +0100
> From: lespounder at gmail.com
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Hello
> 
> Hi Arthur, nice to meet you.
> 
> I'm Les from Blackpool and I enjoy tinkering with Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
> Your projects sound very interesting and I'd be interested to learn more.
> Robotics is a very rewarding experience and I'm sure there would be a few
> interested parties at the Makerspace.
> 
> Hope you can make our meeting on the 16th?
> 
> Thanks
> Les
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am Arthur from St Annes.
> >
> >
> > I have been messing with Pic microcontrollers off and on for many years
> > and just got back into it spurred on by some interest from my sons (and
> > hoping to grab their interest more).
> >
> >
> >
> > The current thing I am playing with is a 3 axis magnetometer/compass chip
> > and I2C with a view to having model boats that know what direction they are
> > pointing in and can derive what direction the turrets are pointed in and
> > turn/track targets when the boat changes direction using some small stepper
> > motors.  The control will hopefully be by messaging via 2.4Ghz so I send
> > messages equivalent to 'all ahead one third' and 'steer course 240 degrees'
> >  rather than moving an analog stick on a transmitter and there be an
> > immediate response.  The boats I am looking at are 350th scale dreadnought
> > period, so realistically you shouldn't have immediate and precise control
> > and not much room in the hulls at that scale.
> >
> >
> > The last thing I built with my son was a useless machine with two servos
> > driven by a Pic 12F675.
> >
> >
> > I visited Manchester Mini Maker Faire recently and it's inspired me to
> > look at a biped robot.  Although the model boat is the main project I am
> > working towards, I think dabbling around with a biped robot would be a
> > great long term side project.  When I went to Maker Faire I met and had a
> > great chat with David Buckley and loved his Thor robot:
> > http://davidbuckley.net/DB/Thor/ThorLog.htm It seemed to me that if I
> > went down to Madlab Manchester one Saturday I might well get the pieces for
> > Thor on their laser cutter, David wanted some Android development doing,
> > which if I understood him properly I could probably deliver, and he is very
> > knowledgeable with walking robots.  Or if anyone in this group would do a
> > robot I'd jump in with them, I am a Pic guy but I'd try Arduino.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyway, that's me introducing myself.
> >
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> >
> > Arthur
> >
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