Google Sites

Shoniece made a webpage using google sites today in an effort to evaluate the Google Sites project.  Shoniece's Site

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There was no ham radio enthusiasts, so -- maybe next week for world-wide-communication!!! - mr. p.

Slax OS and DSL

Today, Loriann, Shoniece, and Jasmine, helped with a couple of installations of Slax and DSL on a couple of our machines.  Then ... they discovered the Linux games on the Slax OS and it was all over.  They found a game that similar to Tron meets Racquetball.  Hours of enjoyment!
On a side note, the girls brought over the machines from our old Tech Club room.  In the future, we will put these to good use, but for now... they shall collect Smith Hall dust.  No Tech Club next week.  Meetings.  -- TTFN

Programmable Logic Circuit

This was our first (and probably last) attempt at implementing our programmable logic circuit memory storage.  I think our fingers aren't small enough, steady enough, or nerdy enough to solder all those wee bits!

A Programmable Circuit

The above schematic is one for a POV Display system that works on the same principle as a Dot-Matrix printer.  You can program in graphic columns (or rows) of 8 bits each and then scroll through all of the memory.  If you move the device fast enough, you should be able to see the programmed image.  If the output LEDs were inkjets, the device would "print" the image.

KTechLab - Building a Working Memory Circuit

Today, the goal was to test out a new (to us) circuit board design app for Linux called ktechlab.  We came up with a preliminary memory circuit (just to see if we could) so in the future, we could implement it into our bot.  KTechLab was a good tool, but the Documentation is slim, and the website is down, so it was a bit of trial-and-error until we got our simulation working.  But it does indeed work.  We can store 2 bits in any of the 16 locations... that's a whopping 32 bits of memory!

Arduino UNO

Here are the Designs for an LCD Shield for an Arduino UNO.
Ingredients: 

• 10k Potentiometer
• Radio Shack Perf-Board
• An RT-204-1 (ver 2.0) 20x4 LCD
• Some salvaged Ribbon Cable from an old DVD player
• Some single strand wire & rosin core solder

We breadboarded it last week, and now it's time to solder it all together!

 The "}" is the ribbon cable which breaks out into 6 wires to connect to the Arduino UNO Board.

Uno Uno Uno Uno

The UNO came in this week, and we were tinkering around with it, making sure the darned thing actually works!  and... indeed it does.  Now, we need to figure out how to implement it into our Robot!