Meet the queen of wacky robots! Check out Simone Giertz’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/simonegiertz
Posted by INSIDER design on Thursday, February 25, 2016
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Simone Giertz Robot Designer and Humorist
Friday, February 26, 2016
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover
Calling all space pirates: Check out this new interactive 360 view of the 1997 Pathfinder mission. It features Sojourner, the first Mars rover ever! http://bitly.com/360pathfinder
Pen Port Light and Spiro Scribbles
Okay, here is the second part of the "No Warranty Void Hack." Same idea for a Pen Port Light (LED). The LED is a bi-color (red/green). By reversing the polarity when plugging the LED into the programming port you can change from red to green. The frosted lens gives a more diffused light.
I shaped a wooden plug - make a hole to mount the LED and run the wires - resister again is in line (470 ohm in this case). wires are twisted and shrink tube wrapped. See attached photos and the photos. More "scribbles" below and over at the Nikos' Fibonacci Spiral Challenge thread. These spiro-scribbles use some of Ken Gracey's Educator Course software.
I shaped a wooden plug - make a hole to mount the LED and run the wires - resister again is in line (470 ohm in this case). wires are twisted and shrink tube wrapped. See attached photos and the photos. More "scribbles" below and over at the Nikos' Fibonacci Spiral Challenge thread. These spiro-scribbles use some of Ken Gracey's Educator Course software.
Scribbler Taillight
We've been having a lot of fun over on the Nikos Fibonacci Spiral Thread on the Parallax Forums, and as posted here, scribbling with LED light by using long exposure photos.
Here is a project - "No Warranty Void" hack for the Scribbler and the S2. I call it the Scribbler Taillight. I was playing with the idea for following purposes. This could work great for LED scribbling too. I am developing a pen port mount also.
Power (9 volts) and ground come right from the programming port - not case opening is required for this hack (and thus your Warranty remains! ;-)
Photos show the following:
How an LED is fitted with pin connectors. Under the heat-shrink wrap around the Ground Leg (cathode - marked by the flat spot on the LED lense) is a resistor of the appropriate size for 9 volts and the color of the LED and its properties (Google it!) - two views. You can see the resistor under the black heat-shrink tubing.
Diagram for programming port pinout from Parallax (S2 and Scribbler are the same)
Diagram for a DB9 female pinout (show how the pins are numbered). This is marked to reflect the Scribbler and S2 power and ground. Pin 5 is ground and Pin 8 is 9 volts.
And photos of the Scribbler Taillight inserted - LED off and on.
Obviously the LED could be pointed straight up for LED scribbling, or mounted in the pen port and powered in the same way.
Give it try and have some hacking fun!
Here is a project - "No Warranty Void" hack for the Scribbler and the S2. I call it the Scribbler Taillight. I was playing with the idea for following purposes. This could work great for LED scribbling too. I am developing a pen port mount also.
Power (9 volts) and ground come right from the programming port - not case opening is required for this hack (and thus your Warranty remains! ;-)
Photos show the following:
How an LED is fitted with pin connectors. Under the heat-shrink wrap around the Ground Leg (cathode - marked by the flat spot on the LED lense) is a resistor of the appropriate size for 9 volts and the color of the LED and its properties (Google it!) - two views. You can see the resistor under the black heat-shrink tubing.
Diagram for programming port pinout from Parallax (S2 and Scribbler are the same)
Diagram for a DB9 female pinout (show how the pins are numbered). This is marked to reflect the Scribbler and S2 power and ground. Pin 5 is ground and Pin 8 is 9 volts.
And photos of the Scribbler Taillight inserted - LED off and on.
Obviously the LED could be pointed straight up for LED scribbling, or mounted in the pen port and powered in the same way.
Give it try and have some hacking fun!
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
LED Doodling
One BUSY roboteering woman! This is some Parallax S2 LED doodling by my Parallax Forum and Facebook friend Carol Lynn Hazlett.
Carol Lynn Hazlett added 3 new photos.
Monday, February 22, 2016
S2 Spirograph - Small Ring
Trial Four S2 Spirograph - Small "Ring" - Green, Green and Blue, Green and Blue More.
