Roboteer Head Wear

Roboteer in danger of a sunburn.

Head protected, Showing Customer Loyalty, but a bit Geeky! 

Head protected, Showing Customer Loyalty, Looking Sporty
Thanks erco!

Most of My Time...

I looked down at my chest this morning and it occurred to me that beside my family - these two loves are where I spend most of my time...

It is always family, church or robotics... Not a bad way to spend your time!

S2 LED Dot Matrix Printer Documentation

The S2 LED Dot Matrix Printer Thread

Basic Concept:

FORUMS.PARALLAX.COM

PARALLAX on the S2 LED Dot Matrix Printer

The alignment of Pass One and Pass Two is still not perfect, but here is "PARALLAX" (had to keep up with my friend Carol!) on the Parallax S2 LED Dot Matrix Printer. Photo, Letter Diagram and time-lapsed video attached below. A new thread with all the documentation will be up soon at the Parallax Forums.  Update: This whole process in not documented more fully (with code) over at the Parallax Forums here. Photo exposure time was about 1 minute and 30 seconds.

ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ ΙΙ - Poseidon II v.0 - SoS Greek V

Here is a video and project posted by my friend Nikos on Facebook of a student/faculty project at 1st Vocational Lyceum of Salamis, Greece. They built an undersea rover, named Poseidon II. What amazing work! Must be a fantastic school with some very creative students and dedicated faculty! Check out their extraordinary work!

On it's way...

Nice find on ebay (via the Deal-Hunter aka erco) - http://www.ebay.com/itm/182062970855. This little bot is on its way to my mailbox! Free Shipping - $3.54 U.S. Dollars - HOW can this be done? See post below here.

LED Dot Matrix Printing for Parallax S2 - Update

A little update on LED Dot Matrix Printing for the the Parallax S2 (from here over on the Parallax Forums) and as a follow up to my previous post below. This is all done using the simple GUI Program Maker and a little ingenuity and follows up on all sorts of LED printing started by Carol Lynn Hazlett - see it all on the thread.

As I said on the forum post, Here is the latest new photo, and New Dot Matrix diagram. (I am getting it more dialed in - as I have said the turn is the trickiest part - LED separate pass alignment vertically and horizontally and over the length of the word.) I am working on some other info and full documentation on this and will start a new thread over at the forums and publish it all there. 

For now, enjoy this... This is a good compliment I think to Nikos' S2 Alphabet.

"Bulb Exposure of LED Dot Matrix Printing - About 1 minute long!

Dot Matrix Map of the "HELLO!" Message

Screen-shot of  some of my Dot Matrix Alphabet