Back to Robots!

Published by jcicolani on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 23:09 in

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robot, robotics, x1, experiments, learning, basic, switch, switches

Now that the starfighter is built (mostly) and work has slowed down ever so little, I have a little time to get back to learning with my robot. X1 has had a severe facelift. I don't want to relabel it X2, because the guts and drive are unchaged. So, let's call it X1.1. I had a visit to The Robot Group at TechShop in Round Rock and, naturally, I took X1 with me. Passing through the main shop I took a moment to talk to someone building a 3D printer. In the conversation he called X1 a BOE Bot. I had no idea what that was at the time.

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Jedi Starfighter - Labor of Geek

Published by jcicolani on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 12:13 in

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Star Wars, sci-fi, star fighter, space ship, project, build, full scale, replica, prop, set

Late last year, around November, I got involved with a little project with some, now, good fiends. Greg wanted to build a 1:1 scale Jedi Starfighter to be used at the Book People Clone Wars Literary Camp. On the first day I visited the shop to lend a hand I immediately saw a problem. Greg had laid out the basic shape and was beginning to build the initial frame. Ths issue was the wingspan was over 10 feet wide.

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Robots!

Published by jcicolani on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 01:39 in

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robotics, robot, electronics, lab, shop, arduino, experiments, tinkering
Small X1 Arduino powered robot on the electronics bench

Once upon a time, when I was young and optimistic, not old and jaded like I am now, robots were exciting and I wanted to go into robotics. I had dreams of going to college, learning electronics, engineering, mechanics, and eventually become a big time roboticist. Well, that didn't happen. Life and, well, some screwed up circumstances derailed my plans and pretty much crushed my spirit. Wow, that was depressing...

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Here we go again

Published by admin on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 01:03 in

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general

It seems every time I build a new personal page I write one of these posts. The thing is, I have yet to keep one of these personal blogs going for more than a couple of months. And then I build a new one and all of my previous posts go away. Hardly does anything for SEO or gaining, let alone retaining, readers. But, of course, here we go again.

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