Tag: dprg
Robot Software Success
April 3rd, 2004, No Comments
I mentioned in my last entry that I’d been experimenting with the Not Quite C programming language for use with the Lego Spybotics brick. The hardware hack we made for line-following combined with a few lines of NQC code allowed one of the robots to successfully complete the line following course at Roborama 04.A (it [...]
Linux NQC for the Lego Spybotics Brick
March 31st, 2004, No Comments
When Frys was dumping Lego Spybotics hardware a while back for $29, quite a few DRPG people grabbed one or two of them. So we have a whole pile lying around and nobody knows quite what to do with them. The Spybotics brick is a bit more limited than the original RCX brick and, to [...]
Robots and Robotron
January 31st, 2004, No Comments
I’m finally within sight of being mostly caught up on a lot of the work around here. Susan and I managed to find time to make two DSO performances in January. I might even have enough free time to keep my weblog up to date or work on a few non-work-related projects during February. Work [...]
Stuff That Happened in April
April 30th, 2003, No Comments
It’s been a busy month but I can’t let the month get away without posting at least one news update! A lot of my time lately has been sucked up helping a variety of local groups with computer issues. Susan completed an update of the website for the Frisco Association for the Arts. It looks [...]
First Post: 2003
January 21st, 2003, No Comments
Well, I suppose it’s a bit late to be posting new year’s resolutions so I’ll just skip straight on to other things. I’ve picked up a couple of new ODP categories to play with. ODP still hasn’t gotten the RDF export fixed. They seem to be having some major scaling issues right now. Wish they’d [...]
News from a Slow Month
September 14th, 2002, No Comments
Not much news to post lately. I’m just staying too busy with work I guess. A lot of my spare time is still getting sucked up doing work on the DPRG website. I’ve been writing a pile of Perl code to automate a lot of the administration functions of the site. I’ve made some progress [...]
DPRG Website gets a New Look
August 22nd, 2002, No Comments
I’ve been busy the last couple of weeks helping with a major renovation of the DPRG website. Susan created some new graphics and we came up with a nice, simple layout. We’re using 100% XHTML 1.0 and CSS for the new site. So far it works great in both Mozilla and IE. Opera is a [...]
Life Slowly Returns to Normal
September 17th, 2001, No Comments
Saturday the DPRG held Roborama 01.b as planned. There were a few interesting new robots competing as well as a couple of records broken but, overall, I think attendance was down a bit due to the terrorist attacks. The events for walking robots were delayed a few weeks and may evolve into a seperate contest. [...]
