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- Oct
25: We assembled the
robot during the ACM meeting. All the ACM members participated, the
pictures can be found here. Also the robot was officially christened "Naomi 96".
- Oct
20: The robot has
arrived and has been alloted its space in the ACM lab!
- Oct
14: The ACM exec.
board ordered the robot from LynxMotion,
a Lynx 5 Robotic Arm Combo Kit, which uses the OOPic-R microcontroller.
The kit includes an arm, a base and a gripper.
- April
12: Dr. Weiyu Zhu of the CS
Department gave a speech on
robotics during the ACM meeting. He discussed his experience with
programming robots (his research thesis was robotic AI) and also gave a
general overview of how a robot is programmed.
- 21
March: Good news - Student
Senate has decided to give
us the
full amount requested for the project. The following is the breakup of
the project funds:
- Lynx
Robotic Arm Combo Kit $355
- 2
Linux Compatible web cams $100
- VMWare
Workstation $139
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