Parallax at ROBOTFEST!
ValeT
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EVERYONE! If you are in the North East/near Baltimore this Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, come join us at RobotFest! Below is the link to RobotFest's website.
http://www.robotfest.com
There will be a Parallax booth showcasing some S2s, ActivityBots, and some other assorted goodies.
Hope to see you all there,
ValeT
http://www.robotfest.com
There will be a Parallax booth showcasing some S2s, ActivityBots, and some other assorted goodies.
Hope to see you all there,
ValeT
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I tried a few variations, org, https, etc. All I found was http://www.robofest.net/ but that's not in MD.
Looks like the site is down. I did find this poster: http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flyer.jpg
The link is good, but the site is down. Here's Google's cache:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robotfest.com%2F&ei=df02VduUN8eWsAXMnYHoCg&usg=AFQjCNG8pSp8nNded-p0_S1vgvnRSexztw&bvm=bv.91071109,d.b2w&cad=rja
http://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org/robot-fest.shtml
Unfortunately, the 2 links on the page aren't working. The NEM is a pretty interesting museum.
Tom
Yeah, that is what I'm talking about. I couldn't post the exact details because, as erco mentioned, the site was down.
Hahahahahahahahahaha, I wish I was the Supreme Commander......
That poster is a little out of date, but since the website is up now, all information can easily be found there.
Vale are you going to be there?
Will someone from Parallax be at the RobotFest?
I live about 10 miles from the RobotFest, and was planning to go.
Let Me know if you or Parallax needs any help with the booth, or if you would like me to bring some robots to show.
Anyone else from the forums going?
We sent him a few of our demo robots to show off; hopefully they all survive the trip intact!
Hahahahahaha, they did survive the trip. I got it all yesterday.
Thanks for the offer! As far as I know, I should be able to handle setup.
Glad to see you will be able to make it! Is anyone else also able to go?
So please don't do nothing dumb on Saturday at Robotfest like the clowns protesting at SXSW! http://io9.com/yeah-that-stop-the-robots-protest-group-is-probably-1691759434
I am on my way to the Robotfest 2015.
http://www.robotfest.com
Hope to see you at the Robotfest.
@Vale: It was good to meet you.
You mentioned to me that you had a problem when the ActivityBot lost its Xbee connection. I checked the code in the Parallax learn projects. The line that reads the Xbee data is:
that function will wait until it reads data. If none is received, it stalls, and the abdrive function drive_speed doesn't get changed. The bot continues in the same direction.
if you use
The function will return either the oldest data (like fdserial_rxChar does) or -1 if there is no data. Assuming the buffer is full, it will continue following commands until the buffer empties (due to no data from the Xbee.) Test for -1 and stop the bot and beep a few times to signal error and end the program.
Tom