Date   : Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:47:03 +0100
From   : Fragula <fragula@...>
Subject: Re: Logo Turtle Robots

Thomas Adam wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have any information about these robots?  Has any of you
>> got one
>> that you can photograph?  I'd put it on my website, is all.  :)
I don't have one of those. I have a "teachmover" arm (named Skippy,
guess where i got him..), which is great fun (and 6502/6522 powered!) a
plastic arm made by one of the generic joystick companies (maybe
quickshot, but I can't remember), one of the funky nintendo ones that
add on to the SNES (which is powered by a 6502 derivative, would you
believe..) and a couple of old student project vacuum cleaner robots
that were destined for the skip after being abandoned in a store room
(which had a very clean floor!) for a few decades. (I just can't leave a
poor little robot out in the rain) (ahhhh.)

The Plan (if it can be called such) is to bolt skippy to the larger
vacubot, with a camera, and program it to de-slug the garden, walk the
(non-existant) dog, chase cats, do the shopping, and of course make
coffee. Or maybe I'll just use them to amuse daughter#2, and my
impending grandchild, while educating daughter#1, and "passively
annoying" wife#1. Also it gives the neighb0res something to talk about.
Take their minds off my dish farm anyways. :-)

Who says robots are useless???
> 
> I've also got a couple of Usborne books about building your own robot
> for the BBC.  I PDFed one of them once.
> 
Interesting. ;-)

'Tis with regret that I remember forgetting to buy a Ralph-Jessop turtle
that was on Ebay recently. Well two actually.. The first was intact, but
was likely to attract someone with more money than sense, the second was
a dead one, with no wires etc. Much more interesting.. However. i just
got sidetracked. :-(

I have a few RS 1200 Baud "telemetry" TX/RX modules here (BNIB, from the
same skip!), could have made a cordless out of it, sent it round the
garden etc. Bah...

Sadly, the robots are confined to the attic at the moment, to make room
for my more beeboidal projects, but they will be back!

Cheers!

M.