Friday Night and Monday Day Robotics – Moved!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, February 13th, 2009

This Friday was pretty interesting. All that was done was some work on two servo motors to create wheels for a simple robot that I want to create one day… but the main part was all of the packing!

All of the robotics stuff that I wanted to bring fit into two boxes! This was very convenient.

Everything got across the border just fine.

When Monday came, it was time to move everything in to the room of the Autonomous Robotics Club (at the University that I go to).

I really like the location of the club =) It’s right next to a dining place, seemingly the only one on campus that has tacos, fajitas, and quesadilas! ^_^

There’s a window, too. You can see the really nice view <3

I like the trees!

It took a total of 4 trips to get everything from my room to the ARC. See:

The cool thing about the ARC is that it shares the room with the Hobby Planes club! I like those planes a lot, they are all really detailed too. I know someone who makes hobby planes back in Montreal.

One of our first projects is a party button. So far there’s only a few members of the club. To attract new people to the club, we need to spice up the idea first… so what better to do than a party button!

The party button will be based on the famous MIT one, except ours will have more interactive things (like MANOI, BubbleBoy, and more). We’ll also have some funky lighting going on too.

I started adding some of the shiftOut chips to my shiftOut breadboard…

However, there is a giant problem! I connected everything, blah blah blah. BUT part of the wire broke off inside of the Arduino header!

Does anyone out there know how to fix it without making the Arduino deformed?

It’s quite sad to see an Arduino like this. If I can’t get it out, it would be deprived of the joy of shields… SPI… shiftOut… and more…

All in all, this weekend was super fun! I just wish I didn’t catch this whatever cold. I’m over it now (Tuesday) almost. At least I can speak again! Joy!! =)

This is the cabinet of mysteries (not really)

Posted in: Other, Projects.
Tags: ARC, autonomous robotics club, friday night robotics, moved, trees

4 Responses to “Friday Night and Monday Day Robotics – Moved!”

1. David Says:
   February 18th, 2009 at 2:41 AM

   You may be able to lift the black plastic body of that connector off by carefully prying up with a jewelers screwdriver from under the connector. Be careful not to bend the metal fingers when you have them exposed. Remove the wire carefully then put the shell back on. if it does not stay you can secure it with a dab of glue.

   I have not done this before but I have accidentally pulled sockets out of those type of connectors and put them back together so I think it might work.

   Good luck.

2. Erin, the RobotGrrl Says:
   February 18th, 2009 at 2:47 AM

   Thanks David!

   I’ll try doing that.

3. TINYenormous Says:
   May 5th, 2009 at 12:20 PM

   I think the first thing I would try would be to see if I could use the tip of an xacto knife to pry it up enough to grab with tweezers. If that failed, you can always just desolder it, and buy a new female header to put in its place. Have no fear your arduino is going to be AOK!

4. Erin, the RobotGrrl Says:
   May 6th, 2009 at 10:44 AM

   Thanks Tiny. What I did was I used pliers and gently took the plastic part off, then I took the piece out, and put the plastic back on.

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