R.I.P. Workshop – Exhibition!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Saturday, July 16th, 2011

SCRUMBLEFLIT was all ready to go on display at the Town Hall! Everyone’s creations were on display around town and in a few places in the Banff Centre.

Positioning everything is a bigger challenge than meets the eye. Everything has to have a reason for being where it is! The robot was placed on the floor, it was pretty cool!

Here is SCRUMBLEFLIT outside of Banff Town Hall:

During setup for the exhibition I noticed that if I manually move the stepper motors, it causes the power supply to go into shutoff mode. Jessica lent me some diodes, but then the voltage drop was too much, so instead of using 3.3V from the power supply now, I had to use 5V. The crazy part is that the steppers behaved differently on the 3.5V (or whatever it was after the voltage drop of the diode)! I’m not too sure as to why this is, but I’ll see if I can figure it out at my home lab!

Here is a video of SCRUMBLEFLIT:

Afterwards there was a party in the Vis lab, and SCRUMBLEFLIT’s eyes always look really interesting in the dark:

All in all, the RIP workshop was fantastic! It was very inspirational to meet everyone and listen to what they make, and what they are making. I’m really excited to go back and work on more recycled robots now!

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