ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (01/06/90)
Date: 01-02-90 (22:46) Number: 59 (Echo) To: ALL Refer#: NONE From: SYSOP (ECFB/SHIFRIN) Read: (N/A) Subj: FISHERTECHNIK ROBOT Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE I thought I'd pass along a brief note about Joel Shprentz's presentation of the Fishertechnik Robot at tonight's Potomac FIG meeting. The device comes as a kit (for about $200 -- he bought it on sale) and consists of a robot arm with 4 motors, individually controllable over 4 joints (gripper, elbow, shoulder, and base). It also comes with a motor control module (from Parsec Research in Fremont, CA) which connects to a parallel port on the PC. Joel went over the Forth program he wrote which controlled its movement over each of the joints. Apparently it came originally with a sample program in BASIC, but Joel couldn't get that one working. If anyone is interested, I'll try to get a copy of the Forth code to post here. We were hoping to have dueling robots tonight, but still no sign of BERT <sigh>. --- * QDeLuxe 1.10 #214s ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated program. Report problems to: 'uunet!willett!dwp' or 'willett!dwp@gateway.sei.cmu.edu'