Live Robot Hack Session
1983 Robot Magazines show robots haven't changed
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Take a trip with us into the past down memory lane - or - aka the time before now! We spend 3 and a half hours browsing 3 robot magazines from 1983 that show the robot industry hasn't changed. Today, the industry is making the same robots with the same challenges. Amazing to see how far we've come and how far we haven't!
Did you know there were 32x32 pixel vision systems for Commodore 64 and BBC Microcomputers?
Edit---- And all those robot Arm ads, that one Arm with the Hilarious name and DJ made this comment for Jeremie to use it on himself had me rolling on the floor,That alone made the show worth it!
i didn’t know those existed as a kid. Would have been all over them. My dad kept popular mechanics in the washroom at his company. I must have read the HealthKit hero articles a thousand times over.
With the Hero robot, I am sure the speech synthesiser was Votrax SC01 by Federal Screw - I actually bought one and it cost me a whole week's wages at the time!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votrax
Myself and a good friend redesigned Big Trak we called it XTR
Here is the first sizzle we did
Here is a promotional video
You guys are such geeks. LOL. Love it.
I sure would love a big trak someday. But of course i’d hack it with ARC haha
DJ if you let me know where you want it sent, I will post you a BigTrak in January. I also have full circuit diagrams that should make any hack a breeze.
here’s our address:
DJ Sures
#10 6120 11 st se
calgary, Alberta
T2H 2L7
canada
im so excited
Tony, you were involved in my prototyping of those arms. Not only did you give me some motors that helped move me in the right direction but you lent me support and advice at times I was ready to give up. Just one instance comes to mind when I couldn't get the Sabertooth/ Kangaroo boards to work for me in my robot. You jumped in and offered scripting advice and a pep talk. Thank you my friend! You're just as much a part of my Lost in Space B9 story as DJ and a ton of other people.
Your correct about DJ. I fully agree and always have.
Long as it had a tray to move things around between rooms, it would be pretty useful!