Prototype Boards

Looks like you’ve got everything you need. Drop that info into a Gadgeteer module PCB design and build the driver and you’re set!

@ devhammer

Wow! Well spotted about the snap-in nylon stand-offs! They came with the board from the Gadgeteer team and they made them in-house. They were really useful - clipped into the board and then you could just push the modules on top. Unfortunately they took them back when they took the board back, so I’m now using the same bolts and spacer approach you’ve been using.

Any ideas as to how they made those posts in house?

@ HughB

I’m sorry I don’t know. They have a big workshop and I know they made them there.

Is this at the cambridge site or is there a group at the Thames valley park?

Cambridge :slight_smile:

[url]http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/cambridge/default.aspx[/url]

my office is down the road from TVP just off the M4

I’m also very interested in the “snap-on” spacers. I’ve been searching for a webshop in the Netherlands and found a few. But there’s an outrageous amount of different spacers available… I can no longer see the forest through the trees (dutch saying) :smiley:

Here some links:
[url]http://www.skiffy.com/en/pcb-spacers.html[/url]
[url]http://www.richco.nl/products/circuit-board-hardware.html[/url]

Universal plates arrived today, and I’ve got my Hydra mounted along with the Seeed OLED module (pic below). Unfortunately, I just realized that now I need another client module for power, and it looks like the USB Client DP module is out of stock… :’(

Guess I may have to settle for the USB Client SP for now.

So far, I really like the universal plates. The holes are perfectly spaced and drilled out enough so that a 4/40 bolt slides right through, no threading into the board itself. I’m going to build me a basic robot over the weekend, so look for some pics and videos to come. :slight_smile:

I really would like to have something like this:

http://www.tinyclr.com/forum/21/5600/

Decided to swap out the big plate for one of the smaller ones and add a few more touches.

BEHOLD, the beginnings of…THE HYDRABOT!!! :slight_smile:

That looks really cool. More pictures, please.

Freakin awesome :slight_smile: now make it dance

Nice wheels, dude! What’s the plan for the OLED? A face? More pics indeed!

The wheels are from my LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit…Tamaya sells a set of adapters that let you mount them on the Tamaya hex shafts.

Haven’t decided exactly what goes on the screen yet, though a face is a distinct possibility. Still need to decide what sensors to put on it, too. :slight_smile:

It needs a big freakin’ [laser] cannon on top! It would make a really cool pathfinding bot if you had a cannon on top that rotated around shooting the walls with a red laser in bursts. Maybe you could train it and the helicopter to battle each other :smiley:

Speakin’ of copters… I’ve got a BestBuy gift card I’m getting tired of carrying around and was thinking of buying one of these Protocol copters. Anyone had any luck controlling them with IR?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Protocol+-+TigerJet+3-Channel+Remote-Controlled+Helicopter/1093742.p?id=1218304107780&skuId=1093742&st=helicopter&cp=1&lp=6

The one I have is just a single prop with a balancer and it’s tough enough to control manually. So, I want to get a double prop before I attempt to control it through NETMF + IR.