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News Page
As things are added and successes happen,
this page will tell it all!
Webmaster Note: I will try to
update these news items for major groundbreaking successes, but there
will not be daily project updates.
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August 9,
2005
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Meet the Team
A section of the website has been
added to show the people working on the Wifi Bot Project.
Brad Benjamin - Summer 2005 Intern hired to work on the project
Dr. Richard Wolff - Primary Faculty Advisor
Dr. Robert C. Maher and Dr. Fredrick Cady - Secondary Faculty Advisors
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Meet the team here
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August 8,
2005
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Parts have
been shipped
EZL-80 from Data Flow Systems has
arrived recently so our parts requirements are almost met.
The EZL-80 provides a valuable service to the flow of our
project. It handles the interface to a PCMCIA card, which is
a mature technology giving an adequate signal range for data
transmission. It also handles the protocol stacks, drivers,
and signal processing to provide a basic serial signal in TTL level to
a microcontroller.
CAN transceivers were received weeks ago. CAN (Controller
Area Network) will enable us to limit the number of pins we use on the
robot microcontroller to enable future add-ons without removing
features such as the wireless interface we are attempting to add.
CAN4USB tool was received less than two weeks ago. This is a
USB device that comes with useful software to debug the signals that
are being sent using the CAN interface. Also, the computer
software can send CAN messages for testing of individual CAN
components. This tool is made by Zanthic.
The only component missing from our required parts list is a PCMCIA
socket that will provide a pinout for direct connection
between a PCMCIA card and the EZL-80. We have ordered this
from Digikey and it should arrive within the next two days.
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View Parts list and project flowchart
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August 8,
2005
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Website
Debuts
IThe NWACC grant requires that a
website be
created so work was started on Friday, August 5, and the site was up by
Monday, August 8. Web designer Brad Benjamin hopes to keep
the
website updated with its attractive layout and color scheme throughout
the life of the project.
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