[XCSSA] Any Meeting Topics for next week? (19th)

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Howdy...

What drinks do you want for the remote controlled cooler??? ;-)
It's actually controlled by a PS2 controller now since we use it to for 
the SA Best Robot competition...
Radio communication is reserved for competing robots so I put a PS2 
controller on there...

Once the SA Best competition is over, I'll ask the kids to bring in the 
robots, however they will be busy for another two weeks so they will not 
make it for this meeting...

Does anyone know anything about the Hero Robots ?
I'll bring in the broken one I got from school. I don't know if it is 
salvageable or not...
I still think that I want to put my Replica on there but if anyone knows 
where to get the manuals, schematics etc, it might be  possible to save 
it...

/Fredrik

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> Anyone else?
>
> anyone?
> 	anyone?
> 		Bueller?
>
> Tweeks
>
> On Sunday 11 October 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
>   
>> Well, I just got the synth working with all the lights, buttons,
>> knobs, and LCD display...I'm not sure how stable that actually is but
>> maybe it's good enough for show. It's not 100% done. Most of the stuff
>> is cosmetic in nature (such as getting an amber LCD and some knobs)
>> but it does work and is pretty awesome! Honestly, I'm probably not
>> done with having to fiddle with the damn control surface wiring but
>> we'll see.
>>
>> Someone on the MidiBox forums had a hugely smart idea of using a hot
>> glue gun to glue the wires down a bit better, or keep them from moving
>> at least and move the stress points away from the solder joints. That
>> would be nice, except now I have wires soldered on both sides of the
>> boards for the connectors so for me to do the glue thing, I'd have to
>> probably rip stuff up and do it yet again. So, I'm going to see how
>> well what I have holds.
>>
>> In any case, if it's still working by next Monday, I'll bring er in. I
>> had hoped to have a full demo setup and ready to go. I might have
>> something but it will probably be more like what I did last time I
>> brought in my previous SID synth. The problem is that I have no mixer
>> (passive or otherwise) to mix down the 4 stereo inputs easily. Without
>> that capability, making a "live" demo is a bit difficult. Working on
>> that though. I'll have a demo eventually, just probably not by the
>> next meeting.
>>
>> At the very least I"m trying to figure out a way to jam some SID
>> tunes. There's a Windows program for that but I haven't found one for
>> Mac. It needs to support SID Station output (since the MidiBox can
>> emulate that to play SID tunes). I may need to do something nasty and
>> install Windows on a portable drive or something terrible like that :)
>> If I have enough time to do it before the meeting, I will. The SIDs
>> sound pretty kick-ass with the MidiBox I have to admit. Plus there's
>> pretty LEDs for each of the channels :)
>>
>> Having said all that, I'm not sure I want to commit to anything just
>> yet, because if I do, the damn synth will break on me again :) But my
>> plan is to bring it in as long as it works and so far I'm on track.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:24 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
>>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> So... who's doing what next week?
>>>
>>> There have been rumors of synthesizers, microcontrollers Apple UNIX..
>>>
>>> Anything anyone wants to commit to?
>>>
>>> Tweeks
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