On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Dan Roganti <ragooman@gmail.com> wrote:
Back in the 1970s, robot projects were already getting popular And microcomputer revolution is what paved the wave. I build several of these popular projects while in school in the 70s But only kept the books, alas, those robots met their timely demise in the scrap bin[parts donated to another project]
Beginning with a robot using a discrete TTL computer brain from a popular author, David Heiserman, Build your own Work Robot [1978]
http://www.amazon.com/How-build-computer-controlled-robot-Loofbourrow/dp/081... And then there was this robot project with a built-in KIM-1 How to build a computer controlled robot by Tod Loofbourrow[1978]
http://www.amazon.com/How-build-computer-controlled-robot-Loofbourrow/dp/081... And this continued on in the 80s while taking some robotics courses Along some of the popular robot kits, we even made our own robot projects. Simply because it was cheaper buying your own parts I made one using the traditional R2D2'esc chassis, with an internal 22/44 pin card cage for the various interfaces. And one included a brain using only a Timex Sinclair 1000, and another included a brain using only a RS MC-10 Because the were much smaller than a KIM-1 Dan
oh hey, Heiserman wrote several many books back then, it just came to me, there's another robot project book. This one ran on the 8085, How to Build Your Own Self-programming Robot [1979] http://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Your-Self-programming-Robot/dp/0830697608/re... Glad you bought the other books, good references in there. I didn't see my goof on the other links, sorry about that, good thing I typed in the title. Throughout the 80s, there were even more robot project books I relied on, if I can try to recall them, I'll send them Dan