24 May
2016
24 May
'16
11:33 a.m.
On Tue, 5/24/16, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
oh hey, I almost forgot, I still have the SVI-2000 robot arm if you want something else for the HOPE exhibit or the NYC MakerFaire. http://www.theoldrobots.com/images58/Robotarm-w1.JPG
Now there's a blast from the past. Over 20 years ago there was a variant on that unit that had an RS-232 interface in the base. I got a loaner for a summer course I was doing. We drove it with a network of Sun workstations and had it playing Connect-4. Here's a little SIGCSE paper on the project: http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/robotics/p41-stuart.pdf BLS