Welcome to the web page of the Front Range Robotics club. The
club is for all folks interested in Robotics in the Northern Colorado
area.
Including Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Longmont and Boulder
area.
Even if your not in the area your still welcome to join the
fun.
The club has been in existence sense early 2001. FRR is a
open club,
there are no memberships, fees or dues. Just show up and
enjoy sharing
the challenge and fun of autonomous home build robotics. Sign
up
for the clubs email list serv at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FrontRangeRobotics/
We meet the First
Wednesday and the Third Wednesday of the month, starting
around 6:00 pm. The meetings are in a business office in
the Drake Professional Park. 2627 Redwing Road, suite 240, Fort
Collins. Drake Park Map
Its the south most middle building, labled as "Creekside One".
Enter from the south entrance.
The
$50 Robot Challenge!
Were going to try a buildup of small robot challenges using a '$50 Club
Robot'. The idea is to do some regular small events using a
simple common platform. The robots will probably cost more
than $50 after a lot of little events have been done with them.
The idea is to start quick and dirty with a mostly common
platform design for a group of folks. Set a challenge idea up
every few meetings and see if the robots can be doing something
interesting within a fairly short turnaround.
Photos and notes from
past
meetings
1st
Quarter 2008
FRR
Fire Fighting Contest 2008
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
Critter Crunch 2005
September 2005 meeting
IEEE robot
competition 2005
March 2005
February 2005 meetings
January 2005 meetings
December 2004 Wednesday night
meetings
Nov
2004 3D
robot photos
Hack Meeting
October 27, 2004
Critter Crunch
2004, a great
time!
Photos and
comments from the
Hack meeting on October 20, 2004
Photos and
comments from
the August 2004 monthly meeting
FRR has a number of continually going robot competitions such as
Mini-Sumo.
Great
site
for rules and explanations of Mini-Sumo
FRR has created some original contest of our own such as the 'Object
Grabber' contest.
Object Grabber Rules
Every year in October, is the annual Critter Crunch at the
Mile Hi Con,
a science fiction convention. FRR enters Critters and also
show our
autonomous bots.
Link to
the MileHiCon
Robot Projects, stuff others have designed and you may find useful!
PID
controller using
Back EMF as the Control Feedback
Build Your Own Ultra-Sonic
Sonar Range Finders
and Save a Bundle!
LCD & 8
Key Button, Serial
Display I/O Module
Links to some of our members web sites
Dennis
Clark, Author
of several robotics books!
Dan
Michaels,
lots on walking robots
Terry Fritz,
Killer robots!
Terry also
has a cool sensor
he has created, details here!
Galen's
cool robots
Derek
Zahn, battle bots
with alarming names!
Joe
Strout, Robot
Log
Kim
Wheeler, Local robotics company
