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Basic Robotics Class will Start this Saturday.

mover — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:23:24 +0000

The class will start at 6 pm. The kit we will work with is the Bioloid Premium kit which is made by Robotis. There will be a short lecture followed by hands on instruction with the Bioloid kit.

Basic Electronics Class Starts this Friday.

mover — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:16:56 +0000

The start time for the class will be at 7 pm. The book we will use for the class is the Make: Electronics Book. 7 pm to 7:30 pm will be lecture followed by a 1/2 hour of lab time starting at 7:30 pm

PR2 Robot Fetches Beer from the Refrigerator

mover — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:41:47 +0000

We need one of these down at the space!

CCCKC’s OMGWTFBBQ! is on Facebook

mover — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:04:51 +0000

Link to Facebook

KC Mini-Makers Faire is on Facebook

mover — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Link to FaceBook

CCCKC-U Perl Class

asmodianX — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:59:30 +0000

CCCKC-U proudly presents our PERL class, tought by our very own Rixon.

From CCCKC

New toys down in the space.

mover — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:23:23 +0000

We just got two new toys to play with at the space. Two iPaq Home Internet appliances.

AT&T UNIX PCs

rsaxvc — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:57:02 +0000

On a nice Saturday afternoon trip, Doug and I found two AT&T UNIX PCs at a yard sale. The owner of the units had them since he worked for TWA. For the most part, the systems had only the OS and a few user accounts. There wasn’t even a compiler! These boxes were known as “The computer with the future built in”, and this shining review from Byte magazine gives such praise as “runs multiple processes well enough to compare with a VAX” and “The power of the 10-MHz 68010 processor really shows.” Although the software that came with these machines was quite limited, they were quite expandable with the built-in 20 megabyte hard drive. However, much of the original software is gone today, except for an archive on taronga.com, home of other wonderful things like the lyrics to Alice’s NNTP Server, a fun but unrelated tale. Also of note, AT&T had an app store, known as ‘The Store‘, which was a dial-up UUCP system.

The first boot in years.

System Specs:

Motorola 68010 CPU at 10 MHz
Intel 80×86 expansion card( for running MS DOS )
1 Megabyte RAM (Shared between UNIX and DOS )
2 serial ports ( 1 built-in, 1 expansion card )
3 button mouse
Graphics system ( Not X )
Monochrome monitor (not removable / upgradeable)
System V UNIX R2/R3
1200 baud modem
Phone control ports( Call waiting, call management, …)
1 printer port

Banner is older than I knew.

June 2010 CCCKC-U PERL Programing

asmodianX — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:50:20 +0000

Rixon has volunteered to teach a course on PERL programing.

Contact rixon(at)cowtowncomputercongress.org for details.

(Picture from xkcd.com)

Interview with Bre Pettis on the RobotDreams website.

mover — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:13:55 +0000

A very interesting interview done by Lem of the Robotdreams website. Listen close around the 3 minute mark of the interview!

Interview Link.

Part 2 of the interview

Part 3 of the interview. There is a lot of cool inside information on future MakerBot add-ons. (Very Top Secret!)