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Subject: FISHERTECHNIK ROBOT
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Date: 5 Jan 90 20:44:19 GMT
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 Date: 01-02-90 (22:46)              Number: 59 (Echo)
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 Subj: FISHERTECHNIK ROBOT           Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 I thought I'd pass along a brief note about Joel Shprentz's
 presentation of the Fishertechnik Robot at tonight's Potomac FIG
 meeting.  The device comes as a kit (for about $200 -- he bought
 it on sale) and consists of a robot arm with 4 motors,
 individually controllable over 4 joints (gripper, elbow,
 shoulder, and base).  It also comes with a motor control module
 (from Parsec Research in Fremont, CA) which connects to a
 parallel port on the PC.

 Joel went over the Forth program he wrote which controlled its
 movement over each of the joints. Apparently it came originally
 with a sample program in BASIC, but Joel couldn't get that one
 working.

 If anyone is interested, I'll try to get a copy of the Forth code
 to post here.

 We were hoping to have dueling robots tonight, but still no sign
 of BERT <sigh>.
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