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Public Documents - Stuff People Want to Read Suppliers - a great list of Bay Area local suppliers for industrial and electronics artists, with topics like machine parts, welding, electronics, recycled and inexpensive stuff in the Bay Area and online Building Electronics and Robots for the Desert - How to protect your equipment in adverse conditions Domestic and International Shipping Info - How to ship your robots around the world with a minimum of fuss (there will be fuss!) Organizational Project Overview Member Biographies Resume Meeting Minutes Quotes In The Media Money Stuff - donations, reimbursements, rent Resources for information Useful Tidbits How We Communicate Subversion code and design data repository Our Private Wiki with a contact list SWARM Member Mailing List SWARM Party Mailing List Blog on Wikipedia Orbswarm.com FTP and web server Offline-friendly HTML version of the SWARM wiki Directions to the Box Shop - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Project Design

World Domination Where to go from here self-organizing robots Next-gen motor control Ultrasonic Location Work Groups who is working on what Big To Do List Command and Control System Orbserver iPhone / web app and web server Swarm Processing Unit (SPU) - the "Brain," CPU. SPU Dome -- the main electronics enclosure Mother Node -- command and control on the Mothership Motor Controller Steering and drive motor control, H-bridge driver & MCU driver controller Communications - communications protocols, transmitters, receivers GPS IMU Ultrasonics Control System Design Aggregator Dedicated Remote Control Telemetry Parameters - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Motion System Mechanics -- consolidated from Shell, Drive Motor and Steering Motor Mechanical Design - solidworks images Encoders Bucket Handle -- extends over the top of the Orb as a platform for antennas and sensors. ORBMC Motor controller H-bridge circuit Media Payload Sound Module -- Sound generator and amplifier module for each Orb Illumination -- Controllable multi-color LED illumination for each Orb Choreography -- SWARM control, user interface, and choreography Power Power requirements Batteries Charging systems Mothership platform/frame propulsion/drivetrain Orb Stands Orb Crates System Diagrams SWARM Information Flow Research

Team Stuff Hoodies and Patches costume Patch Banner Logo Possible Swarm T-Shirt by Lee Our slogan: Kiss my shiny metal orbs! Our sticker in Illustrator and PDF - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Archive Barbot 2012 Smashing Success! Cal Academy February 23 2012 Success! Private Event February 22 2012 Success! Cal Academy November 17 2011 Crucible Fireside Lounge Aug 19th 2011 Techniche 2011 Sept 1-4 2011 (didn't happen) Thingiverse.com Mothballing - Jan 2011 (hasn't happened yet!) Fundraiser Party - 2010 (didn't happen) BRAF Art Inquiry (didn't happen) Yuri's Night at NASA 2011 SWARM Camp Oct 15-17 MutiSpecies Salon November 2010 Replacing Batteries Tech Shop Grant Zer01 Sept 16-19 2010 - didn't happen Carlsbad April 21st - didn't happen Haas April 9 - didn't happen Cal Academy April 8 Techkriti Feb 11-14 2010 Glow Santa Monica we're not eligible (LA County only) Make Television - we didn't do it :-( DNA Lounge Nov 12 2009 Hacker Dojo Party Sept 19th 2009 Graduate STS Workshop June 27 2009 Robogames 2009 June 12-14 2009 Subzero at 01sj 2009 - June 5th 2009 Burning Man PLAYA WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT - June 3 2009 Maker Faire 2009 - May 30-31 2009 Google IO 2009 - May 27 2009 Cal Academy Nightlife April 30th 2009 Yuri's Night 2009 - April 4 2009 (didn't happen. This year it was waaay smaller) RSA Conference - April 23 2009 (gig cancelled) Creative Growth - March 2009 sometime (hasn't happened yet) Figment - June 2009 (not enough interest on our part) Head Royce School - Jan 30 2009 Burning Man 2009 Proposals (no proposal made) Opulent Temple Event - March 6 2009 (no showing attempted) JPL Exhibition - Jan 2009 (didn't happen) Creative Capital Grant Scottsdale Dec 18 2008 Lightwave 2009 Jan 24th - Feb 1st 2009 (didn't happen) Rice University Nov 6 (didn't happen) Maker Faire Austin Oct 18-19 (didn't happen) Burning Man Decompression Oct 12 2008 VIDA 11.0 Due Oct 6 2008 (didn't enter) Virgin Festival Toronto (didn't happen) Sept 6-7 BM 2008 - Mon Aug 25-Sept 1 Linuxworld Aug 4-7 Wired NextFest (didn't happen) Oct 2-5, Chicago Desert Arts Preview Jul 17 2008 All Points West (didn't happen) - Fri Aug 8-10 2008 Trucking Options RoboGames 2008 - June 12-15 Laughing Squid Party May 31 2008 Maker Faire - May 2-4 2008 Coachella - Fri April 25-27 2008 Yuri's Night - Sat April 12 2008 Storage Unit for the Box Shop Box Shop Construction Renting a truck for Burning Man 2007 Hive for Burning Man 2007 Prix Ars Electronica video entry Burning Man 2008 Proposal Float Center Gallery Dec 13-Jan 17 2007 Tessera Party December 8th 2007 FLG Fundraiser Nov 30th 2007 Todd Blair Fundraiser Dec 1st VIDA 10.0 - video submitted for art competition Maker Faire 2007 Proposal Burning Man 2007 Proposal Burning Man 2007 info Decompression - 10-7-07 DNA Lounge - Tuesday October 16th 2007 Supper Club - Oct 20th 2007 Thank You Packs - sent these to people who helped, 10/07 Sitemap - XML sitemaps for search engines