A warm MVRC welcome goes out to those who have discovered our club as a result of that article. I have chosen Nomad, a joint effort robot between NASA and Carnegie Mellon University, as the interesting robot of the month. The Nomad robot is a research tool that was designed to search the frozen terrain of the Antarctic for meteors. This is one very impressive rough-terrain robot with a design that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. It also carries a high resolution camera for close up inspections as well as a spectrometer for determining the chemistry of rock samples.
Nomad is controlled by a cluster of four computers.
One is running Red Hat Linux. The last computer is a Motorola 68060 processor that controls Nomad's real-time processing. Progress on the Miami Valley Robotics Club website has been slow. We finally have some space to place some of our pages on the Active Dayton website. This should bring us some much needed local publicity.