This is a short post about our progress on the build of the AngelicvM 1 mock-up version that we want to use for SpaceTechExpo and other publicity activities...
Here some pictures, enjoy!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Our new shinny Digital Microscope Arrive!!
Today our new Digital Microscope arrive!, an incredible Digital 76X Stereo Scope with 9" HD LCD Screen & 5MP Camera.
Here is the description of the manufacturer:
With
a 9" 1280x800 resolution LCD screen, this tool liberate you from the
fatigue, nausea, dizziness and blurred vision associated with prolonged
work with traditional microscopes. Our microscope let you view and
share your work, output to a PC or projector throw a USB/HDMI cable,
and record high resolution snapshots or videos directly onto an SD card.
More specifications here
http://acrossinternational.com/Digital-76X-Stereo-Scope-with-9-HD-LCD-Screen-5MP-Camera-MG23.htm
This beautiful piece of equipment is going to help us a lot in our electronic development as also for electronic inspection of parts.
Here is some picture of the simple assembly:
Here is some picture of the simple assembly:
And next some amazing videos!, specially check the last one, an amazing resolution!, great zoom!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Summit 2013 at Santiago, Chile!
Its been a week since the Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Summit 2013 ends, this year as probably much of you know, it was hosted in Santiago, Chile (April 2-5) by the AngelicvM Team.
It was a wonderful Summit and a great opportunity to met all teams again after a year, of course a great opportunity to hear the updates of each of them and of course have a lot of fun! :-) ...in some places you can hear "...bets summit ever!" :-) , but is not to us to say it of course ;-)
The Summit was followed by some nice trips to the mountains near to Santiago and to the home of Pablo Neruda over the weekend after the Summit, with the guys of the X Fundation.
Next my personal selection of pictures of the event...you can find more general info at:
https://www.facebook.com/TeamAngelicvm
http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/blog/lunar-roundup-2013-team-summit-chile
And of course at each Team facebook page...
Next some random nice pictures of the REAL group at different moments of the Summit and later trip on the weekend (not time ordered):
Me with the guys at the nice lobby of the Grand Hyatt hotel in Santiago when we stay that week and when the Summit was...
Second night dinner at the Polynesia "Bali Hai" restarurant in Santiago, Jorge Vidal from the our team at the left! ;-) (he dance later that night!)
Aahhh nice picture of our friends Ruben and Joseph from Earthrise with Alex from X Fundation.
Nice picture with our Team Leader Gerardo at the right on the main room of the Summit conferences...
The guys at the hot spring visit after the glacier, Carlos at the center of the picture :-)
Thank you guys for all the hard work on the Summit!
Hope you enjoy it! ;-)
My new foldable power wheelchair arrive!
About a month ago, my new shiny foldable power wheelchair arrive! (PW-990UL model), it is probably one of the smallest and lightest power wheelchair on the market and I buy it from:
The chair is awesome and it have some very nice features, here some of those from the seller website:
Net Weight 20kg
Max Speed 6 km/hr
Maximum Capacity 100kg
Seat Width 46 cm
Folded size L X W X H 71 X 58 X 30 cm
Opened size L X W X H 90 X 58 X 85 cm
Max Distance / Full Charge 20 km
Charge time 3 hours X 2 sides
Max Slope Capability 12 degree
Battery type Li-ion
Battery Capacity 12V x 2 – 10Ah
Input Power 110-230V (50-60HZ)
Motor Type Brushless Motor 180W X 2
Front Wheel 6″
Rear Wheel 8″
Frame Material Aluminium Alloy
Tyre Type Rigid PU tyre
Arm Rest Movable
Foot Rest Rigid
Back Rest Foldable
The guys at the selling department (Jay) is very nice and they have a very good support service, Jay was very nice to explain me all the chair features and how to buy from Chile and all the process.
Next a couple of pictures of my chair when just came out of the box and then in use at the GLXP Team Summit 2013 (Google Lunar X PRIZE competition annual event), I'm "Chief Rover Development" at the AngleicvM Team (the Chilean team on the competition):
Here I'm at the left with the chair at the GLXP event in the Hyatt hotel in Santiago, Chile...
On the next pictures I was on the house of "Pablo Neruda" (Novel price poet from Chile) in "Valaparaiso" (a port city near to Santiago), the house is now a museum and it was a nice trip that we made after the Summit event...
I also want to share some of pictures about a couple of "adjustments" that I made to the chair to feel more comfortable with it, just in case someone find it useful:
The first one is a simple "barrette" or "lock" mechanism for the foot rest mechanism. The chair folds the foot rest to back when the chair is closed, which is good to keep it small, but at least in my case, when I add some weight with my foots on the foot rest, the plate tend to folds back, which was not good for me...To solve it a simple barrette hold the piece in place when the chair is "open" or extended.
Also in my case, the foot rest was to "back" for me, I can't bend my knees too much and by design the wheelchair foot rest was pointing to the back to the chair. My first attempt was to flip it over, but that don't work, so the easy solution was to add a second plate that with a simple hinge gets folded.
At the right a picture of the additional plate extended...
And at the left a picture of the plate folded (it can be completely folded, here is partially folded to better understanding of the solution), it doesn't take more room on the chair folded since it actually have an space on that area and it add little more weight.
In summary, is a great chair that can need some minor adjustments from case to case as usual for us with disabilities when we buy something that we need. May be the manufacture can address this issues in the next version if they fit a large number of users.
The strong point of the chair is to be light and small, as is publicized on the website, consider that is a small chair, so don't expect an amazing performance for out-of-door, because the reduced wheels size can get easily in troubles if you find breaks or uneven terrains, nevertheless, you still can take it outside and is going to behave fairly. The chair is specially designed for indoor use where it behave excellent it is very fast actually and it show very good power, I definitely tested on slopes of more than 12° (as specified and it doesn't show any problem to climb up. Perhaps on a next version the rear wheels can be a little more big or at least more wide since in very clean ceramic floors it tends to slide a little sometimes.
Another small update that can be made it, is to add some kind of suspension mechanism for the front wheels or perhaps change it to something a little more "soft", because the chair have the power to overcome pinhole obstacles, but the front wheels just block the movements most of the times in this situations...but again, that's on outdoor use, which is the not main purpose of the chair....
The battery is absolutely great!, it hold a complete day going everywhere, I also take trips of 10km or 15km total without any problem and it charge very quick, 3hrs or 4hrs and you are up to go again!...
So, I definitely recommend this chair for someone that, like me, need to travel a lot and it can't use a regular manual wheelchair, it gives you independence, which is something precious for us. Is light and small, so no airline is going to make you any problem to take it with you on your travels and at the price of a little more of USD2k is became an amazing deal!.
Next I going to bring it to the SpaceTechExpo in California, USA, at the end of May, so stay tune for more update about the chair! ;-)
AngelicvM Team will be presenting at the SpaceTechExpo 2013!
It is official, the AngelicvM Team will be presenting at the SpaceTechExpo in Long Beach California! (May 21-23).
I personally very exited to be presenting as Chief Rover Development of the Team in this important event.
We are going to be presenting at the "Satellite & Space Summit" of the event and our talk is called "Dandelion – Cubesat Mobile Exploration Platform", on the day two called the "Applications day".
You can find the preliminary program at:
http://www.spacetechexpo.com/satellite-and-space-summit-2013
We show up at the "Day 2" tab.
Here is the demo video of the Expo of this year:
Ahhh BTW, we renamed our rover to "AngelicvM 1" to better reflect the spirit of the Team, previous prototypes are still called "Dandelion".
See you guys at the Expo! :-)
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