Amiga 3000UX - dual booting Amix (Amiga Unix) and AmigaOS. Win Heagy 2021-03-04 | This is my Amiga 3000UX (very similar to an Amiga 3000) which was released with Amix (Amiga Unix) -- a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4 (SVR4), installed along with AmigaOS. I replaced the 100mb Quantum SCSI hard drive with a SCSI2SD drive formatted to 900mb. This holds a full release of Amix along with a 200mb partition for AmigaOS. The SCSI2SD does not appear to make much difference to the overall speed of the system.This particular machine was owned by a computer science (CS) undergraduate student at Virginia Tech (VT) back in the early 90s. While by today's standards, the machine seems slow, this would have been an amazing computer to have as a CS student. I believe it was a required purchase for CS students at VT at that time.
Surveyor SRV-1 Mobile Robot Win Heagy 2022-01-09 | This is my SRV-1 robot from the now defunct Surveyor Corporation. I’ve had it since around 2009-2010. It features a Blackfin BF537 (500MHz) processer, a Lantronix Matchport wireless module, laser "range finding", four motor tread drive, and mine has the stereo camera upgrade. My SRV-1 also has front and rear ultrasonic modules that I added that are not currently connected. I recently pulled this robot from display and decided to see if I could get it running again. Surprisingly I found copies of most of the software on backups, the lipo battery still held a charge, and old copies of firmware and some documentation is online and available via the Wayback Machine.There are several pieces of client software that run under Windows or Linux including test and Console modules, a Delphi Console, and a module for Roborealm. The Delphi Console and Roborealm both take advantage of the stereo video. The SRV-1 can be programmed in C and older versions of the firmware even had a Lisp interpreter available. There are two ways to wirelessly connect to the clients - 1. Adhoc mode where the SRV-1 generates a wireless “hotspot”, and 2. Infrastructure mode where the SRV-1 connects to your wireless router. I was able to get Adhoc mode working, but ran into numerous issues with Infrastructure mode due to advances in wireless security, etc. The best I could get was around 4-6 FPS on the wireless video feed in Adhoc mode. I recall years ago that in Infrastructure mode, the FPS was considerably higher.This video will demo several pieces of the SRV-1 client software, video capabilities, etc.
Rug Warrior Pro Mobile Robot Win Heagy 2022-01-01 | This is my Rug Warrior Pro “Brains” (electronics) kit purchased around 1998 for about $300. The “Braun” (motors, base, wheels, etc.) was also available for about $200, but I elected to build my own base. I was living in an apartment at the time so this was built using a jigsaw and a drill and other basic hand tools. The base is a little rough, but it worked. I used two modified hobby servos for the motors, model airplane tires for the wheels, and the wheel encoders were copied from the book “Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation” (J. Jones and A. Flynn). An excellent book by the way and still has lots of great info in it over 20 years later. The kit was provided by AK Peters publishers as a companion to the book. I recently pulled this robot off the display shelf and decided to get it running again. It still works well after all these years.My original build had a plexiglass bumper skirt around it, but that seems to have been lost to time, so I quickly added front and rear bumpers. I do want to make a proper bumper skirt again at some point. It was originally powered by six C-cell nicad batteries that I recently replaced with two 18650 lipos. This is much less bulky and lighter. I found an old copy of the Interactive C (IC) software on one of my old computers and managed to get it working. It still works well on an old Win XP install, but is a bit particular sometimes when loading software (as you’ll see in the video).The video demos the IC software, bootstrapping and loading the Pcode (the OS for the Rug Warrior), and then loading rwp-test.lis and demoing the test routines, followed by loading behave.lis and and demoing each of the behavior routines. You could program the Rug Warrior in IC using this software and I did write a few programs back when I was using this robot. The test routines included with IC were also modified slightly for better performance. This was a fairly capable platform for the day and was able to multitask quite well. It implemented the Subsumption Architecture that was popularized by Rodney Brooks and others several decades ago. I wanted to put a short video of this robot online since there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of video documentation available for it.
Symbolics MacIvory 2 Demos Win Heagy 2021-03-01 | This is a video of a number of demos included with Genera 8.3 on my MacIvory 2. Among others the demos include Abacus, Hollerith card, Escher, Life, and Qix. By today's standards, these demos are very simple, but on this machine, they are interesting.
MacIvory 2 Boot and Conway Life Demo Win Heagy 2021-02-27 | This is a remake of a video I did for my MacIvory 2 several years ago. This video shows the boot process, shaping and moving windows, File System Operations, compiling, Life demo, and machine shutdown. The video quality is better in this version and more of Genera 8.3 is shown. The video was recorded in several different sessions.The MacIvory model 2 is a Mac IIfx with 16MB of NuBus memory (2.4MW); Symbolics Genera 8.3 and Mac OS 7.6.1.
NeXTstation turbo Win Heagy 2016-02-09 | Here's a short video of my NeXTstation running in a prime spot on the retrobattlestation wall of my game room. It's a quick two minute tour ending with the NeXTstation. The only indignity for the NeXT is that it sometimes gets used as a mousepad for the Apple IIGS to it's left.
DEC VAX8650 Front Panel Win Heagy 2014-06-08 | 8650 front panel retasked as a display piece for my (to-be) arcade.
Lee Hart 1802 Membership Card (COSMAC Elf) & Spare Time Gizmos ROM-stack and Serial Connection Win Heagy 2014-02-16 | This video is about my Lee Hart 1802 Membership Card and Spare Time Gizmos Elf 2K ROM-stack. The original build instructions use a 27C256 EPROM. My build uses a 28C256 EEPROM. This EEPROM requires pins 1 and 27 connections to be swapped compared to the instructions shown in the links. As seen in the video, my Membership Card is mounted in a plastic and aluminum project box. Three AA batteries are inside the box as well as the inverter circuit that is needed between the USB/TTL adapter and the Membership Card. The USB/TTL adapter is not inside the box.Specifics can be found at:http://www.sunrise-ev.com/MembershipCard.htmhttp://www.sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/Elf2K.htmhttp://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/mem_romstack.htmlhttp://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/memship.html
Apple Lisa 2/10 Win Heagy 2014-02-09 | This video shows my (mostly) restored Apple Lisa 2/10 and the internal X/ProFile drive. It is currently booting three different operating systems from the X/ProFile dive -- Lisa OS, Mac Works, and Xenix. The external ProFile drive also works and is currently booting Lisa OS.
GEOS on the Apple IIe Win Heagy 2013-10-27 | This is a short clip of GEOS running on the Apple IIe. I recently acquired an Apple mouse card and mouse for the Apple II. The software is being loaded from a CFFA3000.
Valiant Turtle Robot Win Heagy 2013-10-13 | This is a short demo of my Valiant Turtle robot. I picked this up on ebay about a year ago. It was complete, including the box, software, and manuals, however, there was some corrosion in the battery compartment due to leakage. The batteries (NiCads) were not in the robot. The conductive surface was etched off of the battery jumper pads. I cut tinfoil to the appropriate size laid it over the corroded pads and fastened with museum wax - until a more permanent solution is found. The turtle is running from an Apple IIe. The IR emitter is connected to a Super Serial card in the IIe. It is running Apple Logo II and the Valiant Turtle Library software. The software is running from a CFFA3000 card inside the Apple IIe. The disk drives are not used.The Penup/Pendown mechanism is slow and binds. The motor was cleaned and the gears were lubed, but it is intermittent at best. For this demo, the pen was lowered manually. Otherwise, the robot works well and is in excellent condition for it's age.
Timex 2040 Printer Win Heagy 2012-11-13 | This is a Timex 2040 thermal printer connected to a ZX81 with a Suntronics keyboard. The printer did not come with a 24VAC adapter and it took several months till one was acquired. The printer is old and the thermal paper is old, but it still works - barely. A 16K RAM pack is connected behind the printer connector in the ZX81 expansion port. (Video is edited in length.)
FirstFlight Win Heagy 2012-07-12 | FeiFei's first flight in a small plane. It was Wednesday evening (7-11-12) at Leesburg (JYO). She did great! It was like she had been flying for years. Daddy's little co-pilot. :)
NeXT Slab Computer Win Heagy 2011-11-06 | This is a short demo of a NeXT Slab computer booting and running a few demo programs and various OS software. This video is heavily edited -- a NeXT Slab does not boot or run software nearly this fast.
Processor Technology Sol-20 Vintage Computer Demo Win Heagy 2011-08-14 | A few software demos on a restored Sol-20 computer. The demos include BASIC, CHESS, PATTERN, and LIFE. The software is loaded using WAV files from an iPhone (replaces the tape drive).
ZX81/Timex Sinclair 1000 Flight Simulation (Simulator) and Invaders (Space Invaders) Win Heagy 2011-06-05 | A short demo of loading and running the PSION Flight Simulation software on a Timex Sinclair 1000 mounted in a Suntronics "full-sized" keyboard mod with a 16K RAM pack. Also shown is a short demo of Invaders on the same machine. The video is on a flat panel AOC TV/Monitor. These cassette tapes are about 30 years old and loaded with little difficulty. The last time I even attempted to load them was around 1983.
Commodore_CDTV Win Heagy 2011-05-27 | A very short demo of the Commodore CDTV booting the demo CD and booting Amiga Workbench.
TRS-80 Model I Demo Win Heagy 2011-04-03 | This is a short demo of a TRS-80 Model I with cassette drive. Two short BASIC programs are entered and executed. One of the programs is saved and retrieved from tape.
Sinclair ZX80 BASIC Programs and Cassette Load Demo Win Heagy 2011-04-03 | This is a short demo of the Sinclair ZX80. Two short BASIC programs are entered to show editing peculiarities and speed. Also shown is a cassette load of a commercial program for budget analysis. It's surprising what passed for commercial software in those days. A TRS-80 cassette drive is used for tape loading. The RF out from the ZX80 is fed into a VCR where it is demodulated for composite out and displayed to an LCD flat panel TV.
Commodore PET 2001 Win Heagy 2011-03-06 | This is a short demo of the Commodore PET 2001 computer. The demo includes "Hello World" and loading software from cassette tape.
Kinect Point Cloud Demo Win Heagy 2010-11-13 | This is a demo of a point cloud viewer under OSX. Again, I didn't create this, I'm just passing along the excitement. The threads discussing it can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/openkinect/browse_thread/thread/475899eb7e324f14?pli=1 and http://www.openframeworks.cc/forum/viewtopic.php?p=24884#p24884
Kinect IR Laser Projector Win Heagy 2010-11-11 | This is a view of the Kinect IR laser projector as seen from an inexpensive webcam. Also shown is the pattern projected, as seen from the same camera in a dark rom on the back of a white notebook cover, from about 18 inches away. Here's an early look at the OSX driver... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF506nvMV7k
Kinect - early OSX driver test Win Heagy 2010-11-11 | This is an early test of the OSX driver software built using Xcode and running on an iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB RAM. I claim no authorship for any of this. The software is available at http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git. The author's video and other info at http://vimeo.com/16734124 Follow the dev effort at http://groups.google.com/group/openkinect Here's a look at the IR laser projector... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzW-FZ8TBzE
Asimo at NBAA 2010 Win Heagy 2010-10-23 | Here's a few clips of Asimo from the Honda booth at NBAA 2010 in Atlanta.
Pioneer 2 DX Wander Routine Win Heagy 2010-10-17 | This is my Pioneer 2 DX executing the automated "wander" routine from the MobileEyes software package.
Parrot Drone Win Heagy 2010-10-10 | Here's a short video of my Parrot AR Drone. Nothing fancy here, because I was flying it with one hand and filming with the other. After a few flights, it's very easy to fly with lots of automated help.
Pioneer 2 DX Robot MobileEyes Demo Win Heagy 2010-10-10 | Here's a demo of my Pioneer 2 running "acts", serverDemoStatic, and MobileEyes. The video capture is over a VNC session and is served by the Pioneer onboard computer (Pentium III) so is a bit slow and choppy, but shows the capabilities of the Pioneer hardware/software platform.
RB5X Robot with Arm Kit Win Heagy 2010-09-26 | This is a "fully" restored RB5X from the early 80s with the arm kit! I purchased this on ebay a number of months ago and the arm kit had never been installed. The batteries were bad and it took several weeks to track down new ones as well as cleaning, testing, etc. I got the robot functioning without the arm initially, and finally got around to installing the arm as show here. This is a demo with the RB5X and arm running using the tethered remote.
Borland TURBO PROLOG Win Heagy 2010-06-27 | Here's an oldie from the mid 1980s. I purchased a copy of Borland Turbo PROLOG back around 1988. I used it for a time, but as I moved away from DOS, it was forgotten. I recently came across a few Prolog books and decided to see if I could find my old Turbo Prolog install disks. I found them without much difficulty, was able to install them in an XP virtual machine running on a Mac, with slightly more difficulty, and made a short video of some of the example programs included with the package. This video shows the following three example programs included with Turbo Prolog - 1) Towers of Hanoi, 2) Labyrinth Generator, and 3) Symbolic Differentiation.
Rovio Win Heagy 2010-04-05 | This is two separate clips, combined, showing the Rovio doing an auto dock. The first half is a human perspective and the second half is the Rovio camera view. They are not the same docking event, but are in the same room and are very similar. I've had about 90% success with the auto dock on the Rovio.
RB5X Win Heagy 2010-03-14 | This clip shows my RB5X doing the power on self test and then executing the autonomous roaming routine using the sonar and bump switches. I just received new batteries for this robot, so this is the first test of the built-in ROMs. The next step is to add the arm and test other functionality such as RS232 and Tiny Basic.
Heathkit Hero 1 Speech Demo - The Three Laws of Robotics Win Heagy 2009-12-24 | This is a short program (not sure who wrote it) to demo the Hero 1 speech capabilities. The code is loaded to the Hero 1 using Hyperterm in Windows XP. The ASCII text of the BASIC code is sent from Hytperterm and the Hero receives it as though it is being typed directly from a terminal connected to the serial adapter on the Hero's experimenter's breadboard. The program causes the Hero to speak Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
Heathkit Hero 1 Sonar Program Load and Execution Demo Win Heagy 2009-12-23 | This is a short sonar demo program, originally written by Walter Glod in 1985, to demo the Hero 1 sonar capabilities. The code is loaded to the Hero 1 using Hyperterm in Windows XP. The ASCII text of the BASIC code is sent using Hytperterm and the Hero receives it as though it is being typed directly from a terminal connected to the serial adapter on the Hero's experimenter's breadboard. When the program executes, it sweeps the Hero's head left and right taking sonar readings and displaying the relative distance to objects on the terminal as a series of asterisks(*).
Heathkit Hero 1 Utility ROM Demo Win Heagy 2009-12-20 | This is a demo of several of the functions of the Hero 1 Utility ROM, including clock, motion, sonar, and the entire vocabulary.
Heathkit Hero 1 Automode ROM Demo Win Heagy 2009-12-20 | This is a short video of the Heathkit Hero 1 running the Automatic Mode ROM. It is autonomously navigating the floor of my shop using sonar. It is a pretty cluttered space and the Hero does a fairly good job of avoiding obstacles and not getting stuck.
Kim-1 Win Heagy 2009-12-06 | This is a circa 1976 Commodore manufactured Kim-1 Microprocessor board running an example program that adds two hex numbers and displays the result in the right two digits of the address display.
UM96 Radio Modems - Heathkit Hero 2000 Wireless Terminal Win Heagy 2009-12-06 | A short video of a wireless connection from a Windows XP session running RealTerm (9600 8N1) to a Heathkit Hero 2000, This is much faster, functional, and more reliable than the Hero 2000 wireless terminal.
Heathkit ET-3400-A Win Heagy 2009-11-28 | I picked this up years ago at a ham-fest for about $20. It still works and is in excellent condition. I loaded a demo program that randomly presents binary numbers and then the user enters the decimal equivalent. If the value is correct, yes is shown on the LED display...if incorrect, no is displayed. A short video of this demo program is shown here.
MacIvory Win Heagy 2009-11-22 | Here's some early video of my MacIvory model 2 Lisp machine running Genera 8.3. It shows the user interface, Zmacs, the Document Examiner, and Conway's Life (running in both an ASCII and a graphics display mode).
Lynxmotion Phoenix Win Heagy 2009-11-11 | This is a demo video of my Phoenix running version 2.0 of the control software and using a PS2 wireless controller. Theres still lots of work to do on this, including better servo wire control and better battery pack mounting. I plan to ultimately have it run autonomously and have some kind of range sensors, possibly vision.
Kaypro 2X Win Heagy 2009-11-01 | Here's a Kaypro 2X I picked up at VCF 6.0. Needs to be cleaned, but it appears to work. The video shows it running CP/M and MBASIC. ROCKET.BAS is a sample program included with MBASIC. Excuse the sticky keys and poor typing.
SRV-1 SVS Disparity Win Heagy 2009-09-05 | A updated demo of the SRV-1 SVS firmware disparity function. Both left and right images are shown. The left image (master) shows the disparity coding (red blobs). It's a little slow because it's running in an XP virtual machine inside OS X. More info on the code to do this can be found at http://code.google.com/p/sentience/wi... Info on the robot can be found at http://www.surveyor.com
Peggy 2.0 Live Webcam Video Win Heagy 2009-08-16 | A demo of live video on the Peggy 2.0. Details of this project are at http://www.planetclegg.com/projects/Twi2Peggy.html
Heathkit Hero 2000 Winch Lift Win Heagy 2009-07-26 | Winch lift of a Hero 2000. This helps to save your back and allows you to lift the H2k from the table to the floor. Simply slide the table out and lower the H2K to the floor. Reverse to put it back on the table. The wooden frame easily detaches into two pieces and takes about 1 minute to put assemble around the robot.
Controlling the Surveyor SRV-1 with the iPhone and VNC Win Heagy 2009-06-28 | Controlling the SRV-1 with an iPhone and Mocha VNC Lite. This is a kludge. If there is a better way that you know of, please let me know.
