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Schilling Robotics Employment Opportunities
Schilling Robotics offers 20 years of technology expertise and innovation in remote systems products for subsea applications (including offshore oil, telecommunications, scientific, and military...
 
3-Wheel Robot navigation
Here's a picture of a 3-wheel robot I built: motor drives the front wheel and steers the front wheel via a servo. There is a shaft encoder on the front wheel. I'm thinking that I should be able to...
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Attn: Gordon: Your "Electronics for Dummies"
Gordon, Your Electronics for Dummies was post last night to with a lot of other books that would be very useful to newbiews in the group. The Hirudinea.
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USB frame grabber
hi to all!!!!!!!!! can you please suggest me some video processors that i want to include in my design of USB frame grabber.let me be more clear.i am under process of designing of one frame grabber...
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USB BOE-BOT Linux support
Hi all, I'm new to this group, although I'm excited to see all that is being done. I'm just barely getting into robotics, and am excited as well to see what I'm creating myself. I'm no n00b to linux,...
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DC motor from cordless drill...How to power it?
Hello all, I am trying to power a DC motor from my cordless drill and I am having some troubles with it. First not that I have used two different motors one rated at 14.4 V and one at 18 V. I am...
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roll pitch yaw to orientation altitude tool
I require a function to convert angles expressed in Roll, Pitch, Yaw to O (orientation), a (altitude), t (tool). The oat notation is used by the Puma and Kawasaki robots to express the orientation of...
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Increasing sonar beam width
Hi, all I currently I am building a robot that is about a foot and a half wide and a foot tall, and I am using two Devantech SRF04 ultrasonic rangers. The problem is that at a close distance the...
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A few simple questions on programming servos!
Hello, I'm working on a pole climbing robot ( my individual project at Uni, and its come to the stage where I must programme it! This, I am not very good at, but I am making some progress. I'm...
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Mars Exploration Rovers Update - April 21, 2006
UPDATE: Spirit Studies New Terrain - sol 812-819, Apr 21, 2006: Spirit remains healthy and is enjoying the winter sun on Mars. This week, Spirit began acquiring a full-color, high-resolution,...
 
STR730FZ2 ARM processor development board with SW tools
Do you know and recomment any STR730FZ2 ARM processor development board and good SW tools for it? Is it possible to run some flavour of Linux on it ? (If "Yes", then which one?) Thx, Miem
 
MHEXII - Omnidirectional hexapod walking robot
Hey all! I'm new to this group so I thought I'd make a start by introducing you to my omnidirectional hexapod walking robot MHEXII. This is an ongoing hobby project of mine that started with my...
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Robot for beginners
Hi all! I'd like to build my first robot and, essentially, these are the things I'm interested in: 1) to make some experiment with programming the robot's behaviour 2) to use different kinds of...
 
MINDSTORMS SDK for .NET
I found this: you like to program in VS2005 and like to get started on Lego Mindstorms, microsoft is making available an SDK to work with C++, C#, VB and J# for free. I believe MS also announced today...
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2nd EURON Summer School on Perception and Sensor Fusion in Mobile Robotics
2nd EURON Summer School on Perception and Sensor Fusion in Mobile Robotics September 11=F716, 2006 - Fermo, Italy