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Please help confirm my motor selection
Before I place my order I wanted to see if I could get some validation on my motor selection as this is my first robot. Here are my requirements: 1) Robot Weight = 10lbs (actually anticipate only...
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Where to buy wheels
I'm looking for a good source of wheels for a new bot. something 6 inch diameter, solid rubber, with an axle and ball bearings already attached. I'd like to mount a sprocket on the wheel, then be able...
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Robosapien power switch wiring
Okay, confession time: I picked up a cheap V1 Robosapien to hack around with on Ebay. It's actually fine, except that the power switch has failed mechanically. But repeated Googling found me nothing...
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Scientific American, Jan 2007
The January '07 cover story is "The Dawn of the Age of Robots" written by Bill Gates. I cannot find a reference to it on the net. The mag should be on the shelves soon. Cover features a cool robot...
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Battery Wiring To Produce Multiple Onboard Voltages
Hi, I'm currently designing the electronics for a robot I'm building that has a 36V main drive motor. I was planning on using 3 12V batteries and was wondering if there is anyway of getting 36V from...
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safe to use a voltage divider continuously?
This is probably a dumb question, but hey, I'm a newbie. :) I have a motor controller that requires a logic voltage of no more than 5.5V (but is content with as little as 2.5V). But my motors are...
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Servo Controlled light switch
I am not sure if this is the place for this. What I am looking for is a standard 110V light switch, with some sort of servo inbedded inside, to allow for the switch to be physically turned on or off....
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Reinforcement Learning Paper - Finalist (5 papers out of 916) for the Best Student Paper Competition
That's the Reinforcement Learning (collaborative Q-learning) related paper: Kartoun U., Stern H., Edan Y. 2006. Human-Robot Collaborative Learning System for Inspection. IEEE International Conference...
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Relay
Anyone know of any good tutorial site or links explaining relays in detail. I am wanting to start with something simple like switching something like a standard household light or something. I must...
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Where to buy complete sets of crystals?
Hi, I'm looking for complete sets (channels 61 through 90) of Futaba FM crystals, to use in organized robotic (VEX) competitions. (We can't leave it to chance that everyone has unique channels.) I've...
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question about wheels
I am in the process of planning on building an (eventually ) autonomous vehicle for exploring. I have the book Robot Bonanza and I was reading how, on the small robot vehicles, usually what is done is...
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Mars Exploration Rover Update - December 7, 2006
UPDATE: Opportunity's Odometer Reaches Six-Mile Mark at 'Bottomless Bay' - sol 1016-1021, December 07, 2006: Opportunity is healthy and wrapping up imaging of "Bottomless Bay" (Bahia sin Fondo) at...
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tips for securing a laptop on a mobile platform?
I'm working on a laptop bot based on a chassis from an old RAD robot. I can pretty easily attach a foot-square piece of expanded PVC sheet (from Budget Robotics) to this chassis... but then how do I...
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video cam problem
Hi I want to but video cam which have build-in motor. But i can't find one that provide the programming interface, you know anyone does? Also, i want to use programming to control the zoom level, but...
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rolling robot
guys any one done a rolling robot ???plz help me
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