General Robotics Forum

Robots for University education and Research

Dear all, I have just been hired to help start a new robotics lab here at the University of Central Lancashire. As it i...

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posted by luc.rolland

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anyone converted a Sherline / desktop lathe/mill to CNC ?

This topic is somewhat off topic but close enough that am posting it here. Has anyone in this group ever converted a Sh...

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posted by pogo

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GPS?

Hi GPS will give you the data of your current position. How about i want to know my robot position? it may be 100km awa...

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posted by cmk128

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question about DC motor behavior

I am a bit puzzled by something I've observed with a DC motor I am using and was hoping someone could offer insight. I...

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posted by gwlucas

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Career

I am just looking for advice. I go to college in Montana at Montana Tech. Since they don't offer a robotics degree of a...

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posted by sundewzer

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Pan Tilt Mechanical drawing

I am new to the area of robotics and hardware related to robotics. I am currently working on a tracking application whe...

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posted by nripun

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New Calculation For Robotics Posted

I have posted another Calculation For Robotics on the Rossum Project webpage. This one was written by Mitch Berkson who...

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posted by gwlucas

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Smoothing Capacitors

Hi, I'm designing a circuit (or trying to :-) ) that will run off 12V car bateries, and am wondering where smoothing (r...

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posted by mQiQcQhQaQeQlQhQiQmQsQ

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PIC usart problem

Hi everyone, I am having a big trouble with my PIC's serial communication. I have codes like these: GPS: CALL set4800 A...

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posted by ali.keles

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Mars Exploration Rover Update #2 - June 23, 2006

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html#opportunity OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Three Sols of Driving Gain 138 Meter...

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posted by baalke

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imaging - radar

Hi Is it possible to use two cameras to works as a radar. Our brain can calcuates the distance of each object we see, b...

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posted by cmk128

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Music playing robots

If you search Google for "Music playing robot", suprisingly you'll see that there are not many music playing robots aro...

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posted by <Sam>

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servo board

Hi i got a arm development board with serial port and ethernet. I want to control 6 to 10 servos by serial/ethernet por...

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posted by cmk128

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Re: PT for Aikido, a 60 yr old man aging quickly

John Nagle wrote; > There's a DARPA legged robot competition underway. See > http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/clo...

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posted by <RedCrow

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DARPA legged robot competition

There's a DARPA legged robot competition underway. See http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/closed/05-25_PIP.htm John...

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posted by nagle

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