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Question for Gordon Mccomb

In you book robot builder's bonanza 2nd edition, you make a Ir reciever using the BasicX-24. Would it still work if I we...
11 comments posted 21yrs
posted by Roboticinfo
11 comments posted 21yrs posted by Roboticinfo

Bluetooth vs. WLAN to control biped

In an effort to get rid of that silly wire between my bot and the PC, I added a Bluetooth-to-RS232 module to my servo c...
13 comments posted 21yrs
posted by matt
13 comments posted 21yrs posted by matt

hobbiest robot demographics

I wonder what the demographics of hobbiest robotics looks like today in regard to the choice of computer and software i...
1 comments posted 21yrs
posted by fox
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by fox

Mars Rover stuck - should have used tank treads?

The Nasa Mars Rover has become stuck in the sand. (see story here: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/29/...
2 comments posted 21yrs
posted by julienv
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by julienv

parallax line following sensors?

The documentation for the Parallax BOE line following module shows that they are using a GBR1114 emitter/detector. But...
2 comments posted 21yrs
posted by doc
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by doc

[OT] Hitchhiker's today

Out of topic in a sense, but I know Douglas Adams is very popular among geeks like us (yeah, sometime ago I tried to fi...
5 comments posted 21yrs
posted by padu
5 comments posted 21yrs posted by padu

hardware geeks and software geeks?

In my post "OS level programming vs microcontrollers," I think I see a trend. One "spirited" post write this: " putting...
55 comments posted 21yrs
posted by mlw
55 comments posted 21yrs posted by mlw

Suspension adjustment of an "off-road" robot

Hi, I'm working on a project named ALR2 (autonomous long range rover), based on a 1/10 scale off-road RC car (traxxas e...
3 comments posted 21yrs
posted by padu
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by padu

Mars Exploration Rover Update - April 29, 2005

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Subhead - sol 443-446, April 29, 2005 Opportunit...
0 comments posted 21yrs
posted by baalke
0 comments posted 21yrs posted by baalke

OS level programming vs microcontrollers

I was corrsponding with D Jay, and some things occured to me about the microcontroller vs PC computer debate. You guys...
27 comments posted 21yrs
posted by mlw
27 comments posted 21yrs posted by mlw

LINUX Users - what version and distro?

For those of you that are doing robotics development on a Linux PC: What Linux distro are you running? What version (num...
9 comments posted 21yrs
posted by no-mail-please
9 comments posted 21yrs posted by no-mail-please

Graduating..what should I do next?

Ok, I know this sounds very typical, but I'm graduating next week and I still dont know what to do next :P Wondering if...
6 comments posted 21yrs
posted by nzaoputr
6 comments posted 21yrs posted by nzaoputr