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Mars Exploration Rover Update - April 18, 2005

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Steering Tests After a Long Drive - sol 430-437,...
3 comments posted 21yrs
posted by baalke
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by baalke

Auto-focus, HandyCam, and where are the kits?

Warning: I am a programmer not an electronics whiz. I'm starting to poke around in machine vision and it struck me afte...
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posted by no-mail-please
12 comments posted 21yrs posted by no-mail-please

Speech synthesis

If your robot happens to be running Linux or a BSD, you can probably use librsynth to create speech. http://www.ling.un...
3 comments posted 21yrs
posted by mlw
3 comments posted 21yrs posted by mlw

low PWM rates on ESCs

I just read a review article on reversing ESCs in the June 2005 issue of Radio Control Boar Modeler mag, and was struck...
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posted by dan
22 comments posted 21yrs posted by dan

AVRCam vs. CMUCam vs. <something else>?

I'm going to take a stab at getting my Robosapien outfitted with a camera with onboard blob recognition capability. I'm...
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posted by no-mail-please
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by no-mail-please

Sub $500 Robot and $587 need to cut costs

The sub-$500 robot is designed to be a platform anyone with a moderate skill set and limited budget can build. The idea...
34 comments posted 21yrs
posted by mlw
34 comments posted 21yrs posted by mlw

polaroid sensors

anyone can suggest how to pilot polaroid sonar with a pic 16fxx?
1 comments posted 21yrs
posted by enricosarlo
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by enricosarlo

Usbmod

Hi Does anyone have any experiance in programming usb mod2 to make it behave like a parralle port ? If so some help woul...
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posted by roger.vale
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by roger.vale

Control a robot from the computer wirelessly?

Anybody got Idea's? I know of one way witch is from www.rentron.com but I was hoping for some other ways. Ps. Big fan of...
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posted by Roboticinfo
8 comments posted 21yrs posted by Roboticinfo

Rumble Robot Bar Coding

A few years ago, a popular toy was the Rumble Robot that used bar coding as a data input. Has anyone figured out what th...
2 comments posted 21yrs
posted by too_many_tools
2 comments posted 21yrs posted by too_many_tools

usbmod2

Hi all Back again I have taken your advise from before and managed to get hold of a USBmod2 usb parallel interface, i h...
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posted by roger.vale
0 comments posted 21yrs posted by roger.vale

PCI 8255/8253 I/O cards

I have seen some really inexpensive taiwanise data acquisition cards based on the 8255 and th 8253 I/O chips. Here is o...
1 comments posted 21yrs
posted by mlw
1 comments posted 21yrs posted by mlw

L298 stops

Hi all We are using a L298 IC to control DC motors from a uControler. The problem is that it suddnly stops after a shor...
4 comments posted 21yrs
posted by ahosyney
4 comments posted 21yrs posted by ahosyney

Long range 115200 bits/sec or faster wireless comm

Do you know any long range wireless communication gadget (radio modem etc.) that can be used for 115200 bits/sec contin...
10 comments posted 21yrs
posted by <Giatto Cardiacci>
10 comments posted 21yrs posted by <Giatto Cardiacci>