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Help Required to build a ball firing machine

Hi all, We are a group of 3rd yr Mechanical Engineering students. Currently, we have a project which involves producing...
9 comments posted 22yrs
posted by idiot_38
9 comments posted 22yrs posted by idiot_38

Optical Shaft Encoder -- jittery

Hey All-- I built an optical shaft encoder using a photointerrupter. The photo interrupter's output varies from about 1...
4 comments posted 22yrs
posted by mehaase
4 comments posted 22yrs posted by mehaase

Robotics begineer needing some info.

I'm just starting on servo control and wanted some questions answered. I have been looking all over the internet for in...
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posted by thekillerbean
4 comments posted 22yrs posted by thekillerbean

Phidgets Challenge !

Announcing the Phidgets Challenge ! We have put up a fun but challenging robot project up on our site and are looking f...
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posted by phidgets
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by phidgets

SF Bay Area Combat Robotics Lab Course 9/13/2004

College of San Mateo Offers Third "Robot Challenge" Hands-On Combat Robotics Building Course in 15,000 Sq. Ft. Metal Fa...
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posted by info
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by info

Silicon Valley Robotics Meetin

The HomeBrew Robotics Club meeting is tomorrow Wednesday 8/25 at the Carnegie Mellon Campus at NASA Ames/Moffet Field i...
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posted by bill
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by bill

Stability of ring nervous nets

The simplistic Nervous nets are composed of a single loop. I believe that a Nervous net ring of N nodes can support N/2...
1 comments posted 22yrs
posted by JohnCreighton_
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by JohnCreighton_

(Nervous Net==Shift Register)?

Here is a link to the simplest useful BEAMbot I know of. http://www.solarbotics.net/library/pdflib/pdf/stirling97_still...
1 comments posted 22yrs
posted by JohnCreighton_
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by JohnCreighton_

Collective Robots

Following the 'Good names for Robotics Pets' thread - from a discussion the other night - what are the suggestions for...
9 comments posted 22yrs
posted by imagineering
9 comments posted 22yrs posted by imagineering

Is this very simple system stable?

A simple feedback control loop: input --> *(+-)* ---> 1/(s-1) ---*--> output The feedback is simply multiplied by 2. to...
4 comments posted 22yrs
posted by harry0d88
4 comments posted 22yrs posted by harry0d88