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Mac Support for 8 and 16 bit Micros from Motorola

Here's a **free** C/C++ compiler for all of Motorola's micros: http://www.metrowerks.com/MW/Develop/Desktop/Macintosh/Pr...
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posted by noone
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by noone

Mac Support for Basic Stamp

Here is a link for support for Mac users that want to use the Basic Stamp from Parallax: http://www.parallax.com/html_pa...
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posted by noone
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by noone

Step climbing mini robot

We are a small group of engineering (electronics, computer science and mechanical eng) students who are trying to desig...
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posted by <Stair>
3 comments posted 22yrs posted by <Stair>

Localize itself in a room.

Say we have a wheeled robot with the following sensors; * Wheel encoders * Two sonar sensor in the front and two at the...
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posted by Michael Mich
9 comments posted 22yrs posted by Michael Mich

Mechanical CAD for the Mac?

Does anyone know of any decent mechanical CAD packages for the Mac? I do all my design work there and have schematic ca...
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posted by dlc
5 comments posted 22yrs posted by dlc

Quadrature Decoder Question

Hi guys, The output from a Rotary Shaft Encoder(Quadrature Encoder) are given as inputs to a Quadrature decoder which b...
5 comments posted 22yrs
posted by prizark
5 comments posted 22yrs posted by prizark

Help on where to begin

Recently I have been bitten by the robotics bug. I have decided upon building a hexapod (similar to this one http://hom...
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posted by tdale4
9 comments posted 22yrs posted by tdale4

Seperately excited DC Motor as a Servo

Hi guys, I wanted to convert a Permanent Magnet DC(PMDC) Motor into a servo motor. But now with more information about...
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posted by prizark
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by prizark

"What time is it?" aksed the microcontroller

Assume that we have a group of computers. Some of them are PCs and others are small microcontroller boards of different...
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posted by <jiang>
17 comments posted 22yrs posted by <jiang>

Mars Exploration Rover Update - May 20, 2004

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Gets an Unexpected Break. - sol 131-133, May 2...
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posted by baalke
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by baalke

PC Joystick interface

This Article shows how to interface an old analog joystick to the Athena or Perseus chip. http://kronosrobotics.com/gl/a...
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posted by msimpson
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by msimpson

RS485 remote article

This article shows you how to use the Dios to communicate with a Athena485 using RS485. http://kronosrobotics.com/gl/art...
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posted by msimpson
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by msimpson

8 pin H-bridge chips?

I've been searching high and low for an 8 pin H-bridge (single motor) that can handle about 600ma current. I've yet to...
16 comments posted 22yrs
posted by dlc
16 comments posted 22yrs posted by dlc