hi there! parallel ports are good in sinking than sourcing current,so you can use pullup resistors like 10k from standard source(5 v) and it can act as a open...
... Thanks David. I downloaded the file and will have a look. From the overview section, it appears this was Hawkins' grad school thesis proposal that was...
... Liberator looks tall enough to sense walls. However, since walls actually extend all the way from ceilings to floors, I don't see that bot height is a...
... Not sure what you are referring to. The SmartPal I found is not square. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp\ ?NewsNum=1331 For a...
... One place I lived ther were quite a few which lived on my window sill. In my workshop now there are slow moving very long legged spiders that do not make...
That was the right SmartPal, the body isn't round it is box shaped, more obvious in other photos. I think lifting 50 to 100lb should be somewhat in the future...
I'm using a DC motor I took from a portable CD player in an optical device. The motor is meant to run on 3 volts. I want it to run a little faster that it's...
martin.amada said: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:45 PM ... Yes, likely. It will depend on the design of the motor, perhaps it was designed for a higher voltage...
Martin ... Maybe I'm wrong but I thought that CD player motors were brushless and the currents were generated by a free-running oscillator (rather than by ...
Peter Balch
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Apr 2, 2009 9:34 am
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I am the head engineering mentor for Exploding Bacon Team 1902 (Orlando). We just had the privilege of winning at Connecticut last weekend. Well enough of...
This is cross posted from the DPRG list: Howdy, One of the dance faculty here at SMU wants to have a dancing video camera on stage in one of their productions....
Horribly written article that entirely misrepresents what it does. Stick to BBC, quality news reporting =) ...
John Palmisano
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Apr 3, 2009 4:33 am
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How about an old fashioned RF modulator for the (soon to be extinct) VHS channels? Every VCR, etc has a modulator that puts out RF on channel 3 or 4. You can...
You may not want to do that. It would be an unlicensed VHF transmitter. While FCC Part 98 may permit that up to now (I don't know) on these channels; the VHF...
... Looks good. I like it. That is basically the better route to a "helper bot". Wheeled bases are much more practical than those humanoid-walkers. You're...
but more jobs will come from it,the robotic age is comming soon,and all types,cars.people mover like segway mover is already here,robotic cars in japan are in...
... Those long legged thingies, and other web-making spiders, have very poor vision. They mainly rely on web vibrations rather than vision. The ones with good...
... Thought I would toss the following paper out that I just ran across and like very much, as something that is more or less along the lines of hierarchical...
Very cool spiders all - I can't believe someone put a wolf spider on their hand, those little bad boys are quite aggressive and their bite is venomous and...
... Yeah, we also have those things in colorado, much more common than the jumpers, and mostly hanging from the ceiling, with poorly formed "untidy" webs as...
... The various pages say that "most" spider bites are due to wolf spiders. I believe they are the ones you commonly see racing across sidewalks at maybe 3'...
Yea from first scan it looks a good paper. Been to citeseer before but never found a download link, was this paper an exception? Need to read it over the...
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