Racing ~~~~~~ The racing team returned from its Waterloo road trip yesterday - and what a trip it was! We finalized our navigation algorithm on the car ride...
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Thought people may be interested in this: http://www.parallax.com/Store/Accessories/Tools/tabid/162/CategoryID/37/List ...
Matthew Friesen
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May 5, 2008 7:12 pm
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Three videos and a short photo series of the Robot Racing 2008 event are now online at www.robomontreal.com. That's it for this year - it was a blast! Il y a...
Arron, I'm still here, but since I am in Ottawa, I guess that doesn't really count. Funny enough, it looks like you wrote this on October 17th, but I just got...
Nah, that message had to be passed by a moderator first to make sure I wasn't some sort of spambot. I'm considering a move to Montreal for work so I figured...
Bonjour Je m'interesse depuis longtemps à la robotique mais je n'ai pas vraiment le temps d'en faire de façon pratique. J'aimerais cependant contribuer aux...
Looks like it. The good news is that my wife and I plan to take our retirement in Montreal, so at least there may be two people to keep the club going. Of...
Salut Pierre Dépendament de l'age de ton fils, un kit interressant pour faire en famille un bon petit robot rapidement est le kit Boe-Bot de la compagnie...
Hi Aaron, Thanks for writing in. Since May of this year I've been interested in working with the RoboMontreal group but the group seems to have disbanded. ...
... Thats too bad. Dan and the guys seemed to have a good thing going. Perhaps they burnt out a bit after building robots for the racing stuff as seen on the...
En plein dans mes pensées. Mon fils vient d'avoir huit ans et il voulait le A-Robot mes je lui ai fait comprendre que nous allons plus aprendre avec le...
bonjour, j'ai de l'interet pour la robotique memme si je n'ai eu beaucoup le temps d'en faire. je voudrais rejoidre le groupe et realise des projet s'il y a...
Hey all, Despite any rumors to the contrary, we're still alive and kicking. Well, alive anyway, and wishing we'd cracked the formula for giving up sleep!...
Happened accross this today, looks like UBC got a headstart this summer for robot racing: http://www.youtube.com/user/PresleyPerswain Best Regards Matt Friesen...
Matthew Friesen
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Nov 3, 2008 9:29 pm
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MIT has released a bunch of their data and code used in the Urban Challenge. Very cool stuff including libcam a library for real-time image acquisition and...
Matthew Friesen
matt@...
Nov 4, 2008 5:10 pm
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I'm hacking a Radio Shack RC car for I'm hacking a Radio Shack RC car and can't figure out the servo. It has six wires going to the steering box: brown, red,...
In all of the cheap (ie Radio Shack) RC cars I have seen, the electronics for the steering servo are integrated on the same PCB as the radio. Unless you are...
Matt Friesen
matt@...
Feb 9, 2009 4:57 pm
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Thanks Matt, that's just what I'm doing. The new servo is almost exactly the same size as the 6 wire on, but the output shaft is square! But it's just a...
You may have success hacking your old lever onto your new servo, or you could also buy a new lever (control arm??) for your new servo. There are special...
Matt Friesen
matt@...
Feb 9, 2009 6:51 pm
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Hi! So as the headline says... I'm new! I nead some help to answer some of my questions! What I plan to do is a semi-autonomous robot! What I want to do is put...
Fred, welcome! For robot controllers, there are many options out there, ranging from $20 to ... as high as you like. You may be interested in the Arduino, it...
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