Well, no cars actually made it around the track. In fact no cars even got turned on. I am going to in the next week or so cut and paste some tutorials I wrote...
Bugger! It would be helpful to add oscillator calibration routines and use BREAK in the communications to ensure the data sent is the same as the data...
... OK - I will change my UART stuff to send 0x55 as a preamble in the same manner as LIN does so the CPU can try calibrate to that. In the multi drop mode...
Does anyone want any basic help this weekend getting things running. No track or racing. Just real real basic stuff like making sure that things switch on...
Hi Andrew and All, Many thanks Andrew for all your help a couple of weekends back not to mention all your help and support over the last year or so. I'm still ...
Hey everyone, I trust you are all well. I've landed back in Australia after a month overseas and itching to get back to my soldering iron :) I see amongst...
After the last trip to andrews ive managed to compile assembly code directly into my C code. I havn't downloaded the coms to the car yet... fingers crossed. ...
I've been lucky enough to have one of Atmel's new evaluation kits to play with, the RZ Raven. This is the official description: "The RZRAVEN 2.4 GHz Evaluation...
No, I was lucky enough to get it from a person at AVRFreaks.net Locally I'd try Avnet or Soanarplus - I bought similar things from them and they have been ok. ...
Hey all, Haven't seen anyone here for a while, hope that doesn't mean the bots have stopped being worked on! I've been slowly but surely working on a couple of...
Here are some shots of what I was talking about in the previous post. http://picasaweb.google.com/nigel.hungerfordsymes/Robot_SIG You can see the Tamiya tracks...
Love the bluetac holding the oscillating IR sensor to the servo! I'm still kicking, just in the process of changing jobs and moving house. Work has been...
Haha, yeah the Blu-Tac was meant to be temporary but sandwiching it on the smooth plastic underside of a 19g servo with smooth metal on the other side it is...
Can anyone suggest a decent Oscilloscope which is under $1500 and available in Australia. I like the look of logic analysis but can I get it in the price...
Well, depending on how often you use it, you might as well spend the extra money because you will have it for a long time. I mean a 2500 or a 1500 computer is...
Hi All, I am working on a project involving the NGW100. I want to use the preinstalled Linux OS so now I need to change my thinking from AVR development to...
Thanks Nigel, Yes I saw a lot of your work on those sites, good info! So from what I can gather I have 2 options: - Use GPIO for USART and SPI or - Use...
Hi... I'm Matt and I'm kind of new here in Brisbane. I'm Brazilian and worked for 4 years teaching robotics in a high school. During this time we participated...
Hey Mateus, There have been some competitions at UQ and other places. I don't know of anything coming up. I'll be happy to compete if anyone does know of any...
BTW I stumbled on this site http://www.linux-robots.com An Australian site where they have a GPL framework for making an NGW100 control robotic sensors and...
Niiice you da man! I have managed to use buildroot to recompile "everything" and have a good process for updating uBoot (only required once) and the filesystem...
Let's find out and compete? :-D Sincerely, Mateus Ohse: Brisbane, QLD Australia Dingo_aus escreveu: Hey Mateus, There have been some competitions at UQ and...
Hi all, There is a Lego Mindstorms set available at Pick'n'Pay Hypermarket at Aspley priced at $207 which is about $180 off the usual retail price. I think...
Hi all, just thought I'd introduce myself. My name is Alex and I've been working with electronics and robotics for a few years now. I have a massive interest...