October 2000
October 2000 home page.
| Article | Description | Author |
| Three 68332 Designs Presented | Kenneth Maxon presents three full designs, including artwork and schematics, for controller boards based on the 68332. Outstanding article full of detailed information.
Topics: Electronics |
Kenneth Maxon |
| Implementing Dead Reckoning by Odometry on R/C Servo Robot | Dafydd Walters: This article describes how to implement a simple, but robust, optical wheel encoder system on a robot that uses hobby servos for two-wheel differential drive.
Topics: Programming/Algorithms |
Dafydd Walters |
| Robot: Scorch | Jeff Clayton shares pictures and design elements from his robot Scorch. This is one hot robot.
Topics: Projects |
Jeff Clayton |
| RF Modem Robotics Project | Rob Arnold shows how he incorporated a 433mhz Radio system onto his robot.
Topics: Electronics |
Rob Arnold |
| Detailed hack for Polaroid Sonar | Dennis Clark shows us how to hack a surplus camera to get the sonar unit out. Complete with pictures and source code, this is a good explaination of how to get sonar on the cheap.
Topics: Projects, Electronics |
Dennis Clark |
| Improving Servo Positioning Accuracy | David Andersen shows us how to improve the accuracy of servo positioning using a great hack of a servo.
Topics: Projects, Motors/Locomotion, Construction Techniques |
David Anderson |
| Regarding Precision Navigation | John Whitten expresses some important viewpoints about the needs for precision in robot building. He argues quite succesfully that we spend too much time worrying about precision, but not enough time handling our lack of it. Read this, its important to yo
Topics: Programming/Algorithms, Navigation |
John Whitten |
| Building a Photopopper | Jeff Stefan takes us through the construction of a BEAM Photopopper
Topics: Projects, Electronics |
Jeff Stephan |
| Skatebot Won! | Robert Jordan shares some exciting news about Skatebot, and also more details on how to hack one.
Topics: Projects, Electronics |
Robert Jordan |
| Async-Input for the SPI of 68HC812 | For a new MIDI project, Roland Froehlich needed a third async input. Commercial available SPI-Uarts are too expensive, so Roland found a low cost alternative with a GAL16V8.
Topics: Electronics |
Roland Froehlich |
| First WORKSHOP 3D RCX LEGO Challenge | Steve Kaehler shows us the Lego Challenge from the Pacific Science Center earlier this year.
Topics: Contests, Product Reviews |
Steve Kaehler |
| SBasic for the 68000 | Karl Lunt tells us about his recent enhancements to the SBASIC language.
Topics: Product Reviews, Programming/Algorithms |
Karl Lunt |