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Articles for topic(s): Basics

Issue	Article	Description	Author
Winter 2006	Making & Assembling PCB's	Design, Fabricate & Assemble your PCB Topics: Basics	Jim Kindsvater
Winter 2006	Junk Box Curve Tracer	Assembling a Curve Tracer out of odds & ends around the shop and hot to use it. Topics: Basics, Electronics	Doug Bell
Winter 2004	Cathy's Robot Adventures	Cathy Saxton details building, competing, and winning with a line-maze robot at Robothon 2003. Topics: Contests, Basics, Microcontrollers	Cathy Saxton
Winter 2004	Lego Sensor for Atmel AVR	Larry Barello details how to how to interface the Atmel AVR with LEGO® Mindstorm® sensors. Topics: Projects, Basics, Microcontrollers, Electronics, Sensors	Larry Barello
September 2001	First Steps: Failures	Doug Leppard bravely documents some of his failures so we can all learn from his mistakes. Topics: Basics	Doug Leppard
September 2001	Walking Stick: A First Robot	John Bono shows us his first robot creation, Walking Stick. Based on the OOPIC controller, this includes his source code and pictures. Topics: Basics, Motors/Locomotion	John Bono
January 2001	PCB Software Update	Update of Kevin Ross's search for a good schematic & PCB capture program. Topics: Product Reviews, Basics, Construction Techniques	Kevin Ross
December 2000	Meet Tom Dickens	An in depth interview of SRS member Tom Dickens, as written and edited by Steve Kaehler. Topics: Projects, Basics, Microcontrollers, Electronics, Motors/Locomotion, Sensors, Construction Techniques	Steve Kaehler
December 2000	A Simple Logic Probe	Gene Elliot demonstrates how to build a simple logic probe using a ball point pen and some simple parts. Topics: Projects, Basics, Electronics, Construction Techniques	Gene Elliot
December 2000	A 5-Volt Power Supply	Benny Peter Jørgensen shows us a simple power supply that runs on as little as 7.2 volts input. Topics: Projects, Basics, Electronics, Power, Construction Techniques	Benny Peter Jørgensen
November 2000	First Steps: Telemetry, Using a Radio Modem	Doug Leppard shows us how to setup a radio modem to return telemetry from our robots. Topics: Basics, Electronics, Programming/Algorithms
November 2000	DocBot - Part 2	Gary Livick continues his work on Docbot. In this update, he shares more of his design and his extensive software libraries for dealing with a digital compass and range finding. Good stuff. Topics: Basics, Electronics, Programming/Algorithms, Construction Techniques	Gary Livick
May 2000	My First Robot: A Line Follower	Jeff Spencer shares his first robot project with us, a line following robot. Includes source code. Topics: Projects, Basics, Microcontrollers, Motors/Locomotion, Sensors, Programming/Algorithms	Jeff Spencer
May 2000	An Interesting Servo Modification	Jack McIntosh of Umatilla High School shares an interesting twist on the old servo modification. Topics: Projects, Basics, Motors/Locomotion, Construction Techniques	Jack McIntosh
June 1999	First Steps: Booting up the 68HC912B32 for the first time	Artical for newbies building robots with the Motorola 68HC912B32. Topics: Projects, Basics, Microcontrollers	Doug Leppard, Benjamin Leppard
June 1999	Using photoresistor array in robotic applications	How to pack photoresistors using minimum of components for a low resolution vision system. Topics: Projects, Basics, Electronics, Sensors, Vision	Dusan Grujic
June 1999	A guide to printing your own circuit boards	This article was written to try and help others avoid the pitfalls I have encountered while printing my first circuit boards. Topics: Basics, Electronics, Construction Techniques	Jay Couture
June 1999	Robots... ya can't live with` em...	This is an artical about why we build robots. Topics: Editorials, Basics	Nathan Brown