Archive for the ‘Robots’ Category
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
The Hacker Style Brushless(20-22L) motor finds a very common use in Quadcopters. Unfortunately the only way to mount the motor on a frame is to reverse the shaft so that the mounting holes can be used for what they were meant for..mounting.
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009 |
I finally took apart the Spy Video which I got for a very good deal. I wanted to see if it would serve as a good platform for a robot and if the drive system could be upgraded. The most difficult part was taking apart the wheel hubs. The interesting part in the hubs design [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009 |
Just got my spy video ATV-360 from Spy Gear. My local Target had this on sale for $28 and it was too good to resist. So much so that I bough two of them – with one as a standby for parts. The ATV comes with the following features: -A skid steer design for easy [...]
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |
The Surveyor SRV-1 robots( the Philips LPC2378 version) have the ability to be programmed remotely via Maxstream Zigbee radios. The usual way to program the Surveyor SRV-1 is via the lpc21isp utility by issuing the command: lpc21isp.exe -hex srv1.hex com1 115200 14746 . To program the robot wirelessly, follow the steps: 1. Download the flash [...]
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