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ROBOTICS FUN

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by fluxit May 9, 2005 last reply May 18, 2005 1 view

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There are an incredible number of robotic websites on the internet having a wide range of components that can plug onto the micro-controllers that include; accelerometers, servors, actuators, compasses, stepper motors, vast array of sensors, and cameras. These micro-controllers can be programmed right from your PC in C++, PBasic, and Java.

Are there any enthusiast on techrepublic who toy around with robotics? Has anyone developed anything interesting?

I am getting into this and t appears to me to be a wide open field that is relatively ignored.

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by gralfus May 9, 2005

I haven't done this myself, but a teenager who moved her from Russia was showing me how he was able to control a motor with his PC and a program that he wrote. It seemed pretty cool, but is somewhat outside my realm of hobbying.

by fluxit May 9, 2005

outside your realm of hobby's? I found it to be quite cost effective compared to Radio controlled aircraft or video games.

by gralfus May 10, 2005

gardening and cooking. Not a lot of use for robotics there, at least on the scale I am on.

by smorty71 May 9, 2005

It's a new magazine from O'Reilly that focuses on hacks of all sorts. Their second issue is about to ship on May 10th. From the looks of the cover, there is some stuff on robotics in this issue.

Here is the site:
http://www.makezine.com/

Here is a Flickr group where Make readers submit photos of their own hacks:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/make/