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Which kind of sensors should I use to mimic a reference? [closed]
My project for this summer will be to make a robot arm that does a 1:1 mimic of one of my own arms. I'm at the very beginning stages of design and am conceptualizing what it will be and how I will ...
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Winch or regular servo
I am trying to build a robotic arm and for the base I need a servo with a lot of torque. After browsing through hobbyking's servo selections I noticed that winch servos offer a higher torque for ...
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Powering sub-sytems on a robot with a single battery
I am making a robot for a project, and have a quick question about the power system for my robot. I have to power an AVR MCU (5V), 6 servos (also 5V), 4 dc motors (12V), and a camera (9V). I really ...
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PIC18 Robot - Travelling exact distance straight using two wheel encoders problems
(EDIT: Added TMR0 & TMR1 set-up code)
I have a small robot vehicle controlled by a PIC18f4585. It has two wheels (ball bearing on the front) as well as two rotary encoders. The following ...
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Information delivery through zigbee
I am doing a project in which i have to measure the voltages of a given terminal and send it to other distant system through zigbee. My work plan is like this: I will use an arduino board and measure ...
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Microcontroller/cpu for fast trigonometry in robot?
This concerns hardware that does weighs little, because a (fat cat sized, 6 legs with 3 DOF) walking robot should carry it around. Because of that walking it'll need to do a lot of trigonometry (using ...
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Communicating via USART with an AVR - Input Buffer?
I am currently building a robot (as some of you may know from my previous questions). The current task I a dealing with is that of communication. To keep things simple, assume I have 5 commands to ...
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Wireless communication with robot
I am making a simple robot, and am using a relatively cheap RF transmitter and receiver to send commands to my robot. Essentially, the transmitter end would send data from an AVR MCU via its UART to ...
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arduino and the rc car [closed]
I am trying to build a chassis for my robot, so I chose the base of a RC car. I took out its receiver board and replaced it with an arduino board to control its motors (steering and rear motors) but ...
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TI ARM with stacked RAM
Do any of the TI ARM SOCs, e.g. OMAP or Da Vinci, have a version with stacked RAM? (e.g. DDR2 or mDDR) For miniature robots, it would be really nice to not need to spend board area on an external RAM ...
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How can an experieced programmer get into embedded programming and robotics [duplicate]
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How to become an embedded software developer?
I would like to know what is the best method to begin learning embedded programming and electronic skills? I am already ...
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Selecting a GPS module for a mobile robot [closed]
I need a GPS module to include in my quad-copter for providing GPS based navigation. I found there are many GPS modules available, and there are different kind of information available in their specs. ...
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Inspection/QA Criteria for Selling Electronics?
I'm a software developer who has recently taken up a penchant for home electronics and personal robotics. I'd like to start building a prototype for a small device that I would sell though a website, ...
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Speaking words with Pololu 3pi Robot [closed]
At each instersection I play different music for the compass direction the robot decided to go. Any ideas how to get the robot to speak the words "West", "East", "South", "North"?
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How to calculate the range of a RC transmitter
When searching for a transmitter for a RC application in most of the cases they don't provide anything about the range of the module. Just power and the frequency.
The Tx power must relate to the ...
