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can you mount a gun on a battlebot?
I was watching battlebots and it seems like if you mounted an ak47 on a bot, it would win the whole thing. Is that legal? I haven’t looked up the official rules of the new version, but at least a couple of years ago: Projectile weapons are allowed, but the projectile must be tethered so…
Visualized: Arduino gets super-sized ahead of Maker Faire …
This is Make's John Edgar Park, manfully clutching his Arduino Grande. The oversized device isn't just for show though, it's a fully working unit for.Engadget
Fiberoptic joystick with quadrature encoders and arduino
I have designed and built a joystick that contains no electronic parts — only fiberoptics. The motion is sensed via quadrature encoding, and the signal processing is handled by an arduino microcontroller. How to terminate fiberoptics: http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2010/12/fiberoptic-joystick-with-quadrature.html http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2010/02/linear-position-tracking-with.html Duration : 0:9:11
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More Simple Missions at FLL 2011 Food Factor
Building instructions and programs for this video: http://cs.au.dk/~ld/fll Lykkeskolen came by to show how it’s easy to get a lot of points using simple programs and add-ons for the basic robot. Missions solved in this video: – Farm Fresh Produce (Truck): 9 points. – Pizza and Ice Cream (Modified truck program): 7 points for the…
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