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  • Are There Any Battlebot Kits?

    A couple of groups of three from my class are going to have a competition for BattleBots. Me group is buying many, many parts, around $1,700 worth. But we are trying to find a kit around $99 to copy off of. Are there any websites or places that you can buy BattleBot kits from? Any…

  • Interesting Reading #689 – Hummingbird spy, 3D smartphone, 4-core

    Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here to Stay – “In about a week, a rep from a large chip company is going to stop by and show me another “Arduino-like platform,” aka The Arduino Killer. This a pretty regular occurrence around here; …The Blogs at HowStuffWorks – http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/

  • Old HP48g Calculator + Arduino Decimila + Laser pointer + Light sensor: Cheap Laser Object Counter

    http://www.ried.cl Counting boxes on a miniature “production line” with a cheap laser pointer and a light sensor. For more info about the HP48 connection with arduino (working as a complementary remote command device) take a look in http://groups.google.cl/group/comp.sys.hp48/browse_thread/thread/33468da10be79e93?hl=es# (I had to create a simply translator to virtually support the HP-Arduino I/O) Duration : 0:3:14

  • Project Mindstorm – Sistema de Recarga

    Sim, esta monstruosidade é o sistema de recarga de bolas (Trabalho realizado por alunos da Escola Secundária Dr. Manuel Laranjeira no âmbito da disciplina de área de projecto) www.mindstorm.webatu.com Duration : 0:0:37

  • Simple Arduino Robot

    My first attempt at robot building. Controlled by an Arduino Duemilanove. There was something wrong with the original design. I now believe that there should have been some type of isolation between the arduino and the two relays. I think the relays were drawing too much current because after a while the whole thing would…

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