New hobby...maybe.
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I second that :) Became a lego-holic (technics department) just recently - that toy is just awesome. Looking forward to getting mindstorm this X-mas :cool:
A dogged, arrogant belief in self and the childlike idealism that comes with not knowing my limits. This is my greatest blessing, my priceless attribute.
I won one in a draw last year, but forfeited because I forgot to attend the event. :(
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Looking into making/building robots as a hobby...where can I get good info and learn? I'd like to make something with some nice software features..scalable in design, fun to play and learn. Thanks
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Looking into making/building robots as a hobby...where can I get good info and learn? I'd like to make something with some nice software features..scalable in design, fun to play and learn. Thanks
My new hobby, too :) There are a lot of robot kits out there. Lots aren't very programmable. (Just chips that run "servo sequences" - a sequence of "servo position sets" are sent in time) Impressive to watch, but there's no code to speak of... I just got an AVR Butterfly board. An ATMega169 cpu with a bunch of teeny i/o devices on board. Only $20! A brush up on soldering skills (soldering headers and serial port plug to the board) Buy a breadboard, and you can program the thing in c by sending the board a download via your serial port. (board has serial interface on it). c compiler with lots of pre-written code is freeware. You can program that little microcontroller in c. And I'd hazzard to call the thing a full cpu, almost. Anyways, that'll be my robot brain once I figure it out better. Not sure what servo/wheel/sensor stuff to get yet. So what =i= did was get subscriptions to http://botmag.com/[^] and http://www.nutsvolts.com/[^] Read the ads and google the sites they mention. Then you start the deciding process... hoo boy... VERY interesting stuff tho. ...Steve http://shazware.com
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Looking into making/building robots as a hobby...where can I get good info and learn? I'd like to make something with some nice software features..scalable in design, fun to play and learn. Thanks
My daughter and I built this lynxmotion robot arm kit[^] There is a newish book out now that describes running it via the Microsoft robotics studio. Great fun. Well made kit. ...that, or Lego.
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Microsoft has a Robotics lab. Just released a new version a few days ago too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/default.aspx[^]
Cheetah. Ferret. Gonads. What more can I say? - Pete O'Hanlon
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Lego_Mindstorms[^]... maybe?
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Maybe these articles by Andrew Kirillov are interesting for you: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/lego_pan_tilt_camera.aspx [^] http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/driving_lego_bot.aspx[^]
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here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot[^] :)
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My new hobby, too :) There are a lot of robot kits out there. Lots aren't very programmable. (Just chips that run "servo sequences" - a sequence of "servo position sets" are sent in time) Impressive to watch, but there's no code to speak of... I just got an AVR Butterfly board. An ATMega169 cpu with a bunch of teeny i/o devices on board. Only $20! A brush up on soldering skills (soldering headers and serial port plug to the board) Buy a breadboard, and you can program the thing in c by sending the board a download via your serial port. (board has serial interface on it). c compiler with lots of pre-written code is freeware. You can program that little microcontroller in c. And I'd hazzard to call the thing a full cpu, almost. Anyways, that'll be my robot brain once I figure it out better. Not sure what servo/wheel/sensor stuff to get yet. So what =i= did was get subscriptions to http://botmag.com/[^] and http://www.nutsvolts.com/[^] Read the ads and google the sites they mention. Then you start the deciding process... hoo boy... VERY interesting stuff tho. ...Steve http://shazware.com
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My daughter and I built this lynxmotion robot arm kit[^] There is a newish book out now that describes running it via the Microsoft robotics studio. Great fun. Well made kit. ...that, or Lego.