Today I worked on a few necessary but rather boring parts of the construction. I got the Sparkfun compass module from Proto-Pic and spent a few hours setting it up and calibrating it. I used the HMC5883L Arduino library example to generate the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 […]
Author: arkadian
The project is moving along quite well. Today I received my second order from VEX Robotics and got a chance to finish the chassis. Here are some photos: I now need to get a power source for the four motors. I’m thinking of getting a couple of lead-acid batteries at 12V and reduce the voltage […]
A friend of mine and I decided to start a robot challenge. The aim is simple: each one of us will build a robot, an autonomous vehicle that will be able to get out of a maze on its own. It won’t be remote controlled but it can talk to a remote computer for instructions […]
This is a post that I will edit from time to time, adding more links as I find them. 1. This company has free and commercial icons: dryicons.com. I like the iconika icons (available in red, blue, green, grey – here is a sample in blue: http://dryicons.com/icon/iconika-blue-icons). One thing I really appreciated from this site, […]
29 Aug 2011 Omnima UK sell a tiny little board for less than £40, that runs on openWRT Linux and has ethernet, WiFi and a USB port. It seems to be a great base for simple projects, when we need more power than one arduino. Link to product I’ve ordered one to try something I […]
From your command line type tasklist to see all the tasks that are running. If you want to kill the instance of notepad++ which happened to crash (…), type: Taskkill /IM notepad++.exe /F