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ReviewsRobots- FollowBot - This is my first robot. It cost less than $10 and took me a week-end to get it working.
- TetherBot - This robot was the begining of my love and facination with robotics. Here I learned the power of hacking a servo, building my own sensors, and programming and controlling it via PC.
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net.
- Baby Joe 1 - For this robot I wanted it to be controlled via a MicroController. I choose the Parallax Basic Stamp 2. I used much of the same parts from the previous robot (TetherBot) but purchased some additional hardware for this chassis.
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net.
- Baby Joe 2 - This robot is just a chassis upgrade of the previous robot (Baby Joe).
- Feynman 1 - This was my first PC Robot. Here I had real sonars, real motors, real processing power!
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net.
- Feynman 2 - This is the same robot as Feynman 1, but I have modified the chassis. The chassis gave me a little more control over the sonar and provided better proximity detection with the bumpers and Sharp IR sensors.
- Feynman 3 -
This is a real upgrade from Feynman 2. It's also my first robot written in Java.
- Stan - Some guys at work were running around the parking lot with these little plastic cars. So one week-end I decided to modify Feynman into and Battle Bot minus the weapon.
This bot actually moved about as fast in the short term as the cars. I did run over one but because of the STAR design of the robot I found it quite limited and poor to maneuver. Something I would correct in later robots.
- Rovey - This is a robot that I did for a COSI training session. I had students login to my website and then control the robot from the internet. It consist of a pan & tilt camera, and an SSC Servo Controller tethered to a power supply and a serial port since it was on 24/7.
This robot is also featured at Robots.Net.
- Fours - I built this with some extra parts from CubeBot. He is powered by 4 AA batteries and an 9V battery for the CubeBot controller board. I put an SRF-04 Sonar on him so he could avoid things as he moved around. But that's all he really did.
- Feynman 5 - This is the robot I used for my book. It has pretty much the same components as Feynman3, but is smaller and is more stable.
- Feynman 6 - I have decided to create Feynman6 and retire Feynman5. This robot will be taller, have more 80/20 and less wires via a new distribution board with onboard carrier for a BS2.
- Carnot - This will a test platform for Feynman. The main reason for his creation is power supply issues and transportation issues with the current version of Feynman.
There are also several problems with the supported Java APIs, mainly sun has abandon them: Java Communications and Java Media Framework.
- Feynman Jr - A smaller faster lighter version of Feynman6. Same great software, same cool functionality, just in a smaller package and much, much faster...
- CRaB - This is a robot I created for the CRB (Columbus Ruby Brigade). It demonstraits some of the basic robotic principles: movement and visual recognition.
Guides- Installing UBUNTU on a Compact Flash - Instructions for installing UBUNTU 6.10 on a VIA EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX. This is a simple 5 step process and you will need the alternate i386 ISO.
- Latest Code in CVS - Hi all. I have uploaded the latest code to the sourceforge CVS repository.
host: javarobots
- Serial Web Server - To work on Carnot, I decided to go into .Net and create a web server that responds to my serial commands. It's a simple .exe that takes a serial input on the command line and it works great for the SSC (Scott Edwards Servo Controller).
- Finally an Ubuntu Webcam - It's taken me a few years, but I finally got a webcam working in Ubuntu. Click for the steps I took to get it working. Next, text-to-speech.
- Ubuntu Text-To-Speech TTS - I was also able to install Text To Speech via Festival and Festvox (voices).
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