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Welcome to the worlds biggest robot building community of it's kind

Hi :)

This website is a free and volunteer based initiative, originally started by Fritsl in 2008, now 100% produced and maintained by members of the community. Thanks to everyone.

Who is in charge?

There is an inner core that tries to run the hard core issues of the show. There are hangarounds as well, but the most vital posts are currently held by GroG (Backup), TheCowGod (Hosting), Hugo_nl and Rudolph (CMS development) rik (finance) Fritsl (all over)

 

Who pays for this / What do you do with the money?

You contribute and help us run the site, if you buy the Start Here bundle, or support us in other ways.

The money that we make are covering the most basic needs, and nice people pay for the rest - in time, talent, and sometimes cash. Some of us have paid quite a lot of cash.

Mostly the site is alive because anonymious and cool people like yourself support when ever there is something to be done or paid for. We may make profit one day, and if so, we will open the talk with the backstage mailing list on what to do with this money. There are really no rules here, because we never met, never signed anything, we just do this, like you do. If something is missing or wrong, then someone says it, and then someone fixes it. Or we die. But we are strong, and will live :) Male bonding, yer!

 

Be part of the board:

If you want to take part of descissions and all, sign up for the mailinglist. You won't get too many mails, but every now and then there is a question to debate, or some info to be shared. You subscribe by sending a mail to backstage-subscribe@letsmakerobots.com This list is concerned with the site in general.

Tips

Here are some guides on how to enjoy and use LMR to the fullest. Because this system has more knobs, buttons and gauges than a Mars Rover's RC!

 

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By TheGrue
@ Wed, 2012-02-08 01:57
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Hey is there a reason that I no longer get emails of posts anymore?

By ignoblegnome
@ Fri, 2011-04-08 03:53
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Hey, rik. Would you consider adding my LMR Primer post to the list of Tips above?

By rik_admin
@ Fri, 2011-04-08 06:31
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and done

By Ro-Bot-X
@ Wed, 2010-11-03 23:32
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How can we post code nice and easy? On other forums, Arduino Forum for instance, there is a # [code][/code] button that wraps the code text and creates a scrollable window, so a large code can be pasted but it would not fill up the whole post. Can we have something like that here?

Thanks!

By fritsl
@ Wed, 2010-11-03 23:45
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If you want to join the dev team, you are very welcome to take on this task.

Other than that, I personally use the attach file - function for longer code. That opens in peoples own syntac-colouring editor.

 

And note that you can Disable rich-text, and

write as crazy as you'd like :)

there is also a quote- function!

That makes things look like this

And you can use that with formatting,

 

Even create lines and insert HTML :)

 

 

By Ro-Bot-X
@ Thu, 2010-11-04 02:35
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Sorry, but I don't "speak" HTML. I have no idea how to implement such a thing. This is something for the professionals.

Yeah, I guess I can play around with the settings. But it's so frustrating and I have to remember what I did last time that worked so I don't have to spend one more hour to guesstimate. I like the simplicity of other forums, and I think more people would share their code easier and clearer.

 

By ignoblegnome
@ Fri, 2010-09-10 00:19
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Hey, rik! I created a tip/walkthrough on how to post pictures. Would you consider including it in the list of guides above?

http://letsmakerobots.com/node/22529

By webmaster
@ Thu, 2010-09-16 11:28
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Thanks, done :)

By dlevartt
@ Sat, 2010-08-07 16:58
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I love this site! Almost everyting about it is very easy. It blows all the other forums, and I've seen a bunch, out of the water.

You should package the software and sell it.

First you should add spell check to the editor. some of us can't spell worth a darn (really we just don't touch type)

By Gareth
@ Tue, 2010-09-07 08:41
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I agree on all accounts david...... this site will burst it sides soon.......

If you had not mentioned the spell checking thing then i would not have found out that indeed right clicking my mouse (thanks rik)  brings in the spell check........that is so neat (been staring me in the eyes lurking waiting to be found).... thanks david - you see even "simple things please simple minds"

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