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Ok Picaxe Basic Gurus... I think I need some code snippits...

My new serial enabled LCD just arrived and I can't seem to get it up and running. I am using what I think is the standard picaxe basic commands but I am only getting white blocks, x's and some other random symbols. To be honest, I am confused with a lot of the serial commands in general, the whole ASCII thing and anything written as 0x7C or 0x14 or whatever.

Here is the display.

Hi LMR,

As you might seen on the first page a new CP is going to happen in Berlin on 21-26 August in an airport :D 

I'd like to go, last time I got invited but even without an invitation the trip would be somewhere around 400 Euros including the airplane ticket, and if it will be like the last time it will be worth going. 

Frits can you post some more info on this when you get some time/more inside info?

Cheers!

A few friends and I have been attempting to build an autonomous robot for our project using:

Arduino - Duemilenove 

Adafruit - Motorshield

Sparkfun - Bluesmirf

Parallax - Ping sensor

We were able to configure the robot such that it is able to run autonomously. We also tried implementing some code in processing to show where an object is detected and how far it is from the ping sensor; it looks similar to a radar.

Hello,

i'm from germany and i'm trying to build my first Robot with the arduino Platform.

I've desided to build my own shild for the arduino.

It should be able to drive two motors and to connect 4 -5 servos to the arduino.

The first problems with the L293D Motordriver are solved and I've done that it works and avoids objects.

Today my servos arrived and i tested my shield with the servos.

and then the first problem:

Quote from IEEE Spectum:

DARPA to the robotics community: the challenge is on.

I am not sure why I decided to start this topic on thia area of the forum (other than the fact I REALLY enjoy my FEZZ Mini Robot!!!).

Do you want a robot that runs around the floor and its only job is to not collide with things (some robots do more)??? I want MORE than that! A rather simple simulation of emotion would be really cool and freak out your friends and neighbors!!! Its time for some AI !!!

Others, please join us and help this website do almost as much as some small AI laboratories have done.

Very interesting work of making a robot learn about itself using gyro feedback and programming in rules based around this.

Looks like it would be a quicker way to program robots to do complex tasks perhaps...

Look at the speed and reaction. That's kinda..........fast!
(Did you FASTFORWARD the video?!)