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20/11/11 This is my new autonomous line following bot starting to take shape and a much more slicker design than my last bot attempt. It's made out of clear … Read more

Pololu's 2011 Black Friday Sale - the biggest yet!

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Pololu Robotics and Electronics is having its biggest Black Friday sale yet, starting this Thursday, November 24th. You can get up to $25 off your entire order in addition to saving up to 60% on dozens of selected products, including the Pololu 3pi and m3pi robots, Wixel wireless modules, Maestro Servo Controllers, Simple Motor Controllers, sensors, chassis, actuators, and more!

For Halloween I Gave My Robot a Brain, or Fun With a Backpropagation Neural Network

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I’ve long been fascinated by the concept of artificial intelligence and its application to robotics.

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My first full project. This is a suprisingly capable little robot built on top of a R/C crawler chassis I found at a local thrift store. It can handle hills and … Read more

Tank track assembled

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I said in my last blog entry that I wanted to play with the sensors first, and I did a bit, but I decided to go ahead and assemble the chassis and drivetrain first.  I got the Tamiya track and wheel set, the dual gear box and the universal plate set.  All this stuff is meant to work together, but the directions are in Japanese and it took a bit of kajiggering to get working right.  In particular, it gives you no real hints about how many of the track sections to use, you just have to estimate and if you get it wrong, take it apart and try again.

Pololu's Black Friday sale starts Thursday!

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Happy Thanksgiving from Pololu Robotics and Electronics!  I am excited to give everyone on LMR advance notice of our Black Friday sale.  You can use the following coupons to save big on select Pololu products from Thursday, November 25 through Monday, November 29, 2010. Please note that even if we sell out of a product you want, you will still be able to use the coupons on back orders. We hope these deals help give all you robotics enthusiasts out there a happy start to the holiday season!

GMPWs

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does anybody want to trade a pair of yellow GMPWs for a pair of black?

Mixed power sources, stepper motors, arduino, and pololu stepper driver

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I'm building a 3D printer and I'm a little over my head. Right now I'm trying to make sure most of my components play nice with each other with some simple code and only one motor.  Here's my set-up:

Seeeduino Mega fully Assembled

I have a seeeduino mega. More on the pinouts later. It's being powered via USB and I don't know if that's okay.

 

Molon Mystery

Test bed for a 6 legged, 3 servo walker.
Using a
I was so impressed by the video of the Pololu hexapod walker I thought I'd have a go at one of my own.  This is a rebuild of my initial attempt using a PicAxe … Read more
Walks forward and backward, turns in place, avoids obstacles.
Using a
This is a simple three-servo hexapod robot using the Pololu Micro Maestro as a controller.  The Micro Maestro allows allows me to sequence gaits and integrate … Read more

Qik 2s9v1 Motor Control Code

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Update!  I answered my own question....I found that this motor controller has a max PWM of 127 not 255.  Once I changed that, I was okay!

 

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Pololu's amazing Black Friday deals - up to 60% off selected products, starting Thursday!

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Happy Thanksgiving from Pololu Robotics and Electronics!  I thought that some people on LMR might be interested to hear about our Black Friday sale, so here it is - You can use the following coupons to save big on select Pololu products from Thursday, November 26 through Monday, November 30, 2009:

Makes your servo moves in a smooth way
                          I’ve been working on this for a while and finally I have the courage to post the results. Read more
Dead reckoning, line following, maze solving
Using a
I'm building this fast robot for the upcomping LVbots mini-competition, which will include dead-reckoning and looped maze-solving contests.  I'm using: Read more

Can I get a little help ?

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I need a little help with my Pololu Micro Dual Serial Motor Controller.... I am trying to use it with my arduino robot but I have no clue where to start code wise  ... where can I get sample code ... or even a guide on how to code for it .. I am sort of stuck on  this .... any help is appreciated greatly :)

 

~Matt

I want an arduino feivel...

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would it be possible to have an arduino use led's as sensors?  like this ---> http://letsmakerobots.com/node/272

 If so how would I code it ?

 

how to program for pololu on arduino...

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now that I got my pololu controller how do i use it with arduino? (as in coding)

 thanks

~Matt

My pololu controller came !!!

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Sweetness my pololu controller came,(Dang that thing is small :)

I just finnished my SAT test  (I am home schooled so that means no more school untill september!! :),

and I just  got a summer job, this week is so awesome !!!!! :P

 so here comes the hard part, coding :)

 

~Matt