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Defined "Roles"

BaseOverApex's picture

The following roles now exist and appear to be functional:

Node Admin - able to edit node content
Super Node Admin - able to edit node types and forums
Site Admin - able to do whatever they want

Where do I get it?

BaseOverApex's picture
It's a free download from Microchip. That's the nice people who will also send you the free engineering samples.

Wish-list

webmaster's picture
On the frontpage there is - next to the picture of a robot these links:

Who are admins?

webmaster's picture

TheCowGod, Fritsl, and BOAadmin (AKA BaseOverApex) are.

In here they can talk about how to do stuff - and it is public, of course.

Information wants to be free :D

If you also want to be admin, well ask an admin.

Perhaps some admin are going to make special editors roles, enabeling you to get your own special sections if you want :)

Is this total anarchy? Well.. yes, sort of. LMR was started by the user "fritsl" (me), but I have no wish of anything but having robot-building friends all over the world. So why should I be the only admin?

List of good online shops for bot parts

jgillick's picture

I was wondering where online most of you go to shop for parts? Can we construct a master list of important websites here?

This list is from the URLs I've gathered from the various tutorials:

Parts Prices (In US Dollars)

jklug80's picture

Here is the analysis I have done so far. I didn't look everywhere, but I did learn 2 things.

  1. You can't buy everything from 1 place
  2. It is cheaper if you buy from outside of the US on some parts

Here goes my summary: (For all intents and purposes, when priced in £ double it for US dollars. It is a bit less than double, but after your credit card company charges a fee to convert the purchase it will be close to double given the current rate of exchange on 5/7/2008)

Starter Pack (Picaxe 28 with USB cable)

Pcmgstot

User Number:
1768
Real Name:
Pcmgstot Pcmgstot
Birth date:
12/31/1908
Robots Built:
0

coon1981

User Number:
1767
Real Name:
Nico van der Heide
Birth date:
11/09/1981
Robots Built:
0

guschabal

User Number:
1766
Real Name:
sebas
Birth date:
07/12/1985
Robots Built:
0

Help!

Dalton Caughell's picture
I admit it I need help. I'm the one who set out on the ambitious project to build a robot butler now I'm stuck. I wanted to use java and phidgets but I don't know where to start unfortunatly I could not find any good tutorials or books on using phidgets with java. I also wandted vision processing capibilities but don't know how to go about that in java or anyother program language eather. Now I am open to any sugustions with any type of code or microcontroller that could help me. You can check out my robot butler project by searching robot butler in the blogs section.