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LMR logo kit

By ndupont

January 31, 2009
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Hi Folks,

 today,  LMR's first Birthday,  you've all discovered the new LMR logo

 

 

Fritsl had the very good idea of a logo kit, available to everybody.

here it is http://letsmakerobots.com/files/LMR_logo_kit.zip

it contains various sizes of the logo, in color, grayscale, black/white   (biggest is 4000x1000pixel)

Tip/walkthrough

Comment construire votre premier robot

French version of the "start here" robot

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This article is only a translation on fritsl's excellent tutorial, all credits goes to him. Read more
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Forum topic

Self Healing Robotic Chair

By ndupont

March 6, 2009
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this is just amazing !

 

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Robot

9.4GB DISCO Bot

Shake your Groove thing!
Using a

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Just a fun use of the continuous rotation servos.  First video is DiscoBot II, my entry to the Coolest DiscoBot Video Award   Read more
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Robot – work in progress

NABOT - [Not A] BOT Domotic

complete domotic and security system
Using a
 
NABOT, is not a bot. But could be considered as one  (remember that movie with the 'red eye' in the house?)   Purpose: At the origin, only have some cool touch … Read more
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Tip/walkthrough

How to modify a micro servo for continuous rotation

make a cheap servo rotate forever!

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Here is how I've modified cheap e-bay servo for continuous rotation, Thanks to Oddbot for his explanations :)    Servo is a SG90 ,  equivalent to HXT900... and … Read more
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GigaPan Epic, the Gigapixel robot tripod

By ndupont

January 29, 2009
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I've just read some news about David Bergman, a guy who has taken a super panoramic gigapixel photography of Obama's inaugural address

This was done by merging 220 pictures taken with a robotic tripod.

(which is a really cool idea) 

here are the picture and GigaPan robot

http://www.gigapansystems.com/ 

  

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Component

RS485 - EIA485 Transciever

Price: $2.5 USD
 
    I'll detail here a simple implementation of a EIA485 bus with PICAXE RS485 : 3 wire bus (half duplex), upto 1200m (400ft) @ 200kbps ,  50 m @ … Read more
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Component

20x4 Serial + I2C LCD

Price: $25 USD
 
An other cool component from web4robot http://www.web4robot.com/SerialLCD.html   see it in action : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JkdyQWzqT4   Read more
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