Robot Magazine - Summer 2006 Issue 03

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Paul Teutul Jr. of Orange County Choppers holds the Lynxmotion Johnny 5 robot. Photo by Walter Sidas.

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iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robot – by Tom Atwood

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18	TAMIYA SOUND ACTIVATED WALKING ROBOT Walking tall with Tamiya —by Magno Ferreira
20	NASA’S MINI AERCAM A hovering, spherical robot inspection vehicle —by Jim Oberg
26	CRUSTCRAWLER HEXROD HD HEXAPOD ROBOT Communicative, agile, autonomous or teleoperated engineering elegance —by Jonathan Pope
30	PARALLAX USB OSCILLOSCOPE AND UNDERSTANDING SIGNALS KIT Catch the wave! —by George Mitsuoka
32	WOWWEE ROBOSAPIEN V2 Best-selling, ready-to-run, programmable robot humanoid —by Dan Lynch, Brian and Shaun Lynch, and Gary Lavarack RoboSapien V2 animation (GIF) RoboSapien Hack Update

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38	LYNXMOTION JOHNNY 5 Build a hobby version of a movie legend —by Brian Nave with a special report; Bob Hastings at Orange County Choppers
45	TECH UPDATE TEAM LOGICOM TESTS DURALIE LITHIUM MANGANESE BATTERIES Power breakthrough —by Brian Nave
48	SIX-SERVO HUMANOID WALKER RoboCup soccer bot inspires “SixPac” —by Harry Mueller The attached file contains the code that controls the actions of SixPac. The program works on the robot controller board with the 16F628A. Using this code, SixPac will: 1. Walk six steps, 2. Stop and look ahead, 3. If there is nothing within 10 inches, walk six steps, 4. If there is an object closer than 10 inches, look right and left to determine the longest clear path available, 5. Turn either left or right, 6. The logic returns to step 1. Click here for a text file of SixPac walking code

52	SOLARBOTICS TURBOT A phototrobe with personality —by Del Schier Turbot Locomotion Windows Media Video (3MB)
54	HACK IT! CROSSBREEDING WITH OWI SPIDER 3 AND HYPER LINE ROBOTS —by Roger G. Gilbertson Hack it! Create a Line-Avoiding Bouncy Spider!
58	BOT PROJECT BUILD A REAL-TIME WI-FI OPERATED ROBOT Creating an interface with readily available tools is easier than you may think. —by Timothy D. Swieter The following source code files are contained in compressed "Zip" folders. To use these, please click and save them to your hard drive. Visual Basic Source Code Rabbit Source Code
62	WOWWEE ROBORAPTOR A biomorphic dinosaur with stereo vision and hearing —by Brian Nave
68	HOW TO BUILD A BODY FOR YOUR ROBOT CHASSIS PackBot fully clad —by Leo Garza

edu bots

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72	MIT MASLAB ROBOT CONTEST Student-designed vision-based bots integrate technologies —by Valerie Morash
75	EDU BOTS Q&A LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Resources —by Dr. Kenneth Berry
77	TEAM ROBOTICS Robots Cause Changes in Education —by Dr. Kenneth Berry Expanded LEGO MINDSTORMS Link List
80	SMOKY HILL HIGH SCHOOL FRC TEAM 1861 A rookie team’s FIRST experience —by George Mitsuoka
82	FIRST LEGO LEAGUE SNAPSHOT A fifth grade programmer’s perspective —by Barbara Atwood NERD Programming and Design Choices Dolphin Pipe Annotated Software Icons Labview Source Code
90	BOT SHOP REPORT Sherline miniature machine tools

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