2002-03-30 - Top down view of I/O board and Motor controller board - trail layout
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Monday, June 28, 2004
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Servo Magazine
A spin off from Nuts and Volts magazine Servo Magazine.
A magazine just for robots - primarily hobby robotics.
A magazine just for robots - primarily hobby robotics.
Robolympics Pictures From gism.net
I found a Gallery of robot pictures from some robot olympics. It goes well with this blog. Enjoy.
Robot Names
The word robot has a lot of meanings.
It can refer to a software that looks for web pages.
It can refer to remote control machines that try to hurt and distroy other remote control machines.
It can mean machines that are giant mechanical arms that weld and paint cars and stack pallets, and the like.
It can mean humanoid-like machines.
It can mean machine components added to living beings, aka cybernetic, borg or bionic.
It can mean autonomous machines with wheels.
It can mean autonomous machines with legs.
My hobby has most to do with the last two - autonomous machines that are meant to solve problems.
But when I talk to most people, the first things they think of is the TV shows where fancy remote controlled cars try to distroy and avoid being distroyed.
It seems to me it might be nice to have well defined names for different type of robots. Mostly I would like to have a name for the smart, primarily non-distructive, hobby robots I work on. My suggestion: robotons.
Thus the name of this blog: roboton. It can be interpreted as Robot Town - or as Robot Autonomous.
There are some competitions of hobby, or semi-pro robots that are have a distructive bias, so maybe I shouldn't cut them all out.
I prefer the challenges of a robot that has to solve a problem on it's own - not being just remote controlled machines.
It can refer to a software that looks for web pages.
It can refer to remote control machines that try to hurt and distroy other remote control machines.
It can mean machines that are giant mechanical arms that weld and paint cars and stack pallets, and the like.
It can mean humanoid-like machines.
It can mean machine components added to living beings, aka cybernetic, borg or bionic.
It can mean autonomous machines with wheels.
It can mean autonomous machines with legs.
My hobby has most to do with the last two - autonomous machines that are meant to solve problems.
But when I talk to most people, the first things they think of is the TV shows where fancy remote controlled cars try to distroy and avoid being distroyed.
It seems to me it might be nice to have well defined names for different type of robots. Mostly I would like to have a name for the smart, primarily non-distructive, hobby robots I work on. My suggestion: robotons.
Thus the name of this blog: roboton. It can be interpreted as Robot Town - or as Robot Autonomous.
There are some competitions of hobby, or semi-pro robots that are have a distructive bias, so maybe I shouldn't cut them all out.
I prefer the challenges of a robot that has to solve a problem on it's own - not being just remote controlled machines.
New Blog Roboton
I have created this new blog. I had the idea mostly to be able to share all sorts of Robot-related pictures I have. But I decided it should also have information about robots - and my opinions.
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