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worldmags PAGE 76 The Combat Zone... Features 28 PARTS IS PARTS: Fingertech Tiny ESC v2 Review 29 MANUFACTURING: Calculating Bolt Torques 32 Potpourri Events 31 Results 34 EVENT REPORT: Franklin Institute 2010 — Rise of the Melty Brains 12.2010 VOL. 8 NO. 12 08 Robytes by Jeff Eckert Stimulating Robot Tidbits 10 GeerHead by David Geer Robots Clean Oil Spills, Climb and Crawl Everywhere 13 Ask Mr. Roboto by Dennis Clark Your Problems Solved Here 76 Then and Now by Tom Carroll Robots: From Industrial to Some Amazing Capabilities SERVO Magazine (ISSN 1546-0592/CDN Pub Agree#40702530) is published monthly for $24.95 per year by T & L Publications, Inc., 430 Princeland Court, Corona, CA 92879. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT CORONA, CA AND AT ADDITIONAL ENTRY MAILING OFFICES. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to SERVO Magazine, P.O. Box 15277, North Hollywood, CA 91615 or Station A, P.O. Box 54,Windsor ON N9A 6J5; cpcreturns@servomagazine.com 4 SERVO 12.2010 Did you know that each article in SERVO Magazine has its own webpage? It’s where you go for downloads, comments, updates, corrections, or to link to the article in the digital issue. The unique link for each webpage is included with the article. You can also visit article pages from back issues at www. servomagazine.com. Just select the Past Issues tab from the About SERVO drop down menu, click the Table of Contents link, and the article name. Columns Departments 06 Mind/Iron 18 New Products 20 Events Calendar 20 Showcase 22 Bots in Brief 67 SERVO Webstore 81 Robo-Links 81 Advertiser’s Index worldmags
worldmags PAGE 70 PAGE 52 PAGE 61 In This Issue ... 38 Rate the eM8 — Part 2 by Fred Eady You can’t build robot smarts if you can’t speak the language. Or, actually, languages. We’ll pick up where we left off last month as we go through a tutorial of sorts and port some eM8 executable code. 46 The NXT Big Thing #5 by Greg Intermaggio Things get light-hearted as we learn about dynamic variables by making Eddie seek light. 52 Making Robots With the Arduino — Part 2 by Gordon McComb Now that you’ve been introduced to ArdBot and its central Arduino brain, it’s time to construct the base. 61 VEX Stepper Motor Control Experiments by Daniel Ramirez Part 2: Building the VEX Sunbot. Using simple VEX hardware with some PIC18 C firmware, precise and repeatable movements are possible for aiming a solar panel at the sun using stepper motors. 70 Propelled by the Propeller Chip by John Blankenship and Samuel Mishal This article is an excellent demonstration for how the parallel processing abilities of the Propeller chip from Parallax can be utilized in conjunction with RobotBASIC to achieve robotics projects that involve diverse and multifaceted elements that require simultaneous use of numerous microcontrollers along with a PC. SERVO 12.2010 5 worldmags
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