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Post by Dingo on Aug 23, 2006 21:56:06 GMT 10
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Post by Dingo on Jul 14, 2006 22:06:49 GMT 10
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Post by Dingo on Jul 2, 2006 18:28:02 GMT 10
c3newsletter.50megs.com/Interesting project if completed Although personally lugging around an inverter to power a 350W PSU to drive a 266 Celeron sounds like a lot of effort compared to getting an ARM9 to do the job.....or at very least build a nice efficient PSU. Would be nice to see the arm if it gets built.
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Post by Dingo on Jun 30, 2006 22:05:14 GMT 10
As long as you have an up to date firewall running (and on cable you should ) then you should be ok. Opening up the hardware ports has absolutely nothing to do with software ports - the two are completely and 100% different. No idea about Adafruit - link?
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Post by Dingo on Jun 30, 2006 20:44:28 GMT 10
The 2313 board has its own Parallel cable.
Like Bones says, you need to run the Userports program like the instructions say (Follow the Win2000 instructions - it is similar enough to XP for this purpose).
The reason for running it is that the Windows won't allow direct access to the parallel port and user port just changes a few settings allowing direct access. It needs only to be run successfully once.
Once that is done you can use the supplied software to upload or you can use Avrdude.
I tried several applications to upload but I only ever had success with the supplied one and Avrdude. There is a GUI for avrdude now as well.
Hope you get it going.
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Post by Dingo on Jul 14, 2006 19:15:47 GMT 10
I think the robot part of it is a relatively straight forward project - one thing I"ve often thought is a struggle is the vacuum part - to get good suction would require lots of power and batteries may not last very long. I'm not sure how the Roombas suck (pun intended )
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Post by Dingo on Jun 30, 2006 20:31:49 GMT 10
Wow! It's only taken 8 months but i finally had my account approved today! So, is there anyone out there? Lol, okay...... it's been *real* around here is all Nah, seriously, sorry about that, I'm not sure why that would happen, I'll try and keep an eye on it.
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Post by Dingo on Jun 28, 2006 20:56:42 GMT 10
I`m not sure why approval would be delayed...... Anyway it should be a moot point as I`ve turned off the forced logins - it has been off a while and the spambots seem to have lost interest (maybe their bots run on batteries too
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Post by Dingo on May 21, 2006 10:53:42 GMT 10
To try and prevent the spam bots I've had to force registration before posting.
I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this but alas...........
Hopefully after a little while the spam bots move on and I can take forced registration off.
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Post by Dingo on Dec 29, 2004 14:06:47 GMT 10
done.
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Post by Dingo on Nov 5, 2004 19:08:50 GMT 10
Excellent link!
I've added it to the link page.
I'm going to start with casting plastics becuase I want to do some small things first but definately after the first few prokects in my mind I metal!
BTW looks like you cast the parts that need to be strong in metal and others in lighter plastic for your tracks
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Post by Dingo on May 20, 2006 11:01:16 GMT 10
Unfortunately not really, there are some very active mailing lists like the one attached to the BEAM yahoo group and some active American robotic clubs but not really one central place that I've found yet.
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Post by Dingo on Sept 14, 2006 23:17:52 GMT 10
I haven't tried the vac forming but I did have a crack at the Silicon molding and then casting in plastic. It is only for small parts but it is amazing the detail that can be copied (ie fingerprints come out).
I have used vac forming in the past. I don't see why this method wouldn't work.
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Post by Dingo on Oct 14, 2004 14:20:52 GMT 10
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Post by Dingo on Apr 16, 2006 9:33:59 GMT 10
Thank Jesus for Easter eh? Amongst other things I've finally had a little available time to play around with an ARM7 LPC2119 I bought from Futurlec a while back. I'll probably post some stuff about it soon. Really is a different way of dealing with microcontrollers. 32-bit processing at 60MHz is quite a step up from 8-bit 16Mhz If nothing else I'd like to look into simple vision processing for robots. Anyone come across some nice links for this sort of thing?
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