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Features

Harvest Energy for Your Robots With the EnerChip, by Fred Eady
Once you understand how energy harvesting works, you can apply this knowledge to your own low power robotic projects.

CPLDs — Part 1: An Introduction, by David A. Ward
Anyone involved with digital electronics should become familiar with complex programmable logic devices. This tutorial will take you through the paces, culminating with a demonstration of how to incorporate a CPLD to control a mobile robotics platform.

Projects

Making Robots With the Arduino — Part 6, by Gordon McComb
Follow That Line!

VEX Stepper Motor Control Experiments, by Daniel Ramirez
This time, build a simpler version of the SunBot with beefier stepper motors that are powerful enough to directly drive the solar panel’s azimuth and elevation axes.

CPLDs — Part 2: Graphical Programming of a CPLD, by David Ward
We’ll get right into some CPLD programming and look at breadboarding and testing, as well.

Give Your Robot the Bootloader, by Fred Eady
Bootloading provides a very useful layer of control. Once the base bootloader code is loaded into your robot’s program Flash, you can read, write, and erase it without having to use a hardware programmer.

Build Your Own Big Walker, by Daniel Albert
Part 3. This segment focuses on the design and implementation of the bot’s multi-processor distributed processing system.

Columns

Robytes, by Jeff Eckert
Stimulating Robot Tidbits

GeerHead, by David Geer
DARwIn-OP Robot

Ask Mr. Roboto, by Dennis Clark
Your Problems Solved Here

The NXT Big Thing #9, by Greg Intermaggio
Rad Radar!

Then and Now, by Tom Carroll
What Does It Take to Build a Robot?

Combat Zone

BUILD REPORT:
Apollyon 2 — Concept to Creation.
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So You Want to Fight Robots? Turning Your Destructive Instincts into a Socially Acceptable Hobby
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Video Review: Bots High
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Upcoming Events
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EVENT REPORT: 2011 Chattanooga Robot Battles
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