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Features

The NXT Big Thing #3

by Greg Intermaggio

See the light! Learn about the light sensor that many NXT enthusiasts argue is the single most versatile sensor in the kit.

More Room for Your Robot Stuff

by Fred Eady

One never visualizes hard drives and microcontrollers in the same thought process. About 10 B.M.C. (Before MicroSD Card), relatively large capacity hard drives and Intel microprocessors were the norm. These days, the MicroSD card has brought the storage capacity of yesteryear's hard drives to the microcontroller bus. Today's microcontroller can control as much data storage in the space of a couple of quarters as the first personal computers could with a full-sized hard drive.

Projects

HoverBot: Look Ma, No Wheels!

by Paul Verhage

This month, you’ll “dress” HoverBot in a skirt and add its drive fans.

VEX Stepper Motor Control Experiments

by Daniel Ramirez

Learn how to interface stepper motors to the VEX controller and adapt them to the VEX motion subsystem to use in your own stepper motor applications.

Columns

Robytes
by Jeff Eckert
Robytes
Stimulating Robot Tidbits

GeerHead
by David Geer
Baton-Wielding Bots Command and Control Orchestrated Wonders!
The College of New Jersey in Ewing received an award of $359,477 in March ‘09 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the Conducting Robots class for three years. The class brings together students from four disciplines — Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Interactive Multimedia, and Music — to design, build, and program robots capable of conducting orchestras.

Then and Now
by Tom Carroll
From Garco to the New Bots in Town
I still receive comments about many of the old robots that I wrote about years ago and I am always asked to write about some cool robot from the past that a reader has heard about. Garco, from 1953, has been one of the most requested robots people have wanted some information about, as well as the REEM series of robots that I briefly mentioned in the May ‘10 issue of SERVO.

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

Combat Zone

BUILD REPORT: Zergling

by Kyle Singer

in The Combat Zone

Back in February, I decided that I was going to build drums for the PA Bot Blast, Horizontals for Franklin, and VDs for Moto.

MANUFACTURING: Composites – Part 2

by Bradley Hanstad - Team Think Tank

in The Combat Zone

In this month’s article, I will cover a very basic lay-up process, the tools you need, and the safety precautions to take.

COMBAT ZONE’S GREATEST HITS

by Kevin Berry

in The Combat Zone

Pete Smith, of KitBots fame, sent in this one from the recent “Clash of the Bots” event. Pure Dead Brilliant, whose blade was featured in the August ‘10 edition of Combat Zone, took a bit of a beating at the “hands” of MH2.

PARTS IS PARTS: O-Ring Wheels for Ants

by Pete Smith

in The Combat Zone

Antweight (<1lb) combat robots use a variety of different drive motors and finding small, light, and robust wheels for them can be a problem.

Life Cycle of a Fighting Robot

by Mike Jeffries

in The Combat Zone

Apollyon started as a concept for a simple but somewhat unique 12 lb wedge bot. The original design started as a sketch in a notebook during class. Later, it moved into 3D in the CAD program Rhinoceros.

EVENT REPORT: Robotic HORD Returns to Cuyahoga Valley Career Center

by Chris Olin

in The Combat Zone

The Ohio Robotics Club (ORC) — a member of the Robot Fighting League (RFL) hosted the House of Robotic Destruction (HORD) Spring 2010 at Cuyahoga Valley Career Center (CVCC) back in May of this year.