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Servo - January 2008
SERVO MAGAZINE
Vol. 6 No. 1
ZENO • SUPER STEPPER DRIVER • SPACE ROBOTICS • NEW LIFE FOR ARTI ONE
January 2008
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Columns
08
Robytes by Jeff Eckert
Stimulating Robot Tidbits
Departments
06
Mind/Iron
21
10
GeerHead by David Geer
Zeno — The First Complete Character Robot
Events Calendar
22
New Products
14
Ask Mr. Roboto by Pete Miles
Your Problems Solved Here
23
Robotics Showcase
61
Twin Tweaks
by Bryce and Evan Woolley
More Than Meets the Eye —
the Mighty Morphing V-Bot
66
Robo-Links
76
SERVO Webstore
67
Dif ferent Bits
by Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Neural Networks for the PIC Microcontroller
Part 4: Self-Organizing Maps
82
Advertiser’s Index
71
Robotics Resources
by Gordon McComb
Small Brains for Your Bot
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Appetizer by Gerard Fonte
Terms of Endearment
79
Then and Now by Tom Carroll
Robots Take to the Air
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VOL. 6 NO. 1
Features & Projects
MEET THE MIGHTY MORPHING V-BOT/pg 61
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The Super Stepper Driver
by Fred Eady
Build an intelligent stepper motor
controller from scratch that’s based
on the Allegro MicroSystems A3979.
38
Compute Square
Roots Fast
by Tim Paterson
Square roots have a number
of possible applications in
microcontroller systems.
42
GPS
by Michael Simpson
Part 4: A closer look at the inter face
needed for each of the GPS modules
covered in this series.
49
Space Robotics
by Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
This article focuses on the entire
control loop that’s used to allow a
rover to safely navigate on Mars
using information from Earth.
54
C Programming for
Microcontrollers
Made Easy
by Sam Christy
This new, no-cost online system
can cut start-up time from hours
to minutes.
56
Reviving a Showbot
by Robert Doerr
Give ARTI ONE a new lease on life.
ENTER WITH CAUTION!
24 The Combat Zone
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