Scott's Bots Robot Articles

Book Review - Robot Building For Beginners

Friday, March 05, 2010

A great introduction to robotics. If you're going to start building robots, get this book today!

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Stereo Vision with Ubuntu

Friday, March 05, 2010

I've long had a problem with using two web cameras at the same time in Windows and Linux. But now I've solved the problem and have Stereo Vision on my robot, Feynman 7.

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Need A Robot Brain?

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Of all the things I wish I could have purchased off-the-shelf, it would have been a brain.

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Computer Vision Book / Face Recognition

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Another idea that I've been working on is creating a book that's about computer vision.

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Coming Soon A New Robotics Book

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

I am in the process of creating another book on robotics programming. Simpler, easier to read and use, including a DVD with all the source code and a Virtual Machine.

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Want to Build A Robot in 10 minutes?

Thursday, February 04, 2010

I was thinking of making a kit and assembly instruction video on building a robot in 10 minutes.

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Updated 2 Robots

Friday, January 23, 2009

I have updated Feynman Jr and Feynman 7.

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Updated Site

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Well after a year or so I have updated the look and feel of the site.

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Ubuntu Text-To-Speech TTS

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

I was also able to install Text To Speech via Festival and Festvox (voices).

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Finally an Ubuntu Webcam

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

It's taken me a few years, but I finally got a webcam working in Ubuntu. Click for the steps I took to get it working. Next, text-to-speech.

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Feynman Jr. and Carnot at CodeMash

Sunday, January 20, 2008

I was able to take Feynman Jr. and Carnot to CodeMash 2.0.0.8. The conference was awesome and I learned a little about my robots during the event.

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Been working on new robot and API

Thursday, September 27, 2007

I have been working on a smaller version of a robot than Feynman 6, called Feynman Jr. I have also begun to refactor my Java API so that it will work with my new robots.

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Voltage Measurement for your Robot

Thursday, September 06, 2007

For those Basic Stamp 2 users out there. Just use RCTIME with a simple circuit. Depending on the values of your capacitor and resistors you can equate your RCTIME value to your voltage.

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Intermediate Robot Building by David Cook

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

If you are looking for a good book that takes you beyond the basics, David Cooks's Intermediate takes you to the next level.

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Installing UBUNTU on a Compact Flash

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Instructions for installing UBUNTU 6.10 on a VIA EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX. This is a simple 5 step process and you will need the alternate i386 ISO.

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Serial Web Server

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

To work on Carnot, I decided to go into .Net and create a web server that responds to my serial commands. It's a simple .exe that takes a serial input on the command line and it works great for the SSC (Scott Edwards Servo Controller).

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Feynman6 at COJUG

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

I talked about my robot Feynman6 at the Central Ohio Java Users group on Tuesday March 13, 2007.

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Added Store

Friday, December 29, 2006

Go to my new online store.

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JavaRobots Project

Friday, December 02, 2005

I have added the JavaRobots project at SourceForge.

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Lynxmotion SSC-32 Servo Controller

Thursday, October 27, 2005

This is a 32 channel serial servo controller with two modes of operation: Group Move & Mini-SSC II emulation.

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