Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Robotics 101.. Teaching myself some MPU implementation

A couple years ago I started out my interest with the Micro Processing Unit by buying a Z8 encore 4K chip on an evaluation board.

image I found this to be very exciting addition to my gizmo collection however its use was a bit over my head, and I have allot to learn about the C/C++ programming language. So needless to say I didn’t manage to get much farther than the demo program.  So after a while I decided I should look in to kids toys to get some "pre-made" parts for testing.  This led me into researching Robot Kits.

After Much review on the many kits out there I decided to go with the ASURO Bot.
image This robot kit developed by and licensed from DLR, the German aerospace institute. Includes RS-232 IR transceiver.  I build it in one day woot !!  and it worked on the first power up!  I was so proud.

Stay Tuned lol  more to come...  Gotta ruin for now.

George
http://www.askgeorgeroy.com

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