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Popular Mechanics Build Your First Robot

Posted by Ryan on 3 February 2012

Gordon McComb has published a project in Popular Mechanics called Build Your First Robot. The parts that Pololu offers are in this wish list, and more details are available on Gordon’s site.

Display for compass and accelerometer readings
by Ryan - 3 February 2012
This forum post shows how to use a Baby Orangutan to read the accelerometer and compass values from an LSM303DLH and display them nicely on a 1.8"...

DIY fully-automatic book scanner
by Ben - 13 February 2012
This do-it-yourself fully-automatic book scanner uses a Maestro servo controller to control the page-turning, and picture-taking servos. It was...

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