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The Haunted Organist by Mark Goodson
Customer Mark Goodson constructed this spooky animatronic skeleton using the Jrk USB Motor Controller. See the final result below:
Featured link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiimQNGnNBY
Beacon Locating Robot - Powered by Arduino and IR Transceiver
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This beacon-chasing robot by Christopher Hazlett was built with our IR Beacon, an RP5 Tracked Chassis, and an Arduino.
23 Oct 2018 edit: You can find a video of it driving here and a GitHub page here.
Arduino Muscle Car
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This DIY article for Popular Science shows how to use our Orangutan LV-168 robot controller to make an autonomous, obstacle-avoiding 1:32-scale Hummer. The Arduino sketch used to control the car makes use of our Arduino Orangutan libraries and is available for download on the second page of the article.
Featured link: http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-07/arduino-muscle-car
Rich’s Melty B Antweight Combat Robots
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Spinning antweight combat robots by Rich Olson / SpamButcher, using the Pololu Baby Orangutan robot controller and VNH3SP30 Motor Driver Carrier. These award-winning designs spin their entire body around at high speed while slightly varying the motor speeds to translate around the playing field.
Featured link: http://www.spambutcher.com/meltyb.html
Probotics America - Home of the Safety Education Bikebot
David Jannke from Probotics America is using our TReX motor controller in his safety education robots. He also sent us a short video demonstration (2MB avi).
Featured link: http://www.proboticsamerica.com/
iRobot Create Personal Home Robot
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This Instructable by Danh Trinh shows how to use our 8-Servo Controller with the iRobot Create platform and a Mini-ITX computer system.
Featured link: http://www.instructables.com/id/iRobot-Create-Personal-Home-Robot/
3kg sumo by Tom Saxton
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The Pololu Orangutan X2 robot controller is the brains of this 3kg sumo robot by Tom Saxton.
Featured link: http://www.idleloop.com/robotics/3ksumo/
Automated weapons turret by Colin Karpfinger
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Colin Karpfinger’s turret robot, “The First Law”, won second place in the 2007 Defcon Bots competition. The First Law uses the Pololu Serial 8-Servo Controller.
Featured link: http://www.colinkarpfinger.com/projects/defcon/
SMC03A controlled by LabVIEW
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Customer Roberto posted a demo to the forum, showing how to control our SMC03A motor controller using LabVIEW.
Featured link: http://forum.pololu.com/viewtopic.php?t=598
Tutorial: Using the Pololu Servo Controller in .NET
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Customer Colin Karpfinger has written a tutorial complete with sample C# program that demonstrates how to interface with Pololu servo controllers using .NET.
Featured link: http://colinkarpfinger.com/blog/2008/using-the-pololu-servo-controller-in-net/