These are my links for July 4th: Calibration standards: Resistance | electronics | Pagetitle – Yet another one of the dirt cheap calibration standards that should be available in any hobby electronics workshop. How to Export Mailbox Data: Exchange 2007 Help – This topic explains how to use the the Export-Mailbox cmdlet in the Exchange Management [...]
These are my links for June 10th: Amazon.com: LEGO Robo Champ (3835): Toys & Games – There is a contest at the robot factory. The first to build a robot with all the correct color parts will win this year’s trophy and be named the Robo Champ. If someone takes a part you need, you [...]
These are my links for May 13th H-Bridge Theory & Practice — Chuck’s Robotics NotebookA number of web sites talk about H-bridges, they are a topic of great discussion in robotics clubs and they are the bane of many robotics hobbyists. I periodically chime in on discussions about them, and while not an expert by [...]
The X PRIZE Foundation, Google Inc., LEGO Systems, National Instruments, and Wired’s GeekDad will announce “MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge” today at National Instruments NIWeek 2009. via “MoonBots” Challenges Parent-Child Teams to Conduct Google Lunar X PRIZE Missions with LEGO Robots | Moonbots.org. Someone already has a bot built for the [...]
Someone posted a video that purports to be a 5 million brick LEGO boulder rolling down the hill. Somehow I doubt that it is made of that many bricks. A 2×4 brick measures 32mm x 16mm x 9.6mm and weighs 2.5 grams. Add it all up and we should be closer to 12 feet in [...]