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  • What to do on New Year’s Eve, building a robot?

    January 28, 2011

    Twelve hours, one microcontroller on a self-designed development board, driver units, a cheap ultrasonic sensor, two bumper sensors, LEGO pieces, and the usual bits and pieces you’ll find in every workshop, overall not more worth than approximately $120. Those were the constraints on a small two man project around New Year’s Eve. Crazy? Yes, but [...]