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SERVO
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Features & Projects
Hack a Laser Pointer
by Jim Miller
Get on and of f control for your
laser pointer.
42
The Robosapien V2:
Bigger and Better
by Jamie Samans
Meet RSV1’s big brother.
27
Intermediate Robots
by Dave Shinsel
Building a Laptop- or PDA-based
Robot — Part 2.
47
Using Interrupts to
Control Servos
by Sam Christy
Stop what you’re doing and start
interrupting!
33
Serial Communication
Without a Serial Port
by Paul Kafig
Explore bit banging fundamentals.
51
KIT KOLLEGE by Dave Prochnow
Lecture 7: JoinMax Digital Quadruped.
57
Space Elevator
by Roger Gilbertson
Building a robotic highway to the stars.
37
2005 VEX Challenge
by Lester Davis
Team #8’s FIRST experience with
RadioShack’s VEX.
Jasper the 3D Movie Bot
Coming 03.2006
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02.2006
VOL. 4 NO. 2
Departments
Columns
06
Mind/Iron
08 Robotics Resources by Gordon McComb
Exploring Robotics Construction Sets
12 GeerHead by David Geer
A Fearsome Foursome of Recon Flyers
15 Rubberbands and Bailing Wire
by Jack Buffington
Inverse Kinematics
18 Robytes by Jeff Eckert
Stimulating Robot Tidbits
20 Ask Mr. Roboto by Pete Miles
Your Problems Solved Here
72 Lessons From The Lab
Guest Hosted by Marc Helfman
Electronic Stopwatch for Races
74 The Assembly Line by James Antonakos
Uno and the Rise of the Phoenix
76 Appetizer by Erik Hagman
The Problem With R2D2
78 Then and Now by Tom Carroll
Surgical Robots Come of Age
07
Bio-Feedback
23
New Products
40
Brain Matrix
55
University Store
56
Events Calendar
70
SERVO Bookstore
75
Robotics Showcase
79
Robo-Links
81
Advertiser’s Index
82
Menagerie
ON THE COVER
64 2005 Robot Soccer
Championships
by Dave Calkins
Part 1 — RoboCup Osaka
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