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Archive for February, 2009

A wasted week – Hapsim to the rescue!

In our previous post, we talked about some of the hardware and software we are going to use to construct our gps driven autonomous r/c car.  In this post, we’ll talk about actually getting some things wired up.  Somehow we wasted an entire week getting the LCD and serial input working.  A couple of dumb [...]

What are our liabilities…and our assets?

We’re building an autonomous vehicle to compete in a competition sponsored by Sparkfun Electronics. The goal of the competition is to have a vehicle make 1 lap around Sparkfun’s building in Boulder, CO in the fastest time. The trick is, it must make that lap on its own with no interaction from any [...]