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Feb 24, 2008 How to build an inexpensive powerful robot. Configure your routerbot.

Unfortunately most servos you can get for a reasonable price are not the same. Each servo has its own parameters and the cheapest ones for not allow adjustments. Fortunately in the “routerbot OS” your can easily fix that problem. Here is how you can do that in the “routerbot” project.

Feb 24, 2008 How to build an inexpensive powerful robot. Attach a wireless video camera.

The routerbot we almost have built as descibed in the routerbot project is self-sufficient, but you can get more fun with it if you put an inexpensive wireless camera on top of it. This post describes how you can do that.

Feb 24, 2008 How to build an inexpensive powerful robot. Test basics and assemble your robot

Ufff… the most critical part of your robot project is done. Now it is time to do basic tests and assemble whatever you have done. Here’s is hwo you do that…

Feb 24, 2008 How to build an inexpensive powerful robot. Reflash your router with new “routerbot” OS

Linksys WRT54GL original operating system was not designed to control external devices, so we need to rewrite it with something more suitable. This post explaines how to do this and provides the new firmware. You may also want to refer to the overall project outline.

Feb 23, 2008 How to build an inexpensive yet powerful robot. get the parts and tools

For our robot we will need the following parts and tools:

Feb 23, 2008 How to build an inexpensive yet powerful robot (How to turn your router into a routerbot)

Somehow my kids became huge fans of different kinds of robots, starting from teleoperated planet explorers and ending with transformers. So I promised them to build a robot, and in a few days I ended up with this result which I’m pretty proud to share. It appeared that for $150 or less you can build pretty cool robot that is way easier to program then most robots out there on the market + its range is way larger then most toys have. Here’s how you can build your own inexpensive yet powerful robot…

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