robots.netRecent robots.net articlesTI Engineers Develop OMAP3530 Board for FOSS Community- June 10, 2008 According to a LinuxDevices.com article, "A small group of Texas Instruments (TI) employees is readying a low-cost development board with an open hardware design." The embedded controller, know as the Beagle board is being developed for use with Linux. It includes TI's OMAP3530 SoC which is based on the 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 core and can deliver 1200 MIPS. They also threw in a 430MHz TMS320C60x core, an Imagination SGX 2D3D graphics processor, 128MB of RAM and 256MB of Flash (there's also.http://robots.net/article/2559.html New Robots and Robot Standards at AUVSI Conference- June 9, 2008 This week at the AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America conference, representatives from the AUVSI, NATO, DoD, and TTCP will meet for a day long workshop to address the need for standards in autonomous robot aircraft in the areas of airspace management, payload and sensor integration, and frequency spectrum management. More info on the AUVSI's efforts can be found at their online forum. Meanwhile, other organizations are showing off their latest autonomous robots including...http://robots.net/article/2558.html Random Robot Roundup- June 6, 2008 Rog-a-matic noticed a LEGO Iron Giant robot on flickr. VIA has announced the Mini-ITX 2.0 specification which should be of interest to robot-builders as it calls for lower power consumption and more IO. Roschler has written up a review of WowWee's latest robot, Wrex the Dawg. He's also reviewed WowWee's upcoming Tri-Bot. Roland sent us links to his latest blog posts on polar robots exploring the Arctic and the UMan robotic arm. Back in 2006, we covered John Stewerts paper on the...http://robots.net/article/2557.html Grant Imahara VEXplorer Contest Videos Posted- June 5, 2008 Tom Atwood of Robot Magazine writes with an update on the Grant Imahara VEXplorer Robot Challenge, "25 robot enthusiasts are competing for a first-place $5,000 scholarship on YouTube, and the videos that are the contest entries can be viewed at the VEX Robotics VEXplorer Challenge webpage. Second prize is a $2,000 scholarship, and Innovation First will give $200 gift certificates to 10 additional winners in this competition to produce a creative, different cool application using only...http://robots.net/article/2556.html Dino-MITE - New free software for Pleo- June 5, 2008 BAUER Independents Ltd. has released Dino-MITE, a sophisticated software package for Pleo owners that you can download from Bauer's web site. Once you connect your Pleo to the USB port of a Windows 2000 (or better) compatible computer, you can get a detailed glimpse of the internal state of your Pleo including: servo positions, nose camera view, microphone input, internal state variables and more. You also get a command window which you can use for trying out different direct commands.http://robots.net/article/2555.html |