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Monday, October 13, 2008 10:14 AM

RoboHum V2 (Part 3a – Batteries & the technical issues)

RoboHum V2 (Part 1 – The hardware) RoboHum V2 (Part 2 – The operating system) Sorry for the loooong delay for part 3! While finishing RoboHum, I ran into quite a few technical issues… I decided to break part 3 into 2 pieces… part 3a will cover the technical issues while part 3b will cover the software issues! Batteries A vital part of a mobile robot is its battery backup system… I decided to use what I have available. I only had the older type lead acid batteries . This is not the best option to...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 10:51 AM

RoboHum V2 (Part 2 – The operating system)

If you missed part 1 , please read it here Next in our series of upgrading RoboHum from V1 to V2, we decided to change our operating system from Windows XP Embedded to Windows CE. The only real problem I ran into here was that I first downloaded the board support package (BSP) for the EBOX-2300 (Not realizing that I should have actually downloaded the EBOX-2300SX). Here is the links for the board support package, etc Windows CE 6 Vortex86SX Windows Embedded CE 6.0 BSP Version B (2008-07-24) Windows...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 10:50 AM

RoboHum V2 (Part 1 – The hardware)

Ok, this is a 3 part series that I had on the back-burner for a while… never had the time to finish it!!! Well, after listening to a DotNetRocks show #364 ( Stacy Harris Does Home Automation! ) I decided it is time to finish it! For more info about RoboHum V1 , read the post here ! The first part of this series will cover the hardware… The new “PC” I selected is the VERY cost-effective EBOX-2300SX-JSK from DM&P. Here is a comparison between RoboHum V1 & RoboHum V2 RoboHum V1 RoboHum V2 Hardware...
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