| Parallax put its new Propeller 2 chip — eight cores, half a megabyte of RAM and high-speed I/O with up to 300 MHz — into silicon. We receive...
| Parallax put its new Propeller 2 chip — eight cores, half a megabyte of RAM and high-speed I/O with up to 300 MHz — into silicon. We receive...
| The Propeller chip made by Parallax Inc. is a bit of a strange animal in the world of microcontrollers. This IC consists of eight 32-bit pro...
| Phase 3: the photophobic robot and subsumptive programmingIt would be interesting if the robot had some higher purpose than just wandering r...
| SUBSUMPTION ARCHITECTUREAND ROBOTICBEHAVIOURTo subsume a task is to supersede it with a higher priority task. When we speak of subsumption i...
| The Parallax Boe-Bot, or Board of Education Robot is a simple robot made from a Parallax Board of Education (BoE) mounted on an aluminium fr...
| This month we explore how the BoEBot vehicle can be made to respond to commands received from an infra-red remote control.How many remote co...
| MICROPROCESSORS BASIC Stamp programming course (4) Part 4: Obstacle Alley If you drive an automobile, you Vin know the practical application...
| In this instalment we’ll introduce BASIC Stamp branching and EEPROM access commands used to make your BOE-Bot follow a pre-determined...
| The robot chassis needs to accommodate two servos for drivetrain, a battery pack, and have a prototype development area (the Board of Edu...
| This is the first of a series of articles discussing the assembly of a simple robot, called BoE-Bot, we’ll use to learn introductory p...