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Arduino Testing

Arduino Testing: On my Mac with OSX Lion, using the Arduino program starting to try and get a simple Serial feed back system with a serial display working. This is the first step in getting the MAX7219-MAX7221 driver . for the motors working So far the followings steps to De-Tangle...

Status

It is hard to believe two months have gone by. Lots of little things. two text books for the higher level concepts of ROS on the 8962. AI about problem solving and Integration Patterns for the message buss. Cann, Ethernet, serial, I2C. Interesting stuff but have to get down and...

Back from Paris.

Just spent 10 days in Paris, terrific city, that keep on polishing and have gotten a pretty impressive culture. Talk about history. All the buildings are 300 years old and fully functional. I was impressed with everything. The trip got me thinking about how to do the Mission Planning /...

AUVSI in 5 weeks

Another month goes by, no post but plenty of progress. 1. External Wiring of the base is 100% complete 2. Internal wiring for battery is 100% complete 3. Power distribution / fuse board 60% complete. 4. Jeremy Lucas has agreed to join in a ROS-applied project. 5. Organizing photos to...