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Real Robots:

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• arduino.cc - BSA robotic discussion

  https://www.google.com/search?q=site:arduino.cc+%22boy+scouts%22

• wikiversity.org - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory

  - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_and_Robotics_Laboratory

• Jaquet-Droz automata

  - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata

• Prototype for interactive Autistic assistant robot

  - http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-060111-155513/unrestricted/AutismRobotMQP_FinalReport.pdf

• Build a FaceBot - http://www.embedded-vision.com/sites/default/files/articles/Build_a_FaceBot.pdf

• maths.org - unfolding-polyhedra - http://plus.maths.org/content/imaging-maths-unfolding-polyhedra
• progonos.com - unfolding-polyhedra - http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Dither/ProjPoly/projPoly3.html
  • r2 dome - http://www.google.com/search?q=%22r2+builders%22+18+inch+dome+measurements
  • r2 dome PDF diagram - http://astromechbuilder.com/mechloader/d/1390-1/Dome+Template+2.pdf

• RepRap
  • Basic Mendel - http://reprap.org/wiki/BasicMendel
  • Mendel Buyers Guide - http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel_Buyers_Guide
  • Stepper Motor - http://reprap.org/wiki/StepperMotor
  • Eiffel - http://reprap.org/wiki/Eiffel
  • WolfStrap - http://reprap.org/wiki/WolfStrap-English
  • Motor FAQ - http://reprap.org/wiki/Motor_FAQ
  • Actuator (Motor) Fabrication - http://reprap.org/wiki/Actuator_Fabrication

• Outfitting A Robot Laboratory - http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/Robots/ResourceKit/Lab.html

• Phidgets Products - USB Stepper Motor Controllers/Sensors - http://www.trossenrobotics.com/phidgets.aspx?a=pg

• Emily Hamner - http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/hamner_emily.html

  Tom Lauwers - http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/lauwers_tom.html

• Lego Walking Robot Links - http://technicpuppy.miguelagullo.net/lblinks.html

• Pyro Python Robot - http://pyrorobotics.org/

• COG Shifting Walking Robot - http://perso.orange.fr/bzarokian/lego/

• Institute for Personal Robots in Education Blog - http://blog.roboteducation.org/

• CMU Center for Inovative Robotics - http://www.cir.ri.cmu.edu/blog/

• MIT Hacks :Robot Protest - http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/robot_protest/

• LegoMindstorms - Notes on Lego Mind Storms Robots

• Astromech - Notes on how to build your own Astromech Driod like R2-D2 for less than the price of a Treo-650

• Lynxmotion (with Servo Erector Set) - http://www.lynxmotion.com/

• Palm Pilot Robot (PPRK) - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pprk/index.html

• Cool Robot Of The Week - http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html

• Aibo - http://www.aibosite.com/sp/gen/faq.html
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/legged/#overview
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/main/

• Red Team Standstorm - http://www.redteamracing.org/index.cfm?method=page.display&page=technology.navigationAndSensing

• Grand Challenge - http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/overview.html

• K-Bot - http://iiae.utdallas.edu/news/pop_science.html

• Asimo - http://www.hondanews.com/CatID1018?mid=2002021460806&mime=JPG
  • December 2005 Honda Displays New Asimo http://world.honda.com/news/2005/c051213.html

• iRobot - http://www.roombavac.com/
  • BusinessWeek interview - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2004/tc2004056_2199_tc_168.htm
  • Packbot - http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/mines/i_robot/
  • Government & Industrial Robots - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Airobot.com+industrial+government
  • iRobot Create (educational Platform) - http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/29/irobot-create-roomba-hacking-for-the-everyman/

• JPL Robotics - http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/tmr/homepage.html

• robot review - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0205/p17s02-stct.html

• Build Your Own - http://academic1.bellevue.edu/robots/robotframe3.htm

• Shopping for Robots - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/robotpg/robo_rsrc.html

• RoboCup Soccer Simulator - http://sserver.sourceforge.net/ (perhaps this should be moved to the next section)

Virtual Robots:

Look, Real Robots are Expensive! And Fake Robots need a "Environment" to exist in!

So, This here are notes on building a Virtual Robot that exists in the Environment of a Win32 or X11 Desktop.

Notes on Software-only Robot resources

Heartbeat

• Robot Timer
  • Win32
    • http://www.codeproject.com/system/timers_intro.asp - Win32 Timers
    • http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/animation.html - Win32 Animation
    • http://source.winehq.org/WineAPI/ - Wine (Windows-work-alike) API Docs
  • X11 / Unix
    • http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/usleep.3.html

Display

• Visual Output, Robot Appearance
  • Win32
    • http://www.gametutorials.com/ - Win32 Basics and Some notes on Collision algorythems too
    • http://winprog.org/tutorial/ - Win32 Tutorial, including Graphics
    • http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/W-D/dislog/miscellaneous/article.php/c5003/ - Round Windows (any shape really)
    • http://source.winehq.org/WineAPI/ - Wine (Windows-work-alike) API Docs
  • X11
    • http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/XShapeCombineMask.3.html - X11 Round Windows
    • http://www.stanford.edu/services/pubsw/package/x/xbiff.html - xbiff for an example

Wheels

• Robot Movement
  • Win32
    • MoveWindow - Send Message (..,WM_SIZE...)
    • SetWindowPos
    • http://source.winehq.org/WineAPI/ - Wine (Windows-work-alike) API Docs

Fingers

• Robots can Type and Click!
  • Win32
    • Perl Win32::Setupsup.pm Man Page - http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl/Setupsup.pm.txt
    • Pushkeys - http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/technical/Languages/DOSSendKeys.htm
    • TPushKeys - http://www.alan-warriner.co.uk/soft.htm
    • Ground Control - http://www.acrasoft.com/gc.html
    • googlegroups Win32 and Perl - http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&selm=an_385580603
    • googlegroups keybd_event - http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&selm=an_285749473
    • Python Sendkeys - http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/
    • googlegroups Win32::GUITest - http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&selm=an_405132840
    • CPAN Win32::GUITest
      • CPAN Win32::GUITest - http://search.cpan.org/ctrondlp/Win32-GuiTest-1.50.2-ad/guitest.pm
      • CPAN Win32::GUITest README - http://search.cpan.org/src/ERNGUI/Win32-GuiTest-1.3/README.html
      • CPAN Win32::GUITest Changes - http://search.cpan.org/src/CTRONDLP/Win32-GuiTest-1.50.2-ad/changes
      • CPAN Win32::GUITest sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/winguitest/
      • Win32::GUITest And Cygwin Patch - GuiTestAndCygwinPatch
      • Win32::GUITest::SendMouse and Win32::API - GuiTestSendMouse
    • CPAN Win32::GUIRobot
  • X11
    • CPAN X11::GUITest - http://search.cpan.org/ctrondlp/X11-GUITest-0.20/GUITest.pm
      • CPAN X11::GUITest sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/x11guitest/
      • X11::GUITest Article - http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/02/02/x11_gui_testing.html
  • VNC
    • libvncserver (Something like VNC::GUITest only better) - http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/
  • Java
    • Java.AWT.Robot - http://www.developer.com/java/other/print.php/3077871
  • other:
    • SDL crossplatform library: it is used for emulators to give them access to screen keyboard mouse, sound (etc)
      • http://www.libsdl.org/index.php

Robot Shop

• We need to build this thing
  • CygwinTips - Cygwin has a free fully working gcc and environment
  • Mingw - a variation on Cygwin gcc - http://www.mingw.org/x86-win32-ports.shtml
    • Other Fancy Stuff - http://www.mingw.org/links.shtml

More Virtual Robots:

• RoboHome - A collaborative site about Robocode. Also featuring RoboRumble@Home. This is a Wiki Dedicated to RoboCode (Java Robots that live in a Java VR)
  • http://robowiki.net/cgi-bin/robowiki?Robo_Home
• RoboCup Soccer Simulator - Enables for two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer (football).
  • http://sserver.sourceforge.net/
• android
  • http://wiki.tcl.tk/android
  • http://www.wildopensource.com/activities/larry-projects/android.php
• XNee - record and play back X Window events

  http://www.sandklef.com/xnee/

• WMCtrl

  http://www.sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/

Modeling

• http://freshmeat.net/projects/k-3d/
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/wings3d/
• http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials/modeling/polygon/189.html
• http://innovation3d.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:LcZ1A48Ui_sJ:modthesims2.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D63988+astromech+mesh&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1

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