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Monday, December 28, 2009

Atom motherboard

Here is the board and its case.
The 1 GB CF is a bit too small, I'll get a bigger one soon.
Also, the holes for the 2.5" disk do not match my 44 pin cable length, so I'll create new holes for it.







Thursday, December 24, 2009

Robotic Crawler Video

Olivier made a video of his HSP Crawler first run, which I edited and put on dailymotion, so here it is :





Don't know how it will handle the 1kg Atom motherboard on top (we might break the weakest parts...), but looks promising...

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Unmanned Vehicle Project

With Philippe we have the project, since a very long time, to build an mobile camera, well, let's say a robot !
There's a lot of robot projects around the net, but one of the main identified problem is their lack of "agility".
That's why, for our first tests, we have prefered to choose a well proven basis instead of an "university project", the HSP Crawler : http://www.hispeedmodel.com/product.asp?bianhao=94880
Here in it's original configuration as i have received it :