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| | Re: about robots and handy board
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| Dear Francois A du Toit: PIC stands for Programmable Integrated Circuit. Generally it is what we call a microcontroller. You write a program in Assembler, burn that program into the PICs EPROM or EEPROM. Then when you put the PIC in its circuit, it (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| no, it has never been evaluated for mean time between failures. fred (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | Re: Textbook
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| (...) "Mobile Robots" is a nice book. I really liked it. Is there anybody who knows more about "Build Your Own Robot!" by Karl Lunt? It's available on-line but I haven't found any reviews for it yet. Does anybody have it? Is it any good? -- Eric (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | Re: Textbook
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| [Joe Kopena] spake unto the ether: (...) Wait for Fred Martin's book (it's due out in the fall, isn't it?) My self-taught practical engineer's take on robotics is that you can't separate the brain from the body, so to speak. Computer scientists tend (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | Re: Textbook
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| Hi. Here's a recommendation: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots Edited by: D. Kortenkamp (NASA), P. Bonasso (NASA), and R. Murphy (U. South Florida) MIT Press (1998) This book is a collection of research papers and editorial essays. It is not (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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