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MyRobots Now Officially Free, Watch its New Intro Video

MyRobots.com

The MyRobots.com cloud monitoring service is officially FREE! All references to the initial token system (where payment would be required for data transfer) were removed on May 31st. This means that the current data transfer and storage service will remain free for all.

Additionally, we noted that the concept of a “social network for robots” may not have been immediately clear for everyone, so that is why we revamped the front page and created the animation below. If you are a robotic enthusiast, you must watch this video!

Get your robots connected today!

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Arduino to Rease Their First Mobile Robot!

If you have visited the Arduino website lately, you may have noticed a strange circular board under “Hardware” which Arduino has simply named the “Arduino Robot“. Arduino is set to release this new product in July of this year.

The round shape is obviously for maneuverability (just like most robotic vacuums) and although the wheels and motors look inexpensive, they are likely good quality and help lower the price considerably. The board uses the same setup as an Arduino Leonardo which means there is no need for a separate serial to USB chip (once again reducing the cost). Built-in features include an LCD display, downward-facing IR sensors for line following, 5 push buttons (which they call a “control pad”; useful for navigating the LCD), a buzzer for audio feedback, solder prototyping areas for additional modules, and something most other robots don’t have – a compass.

Arduino seems to be deviating from producing only electronics to producing mobile robot kits. The Arduino Esplora, released a few months ago, is essentially a handheld programmable controller. If these kits are successful, this could see Arduino branching out from creating versatile electronics to producing more complete, integrated systems.

We’ll certainly look to add this product to our catalog (no MSRP yet), but welcome your opinion on if Arduino go everything right or if there is room for improvement? Tell us in your comments below.

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IEEE Spectrum

DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge: OSRF Gets Simulator Ready
This Week in Cybercrime: Report Details Stolen U.S. Defense Secrets
Graphene Image Sensor Achieves New Level of Light Sensitivity

DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge: OSRF Gets Simulator Ready

Posted: 03 Jun 2013 08:42 AM PDT

We've got an overview of the tasks competitors will have to conquer

This Week in Cybercrime: Report Details Stolen U.S. Defense Secrets

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT

Plus: Retaliating against cyberthieves, Obama's identity "stolen"

Graphene Image Sensor Achieves New Level of Light Sensitivity

Posted: 30 May 2013 10:52 AM PDT

Researchers increase light sensitivity of graphene-based image sensor by three orders of magnitude over previous versions

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Ubuntu! It’s perfect for me really

Posted: 02 Jun 2013 09:38 PM PDT

This day blank, think not writings out, but I solved the problem, install the print ms office 2003 several days. I have used a Toshiba Satellite L310 series laptop price 800$.This price, my wife complained that expensive compared to her brand Asus x80 price of just 500$ only.But it is a real difference, is durability I used 12 hours every day.The heat of the day. I’ve never had a motherboard repair.Just change the LCD, the yellow screen. The lifetime is about 6 years old, approaching the age of my eldest son. It’s a real endure. The store him installed windows xp sp2 operating system only. The technicians at the shop said least problems. Which is true, since the source, there is no problem. Reinstall it. But I got tired of two reasons. First. Problems with viruses.Although we have a good antivirus program installed it.But it is still infected. Just to [...]

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Operation of 200 watt inverter diagram

Posted: 01 Jun 2013 08:01 PM PDT

Yesterday, I recommend Simple working principle of the inverters. Which you have understood well. Today we see Operation of 200 watt inverter diagram continuously. In the block diagram of Figure 1. Starting from the frequency generator circuit or the oscillators that works with IC2 numbers SG3526 Which is IC pulse width modulation as figure 2 shows the internal structure. Served to genered the rectangular signal on frequency 50Hz output to Output A and B. Which both these output signals have phase difference of 180 degrees all the time. That is if a Status Output A High, Output B will be low. Or If Output A is Low, Output B will be the High instead. These two signals are sent to control the output transistors Q1 and Q2. Figure 1 is 200watt inverters block diagram Both transistors Q1 and Q2 are Enhancement MOSFET type of N channel So not conduct current [...]