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Features & Projects
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Build The Ultimate
Robot
by Michael Simpson
Part 5: Megabot.
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An Introduction to
Pneumatic Systems
by David A. Ward
This second half covers adding
electronic and computer control
Implementing a Digital
PID Controller on the
PenAeroBot
by Carlos Montesinos and
Ricardo Toro
This bot really gets in the swing of
using an inverted pendulum to
control its angle of inclination.
to a pneumatic circuit.
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BLDC Hardware
by Fred Eady
It’s time to get cerebral with
the BLDC motor project, verifying
the hardware and making the
firmware viable.
59
A Practical Quadrature
Encoder
by John Blankenship and
Samuel Mishal
See how to create a cost-effective,
practical, and versatile quadrature
encoder helper module.
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