The objective of LinuxPCRobot.org is to build a fully functional robotic development platform for $500 or less using linux, commonly available components, a little skill, and some good old fashioned scrounging.
Pictures
Submitted by mohawk software on Tue, 2005-12-13 17:18.
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| This is the right side of the robot. Kind of a mess of wires. |
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| Here is the front of the robot. The Box at the base is the motor amplifier. |
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| This is the left side, the sliver box mounted on the right side of the panel is an ATX DC/DC converter. The two black boxes to the left that seem to be mounted with doublesided tape (because they are) are two DC/DC converters, a 12volt and 5volt. They replace two older units. |
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| This is the back, not that the hard disk is mounted on two rubber cushions. |
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| Here is another front view, the two push buttons on the right side are standard AXT power and reset. The two LEDs are hard disk and power |
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| Here is a closeup of the ghastly innards. The board closet is a velleman K8000 I/O board which uses an I2C bus off the parallel port. The board further away is an EPIA mini-ATX board. |
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| This is a closeup of the wireing terminals. Its getting crowded. |
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| And of course, some speakers |








