I bought a Chinese USC 32 channel servo controller on ebay a month ago. Last weekend I finally found some time to try it out. But I can not get it to work with my Arduino Mega, actually I thought there was something wrong with the board, unitl I downloaded the Chinese software for it, which lets you test the board. I connected 2 servos and the sliders in the program let the servos move. So the board works when using USB.

This is the link with the manual: http://www.torobot.co/usc32-manual

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I have found a somewhat "unique" way to simulate the electronics of a robot before I build one.

I like the program S4A (Scratch for Arduino) that connects a live, working Arduino to a ultra-simple block diagram programming language. How simple is it? Scratch is used by children! The Arduino becomes the I/O of the system.

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I am helping my friends first robot! He primaily wanted tractor treads and an Arduino "because he heard they were good" ( I didn't disagree with him. :-)

We decided on an inexpensive kit was a good starting point and then it can be expanded later.

Our choice was the BrutusBot and electronics package (looks like I get to solder 2 boards, lucky me...). It was fairly cheap.

He seems good in the programming and mechanical areas, he isn't so good with the electronics part (he does fine with some guidance).

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Okay, so I was bored and flipping through Adafruit tonight and I saw that they had stickers like these for $3/10.  Not that I want to take money out of Limor's pocket, but I thought I'd share these with my LMR kin:

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Did you buy a Digilent Max-32 for the 32 bit processor and the Arduino compatability (these boards are VERY Arduino compat.)

Do you know you have an entire OS including the Basic language available to you for FREE???

See the following website for details on: http://www.cpustick.com/ (StickOS).

(By the way, those with a Uno-32 boards are not left out, you can do the same thing!)

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Can you Please teach me How to make a controlled Arduino Robot via Bluetooth by using an Android Device :D 

I found some Application in Play Store about the Bluetooth controller, it is called Bluebots ,a Bluetooth remote control for robot. (see below)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=blue.bots.free.matt&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImJsdWUuYm90cy5mcmVlLm1hdHQiXQ..

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Here's the deal, I'm building my first robot & I have an Arduino One board, but I've realized that the board is too pretty for me to use up in my current (and first) project and besides it would be a waste.

My first thought was:

Well, maybe I can pull out the ATmel chip on the board and stick a blank one there, upload the desired code there, take it out and follow some breaduino tutorial to build around it.

Peeked here

http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard

and...

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Hello everybody. 

First sorry for my English but not good. I want to ask the profis about my robotics problems. :) 
I have a 2wd mobile platform. I played with this so many and my old simple codes was working well. 

But I decided, I want to upgrade a little bit my "stupid" code which was very good with the fixed ping sensor and some IR sensor but too simple. Than I rebuilded all IR sensor first, and builded a little servo for the PING sensor. 

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Don't want to learn C (or for that reason the Arduino IDE)?

Could you make a small flowchart/block diagram of the program you want? Then (want) to change it into a running script?

ArduBlocks will do that for you! Translate your flowchart/block into a Arduino program and then show it in the Arduino IDE! Not only is this a great way to "model and test" it could also make a great way to learn to program scripts (then you know C!!!)

What type blocks does it have? Almost any you can imagine. Makes a robot control program fairly easy to write.

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