Page 15 - Robots Androids and Animatrons : 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build

Blimp systems 270
The Robot Group—Austin, Texas 271
WEB Blimp—University of California, Berkeley 271
Designing telepresence blimps as avatars and golems 272
To the moon 272
Blimp parameters 273
The blimp kit 274
Helium 274
Helium versus hydrogen 274
Size 275
Construction 276
CCD camera 276
TV transmitter 276
Radio-control system 277
Parts list for the blimp 280
Internet access 280

15 Robotic arm and IBM PC interface and speech control 281
Robotic arm 283
Basic motor control 284
PC interface construction 286
How the interface works 288
Connecting the interface to the robotic arm 289
Installing the Windows 95 program 289
Using the Windows 95 program 290
Creating script files 291
Animatronics 291
Limitations 291
Finding home 292
Connecting manual control to interface 293
DOS-level keyboard program 294
Speech control for robotic arm 294
Programming the speech-recognition interface 296
Parts list for the PC interface 297
Parts list for the speech-recognition interface 297

16 Android hand 299
Advantages of the air muscle 300
Uses 300
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