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Chapter 1 Meeting the Palm Robot 7

The PPRK

So, we’re guessing that unless you bought this book by mistake, you are read-
ing it to build your own Palm Pilot Robot Kit. The PPRK is easy to complete,
but the online instructions leave a lot to be desired—thus, this books fills in
the gaps.
Like the Blair Witch Project, Memento, and Pauly Shore’s acting career, PPRK
was something of an unexpected success. It proved so successful, in fact, that
Carnegie Mellon licensed the design to a company called Acroname, Inc., for
marketing purposes. The end result? If you’re a casual hobbyist, you can get
all the parts you need to build a Palm OS robot from one location. No need to
scour the bins of your local electronics store looking for the right servo, or the
correct wheels. Acroname has even developed a model that does not require a
Palm OS PDAto be attached to the robot. Of course, you can still go bin scour-
ing if you want to; most of the parts for the PPRK can be easily obtained from
hardware and electronics stores.

While the kit to re-create complicated robots may be easily accessible to
the casual hobbyist, the programming probably is not. For example, with the

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