www.RoboHobby.com

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Home
Home of RoboHobby project

Dirve on-line
Dirve our robot on-line,
using simple Web interface

Experiments with PICkit 2
PICkit 2 is a Small size USB programmer
from Microchip.
How to use it as a demo device for
USB programming in C language

ScreenShots
See some screenshots of RoboHobby
Java/SWING application

Under Linux
Install and Run RoboHobby application under
KNOPPIX 5.0

Under Windows
Install and Run RoboHobby application under
MS Windows XP

Platforms for Java Robotics
Which hardware/os platform to choose
for hobby robotics?

Download
Download RoboHoby Software

SpyGear's 'Spy Robot'
Article about reconstruction RC toy 'Spy Robot'
How to make robot with web camera or
with cell phone on a board from it

Load to your phone
Download RoboHobbyJ2ME application
right to your Siemens S75 cell phone.
Now no need to load it to PC, unzip, etc.

RoboHobby Linux Live CD
RoboHobby Linux Live CD
is ready for download.

Projects
List of old and current RoboHobby projects.

Hardware
List of what we use as a hardware

Software
List of software, we use in our projects

Computer vision
Vision is the main sense of our robots.
See some Java algorithms we use

Tips-n-Tricks
Some advices about hardware and software tricks

PIC Programming
Assembler program for PIC16F628A
Driver for motor controller

RoboHobbyPlugin
Open Source project on
SourceForge, Java brain
for the robot

How to update Java
on KNOPPIX 5.0
Set of articles about how to remove
old version of Java (JRE or JDK)
on KNOPPIX and install new one
on remastered CD
Part 1 (Just test new Java)

Part 2
(Place new Java on Linux Live CD)

Java to EXE
Article about how to compile Java
programs to native binary code
(EXE for Windows)

Range of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
What is the a real connection distance
of typical Bluetooth and Wi-Fi,
ZigBee or other RF devices?

What is inside?

What is inside web camera
'Genius Look 312P'?
How to re-construct it,
improve and use in robotics.

What is inside web camera
'Genius VideoCAM GE111'?
How to re-construct it,
improve and use in robotics.

What is inside web/photo camera
'Genius G-Shot D612'?
How to use it for
Kite Aerial Photography (KAP).

Kite Aerial Photography
Create your own hand-made kite for KAP
and do snapshots from a kite

RoboHobby Kite
How to install and use
J2ME program on your cell phone,
make spy camera from it
and do snapshots from a kite

Picavet Suspension
Hand-made 'Picavet Suspension' for
Kite Aerial Photography (KAP).
How to make it by yourself.

Green Island KAP photos
Photo views from kite of
'Green Island'

Green Island
Some views from the ground
of rectreation zone
'Green Island'

About
Some info about this site

About EATJ Java hosting
Some info about EATJ Java server-side
JSP/Servlet hosting

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in Russian

Software

We prefer to use free and open source software for these robot hobby projects.
We like to use NetBeans IDE and IBM Eclipse IDE. We suppose, that these two IDE
are the best for this moment (2007 year).
Also for producing EXE files from Java code we use GCC/GCJ free compiler.
And SWT gui library from IBM.

Also we work with MPLAD, pretty good IDE for assembler and C for PIC processors.

Recently we did some experiments with hardware and software from Microchip Inc.
We tested PICkit 2 and 44-pin demo board with PIC16F887 processor.
It was interesting to re-program PICkit 2 and use it as a demo board.

We will publish some code in C for this processor (PIC16F887, PIC C compiler).

Also it was interesting to try PIC18F4550 and it's USB capability.
Microchip provide C libs for USB connectivity and it was interesting to test it.
Hope we will publish some simple code examples in C (for Microchip C18 compiler) soon.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Recently we tested some AJAX tools: DOJO and GWT.
We will publish resume about these tools soon.

As I see from the statistics of my server
Firefox2 wins over the MS Internet Explorer.
At least my users prefer Firefox.
Browser Statistics:

Browser	Percentage
firefox2	41.36
msie6	24.55
firefox1	15.45
msie7	12.95
mozilla1	3.18
opera1	0.68
safari419	0.45
opera9	0.45
netscape4	0.45
konqueror3	0.23
netscape7	0.23