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Robotics 101 and the Wiimote experience

I’ve never done anything bot-related and just couldn’t let it stay that way. A couple of friends and I (Hi there Miguel and Gonzalo!) have put together this simple bot and will be playing with it to discover the wonders of the Wiimote shortly. It uses a Skypic board as brains and a Sky293 board [...]

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Laptop Update

It seems I’ll have it in a few hours. Soon after the last post I was notified that the computer would be shipped the same day. If everything goes according to plan, it should arrive a day earlier than expected. That means this evening! By the way… do you remember I said it was rock [...]

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New laptop: ThinkPad R61

It’s been a while since my last post. The last few months have been really crazy. Hopefully it’ll get more interesting from now on. My current laptop isn’t in bad shape, but it is quite outdated now. Last month was my birthday, and since I didn’t do anything fancy I decided it was time to [...]

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