[Robotgroup] Nuts and Volts October 2007 Issue- Boogiebot! :)

[Glenn Currie]

Good work Vern!

The robot building world seems largely divided between:
hobby robots
industrial robots
military / police bomb squad robots
academic robots
entertainment robots.

Unfortunately there is very little crossover, and the magazines and 
suppliers tend to
only deal with one group.  There is a lot to be done in robotics, and it 
would be
great to have more overlap.  Perhaps you can help with this.

Some of the "hobby" robots are pretty ambitious, and some of the 
academic / military
robots are terribly expensive and don't work all that well.  The Disney 
people have a super
high pressure pneumatic robot that can play completive ping-pong.
Some folks don't what their robot compared to a hobby robot, and there 
is little publicity
for a military robot that shoots itself in the foot.

Keep us posted.

-Glenn

Vern Graner wrote:
> W00t! I've been published again! :D This time, in Nuts and Volts October 
> 2007 Issue:
>
> http://www.notepad.org/EvolutionoftheBoogiebot.pdf
>
> and for those who maybe didn't see it, the article I wrote for SERVO is 
> here:
>
> http://www.notepad.org/RecoveringOurTechnicalLiteracy.pdf
>
> I guess they like what I've written so far. In fact, I have officially 
> accepted the offer to become the author of the Personal Robotics column 
> for Nuts and Volts magazine. So, I'll be penning a monthly column with 
> my first deadline only 2 weeks away! How hard can it be? ;)
>
> Vern
>
> PS: Remember, you're all considered legitimate targets of my pen! I plan 
> to feature the projects of TRG members in upcoming articles! :)
>
>