Awesome KVM Switch

I've always wanted one of these and finally, thanks to Santa, It's on the way to mi casa via UPS. Right now it's somewhere in Illinois. Hopefully it will be here by the end of the week. A KVM switch allows for one keyboard, one mouse, and a monitor to be hooked simultaneously to, in my case, 4 COMPUTERS! Now i don't have to deal with crawling under my desk and unplugging my monitor every time i wanna jack into another tower. Thank you computer god's and 101010010001001001010011110010101 to you

Here's a sketch of what I really want to turn my iBook G4 into. Its a Mac tablet! they have these at Axiotron but they only work on Intel based macs so I decided to take it upon myself to make one. Wish me luck :D

Lynx 5 Typing the Alphabet

Here's a nifty program I wrote; Video of my Lynx 5 typing the alphabet. Maybe soon I can get him to start writing the programs for me :D

BoeBot Demo

So I finally got around to posting my Boe-Bot demo. So far he's got the tank tracks and the PING))) sensor attached. I'm working on the dual-axis accelerometer and infrared sensors. Hopefully I can free up some time to write the master program soon. Kinda looks like Wall-E right?

lynx 5 robotic arm micro servo

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I was operating the arm normally, picking up and dropping an object and all of the sudden: SMOKE! i immediately switched off the power input and upon my dissection of the micro servo i found all wires and micro processors fried like chicken with cheese armor. good news is lynxmotion.com is covering it under warranty! finally one thing in my life goes right...

Lynx 5 Arm from lynxmotion.com

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Originally uploaded by ajpetrella68

Lynx 5 Arm from lynxmotion.com ; so far i have put it together sucessfully and found that it really can't hold that much weight as it is constructed of inferior plastics and servo motors that don't hold much. i have already stripped the micro servo used for opening and closing the claw but the good news is lynxmotion has good customer service but on the other hand, pricey parts and shipping. i'm also looking into getting another micro servo and bracket used to rotate the claw 360 degrees. so far i'm having fun breaking it....