Comments on: Klutz Acknowledges Evil Mad Scientist Labs For Bristlebots, Sort Of http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/02/23/klutz-acknowledges-evil-mad-scientist-labs-for-bristlebots-sort-of/ Jonesing For Robot News Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:08:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ben Bradley http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/02/23/klutz-acknowledges-evil-mad-scientist-labs-for-bristlebots-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-2590 Ben Bradley Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:30:52 +0000 http://www.botjunkie.com/2009/02/23/klutz-acknowledges-evil-mad-scientist-labs-for-bristlebots-sort-of/#comment-2590 Legal disclaimers are generally lame and against the spirit of things, but they do have their uses. Maybe sites such as Evil Mad Scientist could say "All these bots, projects and ideas are free to use for non-commercial purposes with appropriate acknowledgments given. For other purposes, contact me and we'll talk." I envision two of these side by side controlled by a microcontroller (I'm thinking an 8-pin DIP/soic such as Freescale <a href="http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=S08QG" rel="nofollow">MC9S08QG8</a>) and a couple of down-pointing LED's and photosensors to make a small, lightweight line follower bot. And of course, this idea is free for anyone to use with proper attribution, etc. :) Ben Bradley, member of Atlanta Hobby Robot Club. Legal disclaimers are generally lame and against the spirit of things, but they do have their uses. Maybe sites such as Evil Mad Scientist could say “All these bots, projects and ideas are free to use for non-commercial purposes with appropriate acknowledgments given. For other purposes, contact me and we’ll talk.”

I envision two of these side by side controlled by a microcontroller (I’m thinking an 8-pin DIP/soic such as Freescale MC9S08QG8) and a couple of down-pointing LED’s and photosensors to make a small, lightweight line follower bot.

And of course, this idea is free for anyone to use with proper attribution, etc. :)

Ben Bradley, member of Atlanta Hobby Robot Club.

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