Circuit Cellar Issue 212 March 2008-PDF

Issue #212
March 2008
Theme: Robotics

TASK MANAGER—Design, Program, & Prosper, by C. J. Abate, p. 4
NEW PRODUCT NEWS—edited by John Gorsky, p. 8
TEST YOUR EQ—p. 13
CROSSWORD—p. 93
Robotics with Ada95, by Daniel Ramirez, p. 14
CONTEST WINNERS—Microchip Embedded Control 2007 Design Contest Winners, p. 26
Vertical Plotter System, by Miguel Sanchez, p. 30
Flight Control: A Communications System for an RC Helicopter, by Michael Ghazi, Stefan Kaban, Scott Morken, Carl Philippsen, & Kyle Wong, p. 36
Do-It-Yourself Motion-Controlled Gaming (Part 1): Get Started with a Simple Application, Chris Coulston, p. 43
Robotics Made Easy: A Peripheral Chip for Low-Level Functions, by Monte Dalrymple, p. 52
Efficient Micro Mathematics: Multiplication and Division Techniques for MCUs, by Kripasagar Venkat, p. 60
FROM THE BENCH—Navigating the Heavens, by Jeff Bachiochi, p. 69
LESSONS FROM THE TRENCHES—Do You Want to Do a Design?: Linked Lists, by George Martin, p. 76
SILICON UPDATE—More Bits, Less Filling, by Tom Cantrell, p. 80
PRIORITY INTERRUPT—What Happened to Performance?, by Steve Ciarcia, p. 96