Circuit Cellar Issue 153 April 2003-PDF

ISSUE 153
April 2003
Theme: Robotics

Task Manager—Engineering Pop Culture, by Jennifer Huber, 4.
New Product News, edited by John Gorsky, 8.
Autonomous Robot—Mini-Sumo Meets IsoPod, by Mike Keesling, 12
Electrical Engineering Robot—Follow the Line, by Peter Hiscocks & Jim Koch, 20
Muscle for High-Torque Robotics, by Lonne Mays, 30
Updating the Home Control System—Part 2: FPGA Design Methodology, by Robert Morrison, 36
Communications Protocol—MIL-STD-1553B Data Bus, by George Novacek, 42
Applied PCs: Test-Driving the Z8, by Fred Eady, 52
Portable MSP430 DMM, Bruce M. Pride, 58
Above The Ground Plane: Balanced Mixing, Ed Nisley, 66
From the Bench: Intro to Mindstorms, by Jeff Bachiochi, 70
Get One-Chip Programmer Power, by Tom Napier, 76
Silicon Update: E-Chip, by Tom Cantrell, 78
Priority Interrupt—What You Don't See Counts, by Steve Ciarcia, 96.