Robotics

I am posting tonight from my Dell Axim Pocket Pc, so if the formatting/spelling is not great, that's why.

http://diylive.net/ is a new (to me) site/blog about diy robotics/engineering projects. I enjoy doing this sort of thing though I don't often have the time and energy. I usually use atmel's (www.atmel.com) avr microprocessors and motors/driver transistors from old printers. Today's post on diylive caught my attention, as I built (with a couple other people) one of these line following robots from scratch. The site also indexes a number of other common electronics projects (there is a recent top 10 post). Definitely worth a look.

I don't know about the rest of you, but, increasingly I am following a large number of blogs and frequently updated sites. To make this easier, there are a bunch of protocols, the most well known being rss. Rss "feeds" are interpreted by an aggregator, keeping all your new reading in one place. For linux, I recommend liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/). For windows (or Linux) rssowl seems to have a nice interface and is extremely feature rich. http://www.rssowl.org/

If you want to try one of these out, import the link that my feedburner/rss logo points to on the right.

Enough for now, I'm getting tired of poking this tiny onscreen keyboard ;-)