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#+TITLE:hausner challenge-bot overview
* challenge-bot robot overview
** videos for assembling the hardware
** software
   software is available as nice neat installable packages for
   Mac OS X, GNU+Linux, and MS Windows.

   it's also available in source code form, so you can compile it for
   other platforms.

   all software used in this robot is available for you to use for any
   purpose, improve, and, share those improvements (if you want).
*** arduino
**** summary
     control how the robot gets information from sensors, and moves
     its motors.
**** download
     https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
*** openscad
**** summary
     create robot parts!

     use this program to view parts inside the "3d-printables"
     directory.  write code to modify the parts and create completely
     new ones.
**** download
     http://www.openscad.org/downloads.html
*** fritzing
**** summary
     wire up components!
**** download
     http://fritzing.org/download/?donation=0
*** 7-zip
**** summary
     extract the contents of .tgz files, like the content of this class.

     this is needed on MS Windows(tm) only.

     if you are on Mac OS X, or GNU (on cygwin or linux), then you do
     not need this.  your software will be able to extract the
     class content
**** download
     http://7-zip.org/
** class content
   all the source code for the class is available here:

   http://challenge-bot.com/repos/?p=challenge-bot;a=snapshot;h=232ff7a14f9d8be27362c268c6cdd1b67f59a24a;sf=tgz

   what follows is a high level description of the contents of the most
   important top level directories in the class content.