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   1 #+TITLE:hausner challenge-bot overview
   2 * challenge-bot robot overview
   3 ** videos for assembling the hardware
   4 ** software
   5    software is available as nice neat installable packages for
   6    Mac OS X, GNU+Linux, and MS Windows.
   7
   8    it's also available in source code form, so you can compile it for
   9    other platforms.
  10
  11    all software used in this robot is available for you to use for any
  12    purpose, improve, and, share those improvements (if you want).
  13 *** arduino
  14 **** summary
  15      control how the robot gets information from sensors, and moves
  16      its motors.
  17 **** download
  18      https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
  19 *** openscad
  20 **** summary
  21      create robot parts!
  22
  23      use this program to view parts inside the "3d-printables"
  24      directory.  write code to modify the parts and create completely
  25      new ones.
  26 **** download
  27      http://www.openscad.org/downloads.html
  28 *** fritzing
  29 **** summary
  30      wire up components!
  31 **** download
  32      http://fritzing.org/download/?donation=0
  33 *** 7-zip
  34 **** summary
  35      extract the contents of .tgz files, like the content of this class.
  36
  37      this is needed on MS Windows(tm) only.
  38
  39      if you are on Mac OS X, or GNU (on cygwin or linux), then you do
  40      not need this.  your software will be able to extract the
  41      class content
  42 **** download
  43      http://7-zip.org/
  44 ** class content
  45    all the source code for the class is available here:
  46
  47    http://challenge-bot.com/repos/?p=challenge-bot;a=snapshot;h=232ff7a14f9d8be27362c268c6cdd1b67f59a24a;sf=tgz
  48
  49    what follows is a high level description of the contents of the most
  50    important top level directories in the class content.