Circuit Cellar Ink 200
March 2007

Table of Contents

4 CJ Abate	HTML Task Manager Issue 200
8 John Gorsky	New Product News
14 Michael Hall Aaron Patten Erin Simpson	Robotic Arm Control System Need a hand? In just 11 weeks, this team of designers turned a dysfunctional 20-year-old robot arm into a system capable of complex actions. Now you can build your own. Download: Hall_patten_Simpson-200.zip
24 Barry Stout Eugene Zeldin	Animatronic System Control Barry and Eugene used their knowledge of robotics and a lot of creativity to design an H8/3687-based control system for a robotic monster that appeared in a horror movie. The system enabled them to control the monster with potentiometers, a touch screen, and buttons. Download: Stout_Zeldin-200.zip
34 Jeff Bingham Lee Magnusson	Inertial Rolling Robot Jeff and Lee’s H8/3664-based rolling robot is capable of inertial movement. A DC electric motor is attached to a pendulum and suspended inside an inflated ball, which provides the driving force. Download: Bingham_Magnusson-200.zip
40 David Tweed	Then and Now
44 Aubrey Kagan	Generic Modbus Simulator Part 1: Theory and Preparation Aubrey introduces the topic of a Modbus implementation on a PC. He covers the Modbus protocol and an approach for documenting the register set of a Modbus slave and even a family of slaves in Excel. Download: Kagan-200.zip
Applied PCs 52 Fred Eady	Build a PIC Platform Microchip Technology's PIC18F97J60 microcontroller will be a great fit for many of your remote control and automation applications. But you might find it difficult to work with due to its TQFP packaging. Fred has the perfect solution: build up your own PIC18F97J60 platform.
59 Dale Wheat	Servo Control First used in remote-controlled airplanes, servomotors are not just built for flight. Dale shows you how to build custom projects and award-winning robots using the motors. Download: Wheat-200.zip
Lessons from the Trenches 67 George Martin	More "Hello World" Moving What You've Learned to the Hardware As promised, George continues showing you how to use C programming language for embedded system design.This time he delivers cleaner code, more functional requirements, and interrupts. Download: Martin-200.zip
Above the Ground Plane 72 Ed Nisley	A Plethora of Projects Since 1998, Ed has written more than 120 articles for Circuit Cellar on everything from home control to programming. In this article, he covers his all-time favorite subjects.
From the Bench 75 Jeff Bachiochi	Embedded USB Breakthrough Jeff recently got crafty with the new FTDI VNC1L embedded USB host controller IC. Now he doesn't need to carry around his laptop in order to log data from his designs
Silicon Update 80 Tom Cantrell	Code Like the Wind World Tour Finding the right programming language is like selecting a hammer at a hardware store, it has to match your task. Tom introduces the latest version of Express. Perhaps it's the right "tool" for your next job.
93	Crossword Puzzle
94	Advertiser's Index / April Preview
96 Steve Ciarcia	HTML Priority Interrupt Inside the Box Still Counts

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