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Hacking the Parallax Scribbler

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Hacking the Parallax Scribbler
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Botmag, the website for Robot magazine, has a nice piece by Eric Ostendorff on modifications to the Parallax Scribbler robot to control it via a TV remote (which requires some coding, no hardware mods) and to create a charging station for it (which requires both software and hardware work).


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