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Pocket-sized USB charger adapter
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This Instructable shows how to make a professional-looking power adapter for charging USB devices using a Pololu Adjustable Step-Up/Step-Down Voltage Regulator S7V8A.
Featured link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Pocket-Sized-POLOLU-5V-Output-as-POWERTUBEs-acces/
Barobo Linkbot
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Check out this kickstarter: the Linkbot modular robot by Barobo uses Pololu motors.
Featured link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barobo/linkbot-create-with-robots
VertiBOT
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VertiBot is a neatly-constructed balancing robot. Pololu metal gearmotors, wheels, and a Qik dual serial motor controller were used for this project.
Featured link: http://madebyfrutos.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/vertibot/
Tiny Bot
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Tiny Bot, by Erik Kringen, is an autonomous obstacle-avoiding robot tank that uses a Pololu track set.
Featured link: http://www.mycontraption.com/introducing-tiny-bot/
PiBBOT
This balancing robot by Mark Williams is controlled by a Raspberry Pi. The project web page explains the balance control algorithm. PiBBOT uses a Pololu MinIMU-9 v2, metal gearmotors with encoders, and Pololu wheels.
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Featured link: http://marks-space.com/2013/04/18/success-with-a-balancing-robot-using-a-raspberry-pi/
Rice University's r-one research robot
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This r-one research robot was designed to be low cost, so that researchers in the Multi-Robot Systems Lab at Rice University could make a swarm of robots. It uses our brackets, wheels and ball casters, and motors.
Featured link: http://mrsl.rice.edu/projects/r-one
Liquid Lifebar
This gadget uses a Pololu Jrk and a linear actuator to help control the level of water in the tube, which can indicate the life of a video game character.
Featured link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywfZsYApj_M
Mars Rover
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The Beatty family built a moving model of a Mars rover for the New York Hall of Science’s exhibit. They used a 12-channel Mini Maestro and step-down voltage regulators. Pictures and a link to a video are available on their blog.
Iron Man suit Micro Maestro tutorial
In this video, Jay May explains how to use the Micro Maestro to control his Iron Man suit.
Featured link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH4m_UqQ2js
Video tutorial on open- and closed-loop control using the Zumo
In this video, Brian Douglas demonstrates the difference between open-loop and closed-loop control in an uncertain environment using a Zumo Robot.
Featured link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfydfvHyikM