This week I decided that it was high time I got back into some projects.  My next goal is to create another robot.  This one will be quite a bit more intelligent, though.  The robot will be controlled by a PC (probably a Windows laptop, although I have several mini-ITX options as well).  Most laptops no longer have serial ports, so the robot will need to be controlled via USB.  Although it won’t suffice for later revisions AT90USB647 seems like a good choice for right now.  It has six 16 bit PWM channels, and four 8 bit channels.  The device supports USB, and serial interfaces.  Perhaps best of all, it supports...

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