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> Can we get some pictures? Drawings? plans? tutorials? etc...

Be careful what you wish for. I've been a member of the Mowbot mailing list
for several years. And just like bears, it sleeps in the winter and awakes
every spring with the new hope of robotic lawnmowers. But for some reason
it has stayed dormant this spring.

It's site with pictures, projects, and archives is located at:

http://members.xoom.com/Mowbot/

My slowly developing project is to outfit a Sears push reelmower with
drive electronics. I settled on this system because none of the cutting
systems I tried, including spinning cirular saw blades with a car fan
blower motor, ever gave anything close to satisfactory results.

My plan is to work a system live Dave Everett's or Steve Maziarz's listed
on the site. My current technology is a 33 AH Lead Acid battery powering
two windshield wiper motors.

I'm currently idling at getting the motors, chains, and spockets, firmly
attached. In my last prototype all my failure modes were at wood joints
or thin metal.

I found that on the mowbot list there was way too much discussion about control
systems and not enough about the basics, movement and cutting. There seemed
to be too much focus on total autonomy where simpler systems (beacons, maps,
bumpers) could easily solve the problems of directing the beast.

BTW James I've love to see a robot/mowbot specific tag here on the PICLIST
discussing drive systems and control electronics.

Just my 2 cents.

BAJ
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