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This project was made possible by a grant from the Montana State University Undergraduate Scholars Program |
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donated materials or gave special educational discounts: |
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Texas Instruments Power Trends Texas Instruments provided samples of Power Trends, Integrated Switching Regulators for the system power regulation and distribution pcb. |
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Red Hat Linux 8.0 The autonomous system in the T/2 robot has Red Hat Linux on the master processor for the operating system. Red Hat graciously makes the software available FREE for download. It installed seemlessly with the Advantech PC104 card. |
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Eagle PCB Layout Editor 4.08r2 All the printed circuit boards for the autonomous portion of the T/2 robot were designed with the freeware version of Eagle. CadSoft makes the version available FREE for non-profit use. |
| Your Company Name Here We gladly list any company that wishes to provide the project support or materials. |
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CSOIS-
Center for Self Organizing and Intelligent Systems
at Utah State University Thanks for the continuing technical help from Monty Frandensen and Gordon Olsen |
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INEEL- Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory:
Remote, Robotics, and Automated Systems Group
Thanks to Matt Anderson and Mark McKay for the great tour and helpful hints. |
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ASI-
Autonomous Solutions Inc.
Thanks to Mel Torrie for the great lunch and tour of his facility. |