Evil Mad Scientist Labs business card AVR breakout board

Posted March 26, 2008 by Ash

Apart from having a really cool name, Evil Mad Scientist Labs also have a whole lot of cool kits. The latest is a business card/AVR breakout board that makes prototyping your latest AVR project a snap.

The board’s black silkscreen looks nice and futuristic and, as with most AVR projects, all you will need to get it to work is the board, a chip and power. Programming is via an ISP programmer like the USBTiny I bought late last week from AdaFruit Industries.

If you need more information on how to get started then check out Evil Mad Scientst Labs for info or you can read the exclusive AusRobotics ‘Getting started with AVRs’ article I posted last year.

You can purchase the kit from Evil Mad Science (which seems to be Evil Mad Scientist Labs’ online shop)

I’ll probably buy one and when I do… I’ll post the pictures!

3 Comments

  • On 03.26.08 Anonymous said:

    Talking about Evil Mad Scientist.com, check out:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=rUSTXUis_ys

  • On 03.28.08 ash said:

    haha, that is great!

    I saw the article of that a while ago but never saw the video. It moves a lot faster than I was expecting!

    Immediately I started thinking about adding two motors and using them to steer somehow.

    Maybe Part II of your micro bulldozer idea? :)

  • On 03.30.08 Anonymous said:

    The idea I used in the bulldozer might not be easily adapted to the “briztlebot”s.

    The front axel lived in a channel that chould be pulled out by small electro-magnets placed about 0.1 mm from the ends. The ends of the axel were of course big “dobs” of mild steel to keep the plastic wheels on.

    Janking the axel around like that gave a very “mild” form of control; but maybe I should have made it rear-wheel steering, because it seemed the thing operated better when the dozer was running backwards.

    Or maybe it had to do with the stabilising effect of dragging the dozer blade.

    As they say, microbots work on different principles from bigger bots because forces and “things” don’t scale linearly. Sometimes that makes things easy (i.e. using bluetac and dobs of non-permanent glue to hold things together); but sometimes it’s a pain in the poserior.