Rover and Other Random Thoughts

A snapshot of a rover, the list of competitors, and other random thoughts.

We've posted a list of the registered AVC teams (autonomous vehicle competition)! It's mostly rovers, but we've also got a handful of UAVs.

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/news/Rover1.jpg

Team: The Rolling Spheniscus
Type of vehicle: 4 wheeled ackerman steering
Cost: approx $300
Size: approx 15" x 8" x 6" (15" with mast)

This is going to be awesome.

And random thought for the day:

http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/news/Browsers-M.jpg

Firefox rocks, and our customers seem to agree. We use it pretty much exclusively (that and Open Office, cause we're cheap and it works). The above image is screen shot of the browser share from users of the SparkFun website (woot google analytics). Our users seem to be double the average (21% for North America vs 53% for SparkFun).