I found an old RC car - the kind of thing you get for £5 from Argos - lying in my cupboard, mostly untouched since I got it as a birthday present. Still, it has wheels and motors, what more could you ask for?

I proceeded to rip out all its electronics ...

I used an STM32 for the first time in Robot2, and soon discovered how cool they were. Each one is packed full of neat peripherals, runs really really fast and can do all sorts of cool stuff that simpler µCs like an ATmega simply can't pull off. With this ...

I've finally got around to writing up this project! What you see above is a small robot with a gooey ARM Cortex-M3 STM32 core, a teensy embedded camera from SparkFun, an OLED and an LCD screen, three LiPo batteries, some modified servos and a one-piece (unibody!) aluminium case. The ...