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Servo Cover Story - Congrats to erco!

WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
edited 2014-02-26 15:01 in Robotics
Congrats to erco for making the cover of the March 2014 Servo Magazine with his article on his SpiderBot hack!

Great job Pal!

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-02-24 20:54
    Thanks Buddy! Rick made the same announcement in the General forum. You guys are sharp! (And so is my bot's sensor...)
  • NikosGNikosG Posts: 705
    edited 2014-02-25 08:51
    Erco,

    Congratulations for the article on the servo magazine 2014!
    Keep inventing and post your articles!

    You are the “heart” of the forum!!!
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2014-02-25 09:05
    Now your making me get my pennies out of the piggy bank to renew my Servo subscription. :)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-02-25 10:07
    NikosG wrote: »
    You are the “heart” of the forum!!!

    Dunno 'bout that; I'm amazed at the talent here, and just trying to keep up with you guys. If I can get into Servo, ANYONE can. Consider writing up some of your projects. Gareth has pretty much written an article within his thread on S2 mods, I bet Servo would love to have printed that. Highly recommended, editor Robin is a nice lady, capable and very easy to work with. It's a nice way to share your knowledge with like-minded folks. Servo pays a decent rate per page, so you can subsidize your hobby and keep buying more Parallax parts. :)
  • GarethGareth Posts: 278
    edited 2014-02-25 10:19
    Congratulations ..... YaY Front Page:-
    servomagcover.jpg

    Creepy and Awesome at the same time...
    170 x 220 - 51K
  • GarethGareth Posts: 278
    edited 2014-02-25 10:25
    erco wrote: »
    If I can get into Servo, ANYONE can.
    Your relentless dedication to writing content "here" , helping a myriad of "here" fellows has rewarded "You" at the right time at the right place with the right just rewards....... enjoy....... highest regards G
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2014-02-25 13:41
    Erco, congrats, too.

    I always seem to get virus warnings when I go to the main page for the magazine. Anyone else get that? It might be a false positive from Avast.

    In the other thread you note they left off an F in your byline. So we'll have to compensate by renaming you ferco. I don't know their circ numbers, but maybe in about 10 or 20 thousand posts we'll have made up for the error.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-02-26 10:53
    @Gordon: Thanks and Robin promises to give me three F's next time... :) . And no, I've never received any virus warnings while visiting the Servo site.

    It's curious that until today, the first half of the article was online at http://servo.texterity.com/servo/201403/#pg67 but now it only shows the magazine cover. But since I don't have an issue yet (B&N doesn't even carry Servo), it's nice to see the cover bigger than a thumbnail.

    Looking at the pic, I realize that most of the stuff pictured is the cheap Chinese stuff I get off Ebay. The Spider kit, PCB, 9g servo, Li-Ion cell, 1/8" programming jack, USB 5V booster. I'll have to try harder to push American in future projects.
    744 x 977 - 1M
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2014-02-26 13:47
    WTG erco! nice :thumb:
    -MattG
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-02-26 14:02
    Thanks MattG. You still here? I thought you retired on your 82nd birthday! :)
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2014-02-26 15:01
    I thought you retired
    I tried to, but the key to the leg-irons is missing.
    -Rusty Codger
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