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'''au·tom·a·ton''' - A self-operating machine or mechanism, especially a robot. ''American Heritage Dictionary''

== Welcome to the OAP Wiki ==
=== OAP Founder (Dafydd Walters) ===
||attachment:oap_small.jpg || Welcome to the community wiki pages of the [http://oap.sourceforge.net/ Open Automaton Project] (OAP) - a Linux-powered, PC-based mobile robot reference design.  This is the place where anyone who's interested in the project can contribute material, whether it's tidbits of potentially useful information of interest to other robot builders, photos of robots at various stages of construction, bits of code, or anything else that might be of some value or interest to the OAP community. ||
||||'''To the OAP community: This wiki is yours. Please edit away at will!''' -- [:DafyddWalters:Dafydd].||

=== Getting Started ===
||''If you're new to Wikis, click UserPreferences and create a user account to get started. Click on HelpContents to view the user guide.''||

== Community ==
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 ||[:DafyddWalters:Dafydd] ([:PrototypeDroid:Reference Design])||AndyCarey||BobClough||ChrisMcDonald||
 ||GertLavsen          || JariSavander ||JeffMorton ||JonSpieker||
 ||LeeJohnson(Eljin)  ||MattCrump || KarlKloppenborg ||SamDucksworth||
 || [:ScottCrawford:Scott] ([:CategoryPlans:Plans])||StevenLiberatore|| MichaelShiloh||LukeCole||
 || JohnLonningdal||ThomasSeeker||DaveEverett||  ||

== Development ==
||[:ApplicationIdeas:Droid Uses] Concepts for uses of an OAP robot|| [:SoftwareDevelopmentRoadmap:Roadmap] Future software development plans.|| [:ConstructionPlans:Plans] PCB's, Base Design, Part lists, ...||[:CodeTidbits:Code] Scraps of potentially useful code.||

== Technical Specifications ==
 ||[:MotorControlDesign:Motor Control]||Discussions about the OAP Motor Control Module||
 ||[:DataSheets:Technical Specs]||Technical data sheets for off-the-shelf hardware.||

== Ideas, Musings, Miscellaneous ==
 ||WikiLinks||Other references||

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