Posted November 24, 2013 by Chris

"All of the hardware and software is open (in the GPL sense), including parts lists, circuit board and chassis designs, and software. With a stated goal to produce sub-€100 robots, I’d really like to see this take off. Combined with a wireless power surface, a micro-robot in perpetual motion would make a great desk ornament!"

Posted November 23, 2013 by Chris

"The various hardware modules are all open source designs – and I chose to use a mix and match approach to the system which was put together using hardware from a variety of vendors. Compatible devices were used from JeeLabs, Openenergymonitor and Nanode Ltd."

Posted November 22, 2013 by Chris

"Ever since I created the 8×8 Led Matrix I wanted to create something bigger. This LED matrix is 16 x 48 LEDs in size. There are 768 individually placed and soldered 3mm green LEDs."

Posted November 21, 2013 by Chris

"For our final project, we re-engineered a remote control car to autonomously navigate through a track by detecting lanes and centering itself between them as well as detect objects in front of it and avoid collision. The RC car detects lanes through image input from a low-resolution camera mounted at its front. Using an IR distance sensor, the car determines when to stop accelerating once a certain distance between a forward object has been breached."

Posted November 20, 2013 by Chris

"FPV is one of my ultimate goals flying a quadcopter. The quadcopter FPV videos are just so amazing! You need at least a video receiver, transmitter and a camera for the FPV system, and it could get quite expensive."

Posted November 18, 2013 by Chris

"This is my newest microcontroller board. Its based on an ATMega8/88 Controller. It’s suitable for small automation and measurement applications. The application can be battery powered or use a small external power supply. This board uses some of the definitions from Roboternetz."

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Posted November 17, 2013 by Chris

"Last week I finally got time to do a bit of work. I made my own PCB 🙂 . I wish I had learned this back in college….What PCBs did I make? The line follower circuit I explained before…..This new robot uses very little wiring. None of the wires have been soldered. I have also replaced the mounts for the sensors. I will describe everything in today’s post."

Posted November 16, 2013 by Chris

"Presenting ‘6buttons’; a simple six button keypad based on the QProx QT160 charge transfer proximity sensor chip (the brains of the operation). Special mylar capacitors are required for it to work properly. I tried cheap-o ceramics with terrible results."

Posted November 14, 2013 by Chris

"A few weeks ago I was asked about creating a musical-effect display with an RGB LED cube kit from our friends over at Freetronics, and with a little work this was certainly possible using the MSGEQ7 spectrum analyzer IC. In this project we’ll create a small add-on PCB containing the spectrum analyzer circuit and show how it can drive the RGB LED cube kit."

Posted November 13, 2013 by Chris

"Imagine that you sit on your PC desk, you pull the keyboard, the mouse is near by, you click the button and the computer boots. Now imagine the same scene, but instead of pushing just a button, you enter the security code!"