Posted June 8, 2017 by Chris

"Killtron 7000 is a biologically inspired crab walking robot designed by me and my team at the University of Victoria back in 2011. The success of the robot was determined by how well it can autonomously navigate between several walls and how much weight it can carry. Many thanks to Aaron Gehman, Andy Berry, Tina Hung, Joshua Yin, Eva Sun and Yuto Hori for making this possible."

Posted June 5, 2017 by Chris

"A computer’s arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the heart of the processor, performing arithmetic and logic operations on data. If you’ve studied digital logic, you’ve probably learned how to combine simple binary adder circuits to build an ALU. However, the 8008’s ALU uses clever logic circuits that can perform multiple operations efficiently."

Posted June 2, 2017 by Chris

"The third version of the Led logger has run without any major issues. Based on uptime logging there has never been any freeze or malfunction. As for the LEDs, I have identified a few types of strips based on the behaviour they manifested throughout the experiment. Careful about the axis scale of the graphs."

Posted May 24, 2017 by Chris

"In today’s blog post we’ll analyze one of the smallest and most practical boards out there. The Digispark board. It’s size, including the USB port, is 25mm x 18mm (so tiny)!! This little board is powered by an ATTINY85 chip and clocked to 16.5Mhz. For conveniece, it has a built in USB port and can be plugged into a your computer without cables or adapters."

Posted May 21, 2017 by Chris

"The Lawnbot400 is a remotely controlled lawnmower that I built several years ago to mow my lawn. It is basically a push lawnmower attached to a large remotely controlled frame."

Posted May 18, 2017 by Chris

"This past week, I made a robotic arm that tracks your hand in free space using a Leap Motion, Arduino, and node.js. It tracks my hand very well. It is able to pick up stuff and set it down with relatively good precision, although there is definitely some room for improvement."

Posted May 15, 2017 by Chris

"The CHORG project consists in both a hardware and software platform both of them developed by myself. The main purpose of this project is to create a robot arm capable of adapting a task to randomness of the real environment."

Posted May 12, 2017 by Chris

"The traffic-light project is something we did at work (Isotope11) to monitor our software projects. We are a software development firm and we handle some large projects that have extensive test code written to make sure newly added features or changes to existing features can easily be tested by running the test code against the changes."

Posted May 6, 2017 by Chris

"Raspberry Potter is an open source project that lets you control things around your room or your house with a magic wand. Imagine if you had a magic wand to control everyday things. Once you make a Raspberry Potter, you’ll be able to do just that – by drawing simple gestures in the air."

Posted May 3, 2017 by Chris

"I built a robot that mixes drinks named Bar Mixvah. It utilizes an Arduino microcontroller switching a series of pumps via transistors on the physical layer, and the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js) and jQuery for the frontend and backend."