Posted March 7, 2013 by Chris

“Are you artistic? Do you enjoy creating art? Some may think that art is something only humans can make, but what about robots: can they be artistic? They can if you build them that way. In this robotics engineering project, you will build a robot that creates art. And who knows? Someday your robot art may be worth millions!”

Posted March 6, 2013 by Chris

“Our project was, to put it simply, a personal informatics black box that you clip onto your belt. As you go about your day your activity, surrounding environment and locations are tracked to produce a report telling you how much time you spent inside and outside. The device leverages off of a system-of-systems providing context-aware analysis for such ubiquitous computing devices.”

Posted March 5, 2013 by Chris

“This is the last project that I made during the semester holidays last february. This robot is not equipped with fire sensors, as sensors for detecting a fire is very expensive and not affordable to me. so I use the TV Remote to control the robot motion and put the fire out. to put the fire out of this robot uses a computer cooling fan.”

Posted March 4, 2013 by Chris

“Over the weekend, me and a friend of mine, cannibalized a 9 Lira RC car into line a follower. Code in this post covers everything up to [this] commit cf731aedc156f067aa221, refer to this particular commit for this project cause we plan on improving hence code will change. Stuff you will need: 3x QTR-1RC Reflectance Sensor, Ardumoto – Motor Driver Shield and A cheap RC car.”

Posted March 3, 2013 by Chris

“The goal of our project was to create both the hardware and software platform that can be used as a adaptable haptic data visualization device. Imagine you have a complex data set from which you create a surface plot in MATLAB….what if you could feel it? Bring it to life? With our current haptic visualizer, users can feel any arbitrary surface plot generated in MATLAB…”

Posted March 2, 2013 by Chris

“The power supply distribution block (PSD) contains a 6 outlet surge protected power strip, emergency stop button, 5VDC wall wart, 7.5DCV wall wart, 9VDC wall wart, and a 12VDC wall wart. The purpose of this block it to supply power to all the systems of the machine.”

Posted March 1, 2013 by Chris

“In this guide we will show you how to make a simple antweight R/C combat robot using a Sabertooth 2X5 R/C. The bot doesn’t necessarily have to be used in combat – it is a pretty fun toy to drive around the office too! There is a certain satisfaction you get from driving your own homemade vehicle that you can’t get from an imported Walmart toy.”

Posted February 28, 2013 by Chris

“In this article we will take a look at the original, The Annoy, project, and see what we can do to improve it. Specifically, we’ll make a PCB for the project and find the smallest PIC package available (10F202) for it making it as small as possible. Additionally, we’ll switch over and use microchip’s new XC8 compiler so we don’t have to use assembly for programming.”

Posted February 27, 2013 by Chris

“Experimentation and perseverance help. It’s ok if you goof up a few times; I did. Hang in there and you’ll be a DIY pcb etching guru soon! Find out what works for you, and you’re set. Start with a small, simple circuit and stick to single sided traces! My first circuit was for a 12V/5V dual power supply circuit for another project. It uses only a handful of components.”

Posted February 26, 2013 by Chris

“Rock Band 2 (RB2) and Guitar Hero World Tour (GHWT) both work with the drum set controller that is packaged with GHWT. The GHWT drums, unlike the RB2 drums, is plugged into a Wiimote’s expansion port. This expansion port is a I2C bus and the drum is a I2C slave device. An AVR microcontroller can be connected on this bus as a I2C slave with the same slave address to trick the Wii into thinking that it’s connected to a drum controller.”