Posted February 13, 2013 by Chris

“Last month I talk about Remote Controlled Mobile Robot using MC40SE, this month I want to use it for simple line following robot…The list of hardware needed: MC40SE board, LINIX Brushless Motor, 2 x 4” Nylon wheel, 2 x 12V battery, 4 x fiber optic sensor and a robot base which mounts with a castor and brushless motor properly.”

Posted February 12, 2013 by Chris

“Question: What makes 8 times ‘beep’, but cannot be heard?
Answer: My ultrasonic range finder 🙂 ~ FRDM-KL25Z with HC-SR04. What I’ve added to my FRDM-KL25Z board is an ultrasonic distance sensor, measuring distances up to 4 meters.”

Don’t miss this thorough tutorial on using and interfacing ultrasonic range finders to microcontrollers.

Posted February 11, 2013 by Chris

“The Finch is a new robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE lab. The Finch is designed to support an engaging introduction to the art of programming. It has support for over a dozen programming languages and environments, including several environments appropriate for students as young as eight years old.”

Posted February 10, 2013 by Chris

“The 48h project con­sisted of build­ing a hel­met device with humid­ity, tem­per­a­ture and fluid intake sen­sors, used to record and mea­sure the reac­tion of nuclear taco vic­tims of Codeb­its 2011 Nuclear Taco Chal­lenge. The sen­sors and ser­vos are con­nected by Arduino. 6 time­lapse videos were recorded doc­u­ment­ing the user expe­ri­ence. The host dis­played using face sub­sti­tu­ion tech­nol­ogy in realtime.”

Posted February 9, 2013 by Chris

Here we have a quick and simple picture walk through of how to construct a hardcore Sensor Bot. The main processing components are from Bluebell and the rest of the intelligent components came from Parallax. The chassis and interconnects are all home-designed and built together. Enjoy!

Posted February 8, 2013 by Chris

“A few days ago I presented the ADK in Google’s blog. It’s a platform that enables communication between Android and Arduino terminals. The downside was that the development kit costs about 300 €. After seeing someone online who managed to run the ADK on Arduino with a USB Host Shield controlling a servo or LED, we wanted to do the same but a BricoGeek DIY version.”

Posted February 6, 2013 by Chris

“I recently found myself with a surplus of Adafruit Industries components, I decided to put a few of them to good use by making a custom NES controller…The design is fairly simple, the only difference between it and a standard controller would be the use of the Center pin on the navigation switch as the Select button.”

Posted February 5, 2013 by Chris

“Charliecube is a 4x4x4 tri-color LED Cube designed and created by Asher Glick and Kevin Baker. But what makes it special? Other cubes use shift registers, decade counters, or other components to control all the LEDs. The charliecube can be run using only 16 digital pins with no extra components.”

Posted February 4, 2013 by Chris

“The RGB panel is a new module designed to be suitable for the e-puck robot. It is comprised of: 9 RGB LEDs, 8 infrareds and a PIC 18F6722. Every LED is independent from each other, so it’s possible to turn on the LEDs with different colors in the RGB color space (additive color mixing).”

Posted February 3, 2013 by Chris

“Our group designed and manufactured a miniature robotic vehicle that conquers various terrains. The vehicle was designed with a track system which is powered by two DC motors. The motors use a Quadruple half H-Driver in order to drive the motors in both directions….These configurations allow the vehicle to drive on various terrains. ”