Posted December 10, 2012 by Chris

“I built a remote-controlled robotics platform using a 4WD mobile platform, an Arduino (Seeeduino Mega), an Adafruit motor shield, and two XBee radios for communication. There are also some super-bright white LEDs on the front for headlights. The point of the project was to show how an XBee radio can be used to send joystick sensor data without using a microcontroller on the remote.”

Posted November 24, 2012 by Chris

“The goal of my project was to design and implement a mobile robot that can be controlled wirelessly using speech as a user interface. This was my first mobile robot which I built by forking concepts from here and there. I tried to follow open standards and use opensource hardware and software components wherever possible.”

Posted November 14, 2012 by Chris

“After completing my first Security Bot, I had come across the DFRobot 4WD platform. Once viewing some projects made with it, I was inspired for my second creation. This time around I decided to cram as many sensors into it as possible. My goal was to make this my main robot that I could continually expand upon.”

Posted November 12, 2012 by Chris

“This page outlines the complete design for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) controlled robot that exhibits light following, sound sensing, and object detecting abilities. The robot uses an Actel 1020B FPGA to control all of its logic behaviour while external analog circuitry provides the sensory inputs to the FPGA. The purpose of this design is to demonstrate how an FPGA can be effectively used to control a robot.”

Posted November 4, 2012 by Chris

“In this project, I converted an old toy R/C car from the thrift-store into a bluetooth controlled robot. The conversion requires an Arduino, an L298N dual 2-amp motor-controller, and a bluetooth serial adapter.”

Posted October 29, 2012 by Chris

“Formica is a low-cost, hackable, extensible, open-source swarm robotics platform. It can be used for swarm robotics research, microcontroller hacking and fun…You just have to solder on the motors, battery and a few through-hole components.”

Posted October 27, 2012 by Chris

“In this article we describe how to build an autonomous robot with a microcontroller that will always try to walk to the brightest spot.”

Posted October 17, 2012 by Chris

“Project SlyBot is my venture into the world of robotics. I’m interested in the challenges involved in developing software systems to control movement and behaviour; so what better way to put them to the test than to build a robot! (also an excuse to play with Lego again 😉 ”

Posted October 10, 2012 by Chris

“Using an IR remote as a teach pendant on a homebuilt 6-axis arm. PicAxe 20M2 controller records arm joint positions in EEPROM for later playback. After further programming the robot can be ‘taught’ to spell words using small letter blocks. Don’t miss the youtube demonstration videos!”

Posted September 30, 2012 by Chris

“We got two PCB’s with motors up and running. They contain one Attiny2313 as the brain and one L293 as motor driver. They are used to test the sensors and the programming. One is already equipped with a sensor shield include four 38kHz IR receiver for the navigation. The idea is to arrange these four receivers in a way that the robot does not have to make a 360° spin to find the IT beacon.”