Posted September 17, 2012 by Chris

“This article will have an overview of our school project (term 2/6). There are three heads on my group. Our goal with this project is to make a mechanical hand which can move it fingers like a real human hand, electronically controlled. Even point at, pick and crush things!”

Posted September 13, 2012 by Chris

“We have already explored how to control a servo motor using a PIC microcontroller, but this time let’s take a look at how to control a servo motor using the Arduino platform. We’re not trying to do anything extra-ordinary in this article, just trying to make the servo motor move to the specific angle that we want it to be at and stay there.”

Posted September 11, 2012 by Chris

“Despite the fact that it is a really simple and cheap design, I really love this creation of a magnetic whiteboard eraser bot that’s built with Lego parts and a simple Atmel microcontroller, which acts as brain controller. Le Zhang and Michael Lathrop, both senior students at Cornell had this nice idea how to efficiently clean your professor’s whiteboard.”

Posted September 5, 2012 by Chris

“Robots are becoming a common educational resource. Together with other applied science fields like wearable computing, or music instrument design, robotics provides an alternative door into traditional fields like math and physics, as well as into more contemporary ones like computer science and complex systems.”

Posted August 25, 2012 by Chris

“So, having spent the last couple of years experimenting with UAV systems I felt the need to try something that would stay on the ground. I have been fascinated by rock crawlers, the latest RC off-road trend. They seem the be the ideal platform for a land based all terrain rover system. Traction and maneuverability is very impressive.”

Posted August 13, 2012 by Chris

“This robot is built using the chassis from our old DIY Robot Project, but we have replaced the sensors and the electronics to use more modern parts. We intend to develop this robot as far as possible so there will be many updates to this which will be added to the article.”

Posted August 10, 2012 by Chris

“There are some tremendous hexapods and quadrupeds out there already but they do tend to be expensive. One to two thousand isn’t unreasonable for these beauties. My goal is to work the low end of the spectrum and come in under $200 for a quadruped.”

Posted August 8, 2012 by Chris

“The main objective of this project was to design and create a robot capable of delivering a beverage to a specific location, when needed. To achieve this goal, two teams were combined and worked together into building an acquiring and delivering robot as well as a dispensing and replenishing station.”

Posted July 31, 2012 by Chris

“In our demonstration, we address the challenging problem of balancing an arbitrary standard pencil, based solely on visual information. A stereo pair of silicon retinas reports vision events caused by the moving pencil, which is standing on its tip on an actuated table.”

Posted July 13, 2012 by Chris

“Over the past month or so I have been working on building a painting robot. This robot will be able to paint a wall using spray paint in a graffiti-esque manner. My initial inspiration, and thus similarity in design, was a robot called Hektor. ”