Posted July 9, 2012 by Chris

“DoodleBot. It is a little robot which can draw simple sketches on a whiteboard. GarabatiBot has a very simple design but it is joyful to watch how you can control its movement and draw graphics and patterns you want, thanks to its creator, Spanish Aerospace Engineering student Miguel Ángel de Fruto.”

Posted June 19, 2012 by Chris

“I often need a simple function generator. Just to generate a certain frequency. After all the years I’ve worked with electronics, I still haven’t got me one. Even though I need it now and then, I just couldn’t seem to justify the cost of one. So, standard solution – build one yourself.”

Posted June 17, 2012 by Chris

“I built this for an independent-study project in Computer Engineering (my major). The rationale for it is that something similar to this could conceivably be used by SWAT teams or the military to enter buildings where bad people are and shoot/Taser them.”

Posted June 15, 2012 by Chris

“In this part we will make the sensor part. The sensors will help our robot detect obstacle in its path. The sensor system is of very basic type of infrared(IR) reflectance sensor. It is made up of an IR Transmitter and an IR receiver.”

Posted June 14, 2012 by Chris

“Well, it can grip stuff, and your robot can use it as hands! All for less than $10 using some hand-tools found around the house.”

Posted June 13, 2012 by Chris

“Our project was to build a mobile device that retreats from movement. The device recognizes and exhibits object avoidance, in order to not run into things, but does not respond unless an object is moving towards it.”

Posted June 11, 2012 by Chris

“This is how I started the entry for the open source project that is going to be gathering the iformation about Oh_Oh the open hardware robot that MA. Student in Interaction Design Xun Yang and myself designed for the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico City. All the work is being done at K3?s laboratory for prototyping during the first half of July.”

Posted June 9, 2012 by Chris

“This project came about when trying to make a low cost autonomous robot for use in
education. The idea being that students would be able to identify with the Xbox controller
and enjoy hacking it into something far more interesting!”

Posted June 4, 2012 by Chris

“PocketBot project consists of three parts. The key part of the project is the robot itself – a tiny line following vehicle of a matchbox size. Furthermore, the robot is supported with an USB communication device and with a PC control application. Altogether, these three parts form a complex solution to the line following issue.”

Posted May 26, 2012 by Chris

“Although we have been having fun making things on our desks or work benches, it is time to slowly enter the real world and hack something up. The other day I was in a variety store to buy some glue, and happened across a very cheap remote-control car. After noticing it had full directional control (left, right, forwards and backwards) it occured to me that we could control it with an arduino.”