Posted January 18, 2012 by Chris

“The Unibot is a self balancing unicycle robot. This robot combines the principles of the famous wheeled inverted pendulum and inertia wheel pendulum. A well known application of the wheeled inverted pendulum is the Segway. The wheel on the ground is used to establish the stabilization in the y-z-plane. The wheel in the air is used to balance the robot in the x-z-plane.”

Posted January 13, 2012 by Chris

“AeroQuad hardware typically consists of an Arduino MCU as the flight controller board and an AeroQuad shield with various sensors, such as an accelerometer and gyroscope. AeroQuad software is written in C and uploaded to the MCU via the Arduino IDE. It currently supports an Acrobatic Mode that uses only the gyroscope for flight assistance, and a Stable Mode that uses the gyroscope and accelero-meter for leveled flight assist.”

Posted January 10, 2012 by Chris

“This was a second-year Embedded Systems Application Project at university. We were given the hardware and after assembling the robot, had to write firmware for it. The PIC MCU programming was done in C. As it was the first time this course was run, objectives were not concrete and were updated as students progressed. Some of the objectives were: follow a line, go over a ramp and memorize a track.”

Posted January 4, 2012 by Chris

“A simple Atmel microcontroller runs the high-level state machine that integrates simple sensor data and dictates behaviour of the motors and latches. Simple electrical relays (right side) act between the microcontroller and high-power electromechanical components.”

Posted December 13, 2011 by Chris

“The purpose of this project is to engineer modular software and electronic components, from which it is possible to assemble an intelligent mobile robot suitable for home/office environments. This project aims to fill the gap between the powerful mobile robot platforms typically used by researchers, and the small rug-roving robots with limited processing power that are popular with hobbyists.”

Posted December 5, 2011 by Chris

“The goal of this project is to construct a digital controller for a w all climbing micro-robot. There are two kind of wall-climbing micro-robots in the lab. One is called ‘Flipper’, the other is called ‘Crawler’. The restrictions such as small size, light weight and low power consumption must be complied when designing the miniature robot.”

Posted October 3, 2011 by Chris

“Using the super awesome TouchOSC app for the iPhone connected to Processing for converting Open Sound Control signals into serial commands send out via USB to an Xbee…I am able to drive a small tank.”

Posted September 26, 2011 by Chris

This little spider (only 6 legs!) uses some sensors and a Stamp (or PIC) to navigate its way about the world. The article describes how it was built and the custom software that accompanies the project. Also, the article is in german so if you’re not a Deutscher/Österreicher/Schweizer be sure to google translate it.

Posted September 23, 2011 by Chris

“Art Bots are autonomous machines that paint or draw on a canvas, sheet of paper or a surface of some kind. Systems that utilizes this concept are currently used widely to create generative or algorithmic art. Some Art Bots that were created, walk around the surface of a canvas and paint a composition predetermined by the image or video they use as reference.”

Posted September 14, 2011 by Chris

The design of this little robo-walker is as simple as it gets, which means that it is easy to understand how it operates and even easier to build. Using only one motor, some gears and ingenuity this article, pulled from instructables, shows you how to build your own four legged walker. The action video below also shows you what to expect from the finished robot (it’s not on-par with imperial walkers, sorry >_<).