Posted September 8, 2013 by Chris

“In order to ease electronical design and increase hardware and software stability EMMA2 is built on top of an off-the-shelf handheld computer with integrated color camera and Bluetooth communication. In addition to the hardware components power supply and motor drive control the undercarriage hosts general purpose I/O interfaces enabling efficient integration of additional sensors in the future.”

Posted August 22, 2013 by Chris

“We used two stepper motors to drive a steel ball scavenged from a ball-bearing…We also mounted a solenoid which raises and lowers a writing instrument. The device is meant to write on a sheet of paper…By using a mouse to control the robot, anyone can sit down and doodle remotely with it.”

Posted August 21, 2013 by Chris

“The goal of this project was to create a BeagleBoard-powered robot capable of competing in an autonomous sumo competition in the 3.0 kg weight class. A chassis was constructed of aluminum and an expansion board created to allow the Beagle to control the motors and connect to the sensors.”

Posted August 20, 2013 by Chris

“This is a very early prototype, confirming that all the hardware works and the I can get the time of the main loop down to 20ms, which was easy. This prototype also helped me get my head around the code and math needed to balance.”

Posted August 19, 2013 by Chris

“In this article we describe the control crawler platform from any Android-device, as well as viewing real-time video and rotation control pan/tilt of IP-Camera. All hardware has remained virtually unchanged in the first project CxemCAR, changes were made Android-applications to work with the Wi-Fi IP camera.”

Posted August 17, 2013 by Chris

“In our project we made the arm the second player in the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe to demonstrate its programmable repeatable motion. The arm consists of five servo motors, four to control the motion and one to control the end effecter (gripper). The arm moves tic-tac-toe pieces onto a board for its opponent and itself to give the user interactive control over the arm.”

Posted August 15, 2013 by Chris

“Are you artistic? Do you enjoy creating art? Some may think that art is something only humans can make, but what about robots: can they be artistic? They can if you build them that way. In this robotics engineering project, you will build a robot that creates art. And who knows? Someday your robot art may be worth millions!”

Posted August 11, 2013 by Chris

“For a small robot project I needed a way to measure a robot’s progress across the floor. There are various possibilities, such as: use stepper motors, add an encoder to the wheels or use the optical sensor for a mouse.”

Posted August 3, 2013 by Chris

“This time we are going to build a remotely controlled car robot, with the next list of features:

Posted July 31, 2013 by Chris

“EGGN 482: Microprocessor and microcontroller architecture focusing on hardware structures and elementary machine and assembly language programming skills essential for use of microprocessors in data acquisition, control, and instrumentation systems. Analog and digital signal conditioning, communication, and processing. A/D and D/A converters for microprocessors. RS232 and other communication standards.”