Posted February 16, 2011 by Chris

The LM35 temperature sensor is used in this project to sense the temperature and relay that information back to a PIC micro. The project setup is: PIC, LCD and Temp sensor. The temperature results are displayed back on the LCD.

Posted February 10, 2011 by Chris

This robot is controlled by calling the cell phone attached to it and pressing keys on your cell phone. The cell phone attached to the robot receives and decodes the dial tones and the robot moves accordingly. The project write-up has a good explanation of how it’s done.

Posted February 8, 2011 by Chris

Capacitive sensing has become quite popular recently with touch screens and elevator buttons, even though the theory is nothing new. This tutorial goes through the process of how you can use changes in capacitance in objects to sense if they’ve been touched by a human.

Posted January 11, 2011 by Chris

Ultrasonic sensors are a good deal for the price and accuracy they output for range finding purposes. This project goes through how to use the range finding sensor with a PIC micro, outputting the range finding results on some 7-segment displays.

Posted January 7, 2011 by Chris

Today’s project takes you through the process of building your own analog pressure sensor on the cheap. It’s a surprisingly simple build process. The write-up has detailed instructions, the parts list and shows you how to use it. Take a look!

Posted December 13, 2010 by Chris

Oberon is built from the leftovers of a wheel chair so it has some powerful motors and sensors. It uses this power to be able to explore long range, far away from the remote controller. This can be quite cool for the lone DIYer without a big budget. The project write-up is 33 pages of detailed info.

Posted December 10, 2010 by Chris

The robot ‘Loki’ is a type of protocol droid prototype. It has a laptop and pic at its core, along with 2 webcams for guidance through stereo vision and many other sensors. Take a look at the project write-up which has all the information about the robot.

Posted December 1, 2010 by Chris

The ‘PER’ is a small scale duplicate of the rovers that were sent to mars. It has similar capabilities but is mostly only for research and development purposes. The project write-up has many demonstration videos and close ups of the robot in action.

Posted November 30, 2010 by Chris

Aptly nicknamed MAR, this robot uses range finding sensors built all around itself to guide it through wherever it is. The project write-up has a longer description, some demonstration videos and technical details about how it was built and what sensors are used.

Posted November 25, 2010 by Chris

Here’s a first shot at making a self balancing robot using IMU data and a powerful motor controller. The project write-up has a list of parts, the theory explained and a few videos of the robot in action.