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Posted May 7, 2012 by Chris

“The goal of the 2005 Telerobotics project was to start the autonomous navigation theme in the telerobotics series. Students designed a guide-bot that would guide its user to a location selected from the pre-encoded terrain map. Only acoustic sensors and wheel encoders were used for navigation and that made the project somewhat challenging to implement. It is much easier to navigate with laser distance sensors.”

Posted May 6, 2012 by Chris

“Our gesture input system can be conveniently used by anyone who wishes not to be tied down to a desk when using a computer, making it perfect for giving presentations or web surfing from the couch. The intuitive hand motion controls also allow it to serve as an alternative video game controller.”

Posted May 5, 2012 by Chris

“Although this kind of autonomous navigation has been accomplished in commercial products, the goal of this project is to make such a system work within a small vehicle, namely a model racing car. Considering the size of such a vehicle, two limitations come into effect: [1] Total mass of additional components and circuitry, [2] Driving range of car.”

Posted May 4, 2012 by Chris

“Squirt is an autonomous robot which can communicate with an Android phone. Optionally, the phone can be used as a controller to drive the robot. Squirt’s purpose is to water plants and chase away raccoons. It’s also a technology demonstration to prove the feasibility of using a smart phone to control small irrigation and well systems.”

Posted May 3, 2012 by Chris

“Another month purely devoted to robotics is upon us and we’re celebrating by releasing a 5 part, Building A Robot, series. This week we’re starting with the fundamentals, learning about DC motors and a Robot Chassis. Every week we’ll learn something new as we progress toward having a fully-functional robot.”

Posted May 2, 2012 by Chris

“Our project derives ideas from the classic breakout game. In the game, there is a layer of bricks located on the top of the screen, a moveable paddle on the bottom, and a ball travelling across the screen. The objective of the game is to use the paddle to bounce the ball back up every time it falls down so that eventually the ball will break all the bricks. In our version, however, the game can be controlled with hand motions.”

Posted May 1, 2012 by Chris

“Although I’m planning on improving the software (better menus, the addition of sound, and implementation of a more efficient algorithm) and hardware, this device is currently functional therefore theoretically complete. This entry will serve as the primary reference page for the project, so I will provide a brief description of what it is and what it does.”

Posted April 30, 2012 by Chris

“An ongoing personal project to create a homemade, wrist-based sensor that captures the fine-grained gestural movements of a person’s hand and fingers (think “Minority Report”). The goal is to keep the sensor simple and inexpensive by making up the difference in the software. Everything will ultimately be open-sourced.”

Posted April 29, 2012 by Chris

“I have for a long time wanted to build a remote controllable balancing robot aka Segway – that was actually the main reason why I created the PS3 Bluetooth Library both for Arduino and the FEZ Devices….I decided to step up a notch and go for a much more powerful device: the mbed microcontroller, which is an ARM Cortex-M3 running 96MHz…The robot also features an Arduino Duemilanove with a USB Host Shield on top running a sketch based on my PS3 Bluetooth Library.”

Posted April 28, 2012 by Chris

“So the collar runs off an Atmel AVR ATTINY2313. It has 5 blue LEDs, and is powered by 3 AAA batteries. I also etched a custom circuit board (toner transfer method) and then covered most of the components in hot glue. The LEDs and all the wires on the collar are also mounted using hot glue.”