Posted May 4, 2014 by Chris

"Loki builds upon the software of Seeker and Mr. Roboto, including remote control and diagnostics over WiFi, but adds more capable vision processing, speech recognition, indoor pathfinding (Using A*), basic Artificial Intelligence, and general refinement of the architecture."

Posted May 3, 2014 by Chris

"I wanted to go for a mad science robot look. I really liked pictures of robot face prototypes with electronics sort of bursting from the back. I envisioned control wires coming out from behind a mask and running all around the room to control various things, looking like hair, or veins, or roots, depending on which analogy you wish to use. The face was easy enough to procure; Hobby Lobby sells basic androgenous masks. I also wanted a few animatronic features, like a moving mouth. For this, I took a geared DC motor out of a Billy Bass singing fish."

Posted May 2, 2014 by Chris

"This article describes how to implement a very low bandwidth one way communication channel between an Arduino and an Android device using nothing more than about a meter of magnet wire, a resistor and diode. Links to a software sketch for the Arduino and the Android source code is included."

Posted May 1, 2014 by Chris

In this week’s PyroEDU lesson in our new course: An Introduction To Microcontrollers, we will Build an LED Game using a microcontroller, push button, LEDs and a trimpot. Here’s an overview of the lesson:

"At this point, we have tons of knowledge about microcontrollers, let’s take a break and do something fun: design a game! This game will be a game of skill with push buttons and LEDs."

Posted April 30, 2014 by Chris

"I developed my EEG visualising pendant for use in social situations. The pendant uses EEG (Electroencephalography) signals, which are gleaned from a NeuroSky MindWave Mobile headset."

Posted April 29, 2014 by Chris

"The Challenge: To design and build a sequencing control system for 64 solenoids that control a mixture of UV tonic and air into a manifold of pipes to be pumped around a structure. This was for a team participating in the Luxcity Project."

Posted April 28, 2014 by Chris

"This instructable will guide you through all of the steps to in order to create a one-of-a-kind beer pong table complete with cup detecting RGB pods, automatic ball washers, a 32×12 ping pong ball LED grid, side LED rings for spectators and an RF interface to communicate wirelessly with a PC!"

Posted April 27, 2014 by Chris

"Here is one of my favorite projects! This was a simple Atmega microcontroller based logic Analyzer which I redesigned around very strict limitations. The limitations were that I wanted it to fit inside of a nintendo gameboy, run on 4x AA batteries like the gameboy and use the battery contacts, battery compartment, power switch and screen location from the gameboy itself."

Posted April 26, 2014 by Chris

"Who says that cool things can’t be made using bubble gum and Popsicle sticks. 🙂 This PIC Microcontroller Based Writing Robot is much more than a collection of gears, drinking straws and string, watch the video as David who built the robot is able to make the robot draw with a pen."

Posted April 25, 2014 by Chris

"If you search for Blinkenlights on video.google.com or youtube you will find a really interesting documentary about the Blinkenlights project. I saw this video a few years ago, but when I saw it again now recently, I ignited on all my sparks. I had to make my own small scale version."