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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 18, 2013 by Chris

“Our final product – again non-commercial – is a pair of shoes attached with ultrasonic sensors on the sensing side. The information, obtained from these sensors, is used to form a virtual map of the surroundings.”

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 14, 2013 by Chris

Starting next week, PyroEDU is introducing a new course: An Introduction To Analog Electronics. Here’s a quick summary of the course and some links with more details.

This course is meant to create a pathway into learning about analog electronics, for people who are scared of the math and general trickery that usually comes with it. A hands-on approach is taken in this course through a combination of lecture and experimentation to teach you about the different basic ideas (AC vs. DC, filters and amplifiers) used in analog electronics.

Posted August 13, 2013 by Chris

“I was a bit bored during Christmas, so I decided to construct a whole Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in an FPGA. An FPGA is a programmable integrated circuit, generally programmed using a hardware description language. The FPGA contains thousands of logic blocks, that can be connected together to form complex combinatorial logic, and flipflops are used to implement memory and feedback loops.”

Posted August 12, 2013 by Chris

“The idea of building my own I2C smart DC motor controller is came to me when I was learning and playing together with my son on his LEGO MINDSTORM NXT 2.0 about a year ago. The NXT sophisticated controller also called NXT Intelligent Brick is powered by Atmel 32-bit ARM7 AT91SAM7S256 microcontroller and communicating with Atmel 8-bit AVR ATmega48 acting as a co-microcontroller using I2C protocol.”

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.”