9 posts tagged with "robot"
Introduction to Programming using C++ (robotics application) - Brooklyn College (City University of New York)Agents Lab @ Brooklyn College has built cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) console support for the SRV-1 Blackfin and ARM7 for use in our course - CIS1.5 Introduction to Computing Using C++. This is part of a larger robotics education program called robotics.edu, which is a shared spaced for curricular materials used in educational robotics classes for middle school and undergraduates students. robotics.edurobotice.edu is the home page for the developing educational robotics repository, which we fondly refer to as: robotics.edu. We define educational robotics to be the use of robotics as a hands-on learning environment for teaching topics other than specifically robotics. Hokey Pokey BipedLike many people, I wanted to build a humanoid robot. The first major step in building a humanoid is a 2-legged walking robot. So I built a 5 degree of freedom per leg robot. But just like many people before me realized, it is very difficult to program a pair of legs that complicated. So I simplified it down to a 3 servo per leg walker. One servo at the hip, one at the knee, and one at the ankle to shift its weight onto one leg. 1 attachment · 1 image · 2 comments HexapodI got the idea for my hexapod robot from the Insectronics book by Karl Williams. It is a very simple design, using only 3 servos for walking, and 1 for the head with an ultrasound sensor mounted on it. 1 attachment · 1 image · 0 comments Old-School Robotic ArmWhen I came upon this 1980’s robotic arm, with an outdated control system, I figured I could build it a new one. The robot came equipped with 6 uni-polar stepper motors. I built a simple push button remote, utilizing a couple parallel-to-serial shift registers to save on I/O pins. The motors are driven by Darlington arrays triggered by serial-to-parallel shift registers. The microcontroller simple reads in the buttons, decided which motors to move and drives the motors accordingly. 1 attachment · 3 images · 0 comments Middle School CHiP Robot CurriculumAlmost a decade ago we developed a web-based set of activities for an after-school program for middle choolers learning to experiment with robots. They programmed these challenges with an iconic programming language. While the CHiP robot never became commercial, the activities are a good example of what can be done with a fairly simple robot. The full curriculum is available to flip through at: El Paso RetrevoWhen my daughter was born, my wife and I were staunchly anti-pacifier. Oh, how naive we were. We caved within a couple weeks. Before long, however, we discovered that babies often spit out the pacifier when sleeping. And when they wake up and can't find it again, they get mad. And when babies are mad, they cry. And when you're sleeping and they cry, you're no longer sleeping. And then you want to cry. Omni-Shoe-Bot #1Here’s the idea. We all love walking barefoot. Now you can, without ever touching the floor! This is a pair of omni-wheel-based robot platforms, with CMUcam3’s embedded, looking up. You wear special socks with fiducial marks on the bottom. Or better yet, you get a brightly colored tatoo on the sole of your foot (which hurts a tad). The CMUcam3’s do vision processing, control the motors, and it servoes to stay under your feet as you walk. You probably want different colored fiducials on each sole of each foot so you don't have them competing to go under the same foot. The bots have to get out of each others’ way and stay under foot in spite of obstacles on the ground. Anyone game to work on this with me? I'm serious folks. It’s a real interactive art piece for a museum somewhere. Sometime. Robot History Crossword PuzzleThis is a robot history crossword puzzle. It was created by Matthew Anticole as a homework assignment for the C-MITES Robot 250 workshop. |
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