Magnetically actuated micro-robots for advanced manipulation applications: SRI is developing new technology to reliably control thousands of micro-robots for smart manufacturing of macro-scale products in compact, integrated systems. Via Hacked Gadgets.
Category Archives: robotics
KMel Robotics flying robots play instruments
KMel Robotics flying robots that can play instruments: Just a reminder about how this all works: each one of these robots has its position measured down to the millimeter (or better) at a very high frequency using an external localization system. The individual hexrotors themselves are being centrally controlled by a computer somewhere else, sort […]
MIT wins prize for $20 robot
John Tarbox reports that MIT’s CSAIL team has won first place in the categories of hardware and curriculum for a printable, origami-inspired Segway robot, called SEG, at the “Ultra-Affordable Robot” competition sponsored by the African Robotics Network (AFRON) and the IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society. The robot can be built for about $20. Its made […]
HackRF One with gr-remotecar
In this video a HackRF One is used to transmit commands to a RF remote controlled toy car. A GNURadio module is used to generate the control signal, and a Qt(PySide) GUI to listen for keyboard presses. The open source code is available on GitHub.
Autonomous iPad playing robot
Tom Randle made this robot that automatically plays Leap Sheep on the iPad: On a complete whim about 2 years ago, I decided to make a robot to autonomously play one of my favourite iPhone games: Leap Sheep. The game’s nice and simple so lends itself really well to automation. Sheep run from left to right, […]
Build a robotic air-hockey opponent out of RepRap parts
Jose Julio likes to tinker with robotics; his daughter likes air hockey. From these mutual interests, an Arduino and a handful of surplus parts from a RepRap 3D printer, Jose devised an air hockey game with a robotic opponent. “The project is based on standard RepRap 3D printer parts : NEMA17 stepper motors, drivers, Arduino […]
The Drinkmotizer – a Raspberry Pi drink mixing robot
Cabe Atwell wanted a way to have a robot serve up a mixed drink efficiently and economically. He developed the Drinkmotizer, which uses a Raspberry Pi in combination with an Arduino to construct the dream project of many a maker. What makes this drink mixing robot different from other designs? Cabe says this machine builds […]
Last call for entries to Hack the Arduino Robot competition
Today (January 26) is the closing date for initial idea submissions for the Hack The Arduino Robot contest sponsored by RobotChallenge. This year RobotChallenge in cooperation with Arduino and RS Components presents a new open source competition – “Hack the Arduino Robot!”. To apply for this competition you need to submit a short description of […]
Self balancing robot
In this video Trandi demonstrates his little self-balancing robot project: It’s really been a very long time since I added this on my todo list, and in the past couple of week-ends I finally found the time to do it. And for once, I managed to avoid over-designing it, and produce something that actually works and is fun […]
Autopilot MEMs robot
Arduino compass bearing following robot: When you don’t want to drive your robot wouldn’t it be nice to just point in a direction and have it go there? Well the issue is that every little bump and wheel drag will slowly adjust the direction so where it ends up after 50 feet will most likely […]
Telepresence robot using Microchip PIC16F1829 and Atmel AVR ATmega168 I2C smart DC motor controller microcontroller – Part 2
Ronald of ermicroblog writes: The I2C (read as I square C) smart DC motor controller is designed using the Atmel 8-bit AVR Atmega168 microcontroller and configured to act as the I2C slave device where it could be controlled by other microcontroller or microprocessor through the I2C SDA (serial data) and SCL (serial clock) interface. In the first […]
Arduino 28BYJ-48 stepperbot
Bajdi’s another robotic vehicle with 4 28BYJ-48 stepper motors: The Arduino IDE comes with a stepper library, but I decided to write my own stepper code. For 4 stepper motors I would have needed 16 digital pins and then another 4 pins for the servos. Controlling a stepper motor is not that difficult. It’s just […]
Rover 5: encoder speed control
Bajdi writes: I’ve dusted of my Dagu Rover 5 :) While I’ve had my Rover 5 for almost 2 years I’ve never really used the encoders. Unfortunately my Rover 5 was delivered with an encoder that didn’t work right. So I decided to have a look at it and try to fix it. It turned […]
Building a self balancing bot
Bajdi documented his Arduino self balancing bot build: For the electronics I used one of my own PCB creations, a Bajduino of course It’s just a small (50x50mm) break out board for an ATmega328. I’m running the ATmega @ 16MHz and 3.3V. It’s out of spec according to the datasheet but it works… I also needed an IMU […]
FarmBot founder Rory Aronson explains Precision Agriculture
Open Electronics posted an interview with Rory Aronson, FarmBot founder: If you have not yet discovered project Farmbot, this interview will be a revelation to you. The project in question, has the ambition to bring digitalization into one of the oldest processes in society, that of agriculture.
Poppy, an open-source humanoid robot
Poppy project open source robot debuts from France: Poppy is an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Designed by the Flowers Lab at Inria Bordeaux and Ensta ParisTech (France), its development aims at providing an affordable and hackable humanoid robot for science, education, art and geeks. Poppy was initially made […]
DEFCON video: Hacking Driverless Vehicles
In this presentation from the recent Defcon 21 conference, Zoz Brooks provides an overview of the current state of civil driverless vehicles and what hackers or miscreants might do to mess with them. Topics covered include common sensors, decision profiles and their potential failure modes that could be exploited. While many remember Zoz as co-host […]
CxemCAR 2 – Android controlled RC car with video, Bluetooth, WiFi
Johnik has developed the CxemCAR2 project for controlling an RC car using WiFi and Bluetooth. “On the Internet there are many articles on the use of RC cars with IP or Web-based camera. But most of them used a laptop or an internal router with Open-WRT or DD-WRT firmware. Viewing of the video and control […]
SARRRO – Ultrasonic anti-collision robot build
Ultrasonic anti-collision robot by Gavin Hannah: I’ve also coined a name for my project. SARRRO, which stands for Search & Rescue Reconnaissance Rover. I’ve updated the site title to reflect this. From now on, I will be referring to my project as SARRRO rather than just “project” as I have been doing. Via Hacked Gadgets.
The Laser-Wielding robot that roams landfills to sniff out methane gas
Researchers at Orebro University in Sweden have developed a mobile methane-sniffing machine, the Gasbot: Cue the robots. Researchers at Orebro University in Sweden have developed a gas-sniffing, mobile robot that uses laser beams to find gaseous areas and an algorithm to map them. Researchers are calling the Gasbot “a big leap forward” for automating the gas […]