The case I picked up from Harbor Freight. I removed the top and bottom dividers and went to work. The bottom is framed in 1/4" wood for added strength and stability. The top also has a reinforced frame. On the outside are a video in, video...
After removing the battery, PC cards, speakers, LCD, and touch pad. I decided to remove the bottom half of the original case( I admit, I used a hacksaw) then I bent the middle frame to make space to reinstall the keyboard.The whole project is electrical...
The image based scheme we used had several processing steps Video sequences were shot at either 30 fps or 500 fps. The high-speed sequences were decimated by two in time for analysis. Frames were cropped so that the animal was completely within the frame...
This entry is a general writeup along with post-prototype observations.TO READ THE PROJECT PROGRESS FROM START TO FINISH (WITH PICTURES), CLICK HERE and start reading from the BOTTOM. This will let you read how the project came to life, the decisions...
Sound Dampening PanelsSound is an issue with any workshop, power tools are cool but make lots of noise. My workshop has the added benefits of being in a garage, close to neighbors and harboring a CNC table. My primary concerns are the air compressor,...
The Chameleon Arduino-compatible shield board was designed to support two general application areas: (1) soft-core processors, and (2) intelligent serial communications interface. The board was constructed to be compatible with the form-factor of the...
Since we started, Stubby has grown from a simple, direct-driven 2 DOF (degree of freedom) per leg frame to a mechanically-assisted 3 DOF per leg design with a full inverse kinematics engine (which allows the processor to calculate custom foot positions...
Programming model for Surfaces The method used here is to package each geometric primitive (e.g. sphere) as a Matlab 'struct'. Geometric primitives are then grouped in a 'cell array'. The cell array is ultimately passed to the renderpatch function for...
The initial idea was to make a life-size version of the actual game Operation. At the first meeting, however, an idea was proposed to keep the spirit of the original, but make it instead an alien autopsy, with the patient being an alien and the ailment...
It's really amazing what you can do with the different development boards available today. This is my 3rd attempt trying to make an autonomous Robot , well more or less autonomous . RikonV2 is the successor of my previous Robot RikonV1 . At first i was...
A breif overview of why I started working on D-DAQ and what it's designed to do:Oh, watch it on youtube with annotations turned on please. I've included CC too.The original Doniol gauge used a 128x128 pixel, OLED displays and a MSP430 MCU. It tapped...
A few years ago I ported a Z-Machine player to a little arduino-like device. Ever since I have been meaning to get around to a project that would work on a TV with a real keyboard and once again rekindle fond memories of long nights playing Zork on my...
The general plan and choices made beforehandThe most important property of an FPV video feed is latency. When the latency of the video is too high, the plane becomes uncontrollable. Half a second is a lot of latency. Latency originates from multiple...
IntroductionThe intention is to introduce PIC32 into ece4760 in the Fall 2015 semester. This is a start at understanding how the chip works. The general way to learn this processor is to look at examples which come with the MPLAB distrubution, Use the...
Hardware Block SchemaHardware is built around the STM32F103 microcontroller. CPU timing is derived from an 8MHz crystal; it provides a clock stable enough for an on-chip USB interface to function correctly. An auxiliary low-speed precision 32.768kHz...