Design The design of the arm is made in Autodesk's Fusion360 software, which is 40 cm long, where the arm and forearm occupy 20 cm each, the materials for the structures are PVC tubes of 20 mm in diameter and pieces 3D printed. An important aspect is...
Learn how to dress up Bittle and program it to play Halloween comics Story Hi there, It's been two years since our launch of the Bittle robot. Last weekend, I made a horror comic clip with Bittle to celebrate Halloween. You may check out the final...
Since my last post, I've firmed up my design (head-only render below) and assembled the new frame from 2020 aluminium profile. The new frame still has the hash design of the original to support the lazy-susan bearing but now has a narrow box frame below...
With good results from the encoder it was time to address some of the issues and do another (you guessed it) redesign. Let me start by showing the result first, for a change. I will go into the details after the break.---------- more ----------Frame...
Hey Rover fans!I've started building a simulator for Rover using Unreal Engine. See the video of the simulator and my rationale and goals with the simulator below:I'd like to build a kind of next generation navigation stack for Rover that uses only cameras...
This is what I did, based on my experience (not a lot) and research (not enough?). There may be better ways to do it. Feel free to tell me what I'm doing wrong in the comments ;-) Basics: Using Ubuntu MATE 18.04 for RPi, downloaded 22 May 2020 (lost...
PROTOCOL PAROL6 uses serial USB communication to talk between high and low-level code. The protocol consists of three types of commands. Active, passive, and carrier. Active commands can only be given by the "command" argument and are represented...
The lifting gas chosen for the proposed robotic airship platform is helium as it is safe and provides high lifting capacity. An alternative with comparable buoyancy is hydrogen, which was immediately discarded due to its high flammability characteristics....
Here comes some updates regarding our LPS and Berry product families!==== Short version for existing customers ===* We are now shipping LPS2 Mini and Blueberry! With the boards you will get demo software to access the sensors and, in the case of the...
Shayna 2:57 PM: So we'll get rolling a couple of minutes after the hour, just to give folks some time to gather Shayna 2:59 PM : Feel free to start submitting questions if you got 'em! https://hackaday.io/event/156850-building-robotics-hack-chat-with-mearm...
TRHaddington Dynamics joined the room.2:56 PM Okay! Lets get started. Welcome to Hack Chat @Haddington Dynamics , its great to have you here! Haddington Dynamics3:02 PMGreat to be here It would be great if people can put their questions at https://hackaday.io/event/160038-training-robots-by-touch-hack-chat...
Something useful for my robot to do: Having troubles with the Wi-Fi at my parents house I decided to create a heatmap of the W-Lan signal strength with the inspiration of this ROSCon 2018 talk. Since I did not understand QGIS in a few...
Jason Kridner Gerald Coley and I started up BeagleBoard.org as a lunch conversation in 2007. Both of us were TI employees at the time (I still am), but we wanted to make OMAPs (mobile phone chips) more accessible and I suggested making something...
Stephen Tranovich 12:06 PM Okay, let's get started! A HUGE welcome to Ryan Walker @MachineHum for joining us today. Can you start out by telling us a bit about yourself? Stephen Tranovich 12:06 PM Then we'll jump into the community questions! TegwynTwmffat☠...
Abstract It has been more than one month since our last hackaday update. The Kalman filter and the PID were the obstacles that stopped us, which our team had very little knowledge of. In general, we took a step forward with the grid system we proposed...