Hi there! It’s been a long time since the last time I wrote a log! I’m back! Thor’s community is growing fast! There are (at least) 4 Thors assembled & operational around the world and another 17 being built! There are schools and universities relying...
If you have any plants at home, you know you must also have someone to take care of them while you're away. The only plants I keep at home are some herbs, mint and lemon balm for cold drinks, basil for cooking. This summer was really hard on my plants,...
Once the kitchen was done I wanted to control the chandelier in the dining room. I wasn't allowed to make any changes to it... so I needed to figure out how to control incandescent bulbs. Although expensive, the K8039 kit from Velleman proved to be a...
First, I wanted to thank you for your interest in this project.Over the course of the last few months, I finished soldering and drilling arbitrarily into components and wood until I was able to upgrade Prometheus to be a single piece wooden...
elcome back everybody, the ArduGen Schematics are, hopefully, completed and most probably only minor tweaks will change in the design from now on. However, I do not want to publish a design which, will be scrapped eventually, so instead of releasing...
Presently, I am primarily looking at a Galilean design, which involves using a double concave lens (for the eyepiece) and a plano-convex lens for the objective lens (end closer to the object we are looking at).This is the configuration that many of the...
Unfolded (Cut Out) OffsetsIn order to cut out plywood pieces for your boat/canoe, the design needs to be "unfolded" from 3D to 2D. Now there are some very good programs on the Internet that can do this, my favourite is Carlson Design "Hull Designer"...
This time, I was testing how frequency varies with user input. I wrote a program that allows user to set and change values of N and DIVA from the serial terminal. I wanted to see how can I control frequency the easiest way. But before, let's think...
Now for the last few weeks, I have been focusing on flight. After a while, I found this:This is Schubeler's 195mm carbon EDF. There's good news.The good news: It lifts 54 pounds per, which means I will only need about 12Bad news: One of these bad boys...
I've finally started on the electronics for BeeTee. Various types of logic displays are available on Astromech and they are all worth the money. However, I really wanted to attempt to build my own. I started with a 3d printed base and frame. Then I added...
The Wankel engine rotor stool design was interesting enough to take it out of the CAD world and into the physical world. Resisting the temptation to jump straight to full-sized CNC routing, we first test the design with a scale model.While it is possible...
All new features: More battery power, a charging port, battery voltage sensing, headlights, camera mode, safe shutdown, new UI The new software should work on all existing robots. When I designed the ZeroBot last year, I wanted to have something...
I thought for the first few logs I would just give an overview of the system I have in mind. I have already done quite a bit of work in the design and build process for this project, so these logs are going to be catching up to reality...
So as things have started to straighten out I've been able to get on with some experimental designs over the last couple of weeks. I've started work on a film based muscle that's a bit like the Peano muscle except pneumatically driven.After a few...
I have been working on the project for almost a month now and have accomplished a bunch, and also ran into a few problems. AccomplishmentsSourced motor, encoder, motor driver,wheel rim, game controller interface board (STM32) and motor controller...