The other day I bumped into this video on youtube and thought it’s worth spreading it. In these videos Beck Stern walks through some recent news on wearable electronics, in this episode her co-host is Collin, who’s always funny 🙂
Other than this, Adafruit has started the daily mail programme, where you can subscribe for a “one-liner note along with an image per topic”-sort of mails. It goes well with the morning cup of tea (or coffee). If this got you interested, go check it out:
I have started an online course about the Tiva C Launchpad(TM4C123) embedded system.
This is an Arduino like board with Arm processor. It has the same kind of developing environment as for the Arduino, for Tiva C it’s called Energia. For more deep level development, there is also Code Composer Studio (CCS) or Keil IDE .
Last time we made a clay figure with electronics embedded. This post includes the wiring layout to animate the figure with an Arduino + code.
So since the skull I made in part 1 had electronics inside but without any means of actual control, I had to do something about that. Needless to say, this skull needs some effects. Let’s see what we can cook with:
Outputs: left eye LED, right eye LED
Inputs: micro pushbutton, potentiometer
Not much…
What should this skull do?
How about something like this?
You know I love simple electronics.
Unfortunately the biggest dilemma faced with these projects is about the case, at least for me. Seeing my girlfriend make very nice artistic clay figures I wondered how I could give them a little bit of life, alas the idea of embedding electronics emerged!
I included some LEDs, a potentiometer and a small pushbutton within this clay figure to make cool effects and to serve as an unusual control device for something.
Hi everyone!
Meanwhile the Kabuto’s chassis is done, I have joined a GPS-ROVER project which is based on an RC CAR (Turnigy SCT 2WD). The goal is to reach points outdoors based on GPS coordinates. I think nowadays it is not big challenge but I have never done it before, so now it’s a good opportunity.
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Do you remember the famous game from the ’70s called Pong?
Personally I don’t because I’m too young for that but I like the game and it’s a nice challenge to recreate it in 1D.
Do you like RC servos? I hope so because we do. Especially those with metal gear inside for their lifetime and reliability. We have a few TowardPro MG996R servos so I’ll demonstrate the whole process of making a servo able to turn forever with one.
To see where we are going let’s take a quick look at Ms. Piggy dancing around on the servo.
As we build more complex robots we need more feedback from them to know what state they are in. In my case I want to know some temperature information about my rover. These things are the motors, the outside environment, and the battery temperature. For this purpose, I want to create an Arduino thermal sensor. Later it will be only an Atmel chip with the sensors but for prototyping and developing the Arduino is the best solution.
The central computer on the Rovers will be Beaglebone. So after I create the thermal sensor, I need to make the communication between these devices. If that is done, the only thing is left to make the ROS package. I have chosen ROS because in the near future I want to make more sensors and ROS is ideal for information distributing.
I had some free time around the end of 2012 and a few parts lying around so I decided to put them to use. As an extra I also wanted a reason to practice soldering.
Flesh and machines 
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