A.R.T.
ARTv5 Electronics Design
While I'm debugging ARTv4 to have interesting, pseudo-intelligent behaviors (and not running out of SRAM which causes it to reset randomly...), I'm also working on the next generation electrical…
ART Telemetry wireless solution
Been researching wireless solutions to transmit in real-time sensor and decision information from ART in addition to possibly enabling minimal controls (on/off/behavior switch) and perhaps even…
新车间开放日：休闲机器人的时代 Robot Contest Kick Off- Xin Che Jian Open House: the coming of entertainment robots
新车间开放日：休闲机器人的时代 时间: 2011年元月十六日，下午一点到五点 地点：徐汇区永嘉路50号新单位（近陕西南路） 费用: 免费 随着数字零件价格的降低加上丰富的开源机器人软件，DIY机器人已经可以当做事一个假日的休闲活动。这次的新车间开放日我们将介绍几个会员DIY的机器人和介绍一个将要举办的积极人竞赛。如果你对机器人有兴趣，请在这个周日加入我们，一起了解现代机器人的发展，一起讨论如何玩机…
A.R.T. Glamour
Happened to stop by Xin Che Jian with my camera today and I thought I should take some A.R.T. glamour shoots.
CPLD
As I've mentioned in the previous blog post talking about adding more ultrasonic sensors connected to the Arduino , I'm looking at implementing some of the logic in digital logic gates external to…
ART Platform v3, Control v4 and the future platform v4
I've been writing many, many iterations of both the software (the controller) after updating the platform (sensors+chassis) itself to have an additional ultrasonic sensor looking backward. So now,…
ARTv2 goes Ultrasonic!
The day started with a breakfast next to ARTv2 at Xindanwei/Xinchejian. 潘先生 (aka Panda) had left me an idea on the whiteboard for how to read a continuously rotating sensor without the cables getting…
A.R.T. Version 2 (with instructions!)
Today I built a second new A.R.T. to test new configurations. It's also because it is a bit frustrating not to have a working version at all times for demos while I'm trying out new mechanical…
First successful autonomous run of A.R.T.
Today was a day of many firsts for me: First time I made holes in a piece of wood with a Dremel First time I bought tie-wraps in China First time I blew up the fuse for Xindanwei putting everyone in…
RC Transmitter reverse-engineering attempt
Kind of a failed attempt, but I thought my approach was interesting. The RC remote has a board to do the control based on four contact switch (Up, Down, Left, Right). The IC on the board says…
A.R.T., PWM and RF
A.R.T.: Autonomous Robot Toy ^_^ Some theory gleaned related to PWM and RF Disclaimer: this is my first contact with PWM and RF... Feel free to correct me. General PWM introduction Using the Arduino…
Ricky’s Autonomous Robot Toy Car Project
Saw Ricky came in with a RC car today and kicked his Robot RC car project . Very cool! Read more ... Also, spoke NPI today about hosting robot RC car race in their place in the future. A robot F-1!…
Autonomous Robot Toy Car Project
I bought an RC car from Taobao at the extremely cheap price of 67RMB (shipping included! 10$USD!)! For that price, you get an RC remote, a rechargeable Ni-Cd 400mAh/6V battery pack, the radio…