Connecting Minds with Technology for a Better World
This meeting coming up on Saturday, we'll work more on our obstacle avoiding robot. We can also use the same concepts to turn it into an obstacle detecting sumo bot! We'll also work on programming the robot in C rather than in JavaScript. Here's a video using the newest bot design:
We had a great time at our last electronics meeting finishing up and testing out our Sumobots! Here's a short video of two in action!
This Saturday, we are hosting an event in celebration of International Nodebot day.
We will be building little sumobots using lasercut frames and simple electronics powered by Arduino and the Johnny-Five javascript library. When we finish our bots, we will test them out in the sumo ring!
Our Nodebot Day celebration is coming up. We are the only place in California currently scheduled to host an event. (and, of course, this is pretty awesomely nerdy stuff!)
Please let us know if you'd like to join us on 7/29.
It's Sumobot fighting time!!
Originally posted for Facebook, this shows the simplebot using the Captain Arguino Arduino board from www.podpi.com being controlled via AJFisher's UDP transparent bridge to Johnny-five over Adafruit Industries' ESP8266 "Huzzah" development board.
This design was adapted from Andrew Fisher's article in Make: JavaScript Robotics by Rick Waldron & Backstop Media.
I control the bot using W, A, S, D.
Something we are working on for our next meeting.... I think it needs eyes that light up...
Neo, Emily and I built this following instructions from a special edition of Make:. We're going to build it at our next club meeting!
To me, this is a particularly amazing and useful tool for electronics enthusiasts.
Here's a quick overview:
I've been studying some robotic heads lately. I've saved some plastic bits, purchased some wooden bits and I've still got to get some fasteners.
Here's a fun video on the assembly of an animatronic robotic head: