Tag Archive for 'Robot'

Kinect Robot Power Adapter

Published on March 26, 2012 in Kinect and Projects. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , .

Those of you who have been following via my facebook page would have seen that I have been toying around with the idea of utilising the power of the Kinect with my latest robot build, Koothrappali. In order to facilitate this however I first had to verify that I could run the system unmodified with my tablet and with a portable power source.

Point one was easy to resolve, and after installing the drivers I soon had the Kinect up and running. Point 2 however, was a little more tricky, but also achievable via the development of a custom Kinect Robot Power Adapter.

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Koothrappali and the Arduino Motor Shield

Published on March 18, 2012 in Arduino and Projects. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

In today’s post I am going to kill two birds with one stone as so to speak. Primarily I plan to introduce the Arduino Motor Shield R3 and provide an accompanying tutorial, in turn also allowing opportunity to introduce you to my latest robot build, Koothrappali. After all, what better way to get to grips with a little code than with a practical example.

This post demonstrates the control of a Rover 5 Robot Platform via the use of an Arduino Pro and the Arduino Motor Shield R3. If you don’t have a Rover 5 or an Arduino Pro specifically, don’t worry as in theory the code can be used to control the shield with any variance of equivalents e.g. 2 DC motors and an Arduino Uno etc.

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Sheldon 2.0 – Bumper and Headstock

Published on June 6, 2011 in Netduino and Projects. Closed Tags: , , , .

Happily I managed to get quite a lot done on the Sheldon 2.0 upgrade this weekend. Primary focus was that cleaning up the wiring and putting together the bumper, however I also managed to put the headstock together too. Check out the following pics.

As you can see the new bumper has been fully completed and now features a sharp distance sensor and fog lights in addition to the original micro-switch triggers.

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RIP Sheldon 1.0 – Hello Sheldon 2.0

Published on May 30, 2011 in Netduino and Projects. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

Today is a sad day, poor little Sheldon the wonderbot 1.0 is no more. Due to a design floor several of his wires came loose whilst traversing the kitchen step and the rest as thy say is history :(

However now that even Humpty Dumpty can be put back together again I am filled with optimism and am looking at this sad event as an opportunity for an upgrade :)

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