I just got my order of 20 Ultrasonic distance sensors. Continue reading New Robot Sensors
Category: Hardware
New Robot Servos
I just got my first successful Alibaba order in. I ordered 40 of these continuous rotation servos for my robots. Now I just have to go home and test them out. Continue reading New Robot Servos
New budget robot is working.
After working on many designs I have come up with this little guy: Continue reading New budget robot is working.
Basic Robot design.
These are the electronic components necessary to build a basic robot for children that uses two vibration motors to move forward, left, and right. Two digital pins are used to control the vibration motors leaving 3 open GPIO pins. The Photo cell and LED can be used to detect the presence, and close proximity, of another robot. The Micro servo is an optional add on so that a simple claw (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18339) can be added. Continue reading Basic Robot design.
10 Second sound bite.
These could come in handy as a simple “canned” sound that could be triggered by an event with an Arduino or something. I may just have to get one to use as the notification “RArrr!” for my Electric Imp project. Continue reading 10 Second sound bite.
i2c bus error with LED marix on RasPi
This is mostly for myself but I figured I would post it here as well. After putting together and setting up my new 8×8 bi-color LED matrix and i2c control PCB from Adafruit, I got a script error saying “Error accessing 0x70: Check your I2C address”. When I run sudo i2cdetect -y 0, I get nothing, but the matrix is detected when I run sudo i2cdetect -y 1.