Home brew robotics with autonomous behaviors. That's what this blog is all about.
This site is all about showing you "how-to" while showing off my "Bots."
We've got:
Tracked Robots,
Legged Robots,
BEAM simple Robots,
Stand-Up Robots,
Square Wheeled Robots...
Visit C WHAT I CAN DO
Can you use a DROID, or other smartphone to operate a Robot directly? The ads infer that a Droid is better than other smart-phones, because you can reallly get stuff done with it. Basically, that is true. Without any apps, or only with free apps, you can still approach the phone as a programmer.
Yes Virginia, it is possible to imagine driving a robot around using the Droid itself for most everything but driving the high current to the wheels.
This is an ongoing project started on CwhatIcanDo.com so someday, someone will figure out the process for sending messages back and forth from a robot base, like the i-robot Create. Check out the more in depth coverage of the project at C What I Can Do website.
This is a robot! It's a virtual robot! You can play with it online.
Or, better still visit the How-To on CwhatIcanDo, where you can watch the video and look inside the Flash and ActionScript files to make your own, or modify the basic "unit". CwhatIcanDo
This is a how-to inspired by all the people who built variations on the robots I have constructed. The lightest weight robot "In the World"
I point out (again) this is not a Robot Project... Any blog followers understand that CwhatIcanDo is now taking on my projects. This one is something I put together in a non-robotic attempt to save myself from having to find and energize the "mute" function when I needed. Like when I answer the phone.
The project was undertaken because I was frustrated with having to find the clicker to stop the assault on my senses by over modulated and over acted TV commercials. I confess I am addicted to the science and history channels, and the daily show and Colbert, all have commercials apparently compressed by our beloved local cable operation. Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to make something I could just tap and the result would be "muting" the tv.
Implementation was easy, I used a picAxe chip (around four bucks) a little round universal PC board a button and an IR LED driver setup to send '20' code to my Sony TV so it would MUTE!
Making things wearable was a greater problem than originally anticipated (I'm no jeweler - as you'll notice), but I made something that would test the practicality of such a device. C What I Can Do provided a way to demonstrate the principle, and now to see if it would generate any interest, then I can think about another model.
