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  • 03.29.09
    Heartbeat Uncategorized | (0)
    [gallery] It may not have actuators (yet) but I -guess- it could still be classed as robotic (What is a robot again exactly?). Heartbeat was a project I made over the course of a couple of evenings as a Valentines Day present for my fiancée. It was also a great chance for me to use my AVR programmer for something more than blinking a LED. This time it was going to be used to charlieplex 11 of the suckers! The hardest part of all of this was the physical construction. The heart itself is made from Das airdry modelling clay (awesome stuff!) and ...
  • 01.28.09
    Scout with iPhone control Uncategorized | (1)
    Cool, I finally got Scout running from my iPhone! It was really easy to set up actually once I got the smooth motor control going on the platform itself. A while ago I bought a copy of the TouchOSC app for my iPhone so that I could mess around with the OSC protocol over my iPhone's wireless connection. I had already managed to get a Python script to reliably talk to and control the robot using some wireless XBee modules so all I needed was a way to add an OSC server to the script and connect to that using my ...
  • 01.15.09
    RoboWars 6 is on this weekend in Oakleigh, Vic! Uncategorized | (5)
    [youtube=fCS3okFECAU,Robowars 4 highlights] Question: Do you like robots? Do you like watching robots destroy other robots for FREE? Do you live near Oakleigh in Victoria, Australia? If you answered YES, YES, and (YES or NEAR ENOUGH or DISTANCE IS NO OBJECT) to those questions then you better get on down to Oakleigh this weekend because its time for ROBOWARS SERIES 6!!! I am a stupid idiot face so I haven't been able to make it to one of these before (I had just finished the Oxfam Trailwalker last time I think) but I have blogged about them before on Ausrobotics. The event is run by the awesome ...
  • 01.13.09
    Site news Uncategorized | (0)
    Hey guys, some good news to report:   I have started work on a new robot - Still unnamed, mostly to test some motion control ideas I have had I found a way to integrate PunBB with Wordpress so I will upgrade the forums as soon as I can I finally have time to work on some other AR site stuff so I am going to take the chance to add a site search and clean everything up. Hopefully it should make this a bit easier to find previous posts. PunBB is nice and lightweight, looks like a forum and has all the features you guys ...
  • 01.05.09
    Just call it a “DistanceHat”… Uncategorized | (0)
    [Update: 06/01/09] - Added the source code to my Arduino sketch - Found some interesting info on linearising the output from the sharp sensors - Hack-a-day has an article on the very same subject - I found the SensorWiki - What a great site! [youtube=ns-xTmjc6Cg,480,4:3,Distance Hat!] So... You can't buy any new parts You can't be bothered getting your robot driving around the house You want a 'quick win' to make you feel better about going back to work tomorrow You just happen to have a Bare Bones Board Arduino clone and an old Sharp infrared distance sensor sitting around What do you do? Well if you are me you first ...
  • 01.04.09
    Happy New Year (and Project)! Uncategorized | (0)
    (and Merry Xmas as well) Hey everyone! I hope you guys had a great break and got lots of stuff done (robo or otherwise). I could definitely do with another week before going back to work but ah well... I need to make money somehow and my investments in CitiGroup and Ford seem to not be tracking as well as I would like :) I have been out of the country and away from my computer for most of the break but today I finally found some time to whip a project together. It's very simple but fun and might interested someone ...
  • 11.02.08
    New Stuff Uncategorized | (4)
    Welcome to the new people m3t304a and chusai who have just joined the site! I appreciate you taking the time to register guys. Feel free to ask any questions you might have or start blogging about how you are going with your own projects. Actually that is something I need to do as well! :) I have enabled two new plugins on the site to help you get posting quicker. 1) Easier YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, etc embedding The site allowed embedding of videos previously by clicking on the 'Add media' buttons in the Post editing page but it wasn't actually embedding the vids properly (which was ...
  • 10.26.08
    In Review Uncategorized | (2)
    Does anyone have a really large electromagnet? It was lucky that Terminator 3 was on TV in Melbourne last night because I may soon need to know how to terminate a pack of robot hunter/killers myself if the US Army's planned Multi-Robot Pursuit System becomes a reality. The system is designed to allow a human operator overseeing the partially autonomous robot "pack" to "to search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject." - Minority Report anyone? Man, the Big Dog video is unnerving already and that is without pack hunting capability built in! More from New Scientist It's just like a normal Servo motor. ...
  • 10.12.08
    Robo Japan 2008 Uncategorized | (0)
    Well it looks like we launched just in time. Robo Japan 2008 is on at the moment and chock full of robo goodness (like it could be anything else given the words that make up its title). Lots of service robots in this one but not as many beer droids as I would like. Is there ever? :) Robo Japan 2008 [via Pink Tentacle]
  • 10.05.08
    Cue tumbleweeds… Uncategorized | (0)
    It's gone a bit quiet in here recently hasn't it? :) Don't worry, we'll fix that!Just a very quick update on the new site (Yes I know, just launch it already!):  Blog imports working Forum imports now work pretty much 100% Images now being copied over as wellStill have testing to go then its time for the swapdidoo. I'll be updating again early this week with some info on what I have been doing with .NET and the OSC (http://opensoundcontrol.org/ ) protocol. It's not just for sound anymore! Hope you guys are all well out there!