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Experimenting with Sound Localization and Arduino

Wagner — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 04:55:58 +0000

Today I’m going to walk you through my experience trying to localize the source of a sound using Arduino. My goal with this was to add a feature to my robot that would make it more interactive and look more …

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Crazy Watch – Exploring electronics fundamentals

Wagner — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:29:34 +0000

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ernest Hemingway A few days ago my son came back from school with something that he had build in …

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Using Bluetooth and an Android phone for debugging Arduino sketches

Wagner — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:04:42 +0000

I bought a Bluetooth module a few months ago and never really tried to use it because in my mind it would be another module that would require hours digging the internet to find libraries, and some code sample to …

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Arduino – Project 3 – “The gripper”

Wagner — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:48:14 +0000

An Arduino Uno controlling a small robotic arm that sorts balls in their respective containers based on the ball colour. A TCRT5000 IR sensor is used for basic colour detection. I’ve made some progress over the weekend. Check it out…

Project 3 – Ball sorter/collector – Step 1

Wagner — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:37:17 +0000

Experimenting potential configurations for a mechanical arm. Motor + screw as actuator. To do: – Stop motor when the clamp grabs something (without crushing it) – Add servos for 2 axis movement The planned steps for this project actually are: …

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Project 2: Line following bot

Wagner — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:43:44 +0000

Release Candidate Very hard to keep it steady as voltage increases. That’s the best speed/stability result I got so far. Now using 3 sensors. The video below has it running at about 6V. Test 1 With differential steering This is …

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The very basic: Circuits

Wagner — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:30:44 +0000

Circuits 1 – Khan Academy

The Big Boy is progressing…

Wagner — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:35:18 +0000

Big Boy video 2 It just needs to go to the right direction now 🙂