Category Archives: Robot Projects

RoboJoust

Posted on April 29, 2012 by dkohn96

On April 26, the Tech support people at Sparkfun had a little robot competition of their own. I thought it was a neat contest and wanted to share the video with you. If you want to see more goto http://www.sparkfun.com/news/857?cid=Newsletter+-+EDN+Fun+Friday

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Lego Robot Link

Posted on February 25, 2012 by dkohn96

Was just told about a website for Lego NXT Robots that I just had to share. Damien Kee has a wonderful site and also sells books/Curriculum for using NXT in the classroom. My favorite is a simple to build NXT … Continue reading →

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Brainlink Gives Any Robot a New Brain

Posted on January 10, 2012 by dkohn96

From IEEE Spectrum Brainlink is a little piece of hardware that can augment (or replace) the brain that’s currently powering your robot. Yes, your robot. Any robot at all, pretty much, as long as it’s controllable with an IR remote … Continue reading →

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Let’s Make Robots

Posted on May 27, 2011 by dkohn96

Looking for a wonderful place to see, learn and talk about robots? Try http://letsmakerobots.com/

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S.P.A.R.K.

Posted on May 27, 2011 by dkohn96

Looking for educational resources about robotics? Try S.P.A.R.K. (Starter Programs for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge) at http://spark.irobot.com/. This website, sponsored by iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, has educational resources, links and videos and much more. Check it out!

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Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web

Posted on May 15, 2011 by dkohn96

Had to share this “TOP 40 Arduino Projects” Link with everyone!

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Wii Remote .NET

Posted on May 6, 2011 by dkohn96

Two seniors (Brian MAcArthur and Stephen McKinney) at the University of Memphis Engineering Technology Department created a program to use the Wii remote with a Microbot TeachMover Roboto. They started with WiimoteLib which is a .NET managed library for using … Continue reading →

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Meet IOIO – I/O for Android

Posted on April 13, 2011 by dkohn96

From: http://ytai-mer.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-ioio-io-for-android.html By: Ytai I’m very excited to announce the launch of a new product I’ve been working on for the past months! IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo) is a product which lets you connect electronic circuits to an Android device and … Continue reading →

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Robot Operating Systems and Software

Posted on March 10, 2011 by dkohn96

http://www.ros.org/wiki/ ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/ The Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 (Microsoft RDS) is … Continue reading →

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Midsouth Makers – Update

Posted on May 16, 2010 by dkohn96

Went to the Midsouth Makers meeting this past Friday. Great group. Not only did they do a hands on soldering demo, but also had mini talks on making your own chainmail and a computer project in the preliminary stages. I … Continue reading →

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