Recently (November 2017), I went through the ROS-Industrial course, provided by Mikrocentrum (link). It was an interesting subject, both from a professional and hobby perspective. ROS (link) is an ecosystem/framework for easier software development for robot platforms. The main approach being you don’t have to “reinvent the wheel” when it comes to certain aspects that […]
Tag: Robotica
Arduino Braccio Robot Arm, Raspberry Pi Controlled with Arduino and SSC-32
As new project I am looking to experiment with fruit and or vegetable harvesting using a simple robot arm and some fake plants at home. This project will consist of three parts (for now) and involves the following aspects: A robot arm that can receive XYZ commands from a PC type platform. A user interface […]
Robot Class at Basisschool De Bras
On June 3rd 8th grade at Basisschool De Bras a robot class was provided. The subjects that were presented: Robots, what can they do? Robots, what are they made of? Robots, examples of hobby and industrial robots. Class Assignment: Escape a maze using the Scratch programming language. Via: Blockly Spelletjes Class Assignment: Robot Soccer using […]
Z-363 Spectre 3D Printed Body for Bioloid Premium
Time to finally reveal my newest robot to the world. It has been in development on and off for about 1,5 year now. I got the idea while working on my previous project, the Tachikoma. In essence it is using an existing robotics kit and replacing the generic frame parts with extremely awesome looking bits. […]
Project Tachikoma, prototype III Geen poot om op te staan
A few more weeks have passed, with considerable results. Lots of steps have been taken to finish the first leg (pun intended). An overview of parts that have been manufactured, that are now more or less finished and can already be assembled. (more…)