For the robot project I am using a MotorHawk board, which essentially provides motor control over USB. Unfortunately the code that comes with it isn’t that great. I knew it was Windows only from the start, but when I had a closer look, it comes with a DLL, and sample applications in managed VB and [...]
Amoeba-1, my robot for Project Origin which I have been working on, has had a major facelift. Check out the photos over on Google+ as I dremel’d late into Sunday night and gave it a bit of an overhaul… https://plus.google.com/photos/107164677276760163853/albums/5666781090277872897
We were in the Apple store the other day (the fairly new shiny one in Reading’s Oracle shopping centre, which seems to have the mystical property of being perpetually busy irrespective of whether the rest of the town is rammed or completely quiet) swapping out a busted iPad power brick – they kindly gave me [...]
This afternoon, our robot project was supposed to have a demo. What actually happened was that we talked about it, switched it all on, and then it never moved. The demo was scrubbed, and fortunately this year did not count for any marks – otherwise we would have ended up getting very low numbers. So [...]
I’ve been busy hacking around with Kinect, the Xbox 360 “controllerless controller” I’ve been writing a lot about recently. Yesterday I got it up and running under Ubuntu, and after that I got a very simple “nearest object” algorithm running on it. Check out the videos below! Also – the code.
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