In this fourth installment, endow your Desktop Pal with more sensors to increase its functionality. You’ll add a second ultrasonic sensor to enable your Pal to have a kind of "stereo" vision; a passive infrared (PIR) sensor to detect nearby motion, and even a "squawkbox", to give your Desktop Pal a…
In this third installment, learn how to effectively program the servos, ultrasonic sensor, and switch of your your Deskbot Pal for smooth, interactive action. In this installment of the Desktop Pal series, you'll learn a number of important Arduino sketch concepts, including interrupts, timers, sen…
The Deskbot Pal, an animatronic emoji bot that’s easy to build, and easy on the pocketbook. The Pal can be personalized with your own 15 pieces of flair – or more if you’d like! It’s powered by an Arduino-compatible microcontroller, and requires no special construction tools, even soldering. This …
This tutorial series will help you design and create your own "Deskbot Pal"; an affordable stationary robot that’s super simple to build. Desktop Pal is made to be personalized. Deck out your Pal with your own custom flair and bling and then give it a personality.
This project will show you how fast you can build your own alarm system capable of supervising one or more magnetic contacts and inform you via SMS of the "burglar event". You even have the possibility to control (ENABLE/DISABLE) the alarm system remotely, via SMS commands. For SMS communicati
