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In this sixth and final installment of the "Make Your Own Arduino-Powered Deskbot Pal" you’ll discover ways to enhance your Desktop Pal by adding more sensors and other hardware. As a bonus, you’ll also learn how to implement a compact MP3 player to play recorded music and sound effects!
This online contest’s theme is mBot Rescue Robot. Contestants must design their own rescue robots based on the MakeBlock mBot, which can be used in some rescue scenarios. Open to ages 10-16. Many prizes!
Desktop Pal is an animatronic friend, powered by an Arduino-compatible microcontroller and a small assortment of basic sensors. Using two servos for movement, Pal’s head moves up and down and side to side, reacting to objects that come nearby. In this installment you’ll learn how to program the De…
A common question concerning our Wheatstone bridge amplifier shield is "How can we stack two together with three or four load cells?" This is actually quite simple and only requires a few components...
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…
Most designers looking to make a small to medium sized mobile robot quickly discover that there are very few standards in the hobby robot industry, to the point that connecting products together is quite a complex design challenge. This article covers mostly mechanical patterns found in hubs and co…
We often get user requests for a way to datalog movement as well as GPS position, but did not have a proper DIY solution other than saying that they need to implement a few sensors and define a protocol to get all the information stored to a storage solution. Then we looked around since we knew our
Build yourself your own Arduino temperature SMS alarm - thermal monitoring system having MAXIMUM and MINIMUM temperature thresholds, keep alive messages and (oldies but goldies as) SMS paging and remote ARM/DISARM system. You can supervise one or more 1WIRE temperature sensor(s) and page via SMS th…
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.
Once upon a time, a portable oscilloscope meant a device that required two field technicians to carry around because of its weight and size. Joking aside, these times are fortunately far behind us now, but a real portable solution (of high quality and functionality) is still not easily affordable f…
Robots keep evolving and so do robot components used the make these new stronger, faster and more precise robots. One of those new components present in more advanced robots, are smart servo motors, also often called robot servo motors. In this article, we will expose the main differences between r…
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
Les leçons 1 à 6 de cette série de tutoriels comprennent les éléments de conception sous-tendant la construction d’un VAT /drone multirotor sur mesure. La leçon 7 est toutefois entièrement facultative et décrit les pièces utili…
The Lynxmotion Quadrino Nano uses the MultiWii project and it therefore needs an initial setup in order to work properly. Some of the on-board sensors will require calibration to perform correctly and in this tutorial we will cover the basic operations for this calibration.
