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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.
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.
Arduino has grown almost exponentially in popularity since it was first released and is well known in the world of robotics as an inexpensive, highly versatile and easy to learn software and hardware platform for electronic and robotic experimentation. However, the introduction of the Raspberry …
Dans la leçon 5 vous devez avoir fini l’assemblage du drone (mais pas encore installé les hélices). Les fils peuvent ne pas être très ordonnés, mais voyons cela ensemble, à présent que vous êtes tout excité en pensant &agr…
The Quadrino Nano UAV flight controller uses MultiWii which allows for a standardized serial communication of live data from the controller. Since this protocol is known and used for the standard general user interface (MultiWiiConf & WinGUI), some people developed their own application to setu
Maintenant que vous avez sélectionné tous les composants principaux de votre UAV, vous pouvez commencer l’assemblage. Ce guide va essayer de couvrir les erreurs courantes rencontrées lors de l’assemblage d’un UAV multi-rotors, ainsi que de fournir quelques …
The DFRobotShop Rover products have been out for a while and we have received many questions since then on both our support center and on our forum. One common question we get is how to control the rover using a smart phone / tablet?. This tutorial will cover a simple Android-based solution to make…
This article is intended to help you get started with battery monitoring and the buzzer feature present in MultiWii. We'll cover proper connections / wiring and software setup as it relates to the Lynxmotion Quadrino Nano flight controller (MultiWii compatible).
À présent que vous avez choisi ou conçu un châssis UAV, et choisi les moteurs, hélices, ESC et batteries appropriés, vous pouvez commencer à sélectionner un contrôleur de vol.
Many customers who use the Lynxmotion AL5 series robot arms have asked how they can mount a distance sensor to the end of the arm. Up until now, we never had an optimal solution, so we decided to release an upgrade kit which contains both a new mounting plate as well as a Sharp IR distance sensor. …
