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RoboBobLet#9 : Unboxing The Prize Winnings

2018-10-06T17:32:09Z

Finally, my last post for RoboBoBLet on what I used the prize winnings for. I meant to do this sooner but the summer in the UK was just so nice I have spent most of the time outside landscaping my garden. I decided to use the $100 to buy the Arduino ...(read more)

PWHBot #2: Table Top Challenge 1

2018-05-16T06:02:00Z

This is a bit late, but I wanted to get an update with my PWHBot based on what I have. Related Posts: PWHBot #1: Introduction I've added the LM339 IR Sensor Array to the bot and placed the sensors at the end of some pieces of bicycle t...(read more)

HaloBOT ver 2.0

2018-05-14T04:04:00Z

Some time ago my daughter and I built a robot based on Picaxe. It got named HaloBOT and the build is here HaloBOT Picaxe was chosen at the time to allow Hayley to use the Flowchart version of programming, and it was based ona single boa...(read more)

From line following to indoor Mapping

2018-05-13T19:46:00Z

Hello everyone, I saw the Project14 theme of this month and i was really intrigued with sharing my work with the community. lately i have been working on robotic systems including robotic arms and unmanned vehicles and i would love to share the proj...(read more)

RoboBobLet#8 : The Final Assembly

2018-05-11T15:18:00Z

The journey for RoboBobLet for the Robot with Wheels challenge has come to an end for me as there is no more time left. I added V53L0X laser rangefinder to the 3D printed front piece added to the front of the Pixy camera and connected everything to ...(read more)

RoboBobLet #7 : Adding a Pixy Camera

2018-05-02T12:06:39Z

Robots with WheelsEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Another step towards the completion of RoboBobLet is to add a...(read more)

Not RoboBobLet #1

2018-04-23T16:46:35Z

Robots with WheelsEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll As an alternative to working on RoboBobLet for the Robots on ...(read more)

The Making of R2D2 - The Force on Wheels

2018-04-13T00:22:00Z

Although as a kid, for some reason, I thought R2D2 hovered like a land speeder. He actually had wheels which can be seen in a lot of shots in the movies - even the prequels and sequels. For the Project 14 Robots on Wheels project...(read more)

RoboBobLet #6 The Scanning Laser Rangefinder

2018-04-10T18:20:11Z

Robots with WheelsEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll I was a bit disappointed to find out that the laser distance ...(read more)

Cardboard Robot With Wheels: A BBC micro:bit STEM project

2018-04-09T09:26:00Z

Introduction All we know that the BBC micro: bit is a board strongly oriented to the education, as well as the programming methodology based on Blocks, something similar to the Scratch language is particularly adaptable to teach programming, ...(read more)

PWHBot #1: Introduction

2018-04-08T01:34:00Z

Introduction This is my entry into the Robots On Wheels Project14 contest. The PWHBot will be designed to self navigate an area and report its location as well as environmental conditions back to a central node using MQTT. The main brains of ...(read more)

RoboBobLet #5 : A Laser RangeFinder

2018-04-06T15:36:39Z

Robots with WheelsEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll For the first environment sensor for RoboBobLet I thought I w...(read more)

RoboBobLet #4 BlueTooth

2018-04-04T12:24:57Z

Robots with WheelsEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll To control RoboBoblet a communication link is needed. For thi...(read more)

A lightweight robot platform

2018-04-04T10:26:02Z

Robots with WheelsEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll Here's a scratch built robot platform I build when I was a bo...(read more)

Robots with Wheels - CupRobot

2018-04-02T16:50:00Z

This month’s theme Robot on Wheels had me excited, and though I have been kind off busy at work, I knew I had to post a project. I have been working on a 3D design to create a simple robotic platform which is easy to 3D print. This is the seco...(read more)