The Million Dollar Furby: We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Continued from the previous Instructable where we excised Furby’s primitive brain , it’s now time to replace it with something greater. This Instructable will detail how to install a new microcontroller in place of Furby’s old brain, making him into a fully controllable robot puppet. …
Control a Furby with Arduino (or other microcontroller) Read More »
Hardware components: SparkFun RedBoard × 1 DC Stepper Motor 28-BY-J-48 × 1 MB 1010 LV-Max-Sonar EZ1 × 1 WunderBar Story A Sparkfun Red-Board utilizes a LV-Max Sonar component to judge distances between the user and the robot, powering the DC stepper motor to move forward, reverse or change direction. Each motor requires around 5V to …
Back-Saver: Backpack-carrying follower robot powered by Wunderbar using Arduino Read More »
This robot was mainly built for understanding Arduino and combining various projects of Arduino to form a Multi Featured Arduino Robot. And further, who doesn’t want to have a pet robot? So I named it BLUE ROVIER 316. I could have bought a beautiful tracked chassis …
Purpose and description of this guide This instructable is a hand-in for a school project that we made. The purpose of this project was to create a robot arm control using thumbsticks. We had to use an Arduino Uno for the control and in addition, we had …
Essentially another tutorial involving controlling DC motors. In this post I’m going to first alter a robot arm I had built previously from a beginners kit so that it can be controlled from Arduino. Then I’m going to write a series of posts on different ways to control the robot arm using Processing and other things. You should be able to …
Goals Hello all. I hope to please share a little robot that I have just finished building. There are many Ping Boat, perhaps with a tutorials and display less so without pretension, will illustrate what I could do. I gave myself the goal of realizing a robot that avoids obstacles, hence the use of Ping, …
UPDATE: Added Schematic, Top Layer PCB, Bottom Layer PCB, and both Top, Bottom PCB images When I finished the “RevIO” – an Arduino Clone that has the different way of exposing pins usage. I decided to go further to the next project. To test my “RevIO” board that it could do the bigger task than just …
Make Wired Robotic Arm Edge to “Wireless” with DIY Arduino and XBee Read More »
UPDATE FEB 2012: This guide is featured on Adafruit’s blog http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/02/14/arduino-based-line-follower-robot/ This is Faz3a II, my first line-following robot, which I also hope to use for maze-solving. I used the Arduino Uno, Adafruit motor shield, Pololu’s QTR-8RC line sensors and motors. You can build a cheaper and lighter version of this robot using the Atmel …
Arduino-based line follower robot using Pololu QTR-8RC line sensor Read More »
Introduction Microcontrollers like the Arduino were designed to facilitate the use of electronics for designers and DIY enthusiasts. The interface provides a great starting points for a variety of elecronic circuit designs. However, as the microcontroller is standardized, it is also limited in its use. That shows for example in the limited number of PWM …
Extending PWM output pins with a Texas Instruments TLC5940 LED driver using arduino Read More »
This LED DIMMER is an Arduino Uno based PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) circuit developed to get variable voltage over constant voltage. The method of PWM is explained below.Before we get start building a 1 Watt LED Dimmer circuit, first consider a simple circuit as shown in figure below. Now if the switch in the figure is closed continuously over a …
