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Motoruino for creative robotics (arduino compatible board)

Since I started with robotics, that I felt the need of having a board where I could directly plug-in my motors, servos, sensors and all the stuff without having to purchase any shield, or building pcb’s and soldering and troubleshooting and hours and hours of hard labour.. so, I decide to start designing a new [...]

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giving a new life to dead rc cars

I’ve found this two rc vehicles on a junk, they are in a very bad condition. The big one has the DC motor burned out, I will try to replace it.. brushless motor maybe.

They both have two different gear mode (hi and low speed), I am wishing to try it out.

This is the dead motor..
The [...]

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demannu, the unnamed robot (update)

Two more infrared sensors were added on the front, this way he’s more sensitive to the environment. Video is on the go..
You can see more details about the construction process on this post.

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PAPERduino continues to inspire others

Everytime I see PAPERduino’s being featured in blogs, websites, and other people projects I feel joy! This time I have the surprise of looking at the Concurrency website, the new multithread language for Arduino, and I see the PAPERduino giving this guys the ideia of taking it to a higher level, I present you the [...]

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demannu, the unnamed robot

It’s been quite a while without building robots… errr.. creatures..
anyhow I’m releasing this new creature, wich is still a work in progress..  and since I can’t think on a name for it, I will call it demannU, witch is “unnamed” backwards… sounds like ‘demon’,  and for the sake of insanity, it looks like a little [...]

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guibot @codebits

I was invited to assist Mitch Altman during codebits. I believe it is going to be an amazing experience.  :)
I will also talk about Creative Robotics on Friday at 2PM.
Filipe Valpereiro from InMotion.pt will talk about Arduino, and Rui Madeira will talk about OpenFrameworks.
Hope to see you there  ;)

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Meet the new family members

May I introduce you to the new family members: Farrusco v2.5, and Farrusco Junior.

Farrusco v2 is the new generation of my first robot Farrusco.
The F2 was created with Filipe Valpereiro from InMotion.pt, and this was the robot used for the last robotics workshops season.

The F2.5 version has a cleaner design, we are using two modified [...]

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Fun with Arduino Contest

Think It – Build It – Share It!

Contest Start Date: 01 | Nov | 09
Contest End Date: 31 | Dec | 09
Judging Begins: 01 | Jan | 10
Top 3 Winners Announced: 08 | Jan | 10

Prizes awarded to the top three Arduino projects. Projects will be judged by Shawn Augustson of ArduinoFun.com, Guilherme Martins of [...]

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Workshops Olhares de Outono 2009 (Nov.)

/// WORKSHOPS OLHARES DE OUTONO 2009 ///
O Festival de Artes Digitais Olhares de Outono chega este ano à 10ª edição. Os workshops são gratuitos porém, os que têm como objecto a plataforma Arduino implicam a aquisição de kits de material que ficam para o formando. Os interessados podem solicitar mais informações ou realizar uma pré-inscrição através [...]

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Talkie Walkie Tutorial

I was asked to document how I did the talkie walkie bot, and you can take a look at the tutorial in the original post:
http://lab.guilhermemartins.net/talkie-walkie/

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