SapoBot is a robot that wonders through spaces avoiding obstacles detects holes on the ground, follow walls and follow lines, to change between behaviors you only need to press the shell, and when he detects a collision gives a frog sound. This project was comissioned by Sapo, means frog in portuguese. This bots were made [...]
I SEE YOU TOO, is the 2nd version of the original ICU This version gained an upgrade in both hardware and software. The hardware is mostly based on servocity.com pan and tilt systems. This is a work in progress, until now what is implemented is Face Detect with the openCV library for Processing. Next stage [...]
Last Wednesday Artica lectured a Motoruino workshop at AltLab. Beside all the participants there were more than a hundred watching a live stream on Ustream, people from Viseu, Guimarães, Porto, Évora, Madrid and many more places I believe. The central theme was Motoruino and motors such as Servos, DC motors, Steppers and Linear actuators. In [...]
ICU has been sleeping for a while but was awaken suddenly because I was invited to an exhibition at Flausina, a new born association in Lisbon. Complexity is always a welcome thing around here and the bot was presented with two more servo motors and all the software has been re-written. And because I needed [...]
Since the first SWARS experience, I knew this could go A LOT further, but having Farrusco on a remote terrace where you could only have access by climbing an outside ladder.. I must confess, I never thought of such a thing, until… my friend Fernando Mendes (Cowork_LX) came to me with this crazy idea! I [...]
Four wheel drive vehicles have always excited my imagination, and this time I joined two Farrusco’s chassis in front to front as you can see in the picture below: This way both chassis are fixed on each other (is this correct to say in english??) and I thought it would be cool to have them [...]
BOTtle is a robot like many others but with a particularity, the wheels are made of plastic bottles as you can see in this video: The components I will be using: The servos are already attached to one another with double side-tape, I will show you how to attach the wheels to the servo horns [...]
At Artica, we had a request to link MAXMSP to an industrial motor for an artistic installation witch we will speak about at another time. This motor is a true beast, and since we have never worked with such a thing we decided to ask for help to our electronics guru David Palma. The motor [...]
No último sábado, 5 de Fevereiro, o altlab organizou o Arduino Hack Day. Participaram no evento perto de 40 pessoas, entre entusiastas em electrónica, artistas, programadores, arquitectos, fotógrafos, amigos. Para muitos, foi o primeiro contacto com o Arduino, a descoberta da simplicidade desta plataforma para o desenvolvimento de projectos de computação física. Distribuídos por quatro [...]
It has been a long time since I wanted to control the arduino with processing and I tried a lot of libraries, and a lot of processes and I always felt that none of those were suited for what I needed. I needed something simple to implement and easy to understand, and because I am not [...]
