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 [...]
This TEDxEdges was a huge event, and Artica marked its presence on stage with the Einstein VideoPlayer adapted to play the videos between the talks, and with a video mapping system to display the data captured by biometric PLUX sensors. There were 4 gloves on the room, and each person wearing a glove would be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Another great Pecha Kucha event, this time I will present GUIBOT’s Motoruino and Farrusco. See you at Museu da Electricidade this Friday 3rd June??
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 [...]
Farrusco is a small robot based on the Arduino platform, in this case, is using a Motoruino wich is inspired on the Arduino but with a couple of enhancements – dc motor dual controller, servo and sensor plugs. With Farrusco you will be able to make it avoid obstacles, follow walls, enter in free space [...]
Rui Horta was invited to run a day called “Hoje Quem Manda Sou Eu” @ Pavilhão do Conhecimento, this was a day full of digital art, interactive installations and creative robotics. I exposed ICU and two Farrusco’s: What a great day!!! :)
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 [...]
Este fim de semana tive o prazer de dar a primeira edição de Workshops de Robótica Criativa no Porto no espaço Imerge e com o apoio fantástico da Inmotion.pt. 14 participantes vindos de áreas completamente distintas tiveram a oportunidade de construir um robot semelhante ao Farrusco mas com bastantes acréscimos, entre eles, resistências fotosensíveis para [...]
