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 [...]
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 [...]
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??
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 [...]
I am building a new website for Guibot.pt using WordPress3.0 platform. For now it only has information about the Motoruino board, but soon it will have much more cool stuff.
The motoruino is so easy to setup, just plug the motors, sensors, upload code and your bot is ready to go. I added a big capacitor (4700uF) on the PCB power connections as I had the Motoruino resetting randomly when a motor started (OddBot explains everything here) This is a quick test drive with the [...]
