First episode of Mushi (虫) Reviews where I review the Stepper Motor 28BYJ-48 and ULN2003 Driver from icstation.com.
http://www.icstation.com/product_info.php?products_id=1400
Mushi Reviews Episode #1
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Montreal Mini Maker Faire 2014
Went to visit the Montreal Montréal Mini Maker Faire today ! Saw cool projects. Here’s a video I recorded from the event:
Testing the Mini ELM327 OBD II
This is the Mini ELM327 V1.5 OBD2 II Bluetooth Diagnostic Car Auto Interface Scanner HE.
I tested it and it works very well.
Useful to diagnose your check engine light problems and get a lot of informations about the sensors of your car.
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- OBD Car Doctor: Battery voltage
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- OBD Car Doctor: Ambiant Temperature
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- OBD Car Doctor: Fuel Left in Tank Percentage
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- OBD Car Doctor: Run Time Since Engine Start
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- OBD Car Doctor: Engine RPM
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- OBD Car Doctor: Fuel Consumption
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- ObdElm327
Space Concordia Astronaut Assistance Mars Rover Capstone Project
My final project at Concordia University is over, it has been a great experience working with an interdisciplinary team of software, mechanical, electrical, computer and industrial engineering students! I was responsible of programming the embedded computers on board of the rover. The embedded programming was mostly done in, C++ and C# and the operator user interface was done in .NET / MVVM. The Arduino Mega was used on the robot to interface with the multiple sensors and servo motors along with a Pico ITX board in charge of communicating with the operator’s main computer and streaming the cameras.
Here’s an article talking about it on Concordia University’s website: http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2014/04/01/running-on-ice-snowandmars.html
Saved PDF in case the link becomes broken: Concordia Mars Rover 2014 Captstone_Project Article
New Project and Review for New Atmel SAMA5D3 Xplained Evaluation Kit for Robotic Vision Project
I want to announce that in the upcoming week I will review the new SAMA5D3 Xplained board and try to interface a camera to it in order to give vision to my robots, something I can’t do usually with the Arduino UNO or MEGA alone.
I will surely use the OpenCV library on it and try to interface a robot platform with it.
For more information on the Atmel SAMA5D3 Xplained Evaluation Kit, make sure to visit these links:
http://canada.newark.com/
http://canada.newark.com/
http://www.element14.com/
Atmel SAMA5D3 Xplained Hardware
Working on an Arm / Stabilizer Prototype for a Mars Rover Robot
I’m currently participating in the University of Utah Mars Rover competition. I made a small prototype of what an arm or stabilization system could look like on the robot.
Material: three 9G micro servo, one 9 DOF IMU, an Arduino Uno with a Sensor Shield V5.0 mounted on top
Here’s a stabilizer mode instead of an arm mimicking mode, useful to keep certain objects stable while they are mounted on a moving vehicle encountering bumps and obstacles.
