Working on an Arm / Stabilizer Prototype for a Mars Rover Robot

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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.

THL W8 Smartphone

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I just received a THL W8 Smartphone. Here are some pictures and video of it.

Unboxing:


Here’s a video sample I recorded with it:

Robot Dog Project

Robot Dog Project

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Here is my current Robot Dog project, the goal is to make it autonomous and do various tasks.
It’s based on an Arduino, I plan on combining a beagle bone to it later.
For now it can only track objects and it has basic movements capabilities.

Robot Dog Project

Montreal Mini Maker Faire 2012

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Last week-end I went to the first Mini Maker Faire in Montreal, it was pretty interesting to see projects I was following online right in front of my eyes!

Here is a video and some pictures of the event: