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My new Magabot

Navigates Around, Telepresence, Follows People
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UPDATE 16 Apr 2012: This time we have done something different, we teamed up with “Dona Estefânia” hospital and “Pavilhão do Conhecimento” museum, to let … Read more
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Magabot Telepresence Games

By XicoMBD

March 17, 2012
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Hi Everyone

As some of you may know we have tested telepresence with the community a few times before. Altough it was pretty awesome, we want to take another step and make it even more fun. So, this is what we will do:

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Telepresence Magabots - Any volunteers?

By XicoMBD

October 1, 2011
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UPDATE 04 Dec 2011:

Hi LMR!

We're here at this amazing robotics exhibit in Lisbon, Portugal and we have several available magabots. 

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Codebits magabot

Telepresence, obstacle avoidance, line following and can be remote controlled using a kinect
 
This is a bot that we’ve developed for a event called SAPO Codebits V Read more
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MiniBot

Navigate around via infrared
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MiniBot is a robot I created to test my new nanoDuino boards. It is based in an old Mini Cooper toy car I had. It is a very small car, almost the size of a arduino … Read more
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Maluco

Navigate around via ultrasound
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I built this robot to test some different ideas that I had. One of them were the CD wheels and other was the free wheel tilted by a servo. It ended up to be a crazy … Read more
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RoBoat v1

Navigates on water via ultrasound
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Update 23 Aug 2011: This new version has bigger bottles, only one motor and propeller which operates out of the water and has a servo that controls the double … Read more
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Small stepper motors

By XicoMBD

August 7, 2011
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Hello LMR,

I need to get two motors which I can control precisely, like in a CNC.

I've been looking for small stepper motors and found these, which Pololu sells:

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1204

They seem to be good but I'm not sure about their speed (I've read somewhere that the are low speed and I would prefer fast motors).

 

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nanoDuino, sumo and soccer bots

By XicoMBD

June 6, 2011
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Hi Everyone,

I'm starting with some new projects.

The first one is nanoDuino, an ultrasmall arduino, based on patrickmaccabe's one. This one has all the input and output's pins broken out and the sockets for FTDI and ICSP cables. It is 18,5x20,5 mm:

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CD-BOT

Navigates around via ultrasound
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This is a very simple robot which only has two wheels made of old CDs. Its brain is a motoruino and uses a sonar to detect and avoid the obstacles. On the video … Read more
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