SwanRobotics

Author: swanrobotics

  • 3D Print results

    From Monday till Friday I don’t use my Ultimaker 3D printer a lot. I have to work during the day and I am at the office. In de evening I don’t print because the kids are sleeping. I do select files needs to be printed.

    In the weekend the Ultimaker 3D printer is switched on most of the time. In those two days a lot of printing has to be done. This is the result from this weekend. A lot of parts for my inMoov robot head. They came out great.

    inMoovparts

    The designs of the robot are at the website of Gael Langevin at
    http://www.inmoov.fr

  • InMoov Top Skull Right Side

    After a 8 hour print the next parts of the inMoov head are ready. I have printed the TopskullRightV2 parts. In one print you get three parts at once. The left side was already done. The parts of this print have a better finish then the other parts. It seems that the quality is better at a normal speed instead of a speed at 50%.
    Be sure you check the website of Gael Langevin at http://www.inmoov.fr

    inmoovtopskull

  • BOB the Biped

    I try to get my kids involved into robotics. There is only one problem. I have two daughters. They are interested but the things I build are not attractive to see so they are bored very fast.

    I have a Ultimaker 3D printer for a few months now (I will write about this someday) and they really like this thing. The girls only want to print dogs and the oldest one asked me to print a Aibo dog for her. Great idea but … maybe some other time.

    Last week I found something on the Internet what’s simple and looks great. I showed it to my kids and they loved it. It’s Called BOB the Biped. This is an open source project build by K.Biagini. You can find it at http://www.instructables.com/id/BoBtheBiPed/

    Below the parts I printed. Next on the todo list are the electronics.

    bobthebiped

  • Self driving Car Course

    I found training material on the Internet about self driving Cars at Udacity. It’s a high quality course with instructor Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University. He explains all the basic concepts of autonomous cars and uses examples in Python to make it more practical.

    You can find this material at https://www.udacity.com/course/cs373 and it’s completely free for you to attend.

    Udacity

  • inMoov work in progress

    It’s amazing what some people publish on the Internet. For a while now Gael Langevin has published his designs for a life size humanoid robot. With a 3D printer and some skills you can build this great
    project.
    It happens that I have a 3D printer Ultimaker and some building skills so I started printing. You need a lot of filament and a lot of patience to complete this project, but it’s really great to do.
    If you want to start to start this project visit Gael’s website at http://www.inmoov.fr/

    Below the pictures of the progress of my inMoov Robot head. I am not sure if I finish the complete robot. It’s takes about 6 hours to print one part at normal speed and there are a lot of parts. We shall see.

    See the pictures below to see the progress at this point in time.

    inmoov1

    inmoov2

     

    inmoov3

    inmoov4

  • The HC-SR04 project

    Yes. Another project is published today. This project is all about the HCSR04 ultrasonic ranging module. This not to expensive sensor is great for robot projects. In this project I explain how to use it with an Arduino.

    You can find the project at https://swanrobotics.com/HCSR04_Project .

  • GP2D12 Project added

    On the last day of the year I managed to add a new project after a long time. This little project is all
    about the GP2D12 sensor. With this sensor you can measure the distance to an object in front of your
    robot. You can find the project https://swanrobotics.com/projects/gp2d12_project/

  • Small update on Communication page

    A small update on the Communication page was published today.

  • New content on the Tools page

    I have added a simple board you can build to measure Current and Voltage at the tools pages.
    You can find it here https://swanrobotics.com/USBMeasurements

  • Update on the Wireless Arduino Project

    I got a remark from Johan because he found out that you have to disconnect the APC220 before uploading the sketch. I have added it to project page.  https://swanrobotics.com/Wireless_Arduino