Sunday, January 22, 2012

OpenROV

OpenROV

OpenROV is a DIY telerobotics community centered around underwater exploration & adventure.

Monday, January 2, 2012

MATLAB Support for Arduino

Arduino Matlab

MATLAB Support Package for Arduino enables you to use MATLAB to communicate with the Arduino board over a USB cable. It is based on a server program running on the board, which listens to MATLAB commands arriving via serial port, executes the commands, and, if needed, returns a result.

This allows you to:

Start programming right away without any additional toolboxes
Work in the MATLAB environment for interactive development and debugging
Interactively develop programs to acquire analog and digital data, and to control DC, servo, and stepper motors
Run control loops at up to 25 Hz (not real-time)
Introduce mechatronics, signal processing, and electronics concepts in classroom labs

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Singularity Hub

Singularity Hub: Robotics

Singularity Hub offers the latest news in science and technology: covering areas such as genetics, stem cells, robots, longevity, health, gadgets, the future, artificial intelligence, the singularity, body implants, and more.

BEAM Robotics

BEAM Robotics

BEAM is a type of robotics that stands for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics. BEAM robotics focus on simplicity and do not use any programming to accomplish their tasks. Many of the robots are either photophobic or phototropic and will react to their light source accordingly.

Twin-Engine Solar Roller

Zach DeBord and his amazing BEAM creations. A Chicago-based designer and Web developer who's done work for (among others) Comcast, Volvo and Yellow Tail (mmm...wine), Zach's bots put the "A" (as in "Aesthetics") back into BEAM, with gorgeous, meticulous designs that are as much objets d'art as autonomous robo-critters.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

RoboticsCourseWare.org

Robotics Course Ware

RoboticsCourseWare.org is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

We created the site for the primary purpose of providing a resource to faculty at colleges and universities to facilitate the implementation of new robotics courses or the improvement of existing courses. We would particularly like to enable institutions without core expertise in robotics to begin to introduce these concepts into their curricula.

In developing and populating the site, we have prioritized the following:

Providing original, easily-modifiable curricular content, typically in .ppt and .doc formats

Covering the range of primary areas of robotics pedagogy, including robot mechanics, control, motion planning, vision, and localization, with less emphasis on secondary areas and courses in which robotics is used as platform to teach concepts in other academic areas

RoboticsCourseWare.org does not grant credits or degrees, and does not provide access to faculty. However, the site does give you open access to the materials used in a variety of robotics courses taught around the world.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta

Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta (Microsoft RDS) is a Windows®-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to help them easily create robotic applications across a wide variety of hardware.

Microsoft RDS includes a lightweight asynchronous services-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as templates, tutorials, and sample code to help you get started.