16.08.2020 – ACT Mk-1 delivers the first filter coffee! ACT Mk-1 finally delivers its first cup of filter coffee! And biscuits, yes, but when there’s filter coffee, who cares about the biscuits anyway? Music: ACT 1 Concludes – Raunak Hede (piano/keyboard instrumental) And here are the codes! As always, feel
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After quite a few years, I finally managed to figure out how to put a Flysky FS-TH9X transmitter/receiver pair to good use, without putting it in the sky. Quick question: If a project doesn’t run on the ground, and doesn’t get off the ground, where do you put it? Answer:
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First off, let’s get a few facts straight: It walks albeit with heavy steps, which is quite obvious, considering the fact that it has ankles of metal and feet of acrylic and rubber. It needs an external power bank to power the Arduino Nano R3 due to power supply fluctuations.
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Rexplorer v2 is a fully autonomous self-mapping robot to be used for indoor purposes. My original intention was to develop a robot which could map an unknown area and relay the data to a monitoring system so as to provide real-time feedback about the layout of external environment. I ended
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For the first time, I’ve built a fully functional robot with my trusty Raspberry Pi 2. My last attempt at connecting a motor driver to a Pi resulted in a burnt pi; but that was because I connected its 5v output to the driver’s 5v output pin (recipe for disaster). Rexplorer is
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Last week, I attended a training programme at KUKA Robotics Pune from the 2nd to 4th of May. During the programme I learn’t how to jog and master the axes, calibrate the various co-ordinate systems and tools, calibrate it for different payloads and supplementary loads and also some basic logic programming. The trip to
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