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Botbridge robotics club is on hiatus but there are new robotics clubs popping up and you could start one or get involved in one and reboot botbridge in a new form! |
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Botbridge is a beginner-friendly robotics club that meets on Mondays alongside Circuit Hacking.
Botbridge Robot Hacking Mondays[edit]
If you are new to robotics, you can also learn the circuit hacking classes to get acquainted with electronics parts codes and soldering techniques.
Current Projects[edit]
Mutt the Hexapod[edit]
- We are currently assembling Mutt, a quadriped (so far) robot using a Neuron Robotics DiyIO.
- Next Steps:
- 3D printing leg parts
- Acquire wire to tamiya adapters
- Completed:
- Acquired DiyIO, 13 servos, 8650x2 battery holder, Logitech LifeCam
badass robot operating system/controller that simulates any leg config and 3D prints its parts out for you!
- November 16: 3D printed body and one of six legs (9 pieces, 3 motors), wired it to the body, manual control convulses the leg, very exciting first steps literally.
Flutter Scout[edit]
- Flutter Scout is a 3D printable robot based on the Flutter wireless controller by Taylor Alexander
Boe-bot[edit]
Boe-bot is a simple robot we're working on for teaching purposes. It uses a Parallax board that can be programmed with BASIC. Software https://www.parallax.com/downloads/macbs2-software
Future Projects[edit]
- Make a wireless DiyIO robot that communicates with the network powered by its own Android brain
- CNC metal legs to make the
Noisebridge Robot Alumni Association[edit]
- MC Hawking (aka the robot formerly known as Noise-bot) is a wheelchair-based open Dora Bot] that moved to Sudoroom. MC Hawking was created by Jake, Lilia, Dr. Jesus, Evan, Hao and Neil.
Kits we've used[edit]
- Neuron Robotics DiyIO badass robot operating system/controller that simulates any leg config and 3D prints its parts out for you!
- ReaDIYMate kits to make internet-connected things.
Noisebridge resources relevant to robotics[edit]
- Circuit Hacking Monday: If you are new to robotics, you should attend the circuit hacking classes to get acquainted with electronics parts codes and soldering techniques.
- Light Patterns with LEDs and Microcontrollers look great on robots.
- Sensors make robots aware of their environment.
- Dreamteam Neuromachine Learning Wednesdays group can help us teach our robots how to learn.
Organizer Contacts[edit]
Participants[edit]
- Chris B
- Divya
Meetings[edit]
Nov 23 2015[edit]
- Attending: Alex, Lisha, Joe, Chris
- Lisha: I started a robotics controller project that could power agricultural and RC car controlling applications. We focused on crowdsourced design and I'm interested in a way for people to iterate on their designs such as walking.
- Joe: I'm from Uganda and went to computer school there. One of my friends when I moved there has a hackspace in Uganda. Henry's group has been doing robots and whatever. They suggested I check out Noisebridge. The space is callde Hackers For Charity.
- How to adjust the bot parts to fit better
- Kevin is adjusting the parts to recess the servos deeper and fit the arms better.
- How to manufacture the bot parts
- Type A Machines could print parts for us
- We should visit them in San Leandro
- What the bot could do
- Participate in making pizzas
- Toppings placing and tossing
- Slizing knife
- Sauce laying tube
- Field trip to learn about pizza hacking: Visit PizzaHacker and learn about his DIY oven
- Participate in making pizzas
Nov 8 2015[edit]
- Attending: Alex, Chris, Divya
- Introductions
- Alex: I teach game programming and that has always left me with robot envy because game AI characters cannot take over the actual world. So I want to build robots to be able to teach both virtual world and physical world taking overness to kids.
- Divya: I'm here to absorb different types of hacking, software and hardware. I want to think creatively by exposing myself to random things till I find the idea I life and can focus on it.
- Chris: I would like to build a robot. I've always wanted to build a robot. I plan on using this opportunity to motivate myself to finally put together the tabletop arm design I've had for a long time. I will put it to use building things for me. I can't physically build them all with my two hands. It will do fast accurate repetitive work. I could buy one like that, but its a lot of fun to build it. Once I have a relatively inexpensive arm that works well, I can replicate that and make a kit other people can build too!
- What we did so far?
- We gave a 5 minute presentation to the Chinese delegation at Circuit Hacking which was translated for them live!
- We attempted to stuff the power connector plugs with something to get them to stay in but it wasn't working, we should get proper connector adapters
- I think we need a Tamiya to pigtail connector
- What would we like the robot to do?
- Divya:
- Massage walks on your back and lets you tell it where and how to massage you
- This can be prototyped using the xbox controller before doing speech recognition
- Monitoring your flat to record intruders such as land ladies
- Massage walks on your back and lets you tell it where and how to massage you
- Lizzy
- Challenge your friends who come in with a challenge of riddles
- Pick up dog poop
- Move like an animal
- Safety:
- Account for default mode and make sure that when it loses connection, crashes, etc, that it definitely shuts down
- Training it to recognize table edges and avoid them
- Potentially high power energy source
- Thermistor on board to watch out for fire
- Arms
- Spider arms
- No pincers!
- One large one and one small one
- Cameras
- 360 cameras would be awesome for looking around through Oculus
- Hemispherical mirror kit exists
- OpenCV vision system
- Face Detection
- Speakers
- Divya:
- Is our robot wireless?
- N
- Is the robot for home or office?
- Detect emotion by doing voice stress analysis
- Prosidy software
- Voice detection could count how many times you say umm ahh and coach you
- Game console so you can play games with and against it
- Someone made a Tinder called Rumbler for starting fights in your area
- Things to add to the robot
- Sensors
- Force sensors to know when the robot is touching something
- Sensors
- Things to add to the robot
- Depth cameras such as kinect to sense the room around it.
- Nerf gun
- Do my homework