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Robotic fish made of PVC pipes

Posted on October 6, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

Eric Dirgahayu’s robotic fish is made of PVC pipe and waterproof servos that are controlled by an Arduino board. Her future plans are to include sensors to measure the quality of water and a few other devices to study underwater ecosystems without disturbing the marine life. It is controlled by an IR remote. First we prepare materials that we will use to create the head of robot fish. the material is a flatten water pipe pvc how to Flatten the water pipe you can see on my previous Intructables here http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-flatten-the… If you already get flatted pvc, you can download PDF patterns design

SolarSurfer: A robotic surfboard

Posted on October 5, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

The SolarSurfer is a neat concept of building a solar-powered robotic surfboard submitted to the 2014 Hackaday Prize by Rusty Jehangir and his team at BlueRobotics. It’w built using an 8 feet surfboard and is powered by a 120 W solar panel and a 12V lead acid battery. It’s also equipped with a GPS system, satellite modem, and sensors that collect ocean temperature and pH values during the journey. The surfer is guided by a 3D Robotics APM2.6 with a uBlox GPS. A RockBLOCK satellite radio from Rock Seven let’s us communicate back and forth with the SolarSurfer to monitor its position,

Arduino music player

Posted on October 5, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

Dejan Nedelkovski from How to Mechatronics recently posted a new project tutorial on making an Arduino-powered MP3 Music Player plus Alarm Clock. It features a professional looking touchscreen user interface using a 3.2″ TFT LCD. The home screen displays time, date and temperature along with touch control buttons for running the music player and setting the alarm clock. While the music being played, you can also see a progress bar for the song. The project is built using an Arduino Mega board. For mp3 player, it uses the BY8001 module, which is a MP3/WAV player with MicroSD support and a built-in 3W audio amplifier. The time keeping

Data Display glasses for a multimeter

Posted on October 3, 2016 by R-B Leave a comment

Electrical engineers do not have the luxury of a spacious working desk during field work, and sometimes they could not even find a good spot or stand for a multimeter. Alain Mauer‘s data glasses could come in handy during such situations. He designed a head-mounted display that is Arduino-powered, and receives the multimeter measurements data through Bluetooth, and projects the readings as a virtual image at a distance of ~30cm from the eye using a tiny OLED and a few other optical components. Check out the demo video below:

16×32 RGB Matrix Panel Driver Shield Revision 1

Posted on September 29, 2016 by R-B 5 comments

Our RGB matrix panel driver shield for Arduino Uno has been slightly revised. The shield now also carries the DS1307 RTC chip on board along with a CR1220 coin cell battery holder on the back. It is applicable for driving popular 16×32 RGB matrix panels with HUB75 (8×2 IDC) connectors. Row and column driver circuits are already built on the back side of these matrix panel. The data and control signal pins for driving rows and columns are accessible through the HUB75 connector. It requires 12 digital I/O pins of Arduino Uno for full color control. The revised version also has a slide

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