Robot Building Questions

Implementing An Idea

Dear all, I am new to robotics but I have an idea that Iw ould like to create as a demo. I would like to make a nice demo and put a robot in the inner part of a door so I can remotely control it to push the handle of the door to open it. Can you possibly assist me by telling me which components I would need to be able to reach this demo ? Many...

How Zano Raised Millions On Kickstarter And Left Most Backers With Nothing

very interesting story (LONG) Investigation story: http://medium.com/kickstarter/how-zano-raised-millions-on-kickstarter-and-left-backers-with-nearly-nothing-85c0abe4a6cb Zano Project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/torquing/zano-autonomous-intelligent-swarming-nano-drone/description Unbelieveable no one saw a functional device (even the...

Autonomoues Wall-E

Hello everybody! My name is Alessio, Im italian and a new member! I just recently purchased an Ultimate Wall-E robot of Thinkway, and my goal is to turn it into an autonomous robot, just like djsures did with his Wall-E. I wondered, as my model (Ultimate) is very large (about 16 tall) how can I make an internal system, so as to make it independent...

Listen To Eventhandler In C++ Without Gui

Im attempting write a small c++ cli program with which I can connect to and control each servo. However, I am running in to the problem of making the connection without using a gui. Does anyone have an idea of how I can listen to the eventhandler without using the gui? What I have so far is this: #include #include #include quot;stdafx.hquot; using...

I Want To Make Jd Longer Out Of 5 Servos Instead Of 2

Hello, I want to make JDs legs and arms with 3 or 4 servo each. Has any one try making JD with Longer arms and legs, Im wondering also how JD will move with more servos ? Please HELP Thank you.

Teddy Ruxpin Wiring

Hi Folks I am a new member, a retired clergyman going back to my earlier vocation in electronics. I have had a lot of fun with Arduino and was intrigued by the current Make magazine article on Teddy Ruxpin and Chip. Unfortunately Chip will not ship until June. So I thought I would look at doing it with Photon. I found a pristine Ruxpin of the non...

I2c In C# Not Reading Values

I have mpu-6050 6dof imu. I want to read the value of who_am_i register with register number 0x75. The register returns address 0x68. But I am getting 255. The device address is 0x68 as well. Code is as follows: byte[] ret = ezB_Connect1.EZB.I2C.Read(I2C.ReadArgsEnum.Auto,0x75,1); here is the register description for the device:RM-MPU-6000A.pdf I...