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Bot Thoughts: OpenMV: Counting Pips on Dice

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Friday, February 20, 2015. OpenMV: Counting Pips on Dice. One of our backers, Damage, had a great project idea for OpenMV Cam. Count a dice roll visually. Here's what I ended up with. I used simple blob detection. What ended up working best was to first find the white dice (I had no real dice; these are paper cutouts). Then call find...

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Bot Thoughts: OpenMV Cam, Final Week

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. OpenMV Cam, Final Week. OpenMV Cam, 1.8" x 1.4", final week on Kickstarter. If you haven't heard of OpenMV Cam, it's a small machine vision module that's affordable, and the first that runs Python and is expandable with shields. It's funded and we're entering our final week on Kickstarter. So don't miss out.

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Bot Thoughts: Raspberry Pi Wifi Static IP

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Friday, January 18, 2013. Raspberry Pi Wifi Static IP. My RPi is going to be a telepresence robot so it uses wifi. It also needs a static IP address. Here's how to configure Raspbian Wheezy with a static IP for wifi. Included are two useful techniques. Follow the series of steps and options below. 1 Roaming With Static IP. Next, you'...

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Bot Thoughts: Robot, take out the trash!

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Robot, take out the trash! I hate wheeling the trash to the curb on trash day and sometimes I forget. Screw that noise, man. A robot wouldn't mind, wouldn't forget and wouldn't care if it's freezing outside. I'm building Take Out The Trash Robot. TOTT Bot, for short. So there. For awhile, I decided the t...

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Bot Thoughts: Build a Raspberry Pi Telepresence Rover

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Thursday, April 4, 2013. Build a Raspberry Pi Telepresence Rover. Here's my Raspberry Pi telepresence rover robot. You can make one yourself and explore your house from your web browser, iPad or iPhone. Just read the tutorial. Meet Dragon. Streaming video top. Controls, bottom. 1x Raspberry Pi Model B. 1x Pololu 30T track kit. 2x #10...

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Bot Thoughts: Eagle Tips: Jumper Wires

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Friday, August 6, 2010. Eagle Tips: Jumper Wires. I draft all my circuits and board designs using Eagle from CadSoft. Having drawn a couple dozen of circuits and PCB layouts using this software. I picked up some tricks along the way. Today's trick is: using jumper wires when single sided routing won't work. The first step is to go ah...

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Bot Thoughts: Clock for my Vision Impaired, Aging Mom

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Clock for my Vision Impaired, Aging Mom. My 82 year old mother can't see very well and regularly forgets what day it is. I looked around for a clock to help her keep track of the day of week but decided in the end to build my own using components from tindie.com. LED Matrix from FriedCircuits. The boards ...

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Bot Thoughts: Add machine vision to projects

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Monday, January 26, 2015. Add machine vision to projects. Now it's actually easy. To add machine vision to projects. How? With a few lines of Python, OpenMV Cam. Can track a face, an object, or color, it can record photos or video, and you can expand it with shields. It's small at only 1.8" x 1.4" and affordable. Data Bus AVC Hardware.

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Bot Thoughts: Furby Disassembly: Part 1

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Furby Disassembly: Part 1. Cookie Muffin, Too". Faced with a malfunctioning $8 Goodwill Furby, I set about non-destructive disassembly of my daughter's new sick pet, inspired by the dramatic skinning of a Furby by Becky at Adafruit. I was also inspired by Doc McStuffins. He's got lifeless eyes, black eyes.

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Bot Thoughts: AVR Programming on Mac

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A blog of robotics, electronics, mechanics, programming, and engineering. Pictures, source code, circuit diagrams, ideas, thoughts, drawings, sketches and real-life goofups. Sunday, February 28, 2010. AVR Programming on Mac. Yes, you can program your Atmel ATmega-based Orangutan with your Mac! I'm using a Pololu Orangutan LV-168 to control Pokey the robot and programming it with the Pololu USB programmer. Works great! Huge thanks to Dennis Clark for guidance and setting me on this path in the first place!