Category Archives: hardware

OpenInterface for Arduino – create without a Create

Posted on 25 July 2011 by Bob

Having spent a couple of weeks playing with ROS on and off and getting robot vision, speech and a couple of other robot basics working a basic thought struck me. Why don’t I look at the basic robots provided by … Continue reading →

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Getting Sound to work on ROS

Posted on 21 June 2011 by Bob

I was following the ROS.org wiki on trying to setup sound for it’s not immediately obvious to a n00b how to do this.

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First experiences using ROS

Posted on 21 June 2011 by Bob

I’ve been doing a stock take of what robotics components I have available. I think now I should bite the bullet and go for the build of my Omnibot based robot. These are the steps I took to setup a … Continue reading →

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Maker Projects – Alex’s Mobile

Posted on 17 January 2010 by Bob

I’ve added a new section to my projects pages, and put a page in place for the baby mobile I’m creating for Alex. I’ve back dated a load of the updates, as I’d been meaning to post blog entries about … Continue reading →

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