A fair while ago Swindon Makerspace started a group project called LogoBot, a cheap, expendable and extendable easy to build robot for playing with. Even longer ago I bought a MiroBot from kick-starter, it had lived in a box, and parts of it had got damaged. Tamarisk showed me and […]
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This week we will be having a play with a 74HC595, the Data sheet lists it as an 8-bit serial-in, serial or parallel-out shift register with output latches; 3-state.” In other words, you can use it to control 8 outputs at a time while only taking up a few pins […]
One of the Podcasts I listen to is the RoboHub Podcast. In ep268 they Interviewed Audrow Nash, the show-notes give a good description: In this episode, Audrow Nash interview Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about a way for anyone interested in swarm robotics to test their […]
tl;dr; I have not yet managed it… but if you read on you will see where I am currently up to, and where I think I can go. I am reading the University of Toronto’s “Self-Driving Cars Specialisation“, one of the tutors is Paul Newman from Oxbotica: Be at the […]
Sometimes I need to create and model my own KiCad components for use in my component library. For example, I found some cheap small microswitches on AliExpress that I am looking to use in SwarmBot, however, there was no existing KiCad Component in the library. I found an identical switch […]