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A series of assembly videos for a Pololu Chassis Completion Kit for RRC01A and a Pololu RRC01A robot chassis. By MeanPC.com, January 2012.
Pololu round robot chassis kit assembly videos
Pat from the Dead Things Vlog has a two part video about programming the Micro Maestro 6-Channel USB Servo Controller to control a 3-axis witch head. January 2012.
Dead Things Vlog 3-axis witch head
Mike Estee has three blog posts about crafting hexapod chassis out of paper. The beasts are controlled by Mini Maestro USB Servo Controllers. January 2012.
Paper Robots
Instructions for making a robot controlled wirelessly via a pair of Wixels. By techbitar, January 2012.
Remote Controlled Arduino Robot using Wixel Transceivers
This disco dance floor with ShiftBrite RGB lights is controlled by a Micro Maestro 6-Channel USB Servo Controller. By Greg, December 2011.
Disco Dance Floor with Lights
A parts list and video of a Android-controlled mini sumo robot called “Karafatma.” By Mert Öztoprak, December 2011.
Android-controlled Mini Sumo Robot
The Carambola rover platform uses wheels, motors, brackets, and a motor controller from Pololu, to make a platform for the Carambola. 8devices’s Carambola is a open-source and Linux-friendly embeddable module. November 2011.
Carambola Rover Platform
Rocky the Robot’s body is contained within the profile of his Pololu Wheels. He also uses our gearmotors, distance sensors and battery holder. By Patrick Mccabe, October 2011.
Rocky the Robot
These customer-written projects are intended to introduce the novice user to all the components on the 3pi robot and how they can be used while programming with the Arduino IDE. Each project builds on the one before it and comments within the programs are used to provide background information when new items are introduced. By Daniel J. Sullivan, August 2011.
Simple 3pi Projects for the Arduino IDE
This customer-written Netduino driver supports both the MiniSSC2 and the Pololu protocol for controlling a Pololu Micro Serial Servo Controller. By Stefan Thoolen, July 2011.
Pololu Micro Serial Servo Controller Netduino driver
Mr. Twitchy uses two Wixels to wirelessly control an electrical stimulation device. By Sparkfun, July 2011.
Mr. Twitchy
Blackbeard’s Chest uses two jrk motor controllers with feedback to control linear actuators as part of a spooky animatronic display. By Skulltronix, July 2011.
Blackbeard's Chest
A Mini Maestro 24-channel USB servo controller controls three servos in each of this insectoid robot’s six legs. By Chench, June 2011.
Low-Cost Hexapod
This rotating monitor for an arcade cabinet uses a Simple Motor Controller, a gearmotor with encoders and a Pololu wheel to control the rotation. By TopJimmyCooks, June 2011.
Rotating monitor for arcade cabinet
A well-documented project for building a telescope remote based on the Micro Maestro 6-Channel USB servo controller. By Kevin, May 2011.
DIY telescope remote project
A customer-written Instructable that introduces the reader to the Wixel through a series of basic projects. By Michael Oz, May 2011.
Instructable: Introducing the Wixel USB Wireless Module
Video of a robot based off of the Pololu 5" robot chassis that automatically improves its PID constants over time. By PageFault, April 2011.
Learning PID values using simulated annealing
Jrk 12v12s are used as part of two-degree-of-freedom motion-simulator chairs (sim chairs). (Video). By eaorobbie, April 2011.
Motion simulator chairs
High-Power Motor Drivers are used to drive the motors in this homemade Segway-like personal transport. By Hans Michael Steiner, April 2011.
Homemade Segway-like personal transport
This sound-following 3pi robot uses three Electret microphone breakout boards and two 74HC4052 multiplexers (Video). By Louie, April 2011.
Sound-Following 3pi Robot
Waiter Robot can make a “Robot Bar” for your next exhibition, show, private event, or sales promotion. They use Pololu 3pi Robots to deliver food and drinks in an remarkable way. March 2011.
Waiter Robot
A temperature probe, a battery pack, and a Pololu Orangutan SVP-324 Robot Controller are used to make BrewMon, a beer-brewing monitor. By Michael Buckley, March 2011.
BrewMon: Orangutan SVP beer-brewing monitor
Video of a heavily-modified 3pi that uses distance sensors and encoders along with a flood-fill algorithm to find the shortest path through a walled Micromouse maze. The robot is described in more detail in this forum post. By lufamseed, March 2011.
Micromouse 3pi Robot Video
A small hexapod using the Micro Maestro that is controlled remotely using a Bluetooth module. By sigfpe, February 2011.
Build Yourself a Bluetooth Controlled Six-Legged Robot
Only5 is designed to be a general-purpose, high-performance robot. It uses many Pololu parts including the Pololu 5" Robot Chassis RRC04A and the Baby Orangutan robot controller. By ngcoders, Feb 2011.
Only5 - general-purpose, high-performance robot
Groovin’ Grover is a marionette manipulated by four hobby servos and a Pololu Maestro servo controller. You can control each of Grover’s limbs independently and make him walk, wave, and most entertaining – make him dance. Groovin’ Grover is easy to assemble and wire up. The Maestro servo controller is easy to program using free software from Pololu. This Instructable explains how to build your own Groovin’ Grover. By talk2bruce, Feb 2011
Instructable Groovin' Grover: a microcontroller-based marionette
A guide to building a fast (> 2 m/s) line-following robot from scratch. By C.I.r.E., February 2011.
Robot Zero: a fast line follower for beginners
Robot made with a TReX, a 4WD Wild Thumper and a BoArduino driving in the snow. By arduwino, February 2011.
Snow-BoArduino
Two Mini-Maestro-controlled ShiftBrites power a flashlight capable of displaying one million colors with many interesting modes of operation (video). By Reed Kimble, January 2011.
One-Million-Color Flashlight
An mbed notebook (in Japanese) showing a 3pi robot with an ARM mbed controlled by Bluetooth keyboard. By Kazuhiro Ouchi, December 2010.
Home-made m3pi robot controlled by Bluetooth keyboard
A Useless Machine controlled by a Baby Orangutan. It counts how many times the button is pressed and then the arm comes out and presses the button the same number of times. Video, source code, and schematics included. By Jumbleview, December 2010.
Baby Orangutan Useless Machine
A paper (in Portuguese) describing the Pololu 3pi robot in general, and, specifically, how to write optimized maze solving code. By Ana Paula, December 2010.
Otimização Do Algoritmo De Maze Solver Para O Robô Pololu 3pi
A news report about a custom TV lift using a Pololu Jrk 12v12 made by Francisco Estrada III, November 2010.
Jrk 12v12 TV Lift
This mbed.org cookbook page will help you get started using your m3pi robot with an mbed development board as your high-level robot controller.
mbed.org m3pi cookbook
The paper (523k pdf) shows how to read FrSky telemetry data and display it on an LCD with a Baby Orangutan. The whole setup is small and light enough to clip on to an RC transmitter. By erik46, October 2010.
Interfacing a FrSky telemetry receiver with a Baby Orangutan.
An open-source template for custom 3pi expansion boards in the Eagle format by Alex Louden. An example expansion with an mbed microcontroller, Xbee, and accelerometers is shown. By Alex Louden, September 2010.
3pi PCB skeleton
A WiFi module is connected to a 3pi robot allowing it to be controlled by an iPhone. YouTube Video. By drock221, July 2010.
iPhone-controlled 3pi Robot.
Hand-held Tic-Tac-Toe powered by a Pololu adjustable boost regulator and controlled with a Pololu Baby Orangutan B-328. By Jumbleview, June 2010.
Baby Orangutan Hand-Held Tic-Tac-Toe
A simple obstacle-avoiding robot based on the Maestro, using continuous-rotation servos and distance sensors. The robot is programmed using the Maestro’s internal scripting language, without the need for an additional microcontroller. By TomatoWire, June 2010.
Obstacle Avoider
An art project at New York University using 10 OctoBrite DEFILIPPI modules, 80 RGB LEDs, 40 servos, 7 servo controllers, and 1 Arduino. A video is also available. By Matthew Richard, April 2010.
Estrella Intersects the Plane
AIRbot is a robot that can be controlled by a cellphone and can send images back to the cellphone. It uses a yellow RP5 tracked chassis, a transparent clear RP5 expansion plate, and a qik 2s9v1 dual serial motor controller along with the AIRcable S.D.K. and the AIRcable OptiEyes. The source code (both AIRcable and Nokia) and circuit diagrams are freely available.
AIRbot
An HD camcorder on a pan/tilt mount controlled by servos actuated by a Micro Maestro 6-Channel USB Servo Controller next to a Wiimote used to track an IR light source. Here is a video taken from the mounted camcorder. Posted February 2010.
Automatic Infrared Light Source Tracking HD Camcorder
The Pololu Maestro RoboRealm module provides a way to interface the visual processing of RoboRealm into servo movements using the Pololu Maestro USB Servo Controller. Released February, 2010.
Maestro Support for RoboRealm
A replica of the famous Star Wars droid R2D2 that uses the Jrk USB Motor Controller for position control. See the video which shows the Jrk Configuration Utility in action, or read the blog post which has more information. By ggpipe, February 2010.
R2D2 dome position control
Patrick Hickey and Bradley Lord use a Pololu Micro Maestro for servo output and a Pololu 4 servo multiplexer to support manual control override in their model aircraft autopilot project. Published February, 2010.
Paparazzi Autopilot for Linux
Meindert Norg from Norg Consulting (www.NorgConsulting.com) demonstrates his active magnetic bearing, Tripod Floater. The closed-loop system uses three Pololu 18v15 high-power motor drivers as PWM amplifiers to power the magnetic coils that keep the module floating beneath the metal plate. By Meindert Norg, August, 2009. February, 2010 update: the Tripod Floater is now wireless! Version 2.2 video
Active Magnetic Bearing: Tripod Floater v2.0
A beacon-chasing robot built with our IR Beacon, an RP5 Tracked Chassis, and an Arduino. By Christopher Hazlett, December 2009.
Beacon Locating Robot - Powered by Arduino and IR Transceiver
An tutorial showing how to power an Arduino through the Pololu Pushbutton Power Switch and use the self-shutoff feature, by Instructables member youeveolve. Published November, 2009.
Using the Pololu Pushbutton Power Switch
A spooky animatronic skeleton using the Jrk USB Motor Controller. See the final result or more pictures and information. By Mark Goodson, October 2009.
The Haunted Organist
Various videos of the Pololu 3pi robot in action.
3pi Robot Videos
A detailed presentation on teaching a robot to solve a non-looped line maze written by customer (and robotics professor) R. Vannoy. This can help you to better understand how to solve a line maze with your 3pi or custom maze-solving robot.
Line Maze Algorithm Presentation (505k pdf)
A DIY article for Popular Science showing how to use our Orangutan LV-168 robot controller to make an autonomous, obstacle-avoiding 1:32-scale Hummer. The Arduino sketch used to control the car makes use of our Arduino Orangutan libraries and is available for download on the second page of his article. By Dave Prochnow.
Arduino Muscle Car
Spinning antweight combat robots by Rich Olson / SpamButcher, using the Pololu Baby Orangutan robot controller and VNH3SP30 Motor Driver Carrier. These award-winning designs spin their entire body around at high speed while slightly varying the motor speeds to translate around the playing field.
Rich’s Melty B Antweight Combat Robots
David Jannke from Probotics America is using our TReX motor controller in his safety education robots. He also sent us a short video demonstration (2MB avi).
Probotics America - Home of the Safety Education Bikebot
Customer Colin Karpfinger has written a tutorial complete with sample C# program that demonstrates how to interface with Pololu servo controllers using .NET.
Tutorial: Using the Pololu Servo Controller in .NET
Customer Michael Shimniok has written a guide to programming AVRs (the Orangutan LV-168, specifically) using the Mac.
Tutorial: AVR Programming on the Mac
A customer-written tutorial that shows how to program Orangutans with XCode.Configuring the Mac to Program AVRs with XCode
A demo showing how to control our SMC03A motor controller using LabVIEW.
SMC03A controlled by LabVIEW
Colin Karpfinger’s entry in the Defcon Bots competition, “The First Law”, using the Pololu Serial 8-Servo Controller.
Automated Weapons Turret - ColinKarpfinger.com
The Pololu Orangutan X2 robot controller is the brains of this 3kg sumo robot.
3kg Sumo by Tom Saxton
A Robot by Danh Trinh using our 8-Servo Controller, the iRobot Create platform and a Mini-ITX computer system.
iRobot Create Personal Home Robot
An article (in German) about H-bridges and Pololu dual serial motor controllers that describes how to use our dual serial motor controllers with their BASIC-TigerTM computer module. The application note explains some of the theory behind H-bridges in general and then details the use of the Pololu motor controllers. The article and accompanying code are also available at www.wilke.de (see application note 59 on the “Applikationen” page). By Wilke Technology.
Motorsteuerung mit H-Brücke (338k pdf)
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