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Qtechknow wins Educator's Choice award at Maker Faire
We saw a tweet from Atmel that Qtechknow’s Fuzzbot—a robot based on a Zumo that helps clean floors by dragging a dust cloth around while avoiding obstacles—won the New York 2013 World Maker Faire Educator’s Choice award. Qtechknow was recently featured in a Popular Science article.
Related post: Fuzzbot
Underwater Vehicle for MATE ROV Competition
The AMNO & CO ROV team uses our Simple Motor Controllers in their remotely operated underwater vehicle. The team placed 13th at the 12th Annual MATE International ROV Competition (and 2nd in regionals)!
Featured link: https://www.facebook.com/AMNOandCoROV
Missing by The xx – Spatializing Sound with Sonos
“Missing” features fifty robotic speakers that rotate to face the listeners. Each speaker uses an A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier.
Featured link: http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/missing-by-the-xx-spatializing-sound-with-sonos/
Wireless Fenrir
Fenrir, a 12-foot-tall metal fire-breathing wolf sculpture by Sheet Metal Alchemist, now has a Wixel-based wireless controller.
Featured link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z78yYVYq6mY
Barobo Linkbot
Check out this kickstarter: the Linkbot modular robot by Barobo uses Pololu motors.
Featured link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barobo/linkbot-create-with-robots
VertiBOT
VertiBot is a neatly-constructed balancing robot. Pololu metal gearmotors, wheels, and a Qik dual serial motor controller were used for this project.
Featured link: http://madebyfrutos.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/vertibot/
Tiny Bot
Tiny Bot, by Erik Kringen, is an autonomous obstacle-avoiding robot tank that uses a Pololu track set.
Featured link: http://www.mycontraption.com/introducing-tiny-bot/
PiBBOT
This balancing robot by Mark Williams is controlled by a Raspberry Pi. The project web page explains the balance control algorithm. PiBBOT uses a Pololu MinIMU-9 v2, metal gearmotors with encoders, and Pololu wheels.
Featured link: http://marks-space.com/2013/04/18/success-with-a-balancing-robot-using-a-raspberry-pi/
Rice University's r-one research robot
This r-one research robot was designed to be low cost, so that researchers in the Multi-Robot Systems Lab at Rice University could make a swarm of robots. It uses our brackets, wheels and ball casters, and motors.
Featured link: http://mrsl.rice.edu/projects/r-one
Liquid Lifebar
This gadget uses a Pololu Jrk and a linear actuator to help control the level of water in the tube, which can indicate the life of a video game character.
Featured link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywfZsYApj_M