Current Robot Projects

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Yay! I have access to the internet
After being at Stanford, I really realized that I extremely like AI and robotics. So, I have many robot projects going on all at one time. Here’s a list:

• Line following, maze navigating, AI robot
  • Using an Arduino and Processing
  • Started this project at Stanford (they funded it!)
  • 2 DC motors
  • 5 LDRs
  • Chassis is a cardboard and plastic beginners robot kit (bought at the ExplOratorium while at Stanford)
  • I need a gearbox!
• BubbleBoy
  • A robot that has fake emotions determined by the pushes of buttons and the LDR
  • Using Arduino and Processing
  • 2 Servos
  • 1 LDR
  • 2 Push buttons
  • Chassis is the older BubbleBoy - Pinky one I created
  • I need another Arduino - or an RBBB!
• MANOI AT01 -> Arduino
  • Transplanting my humanoid to the Arduino board
  • I need 2 or 3 Pololu micro serial servo boards - they can be controlled via a TXRX line, making it easy for the Arduino to control many servos
  • Will write software to control the servos in Processing (easy GUI!)
• Phoenix
  • Basically, my project for the year. *cough*ISEFhopefully*cough*
  • Uses much of the knowledge I attain from all projects and the Stanford EPGY Summer Institutes AI Program
  • Hospital bedside accompaniment
  • I’m purposefully lacking details here.

Some of the parts I need immediately in order to continue building are expensive though
But hey, there’s always Styrobots in my shop ready to be purchased!!

In the meantime, I’m still annotating and pulling all the details out of these books…

• Building Sociable Robots
• Probablistic Robotics
• AI Textbook from Stanford
• AI journal book from Stanford
• The Emotion Machine
• Intro to AI

I’m also compiling a huge blog post of over 1,000 pictures from Stanford
Soon after that, I’ll post pics of these projects

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