http://robotgrrl.com/blog Robots & Technology from a girl's point of view! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:02:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yay! BubbleBoy is finished (version 1). Briefly, BubbleBoy was created to demonstrate emotions and their applications in robotics. BubbleBoy has a food and water level, and when averaged out, a health level. The mood is determined by the health level. There are 10 moods, each of which BubbleBoy has a ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/09/04/bubbleboy-finished/ Tomorrow I'll be finishing off BubbleBoy, posting the schematics, the code, pictures, and videos! ^_^ Woohoo! I might even write a fancy shmancy few paragraphs about how scientific it is. :) http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/09/03/bubbleboy-tomorrow/ Recently I've been thinking about swarm robotics and the potential they could have on some of our other planets. Do we really know everything there is to know about the Moon? We have lots of data... but are there underlying details that are still hidden? Instead of spending trillions of ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/09/01/robots-on-the-moon/ Dormant blogging kills the robot star xD BubbleBoy is doing good- and looks EXACTLY like a pink snowman with the scarf, which is what I was aiming for. :) The coding is going good... it's all really simple :P Check out this video of cycling the health levels. For health >= 90 ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/08/29/dormant-blogging/ I actually bought the real Wall-E soundtrack, since I like it so much! It's uber cool... it comes in a recycled material case :D http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/08/24/put-on-your-sunday-clothes/ ^_^ Thanks to very kind people, I had a $200 gift certificate at Adafruit and was able to buy stuff! Arduino 2 ProtoShields Arduino bootloader Multimeter Boarduino Motor Shield Wave Shield All of these are going to be extremely helpful @_@ In fact, the old multimeter broke just the other day ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/08/20/stuff/ Woooaah! I wanted to make this blog post yesterday, but there was an insane storm! So I'll just fake the date as Monday even though it's Tuesday. :D I've been working on BubbleBoy a bit, and I've got it to a state where it is Hello World! :D Here are pictures of ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/08/18/bubbleboys-hello-world/ I think I have been stuck in a bubble for a long time judging by how long it has taken me to post this- more pictures from my trip to Stanford :) It is mainly the Golden Gate Bridge and Capitola Beach. The Golden Gate Bridge is pretty amazing in ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/08/13/sightseeing-around/ It was a pretty bad day at my research lab today (aka: my desk next to the kitchen table, the kitchen table itself, and the floor) xD . I was playing around with the Pololu uSSC's, they were working great after I set the servo numbers! But, I was a little ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/08/07/bad-day/ I received the two RBBB's, 1 FTDI TTL USB cable, and two Pololu Serial Servo Controllers (SSC) I bought a few weeks ago. :) Since then... I've been tinkering with them quite a bunch. I learned an incredible amount too from just a tiny board! Building up the RBBB wasn't too ... http://robotgrrl.com/blog/2008/08/05/rbbbs-and-pololu-sscs/