Former NASA aeronautical engineer and space researcher Albert Taylor PhD will be speaking the Riverside Robotics Society of Saturday, April 19th. His lecture is titled “Paranormal Investigation with Robots.” For the first 20 years of his career worked on projects such as the F-117A Stealth Fighter and the International Space Station. He also evaluated satellite system designs […]
The Riverside Robotics Society is hosting a Mini-SumoBot Contest on Saturday, April 19, 2014 at the Woodcrest Library in Riverside. Very similar to the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling, the objective of a sumobot contest is to knock or push the competitor robot out a circular ring. While SumoBot contest have similarities of different “weight” […]
In January 2014 the fine folks at Nuts and Volts Magazine released a fantastic website called the “Arduino Classroom – Learn Computing and Electronics.” The magazine website is located at http://www.nutsvolts.com/. This is ambitious project as noted on the website is created by Joe Pardue, a contributing editor whom has been writing for the magazine literally […]
Arduinos run off of very a specific program made directly for this hardware. It includes a little bit of C and C++. This software environment that you program in is available for free at Arduino.cc. Currently they are at version 1.0.5; however, if you use a newer Arduino compatible board (Arduino Yun, or Due, etc.) […]
I am not a fan of acronyms either 🙂 SIMPAR is the acronym for Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots – not to be confused with SIMPAR.eu which stands for “Study in Multidisciplinary Pain Research”. SIMPAR is a conference whose purpose is to bring together researchers in academia and industry with the goal to […]
This year tons of new tech was announced at CES; from 4k TVs to 3D printed food. There were also some new robotics platforms announced in Las Vegas. Sphero announced a new RC vehicle called Sphero 2B. This is a variation of their older modelsthat they have sold previously. This one has two wheels and […]
In October 2013 Adafruit Industries introduced the Adafruit Trinket – a tiny Arduino-IDE microcontroller. This microcontroller is built using the Atmel ATtiny85 – a little chip with a lot of power. Adafruit has two Trinkets – a 3 volt and a 5 volt version. The 3-volt version should be run only at 8 Mhz while the […]
Today was the monthly meeting of the Riverside Robotics Society. It included the usual sharing of information of new robots that have made headlines recently. This followed with a showing of any projects that members have been working on, in and outside the club. One member even brought in his 3D printer he has finished […]
If you are looking for a way to get introduced to the Arduino, Sparkfun is offering a class on Saturday, February 8th, 2014 from 9am to 5 pm. The class is called Introduction to Arduino. Sparkfun has made the class for the novice and specifically states “This class is for anyone who has never played […]
The other day MAKE: just announced their new plans for their magazine. For those who don’t know MAKE: is a quarterly magazine and website that focuses on sharing everyone’s desire to make things – anything. Everywhere around the world they also have fairs where this is also expressed. They just announced that they will be […]
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