Our First Experience with Robotics: Making a Web-Controlled Robotic Arm As part of Programmers’ Day celebration this year, Azoft web developers decided to surprise our fellow Azoft employees with a competition. To try something new and unusual, we created an internet-controlled robotic arm. This was our first experience with robotics and it turned out a success. The robotic arm competition was lots of fun for everyone involved, so we decided to share our experience and post this robotics tutorial to give you a fast start into building robots for your own geek parties. What does the robotic arm do? Our robotic arm is controlled via a web interface: it responds to remote commands and performs simple tasks. The tasks could vary: from drawing lots in a lottery to grabbing objects and collecting them in a basket - it’s up to your imagination. Have you decided what your robot will be doing? You will need microcontroller TI Stellaris Launchpad two servos (one for rotates, one for lifts) Hitec HS-322 servo TowerPro SG90 for the hand Let's get started 0. Stage 0. 1.
Getting Started in Robotics Biological Studies Animal motion and behavior studies such as those carried out at the UCB Poly-pedal Lab & MIT's Leg Lab, sometimes augmented with motion capture suits, can extract the characteristics of such activities as legged movement. Suites of characteristics can be used to produce motion-script files which can be run on 3D animated computer models of biologically-inspired robots in physics-based computer simulations. These VR 3-D Kinematic Animation Modeling with Physics Properties studies can be used to develop Robot Control systems. Artificial Intelligence and Related Software Artificial Intelligence (AI) software: A promising application is developing applied dynamic artificial intelligence. Multi-Robot Distributed Data Network: In this extension of an AI-driven robot system, a team or community of robots share data, learn from and teach each other. In the simple case, the script may run directly on the hardware robot until the GA achieves optimum performance. SFRSA "Robots!"
I’m starting another content company, and I plan to make a fortune By Bryan Goldberg On March 4, 2013 Now that Bleacher Report is in the rear view mirror, I am planning to launch another content company. It’s a “when” rather than an “if”… And I couldn’t be happier to be in this much-maligned business of creating and distributing original content. In my opinion, it is probably the single best venture sub-sector to create, and one that venture capitalists should be scrambling to invest in. In fact, I’ll wager that the venture community is going to have to start putting money into content companies, because they are going to be one of the best performers of the 2010 decade. Here are just some of the reasons why any VC who says “we don’t really do content investments,” is out of their mind… 1. Look at the major venture-backed content websites of the last decade. There are the three that have sold for nine-figure exits — DailyCandy, Bleacher Report, and Huffington Post. And what else do you notice about the dozen companies that I just mentioned above? 2. 3.
Robotics, Vision & Control The practice of robotics and computer vision each involve the application of computational algorithms to data. The research community has developed a very large body of algorithms but for a newcomer to the field this can be quite daunting. For more than 10 years the author has maintained two open-source MATLAB® Toolboxes, one for robotics and one for vision. They provide implementations of many important algorithms and allow users to work with real problems, not just trivial examples. This new book makes the fundamental algorithms of robotics, vision and control accessible to all. It weaves together theory, algorithms and examples in a narrative that covers robotics and computer vision separately and together. "An authoritative book, reaching across fields, thoughtfully conceived, and brilliantly accomplished!"
Manga Stream - Read free manga online! SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides Beginning Embedded Electronics - 1 This is a series of lectures written for those with mild electronics background (aka Sophomore in Electrical and Computer Engineering) to learn about the wild world of Embedded Electronics. I assume only that you know what electricity is and that you've touched an electrical component. Everything else is spelled out as much as possible. There is quite a lot here so take your time! It is also my intention to get book-hardened EE's students to put down the calculator and to plug in an LED. You can get all the parts for this lecture here. Sorry for the confusion. What's a Microcontroller? You may know what an OR gate is. A microcontroller is the same as an OR gate. if (A == 1 || B == 1) else It's C code! In the old days, microcontrollers were OTP or one-time-programmable meaning you could only program the micro once, test the code, and if your code didn't work, you threw it out and tried again. Flash micros are different than computers and RAM. Now back to that OR gate IC. if (PORTC.2 == 1)
SériesEmPT The Best Textbooks on Every Subject For years, my self-education was stupid and wasteful. I learned by consuming blog posts, Wikipedia articles, classic texts, podcast episodes, popular books, video lectures, peer-reviewed papers, Teaching Company courses, and Cliff's Notes. How inefficient! I've since discovered that textbooks are usually the quickest and best way to learn new material. But textbooks vary widely in quality. What if we could compile a list of the best textbooks on every subject? Let's do it. There have been other pages of recommended reading on Less Wrong before (and elsewhere), but this post is unique. Post the title of your favorite textbook on a given subject.You must have read at least two other textbooks on that same subject.You must briefly name the other books you've read on the subject and explain why you think your chosen textbook is superior to them. Rules #2 and #3 are to protect against recommending a bad book that only seems impressive because it's the only book you've read on the subject.