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Hello I am a Phd student in biomedical engineering focusing on robotics. I need a PC for running solid works, MATLAB, visual studio code, Ansys, ROS and maybe someother simulation and machine learning softwares. I am looking at two options from Dell technologies Precision 3260 Compact Workstation Precision 3660 Tower Workstation I was wondering if these options are okay or is it better to have a Xeon Processor? or are there any recommendations from DELL. Thank you -
To preface this, I'm a total newbie with Arduino and OOP in general. My current project is an automatic pet feeder, and I just need to make an SG90 mini-servo rotate 90 degrees and back, and repeat that action every 6 hours. No idea how to do this, any help would be great.
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Is anyone else excited about the new Intel Joule and RealSense Dev. Kits? The I was on a high school robotics team and we used the Nvidia Jetson TK1 for on-board autonomous vision recognition/ target acquisition (some other teams used the Intel Edison board). The Nvidia board is great but takes up a lot of surface real-estate and requires shielding to go around it. Although the RealSense or Joule would also need shielding, it would be much more compact. The Board is also a vast improvement over the previous Intel board preferred by robotics teams, the Intel Edison. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/joule-vs-edison https://software.intel.com/en-us/realsense/robotic-development-kit http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.html https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/joule What my team used the Jetson TK1 for last year was to take an input from a camera with LEDs around it to shine off of retroflective tape allowing the board to take the visual input and put it through different algorithims to recognize the distance and orientaion that the target was at to then send an input to our motor controllers to control the RPMs of a flywheel to shoot a ball into a target outlined with said tape. The approximate sequence went first through a polygon recognition algorithm to filter out any artifacts, then into a trig algorithm to calculate the 3D orientation using a point-voting system, and finally ran a calculation for projectile motion of the ball (a large dodgeball). After this was finished (in around 0.05 seconds) a signal was sent to National Instruments RoboRIO that we used for the I/O and then to the motor controllers to instruct how fast the motors would need to spin to get the ball the correct distance while, simultaneously, a separate controller instructed a separate motor to move to be square with the target. Finally the ball was moved by an indexing wheel via manual control (XBox controller over WIFI) to shoot at the target.
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Hey all, Some mates and I are in a local competition through school which requires the construction of a light-seeking robot. The robots will be raced against each other following a moving light source around a track. The requirements are: Dimensions must not exceed 20cm long by 20cm wide by 10cm high. Must be powered by 1 9volt type 216 battery or up to 6 x 1.5 AA batteries. Must be optically controlled to navigate by a torch. We were wondering if you guys had any ideas on how to construct this. The competition is in 2 classes, one for people using off-the shelf products to construct their robots (e.g Lego/Meccano) and one for people custom building their robots. We were thinking an arduino uno or some form of microcontroller as the base of the robot. Any tips? Jaeger
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I don't know if there is already a topic for this but I don't think there is. I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about FIRST Robotics. More importantly I was wondering if anyone had an idea on what this year's game is. If you don't know what it is go to https://www.firstinspires.org/ to find out more.
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So I need help writing a letter to send to companies around my area and across the world perhaps asking for funding and maybe sponsorship of my FRC robotics team. My problem is how Should I start and how do I sound legitimate so I don't just look like an a-hole asking for money.
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So I am on a robotics team called the mad rockers and I need to find a decent and cheap video camera to record our builds including timelapse. I have no idea where to start and what a decent price point is. Can on of you guys help? -
So how do you connect two gears at a distance? The answer is a pulley, but these gears are spinning at different speed and torque. The answer to that is how a transmission works. So when a car is shifting gear the clutch is engaged so that stops full power to the drive gears the shaft however is still spinning. So what it has is a secondary in between gear that has pointed teeth to guide the spinning drive shaft to the gears that connect directly to the engine. this gear is a small free spinning gear that is a guide. So with that out of the way I can say that I need this for a part to engage a winch system and I'm using the same concept to connect the motor gearbox to the winch device. this was typed in less that 2 minutes and I think I hit over 100 words per minute I am so happy.
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Sources: Sky News, South China Morning Post (YouTube) While none sense conspiracy theories keep popping by that 5G causes cancer, here's an actual application of 5G that can potentially save a cancer patient. If you ask me, 100 milliseconds is still a lot of latency especially when wired solutions like FTT(x) can get latency below 10 milliseconds but I can forgive that latency since 1.) they're operating not on a human but on a pig. 2.) They're probably using mmWaves which is easily obstructed and has a short coverage (I'm not sure). Nonetheless, the surgeon was 50 km away from the OR and he remotely excised the pig's liver and hopefully sutured it as well. But it looks like the surgeon didn't have any problems with latency. Also, robotic surgery isn't something new. It has been around for decades but it's not autonomous, hence a surgeon still operates it. Personally, 5G could have an immense impact on how doctors especially surgery fellows assist other doctors. If you're in a medical mission in a remote area and a patient develops abdominal pain in the umbilical area, that patient might need to have an appendectomy procedure. The surgeon can remotely operate on that patient. I think this can be applied to a coronary bypass, angioplasty or even a heart transplant. But then there's the issue of security imo. Disregarding the heated trade wars and political debacle between China and the US, it's true that anything connected to a network especially the internet can be hacked.Since this 5G connected robotic surgery is an example of medical IoT, I'm guessing it's software doesn't have security in mind just like most IoT devices. But I don't think these security vulnerabilities should stop us from taking advantage of it especially when you're saving someone's life and there are ways to secure IoT devices and reduce their attack surface. What do you guys think? @Nicnac @RorzNZ @ARikozuM? -
My biggest issue is Mechanical. If I go to a local milling shop, they tell me it will cost me $10 for one universal joint, and I have 12 of those, that will cost me $120, There are many such custom parts but I can't afford these prices, it will easily cost me like $300 if I got down that path. So, I went to AliExpress and placed order for all of that and everything costed $89 including 18-27 day shippings. Sadly, Coronavirus Intensified, also holidays of Lunar new year came. And due to this, Chinese government took these holidays as an advantage and completely shut everything down. And now I came to hear about 1000 cases of this Coronavirus. This stuff is getting scary. Still, I need these parts in order to make my robot, I have no other option but to wait. And Doesn't seem like my country customs will be happy to even see a Shipment coming from China at a time like this. I need a Plan C. For this I even asked Reddit for help. I need to make Universal joints, Timing pulley with tooth which can be mounted on Motor, Idler pulley with tooths, and Bearing in middle. Timing Belt, Springs, Steering mounts for wheels, Hexagonal wheel mount, Etc. Any little advice helps.
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So I'm looking to get into building Combat Robots. Like the ones you see on Battlebots and Robot Wars, but I've got a few roadblocks and things I don't understand. So I know it best to start in the Antweight or the Beetleweight classes, but I'm not sure what the advantage to disadvantage to starting with Ant or with Beetleweight would be. I also don't have a ton of cash, so is it possible to build one on a 200.00 budget? Would it be a bad idea to start out with a 3D printed Chassis so that I can learn how things work, and get better at driving? Are there brands of parts to avoid? To not avoid?
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So, I'll start from the top. It's a personal project which is basically Vehicle and Robot Hybrid. I have 22 motors in total while have voltage range of 5.5 - 12 volts and max 2.2 amps. Appart from that, I'll have to put in PC case fans for cooling. So, 2-3 of those. My question here are : 1) What Arduino and Raspberry Pi do I need in order to make this Robot control all motors? 2) What do I need to run Tensorflow? I already have a Logitech C270 USB webcam for this project. 3) Do I need to learn Python for this project?
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Apparently CES 2019 rescinded an award and blocked a company from showcasing the robotic Ose sex toy for women, further calling it vulgar, immoral, etc, yet in past and at the current CES they have allowed male focused sex products to be showcased and have given out awards to in the past (i.e. sex robots and toys for men, VR Porn for men, etc). Link to the original news story: https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/08/lora-dicarlo-says-ces-wrongly-rescinded-award-for-micro-robotic-sex-toy/ Link to one from the BBC (Caution: be a bit gender rhetoric heavy compared to the above link): https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46809807 Overall, it sounds like some gender-bias to me, for them to allow male focused sex products at CES and have given awards for in the past years and still currently allow even this year in 2019 there's other sex toys and the usual VR porn demos at CES, however block a female focused product, even one whom the CES 2019 judges vetted/reviewed and were going to give an award to based on it's robotic tech, especially since it was made in partnership with Oregon State University's Robotics and Engineering department as this device uses innovative micro-robotic "mimicry" to mimic the feeling of various parts of the human body. This is something I think may be worth a mention on The WAN Show if there's one about news surrounding CES 2019. P.S. For those who think CES blocked this product simply because they want to not have adult products at CES anymore... this year's CES showcases a vibrator for men called Tentuo, company Naughty America is utilizing AR to overlay Stripper Poles into your environment along with "holographic" strippers to occupy those poles, there's an Apple Watch powered vibrator for ladies which a male partner has control over, then there's also the yearly showcased VR Porn booths/experiences, and one of the exhibitors were literally shuttling men off to one of the nearby legal vegas brothels for an Alexa/Amazon Echo powered porn experience. So in otherwords, if it's for males and made by males, it's A-OK at CES. A bit of insight to this year's sex toys at CES 2019: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-sex-toys-vegas-tech.html however there's a lot more begin shown at CES this year than what this article is focusing on.
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Greetings. Just wondering, with the interest I see (as a dad) in robotics and their programming from schools and private schools etc. if Linus has considered doing a forum on that or even a show? Facebook is filled with programming courses for kids, schools are offering that, its all over the place. I mean, if there's one group I can think of that can leverage this interest its Linus Media Group. My son is 12 and we're learning C++ and opencv (I'm trying to learn to help him, but falling behind honestly), and he's all into this robotics and programming stuff. He's already building a robotic arm and a vision detection system (Jetson nano) and doing great. I love the time we spend together. Its just that he doesn't have any friends with this interest. I'm sure there's a lot of kids out there that could befriend each other. Any chance something like that is on the radar? Cheers from Richmond, BC. PS: PM me if you are in the same situation or if you are looking for peers in this.
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FRC is a worldwide very successful Robotics Program for high-school students, I am a part of a FRC team myself and I always desperately look for a connection between LTT and FRC because FRC relates to all the topics of LTT, including Tech, mechanics, programming, CAD and even editing. I have found some minor connections in the past but in the following picture their is the biggest one so far, Edzel's shirt number and logo clearly matches the number and logo found on This team's robot. So I ask the LTT stuff if you read this topic, is their any connection between FRC and LTT? or does Edzel specifically has a connection with FRC? also I think it would be awsome if you could create a video about FRC, I would love to help you out with that. And If you read this and you are from an FRC Team yourself comment your team name and number. if you are not familiar with FRC I recommend you to check it out on YouTube.
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hello everyone, iam currently doing PLC and automation courses and would like to set a lab in my garage to be as close to industry manufacturing automation as possible obviously on a small scale. so what do you guys suggest for a PLC and automation LAB ? the materials iam doing in the course are Ladder programming for PLC and general automation interactions with the PLC. i've found some bargain deals on ebay for buying PLC CPU units but i need to get some ideas on what other hardware i need to build my own sort of production line? please be as detailed as possible in your kind answers. Thanks you all
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So i want to get an ev3 robot but one problem is making me rethink about buying it and getting a vex iq i want a good place to store my ev3 parts i dont really fancy getting the education version so what is better? Get a vex iq or Get a mindstorms ev3 and finding a good container for it?
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*I wasn't too sure where this thread should go so i just dumped in in general* I am taking an IST class at my high school: So far we have done next to nothing, we were told what the different components of a computer from about 20 years ago are, we learned about different jobs that IST classes can lead to and we memorised a bunch of "key terms". So you can probably tell that it came as a bit of a surprise when we were told that our final project was to design and build a robot using a raspberry pi. We haven't learned anything to do with electronics, coding or anything else that we need to know to build these robots. I have tried to find tutorials and the like online but they all exceed our $50 AUD budget. Since we had to get out part orders in by last week I just went ahead and listed a few motors. I now only have $27 left. My group and I decided that we want to make a remote controlled car/tank that shoots tic tacs. How do we do that? I know what each of the parts need to do, I just don't know how to get them to do it. Info/ parts - Raspberry Pi (not sure exactly which model) - 2x Basher Mach1 130 Size Brushed Motor (Black) https://goo.gl/nbqQpU - TB6600 Stepper Motor Driver https://goo.gl/AnJqbf Please let me know if you need any more info.
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I am really wondering if there are some people in this forum who are interested in robotics and stuff (like myself :3) If you are out there, the makers on LTT Forum, i call you for random chat about robotics & electronics!
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I understand that robotics could technically be placed under another forum but having its own would lead to far more traction & allow people to obtain an answer or information far quicker than they would otherwise. It would also provide a place for said community to have a consistent discussion on the specific topic, even adding more of a "library" of information in one area, rather than having ideas on the matter spread about.
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Would you allow a robot to operate on you in surgery, provided that the robot has, in the past, successfully been used for other surgeries? The robot would be totally unmanned.
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Amazon: http://geni.us/gwT NCIX: http://bit.ly/1jzQGkz The Super Kit from VEX Robotics seems like a pretty interesting investment for young, curious minds... So we decided that Taran should take a look at it! Learn more about VEX Robotics: http://www.vexiq.com/ http://www.vexrobotics.com/competition http://www.roboticseducation.org/
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Only those interested in robotics or technology advancements in general will gain the most... presumably. Either way, I thought this was interesting enough to share. Source Video - ColdFusion: -
Got bored and decided to see if there were any FRC members in the forum, if so and would care to chat go for it in this post.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/31/festo-insect-robots/#continued Festo, a German automation company, has designed a new series of robots inspired by nature. The first is a robotic ant which is designed to work with other robotic ants in order to move objects that are much larger than itself. The next is a robotic butterfly that can fly indoors, along preprogramed routes, using infrared cameras as a GPS system. Finally there is a robot that is based on the movements of a chameleon's tongue. This robot is deigned to lift objects and move them around. It is made up of a silicon cap attached to a robotic arm. Festo's older nature inspired projects can be found here: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/06/WarkaWater-Tower,-kangaroo-like-robot-energy-generating-carousel/
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