Author Archives: Jonathan A.

Brief overview: Our project was to consist of a walking autonomous spider-bot. We ended up with a robot with 4 legs that struggles to walk a meter. This is our journey.     Full Documentation: Our ideal goal was to … Continue reading →

We have come the point where we have we tried to hook up the legs to a body that was provided and we quickly ran into some problems. One of those problems was that the things that we used to … Continue reading →

We have progress in our effort to make this “4-6″legged robot. I have been working on actually building the leg. Going through 3 different version of the leg design we have settle on one that seems to do everything we … Continue reading →

The more I learn about the arduino and the things it can do, the more I think I should make a controller to work with future projects. Now some of you may be saying the the arduino is a controller … Continue reading →

I was able to go see Christopher Stapleton presentation but I couldn’t stay for the Q&A, due to me having a math test later on that day. Many of the technology he was using have been around for a couple of years now but not … Continue reading →

   So this terrifically drawn picture shows what I want to end up making. Looking around on the tinkerkit site I found  a couple of the sensors that I need, specifically the  Linear Potentiometer. They also have the buttons that are needed … Continue reading →

So to start of this assignment I simply type “como usar el arduino” in google and started browsing some of the results. The first result was the official arduino forum in spanish. A couple of the results that first popped up were websites that were selling arduino sets. … Continue reading →

So I have always had a thing for the steampunk sub-culture. So when I started searching the maker faire website the steampunk category instantly knew what I was gonna write about. So out of all the makers shown in the category I was interested … Continue reading →

Jun Rekimoto works in the Interaction Laboratory of Sony Computer Science Laboratories. In the lab he directs projects that incorporate the use of devices to help the user do everyday task. He also has great interest in changing the why humans interact … Continue reading →

So for a couple of weeks now I have been thinking about gadgets and why hasn’t more of it become wearable. Pockets seem to be getting smaller and our phones are getting bigger it seems like the right time to … Continue reading →