Robotics & Automation Projects: Advancing Efficiency & Precision

Using the Android Platform to control Robots

The popularity of android devices is attributed to their powerful capabilities which include internet connectivity, open architecture, and several other kinds of built-in sensors. Students and other software developers are increasingly using the android platform since it utilizes Java programming language which can easily be applied in universities and other learning institutions LPCCA. Not only

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Build An Lego Spybotics With Arduino

A friend gave me his old Lego Spybotics robot, however, the programming environment that goes along with it is a bit too orientated to the younger user. So why not control it using an Arduino? Step 1: Open up! In order to get this robot moving, we need to borrow its motors. There are two

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How To Make A Arduino Robotic Arm

Robotics – Automation Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

In this instructable I will show you how to make a simple robotic arm controlled by 4 servos , 2 analog joysticks, and an Arduino UNO. It is very similar to my “2 Servos + Thumbstick” instructable. This tutorial is in particular to help out another Arduino user; “RobotZee”. I will guide you step by

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Building an Arduino Robot, Part II: Programming the Arduino

Robotics – Automation Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Welcome to the second article in the tutorial series in which I’m building a remote controlled Arduino based vehicle robot. Here is the list of articles I have published: Part I: Hardware Components Part II: Programming the Arduino (this article) Part III: Assembling the Robot Part IV: A (Not So) Basic Robot Firmware Part V:

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Bluetooth plus Infrared Controlled Robotic Arm

Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Hi. I’m Darren a 17 year old hobbyist, and this is the first Instructable I’m posting here, so I apologize if it kinda sucks! I hope it’s good enough… So how did the idea of a robotic arm come to me? Well, the first thing I remember is our chemistry teacher (!) coming to me

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Arduino Based Four Legged Robot

Robotics – Automation Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

The name of our robot is FIER and here is a video of it saying hello to the world. In this instructable, I will try to show you the basic steps to making your own walking robot for the most bang for your buck. You may be asking why did I use balsa wood as

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DIY Mod an Omnibot 80’s Robot with Voice, Camera, Servos, Bluetooth

Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Motor Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

*Check back for more updates on this build 🙂 So, have you heard of the Omnibot? Well! Any kid from the 80’s will remember how amazing this robot was. For you young kids, this robot was released in the early 80’s by Tomy. The robot was “programmable”, in the sense that the actions were recorded

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Arduino Drawbot

Robotics – Automation Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

In some of my previous Arduino instructurables I have show to the Arduino beginers on how to control servos in different ways. And in my last instructurable I have show the modification of a Parallax servo for a 360º rotation. So in this one I will show Arduino beginers the use of those 360º rotation servos. With that

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Arduino Nano based Microbot

Robotics – Automation Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

This instructable was created to be entered in the Robot Challenge. If I win, the parts will of course, go into robots like this one. Notes on how to include some of the very components in the prize packages are given in the last step. I am 28, so of course, I’m not going for the

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PCB Quadrotor (Brushless)

Robotics – Automation Projects / By Ibrar Ayyub

Quadrotors are the new Segway’s: a mesmerizing, somewhat magical, self-stabilizing platform that every tech person wants to have. You can’t ride a quadrotor (well, maybe you can), but they do fly, and you can build one yourself from scratch! I helped with a previous quadrotor build (Instructable here), and after flying it I decided I

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