With color picker, all range of artists will be able to cerate a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors. This is amazing innovation by Jinsun Park. Color Picker is an great design of a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around and instantly use the color for drawing. After placing the pen in front of an object, the user just presses the scan button. The color is being detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. This superb device will help people to observe the changing colors of nature.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Color Picker Pen
With color picker, all range of artists will be able to cerate a more sensorial and visual insight of their surrounding nature’s colors. This is amazing innovation by Jinsun Park. Color Picker is an great design of a concept pen that can scan colors from anything around and instantly use the color for drawing. After placing the pen in front of an object, the user just presses the scan button. The color is being detected by the color sensor and the RGB cartridge of the pen mixes the required inks to create the target color. This superb device will help people to observe the changing colors of nature.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Tahoe-II Development Board
Dr. Ahmed Javad, who has alway encouraged me to
welcome the new technology. Next couple of weekends will be very
interesting working on it.
The Tahoe-II development platform is the ideal place to start when developing small, smart, connected devices. Featuring the .NET Micro Framework, you have the hardware and software tools to get your project done faster than ever before. Through its fully integrated Visual Studio experience, the .NET Micro Framework brings a reliable and productive development environment to the world of embedded development. Complex applications can be developed and debugged faster by leveraging the powerful emulator and Visual Studio’s debugging capabilities. The familiar development environment also enables .NET desktop programmers to work easily on embedded projects. The Tahoe- features a 3.5” touch-screen LCD, wired and wireless networking, USB function for interfacing to PCs, an accelerometer for innovative sensing and user interface applications. When you need to prototype a new device, the Tahoe-II has easy access to an array of expansion options; including serial ports, I2C, SPI and plenty of GPIO. The Tahoe-II is built around the Meridian CPU, while features a Freescale i.MXS ARM9 processor, 4Mbytes of Flash, 8Mbytes of RAM. Moving from prototype to production is simple with the Meridian CPU. The Meridian CPU and the .NET Micro Framework are ideal for applications such as; industrial automation, home automation, healthcare, consumer devices, retail point-of-sale, PC peripherals, and automotive applications. | ||||
- Meridian CPU (ARM920 @ 100MHz, 4Mbytes Flash, 8Mbytes SDRAM)
- 3.5” Landscape TFT LCD with touch-screen
- 9 user input buttons
- RS232 serial (DB9)
- USB Function
- Ethernet
- Accelerometer, with support for event notification including free-fall detection
- SD Card interface
- Temperature sensor and 2x ADC channels
- Interface for XBee wireless module (and additional ADC channels if fitted)
- PWM output
- Expansion connectors that expose GPIO, I2C, SPI and UART signals
Meccano Spykee Wi-Fi Spy Robot
See how it looks like before you purchase.
For further details and to purchase this item you can go to http://www.robotshop.ca/meccano-spyke-wifi-robot-1.html.
Need Robot Parts
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Boe-Bot Robot with Bluetooth
Boe-Bot come with all necessary items you require to built a bot. Additionally you can get sensors to have more experimeno ts.
- Co Gas Sensor Module
- CH4 Gas Sensor Module
- Digital Thermometer
- Flexiforce Sensor Kit
- Tri-Axis Accelerometer
- Compass Module
- Relavtive Humidity Sensor
- Infrared Receiver
- IR Transmitter Kit
- Temperature Sensor Kit
- LPG Gas Sensor
- GPS Receiver
- Ultrasonic Sensor
- QTI Sensor
- Color Sensor
- Light to Frequency Converter
Crawler Kit
You can make your Boe-Bot Robot a Crawler by adding Boe-Bot Crawler kit, which can be additionaly purchased. The Crawler runs on standard Boe-Bot source code with only minor adjustments for ground speed. Sample PBASIC code is included in the documentation.
Gripper Kit Sample Programme of Boe-Bot... This program will prompt you for the number of pulses to send to the servos, and then the pulse width to transmit to each servo. The program sends about 43 pulses per second, so 43 pulses would give you 1 second of run time, 86 would give you 2 seconds, and so on. For speed control, 800 is about full speed counterclockwise, 700 is full speed clockwise, and 750 is stop. If you want a wheel to go half speed counter clockwise, try about 775. Half speed clockwise, would be about 725, and so on. |
' Sample.bs2
' {$STAMP BS2}
' {$PBASIC 2.5}
pulseCnt VAR Word
pulseLeft VAR Word
pulseRight VAR Word
counter VAR Word
'Wait FOr the eb500 radio To be ready.
PAUSE 1000
'Wait for the EB500 Bluetooth connection to be established.
DO UNTIL IN5 = 1: LOOP
SEROUT 1, 84, [CLS,
"Click the Debug Terminal's",
CR, "transmit windowpane and..." ]
PAUSE 250
DO
SEROUT 1, 84, [CR, CR, "Enter number of pulses: "]
SERIN 0, 84, [DEC pulseCnt]
SEROUT 1, 84, [DEC pulseCnt]
SEROUT 1, 84, [CR, "Enter left servo",
"pulse width: "]
SERIN 0, 84, [DEC pulseLeft]
SEROUT 1, 84, [DEC pulseLeft]
SEROUT 1, 84, [CR, "Enter right servo",
"pulse width: "]
SERIN 0, 84, [DEC pulseRight]
SEROUT 1, 84, [DEC pulseRight]
SEROUT 1, 84, [CR, "Executing..."]
FOR counter = 1 TO pulseCnt
PULSOUT 13, pulseLeft
PULSOUT 12, pulseRight
PAUSE 20
NEXT
LOOP
If you are a beginner and need to learn about Microcontrollers and Sensors, i will highly recommend this to you. You can learn more about it at...
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
On the other hand some say that using this technology for identification is a security threat, for example countries that put RFID in passports include Norway, Japan, most EU countries including Ireland and UK, Australia and the United States, Serbia, Republic of Korea.
See this artical at InfoSecurity.Us!
For further details you can visit... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Traxster .NET Micro Framework Kit
The Traxster MF Robot Kit uses one of our Serializer Robot Controllers for the low level sensory and motor control, and features the SJJMicro EDKPlus development kit that serves as the .NET MF brains. The EDKPlus kit is based on the 200 Mhz iPac-9302 ARM9 processor, which is where the Tiny CLR runs.
Developing managed C# applications for the Traxster MF is extremely easy, and deployment is a snap. Managed applications deployed to the EDKPlus board are non-volatile. Thus, the application starts right up once power is applied.
This kit comes packed with hardware and user documentation, including a Visual Studio 2005 Solution containing the source code for the SerializerLibMF library and useful examples.
Want to learn the .NET Micro Framework, and have tons of fun doing it? The Traxster MF Kit is your development solution!
Microsoft Axum for .Net
Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects.
Virtualization with Hyper-V
For further details see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-main.aspx
Blu-ray Disc Technology
The name Blu-ray Disc is derived from the blue laser used to read and write to this type of disc.
Pololu 3pi Robot
Windows 7 Release Candidate
Welcome to Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) testing. We're on our way to Windows 7, and if you like trying out pre-release software, now’s your chance. You get to see what's coming, and we get to see if our changes and fixes from the Beta testing are working correctly.
How do you test the software? You put it on your PC, and then do what you'd normally do. Your PC will automatically and anonymously send our engineers the information they need to verify the fixes and changes they made based on the Windows 7 Beta tests
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Windows-7/download.aspx