Botbridge

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Botbridge is a beginner-friendly robotics club that meets on Mondays alongside Circuit Hacking.

Botbridge Robot Hacking Mondays

If you are new to robotics, you can also learn the circuit hacking classes to get acquainted with electronics parts codes and soldering techniques.

Current Projects

Mutt the Hexapod

• We are currently assembling Mutt, a quadriped (so far) robot using a Neuron Robotics DiyIO.

• Next Steps:
  • 3D printing leg parts
  • Acquire wire to tamiya adapters
• Completed:
  • • Acquired DiyIO, 13 servos, 8650x2 battery holder, Logitech LifeCam

badass robot operating system/controller that simulates any leg config and 3D prints its parts out for you!

• • November 16: 3D printed body and one of six legs (9 pieces, 3 motors), wired it to the body, manual control convulses the leg, very exciting first steps literally.

Flutter Scout

The Flutter Scout rover uses no screws and only tires, bushings and motor. The gears and slotted together parts all 3D printable.

• Flutter Scout is a 3D printable robot based on the Flutter wireless controller by Taylor Alexander

Boe-bot

Boe-bot is a simple robot we're working on for teaching purposes. It uses a Parallax board that can be programmed with BASIC. Software https://www.parallax.com/downloads/macbs2-software

Future Projects

• Make a wireless DiyIO robot that communicates with the network powered by its own Android brain
• CNC metal legs to make the

Noisebridge Robot Alumni Association

MC Hawking on Aug.25,2012, DORA Project

• MC Hawking (aka the robot formerly known as Noise-bot) is a wheelchair-based open Dora Bot] that moved to Sudoroom. MC Hawking was created by Jake, Lilia, Dr. Jesus, Evan, Hao and Neil.

Kits we've used

• Neuron Robotics DiyIO badass robot operating system/controller that simulates any leg config and 3D prints its parts out for you!
• ReaDIYMate kits to make internet-connected things.

Noisebridge resources relevant to robotics

• Circuit Hacking Monday: If you are new to robotics, you should attend the circuit hacking classes to get acquainted with electronics parts codes and soldering techniques.
• Light Patterns with LEDs and Microcontrollers look great on robots.
• Sensors make robots aware of their environment.
• Dreamteam Neuromachine Learning Wednesdays group can help us teach our robots how to learn.

Organizer Contacts

User:Lxpk

Participants

• Chris B
• Divya

Meetings

Nov 23 2015

• Attending: Alex, Lisha, Joe, Chris
• Lisha: I started a robotics controller project that could power agricultural and RC car controlling applications. We focused on crowdsourced design and I'm interested in a way for people to iterate on their designs such as walking.
• Joe: I'm from Uganda and went to computer school there. One of my friends when I moved there has a hackspace in Uganda. Henry's group has been doing robots and whatever. They suggested I check out Noisebridge. The space is callde Hackers For Charity.
• How to adjust the bot parts to fit better
  • Kevin is adjusting the parts to recess the servos deeper and fit the arms better.
• How to manufacture the bot parts
  • Type A Machines could print parts for us
  • We should visit them in San Leandro
• What the bot could do
  • Participate in making pizzas
    • Toppings placing and tossing
    • Slizing knife
    • Sauce laying tube
    • Field trip to learn about pizza hacking: Visit PizzaHacker and learn about his DIY oven

Nov 8 2015

• Attending: Alex, Chris, Divya
• Introductions
  • Alex: I teach game programming and that has always left me with robot envy because game AI characters cannot take over the actual world. So I want to build robots to be able to teach both virtual world and physical world taking overness to kids.
  • Divya: I'm here to absorb different types of hacking, software and hardware. I want to think creatively by exposing myself to random things till I find the idea I life and can focus on it.
  • Chris: I would like to build a robot. I've always wanted to build a robot. I plan on using this opportunity to motivate myself to finally put together the tabletop arm design I've had for a long time. I will put it to use building things for me. I can't physically build them all with my two hands. It will do fast accurate repetitive work. I could buy one like that, but its a lot of fun to build it. Once I have a relatively inexpensive arm that works well, I can replicate that and make a kit other people can build too!

• What we did so far?
  • We gave a 5 minute presentation to the Chinese delegation at Circuit Hacking which was translated for them live!
  • We attempted to stuff the power connector plugs with something to get them to stay in but it wasn't working, we should get proper connector adapters
  • I think we need a Tamiya to pigtail connector

• What would we like the robot to do?
  • Divya:
    • Massage walks on your back and lets you tell it where and how to massage you
      • This can be prototyped using the xbox controller before doing speech recognition
    • Monitoring your flat to record intruders such as land ladies
  • Lizzy
    • Challenge your friends who come in with a challenge of riddles
    • Pick up dog poop
    • Move like an animal
  • Safety:
    • Account for default mode and make sure that when it loses connection, crashes, etc, that it definitely shuts down
    • Training it to recognize table edges and avoid them
    • Potentially high power energy source
    • Thermistor on board to watch out for fire
    • Arms
    • Spider arms
    • No pincers!
    • One large one and one small one
  • Cameras
    • 360 cameras would be awesome for looking around through Oculus
    • Hemispherical mirror kit exists
    • OpenCV vision system
      • Face Detection
  • Speakers

• • Is our robot wireless?
  • N

• Is the robot for home or office?

• • Detect emotion by doing voice stress analysis
  • Prosidy software

• Voice detection could count how many times you say umm ahh and coach you
• Game console so you can play games with and against it

• • Someone made a Tinder called Rumbler for starting fights in your area

• • Things to add to the robot
    • Sensors
      • Force sensors to know when the robot is touching something

• • Depth cameras such as kinect to sense the room around it.

• • Nerf gun
  • Do my homework