oculus circuit boards shipping
After well exceeding Colin’s kickstarter goal, circuit boards are getting turned out on mass. How would much you enjoy boot loading a 100 PCB’s in your garage?Colin says it’s zen like. I really prefer writing code, breaking things etc. Cool new 3d sensor for Oculus is available for developers. More information on the new page...
oculus on kick starter
Now you pledge support (buy a robot or a shirt) to support Colin’s garage alliance of robot builders and coders. Kick Starter is a really cool way to crowd source funds and interest for your new project. Lots of clever devices you wouldn’t get with the current, odious venture capital game. The bot has also...
new battery and chair mount
From drawing board to being ready to install in single day? Colin, same guy that is now selling wifi robots, salvaged an old power drill to go with the new Lithium-ion battery pack for my chair. More Ardiuno and IOIO protects are possible now that I have a power supply I can remove and charge...
oculus developer
New updates to open source projects this week. You can get from SVN Trunk or just get this jar file. Basically this is a developer API to control the bot. You can send commands and get notifications about changes. This lets a 3rd party application hook in even without the web based GUI. So, you...
oculus available soon
My friend Colin has project that I’ve been helping him test for the last few months.. and now oculus finally ready for market! Colin has made bikes and my custom climbing rig in the past, but he has always wanted to make affordable wifi robots. The key to oculus is the low cost but fully...
aldebaran robotics’ nao
Solid state sensors and high torque servos are getting cheaper all the time, but it is the software methodologies that needed to change for walking to be considered a “primitive behavior”. Any kids learning about robots would, and should, assume that we have walking sorted. Getting back into standing from an unknown state, say on...