Charleston Robotics ChIMP

 

San April 2, 2022 at Circuit Launch, Silicon Valley Robotics , hosting the Robot Block Party. 

This was a very cool, hoverboard based Balancing Telepresence Robot. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubRX6fqvuG0zC_k_302liQ

https://www.charlestonrobotics.com/    (site dead at this time, not on archive.org) 

https://www.instructables.com/ChIMP-This-IS-the-Droid-Youve-Been-Looking-For/

• An Arduino Mega https://store.arduino.cc/mega-2560-r3. Using the Mega because the project needs three hardware interrupt pins to decode the RC receiver's PWM signals.
• A Bosch BNO055 IMU https://www.adafruit.com/product/2472. Gives ready-to-use tilt angle estimation as well as gyro and accelerometer raw readings.
• An ODrive motor controller (48V) https://odriverobotics.com/shop/odrive-v35. Enables very smooth current control for the two motors.

https://github.com/CharlestonRobotics/ChIMP

Fwd: [HBRobotics] Arduino has Some New Stuff.

It's based on the 

https://www.himax.com.tw/products/cmos-image-sensor/image-sensors/hm01b0/

HM01B0 Ultra Low Power CIS

320 x 320  1/11″  Parallel & Serial Interface

The HM01B0 is an ultra low power CMOS Image Sensor that enables the integration of an “Always On” camera for computer vision applications such as gestures, intelligent ambient light and proximity sensing, tracking and object identification. The unique architecture of the sensor allows the sensor to consume very low power of <2mW at QVGA 30FPS.

The HM01B0 contains 320 x 320 pixel resolution and supports a 320 x 240 window mode which can be readout at a maximum frame rate of 60FPS, and a 2×2 monochrome binning mode with a maximum frame rate of 120FPS. The video data is transferred over a configurable 1 bit, 4bit or 8bit interface with support for frame and line synchronization. The sensor integrates black level calibration circuit, automatic exposure and gain control loop, self-oscillator and motion detection circuit with interrupt output to reduce host computation and commands to the sensor to optimize the system power consumption.

This chip screams optical flow. 

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: camp 
Subject: [HBRobotics] Arduino has Some New Stuff.
To: HomeBrew Robotics Club  

Dual processor board and a vision shield for machine learning and AI.

 

PORTENTA H7

https://store.arduino.cc/usa/portenta-h7 

 

ARDUINO PORTENTA VISION SHIELD

https://store.arduino.cc/usa/portenta-vision-shield 

 

Enjoy,

Camp

Mobile phone controlled robotics, Microbit, Arduino.

https://www.annikken.com/

from my 2014 blog post.
http://churchofbsd.blogspot.com/2014/06/annikken-andee.html

Harvard Researchers Build $10 Robot That Can Teach Kids to Code | WIRED

AERobot (Affordable Education Robot)

Complete robot system and curriculum to inspire and help students learn
Based on an Atmega168a  CPU it's capable as running as an Arduino if the boot loads is installed.  and a A3901 Motor Driver.
the Sanyo NRD2574I Surface Mount Micro Motors designed for vibrating Cell Phones.  https://solarbotics.com/download.php?file=373

https://sites.google.com/site/affordableeducationrobot/home

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/539

AERobot, a bot that can help teach programming and artificial intelligence to middle school kids and high schooler. That may seem like a rather expensive luxury for most schools, but it's not. It costs just $10.70. The hope is that it can help push more kids into STEM, studies involving science, technology, engineering, and math.


http://www.wired.com/2014/11/10-dollar-education-robot/

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