Introduction
A ROS-enabled quadruped robot built with very powerful 46kg.cm servo motors. It is equipped with IMU and controlled with Nvidia Jetson N[……]
Quadruped Yuki Mini
May 4, 2021 Tech 2 comments
Introduction
Yuki Mini is a 12 DOF quadruped robot. It is controlled with a Raspberry Pi, an IMU, and off-the-shelf 9g-level servo motors. And it use[……]
Quadruped Robot Tsuki Mini
September 6, 2020 Tech 3 comments
Introduction
A ROS-enabled mini quadruped robot. A brand new design that is a very mini (and low-cost <$100) version of Quadruped Tsuki. It is sma[……]
Quadruped Robot Tsuki
October 13, 2019 Tech 9 comments
Introduction
A ROS-enabled highly-dynamic quadruped robot. A brand new design that is stronger, faster and more robust than Quadruped Kaze.
Quadruped Robot Kaze
Introduction
A ROS-enabled heavy-load quadruped robot built with strong RDS 3135 servo motor. A simple python library is introduced for multiple serv[……]
Servo Motor Control Using PCA9685 and Python
September 1, 2019 Tech 2 comments
I wrote an article on ROS servo motor control two years ago, and the method was successfully applied in my previous 9g Quadruped Robot project. Later,[……]
A Low-cost ROS Navigation Platform
January 4, 2018 Tech 2 comments tech
A low-cost ROS navigation platform equipped with:
* Odroid XU4 ~$80
* YD Lidar ~$80
* STM32 base board ~$40
* Battery ~$20
* Chassis with 2xDC mo[……]
Build a Smart Servo [step 1]: Circuit, Torque Sensing and PID Control
November 18, 2016 Tech No comments
Circuit
Bomlist:
- The servo I use is RDS3128 (28kgcm torque, 8V voltage, $20).
- The DC motor driver is MC33926 from Pololu ($17).
- And the MCU i[……]
Build a Smart Servo [step 0]: Basic Ideas
November 18, 2016 Tech No comments
Basic idea
The basic idea is to build a smart servo like Dynamixel, which is expensive and has more features than regular RC servos of course.
Fir[……]
inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 4]: Run, Forrest, Run!
October 7, 2016 Tech No comments
inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 3]: Leg V3.0 with Collision Problems Fixed
September 29, 2016 Tech No comments
inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 2]: Leg V2.0 with New Shock Absorber
Previous posts:
* inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 0]: Fusion360 model
* inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 1]: Laser Cutting Parts
I got some new longer shock a[……]
Explorer [step 0]: Indoor ROS Self-driving Mobile Platform
September 18, 2016 Tech No comments
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This project involves building an indoor self-driving mobile platform featured with laser scanner and ROS support. Here are some important fe[……]
inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 1]: Laser Cutting Parts
September 18, 2016 Tech 2 comments
Previous post: inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 0]: Fusion360 model
I recently got inspiRED Leg version 1.0 ready for my humanoid bipedal robot project wit[……]
inspiRED Leg Upgrade [step 0]: Fusion360 model
September 6, 2016 Tech 5 comments
I recently got started reworking on the leg of my inpiRED bipedal Humanoid robot project. The basic idea is to draw all the CAD files using Fusion 360[……]
Servo Control on Odroid U3 with Arduino and ROS
August 13, 2015 Tech No comments Odroid
This article shows you how to drive a hobby servo using Odroid U3.
Upload this to your Arduino board:
Play Sound and Text-to-Speech on Odroid U3
April 30, 2015 Tech No comments
After one week hacking I finally found out how to play sound or do text-to-speech on Odroid U3.
What you need to do is simply:
Set up VNC Server on Odroid U3
April 14, 2015 Tech 2 comments
This tutorial is aimed to set up the VNC server on your Odroid U3 so that you can get full access to its GUI using your laptop or desktop without usin[……]
Set up Odroid U3 with ROS
March 4, 2015 Tech 2 comments
Set up Odroid U3 with ROS
Flash the MicroSD card with new image (optional)
The MicroSD card which comes with the Odroid set has been flashed with[……]