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November 2025

July 2025

June 2025

28-06-2025
Arduino/ROS2 Self-Driving Robot 120mm Build Pack

Arduino/ROS2 Self-Driving Robot 120mm Build Pack

Source: makerspet.com

Learn professional robotics basics hands-on by building a little Arduino and ROS2 -compatible robot. Maker's Pet Mini robot consists of a 120mm round base, two N20 motors (differential drive), a 360° scanning 2D LiDAR distance sensor, a motor driver board and an ESP32 development board. The Mini robot comes with step-by-step "from-scratch" assembly, setup, bring-up, operation instruction videos

Linked is a very nice beginner ROS2 robot. Amazingly inexpensive. 1/4 the price of a turtlebot. I am ordering one to see how it is!

Tags: robotics

April 2025

December 2024

27-12-2024
RoboGrok University-Level Robotics Course and Parts Kit

RoboGrok University-Level Robotics Course and Parts Kit

Source: robogrok.com

RoboGrok is a complete hands-on university-level robotics course covering forward and inverse kinematics (Denavit-Hartenberg), sensors, computer vision (machine vision), Artificial Intelligence, and motion control.

Linked is a comprehensive course in robotics. All free. Pretty well known and respected. Worth a look!

Tags: robotics
14-12-2024
How to Calculate the Motor Torque for a Mobile Robot

How to Calculate the Motor Torque for a Mobile Robot

Source: wiki.dfrobot.com

This guide outlines how to calculate power parameters for a mobile robot and select an appropriate power system. We cover frictional and acceleration forces, wheel type, and motor parameters to design a direct-drive system with a brushless motor. With the rated voltage, speed, and torque of the motor, we calculate the required power and minimum battery capacity to power the robot successfully. This discussion is a valuable resource for designing or selecting a power system for an indoor, service-oriented mobile robot capable of carrying a payload of 20 kg and achieving a speed of 1.

Linked is an article explaining how to calculate torque. But why? When choosing a motor for a robot, you need to calculate the torque required, which in turn depends on the weight of the robot, the diameter of the wheels, and other parameters.

Tags: robotics
04-12-2024
Random Nerd Tutorials | Learn ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

Random Nerd Tutorials | Learn ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

Source: randomnerdtutorials.com

Random Nerd Tutorials helps makers, hobbyists and engineers build electronics projects. We make projects with: ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Home Automation and Internet of Things. If you want to learn electronics and programming, you're in the right place.

I just came across the linked catalog of free tutorials. Looks like it could be very useful! Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and more.

Tags: esp32

September 2024

27-09-2024
Lessons Learned: The Evolution of an Undergraduate Robotics Course in

Lessons Learned: The Evolution of an Undergraduate Robotics Course in

Source: link.springer.com

Seven years ago (2016), we began integrating Robotics into our Computer Science curriculum. This paper explores the mission, initial goals and objectives, specific choices we made along the way, and why and outcomes. Of course, we were not the first to do so. Our...

The link is to a paper of mine that was/will be published as a chapter in this volume

Tags: robotics

June 2024

24-06-2024
GitHub - akshetP/robotics-resources: A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists.

GitHub - akshetP/robotics-resources: A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists.

Source: github.com

A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists. - akshetP/robotics-resources

Attached another huge collection of resources relating to robotics. There are some other libraries like this. This makes it difficult when you are searching for one thing or another. Still I thought I would include this here because this is a goldmine!

Tags: Robotics
01-06-2024
Ifttt

Ifttt

Source: ifttt.com

Get started with IFTTT, the easiest way to automate your favorite apps and devices for free. Make your home more relaxing. Make your work more productive. We...

What a wonderful tool!

Tags: automation

May 2024

April 2024

14-04-2024
Introduction | Foxglove | Docs

Introduction | Foxglove | Docs

Source: docs.foxglove.dev

Foxglove helps teams explore, collaborate on, and ultimately make sense of their data more efficiently.

I have seen this demoed. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks great. In summary (I think) it is an RVIZ++ but that runs in a web browser. So, you can for example access it from an iPad or a non-Linux computer. Looks very useful.

Tags: ros