I made a 3D printed mini ball launcher for my kids as part of a bigger project.
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3D printed mini ball launcher
Recycling toy model IR transmitters with Arduino
reverse enginering a Silverlit Falcon Nano controller
My kids received a Silverlit Falcon Nano toy helicopter for Christmas. They broke it it no time, so I ended up with broken helicopter, a working controller and a small challenge.
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Intel Edison MCU interrupt performance issues
I have been thinking a while about moving from Arduino to a platform with more computational power. I wanted something more powerful, but having real time capabilities in the same time. I tried inted Edison, and my experience was seriously disappointing.
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Remove impulse noise from ultrasonic sonar data
Mr. Stitson has an ultrasonic sonar mounted in the front. namely a HC-SR04; it is inexpensive, and ubiquitous, but unfortunately not quite reliable. In this post I try to fix it by means of software.
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Kid friendly robot car with LEGO platform
AKA Mr. Stitson
This is the second version of my robot car. I fixed most of the problems of the first version and built it on a chassis made myself. Some new features, e.g. an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), were also added.
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How to install GHC on Intel Edison Poky
I acquired an Intel Edison recently as part of my plans of moving from Arduino to a platform with more computation power. Edison has enough power to enable writing the software of my future robots in a dependently typed language, and it also has an MCU for the real time...
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DIY robot chassis with LEGO platform
The first version of my robot car went broken in no time, the acrylic chassis was a way to fragile for my kids. I decided that this time I build a chassis myself, something more sturdy, less expensive, more interesting for the kids, and (hopefully) cool looking.
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The third wave of open source
about open source insulin
I was 6 years old when Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1983. I was completely unaware of that historic moment, and, obviously, I couldn’t have cared less anyway.
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Kid friendly robot car
first approach
After I finished the delta robot, I felt confident enough to create something from scratch instead of following instructions. I engaged on building a simple robot car in the hope that my kids also find interest in that. This is the story of my first independent DIY project.
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Monadic templating in C#
Part 2
In this article, first, string interpolation is introduced briefly by contrasting it with some earlier approaches. Following that I'll show how to marry string interpolation with the previously introduced monadic generators.
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