Terrapin Logo supports robotics with built-in commands for Lego’s RCX and NXT robotic controllers. Use Terrapin Logo to start and stop motors, read and react to switches and sensors, and control and integrate your robotic constructions into your Logo environment.
So i got in touch with the Terrapin team to get an evaluation version. I will write about my experiences with Terrapin Logo here. Until then, have a look at the Homepage and also take a look at the Pro-Bot Robot, a Logo-integrated Robot.
John Robinson Pierce was born in March 27, 1910 Des Moines – Iowa and died at April 2, 2002 in Sunnyvale – California. During his life time was he an expert in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music and psychoacoustics. His team developed in the year 1949 the first transistor. This pioneer work allowed the building of modern digital computers and robots, as well as nearly all digital components of our every day life.
For those that would like to learn more about this pioneer we recommend flowing artikels:
As we have already reported is the „Fraunhofer Autonomous Intelligent Robotics Devices“ Library now open source and available at the sourceforge project „OpenVolksBot„. In addition we can know report some more details on it.
The FAIRlib is now organized as several Eclipse-Project (fairAlgorithm, fairCore, fairDevices, fairGraphics, fairTestAlgorithm, fairTestCore, fairTestDevices and fairTestGraphics). This allows an easy extending and compiling the projects and minimizes the cross dependencies.
The dependences are listed in the ReadMe and can be auto installed by using the script „apt-get-fair“
A way of easy installing is given by the script „install-fair„
The current version is tested on the Ubuntu 9.10 (64-Bit) , but will also work on other OS (by side of auto solving the dependences)
to get all you need to run Logo-programs on you NXT.
Edit (Sebastian Trella): My first tries with this NXT_Logo-project were successful after some small problems. I will inform you about Logo-projects coming up here…
Because the original Download Servers are not well reachable and some of my downloads failed, i decided to host a copy here: nxt_logo_2009_july_25 (Copyright Pavel Petrovic, IDI NTNU, robotika.sk.)
Developing and programming robotic systems can sometimes be an unsatisfying task. This feeling is mostly not related to problems that occur during „high level“ problem solving. It is mostly appearing if you try to get the system it self up and running. So tools and solutions are needed to help us to overcome these initialization barriers.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems or for short Fraunhofer IAIS, does now offer a special computer library that can support the developer to get a width field of sensors and actors up and running. In addition it includes a various number of algorithmic for every day robotic problems like Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) or image processing. The so called „Fraunhofer Autonomous Intelligent Robotics Devices Library“ or for short FAIR library, is a C/C++ development library which is actively used in the VolksBot® projects and is released as open source project under the GNU-license Creative Commons.
FAIRlib is soon available at the sourceforge project „OpenVolksBot„.
Updated: The initail version is now available (see also here) and is published under the CC-by-sa-nc.
NI LabVIEW Education Edition software helps high school teachers bring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts to life through hands-on learning. With LabVIEW, you can quickly build a program to log data, power a robot, or analyze information. The new LabVIEW Education Edition was designed in conjunction with Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach to meet the needs of engineering educators, and works seamlessly with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT, Vernier SensorDAQ and Go! Sensors, and TETRIX™ by Pitsco.
RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech is currently working on „Robot Evolution Through Intelligent Design“. This means they are taking evolutionary inspired designs and try to adopted them to robotic purpose. Dennis W. Hong, PhD and his students have been creating a lot of really interesting new robots, for example three legged robots, snake like robots or humanoids (e.g. DARwIn). The talk from the TEDxNASA conference, Mr. Hong offers a short overview of their research.
By the way, if you’re wondering about that motto and how „evolution“ can meet „intelligent design“ here comes the answer. Hong tells us:
„Though it has both evolution and intelligent design in the sentence, it has nothing to do with either – „we“ push the boundaries and come up with the next generation robotics (robot evolution) through us doing rigorous research and designing them intelligently (intelligent design). I think it is a clever tag line for our lab.“
I2C is one of the most used electronically data bus that is extremely often used in embedded systems. It is used for attaching sensors, actuators of other subsystems into the system.
Recently i have found a good introduction which includes background knowledge and a HowToUs on www.uchobby.com.
Europe is looking for talents! Those who are members of EURON have already read the announcement, those who are not must read now. The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation is proud to introduce ‘Campus Party Europe.’ This event will be held in Madrid from April 14th to April 18th of 2010, celebrating the Spanish Presidency of the European Union and organized by Asociacion E3 Futura.
For four days, 800 young people from each of the 27 member states of the EU will participate in activities such as conferences, workshops and challenges centred around three knowledge areas: Science (Robotics, Astronomy and Modding), Digital Creativity (Video, Animation, Design, Photography and Blogs) and Innovation (Application development and Security). Travel, accomodation and catering costs will be fully covered by the organizaton!
In order to obtain your invitation, all you have to do is being registered as Campusero (if you still aren’t registered just fill the registration form with your personal data) and attach the information on the project in which you are participating at your “User Card” of the web.
What’s more, the best projects will be shown in the “Projects Forum” which will be held during Campus Party Europe and three of them (one from each area of knowledge: Science, Innovation and Digital Creativity) will be awarded with 3.000 Euros each.
