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GRIS Light Calibration
For some time now, the biggest roadblock to implementing my robot has been with screen communications. Now and then the path data transfer procedure works perfectly, other times it doesn’t work… more →
Engineer Zero
All-Call: DC GIRC
wrote 3 weeks ago: Everyone, Andrew Goddard’s time as DC of GIRC is coming to an end. With that, I’d like t … more →
GRIS Light Calibration
wrote 1 year ago: For some time now, the biggest roadblock to implementing my robot has been with screen communication … more →
LDR Cowling
wrote 1 year ago: This shows the gradual evolution of cowling solutions for the LDR. The presence of ambient light rai … more →
GIRC Robot Preliminary External Design
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m still attempting to integrate the servo command sketch with the flash communication sketch … more →
GIRC Screen-Flash Communications
wrote 1 year ago: Worst demo ever, but these days I only have two hands. Here I needed three: one for holding the set- … more →
GIRC Demo
wrote 1 year ago: On Saturday I made a brief presentation of GIRC at the monthly meeting of the Seattle Robotics Socie … more →
GIRC Robot Calibration Run
wrote 1 year ago: It’s Calibration Run Time here at GIRC Central. First we run GIRC and load in a path file of a … more →
Arduino reading screen flashes
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve upgraded the hardware to include two LEDs in addition to the phototransistor. Based on th … more →
GIRC test drive on blocks
wrote 1 year ago: GIRC (Graphical Interface for Robotic Control) is a ‘sketch’ written in Processing that … more →
Disorganized workspace, organized mind (I hope)
wrote 1 year ago: Today I verified that the Arduino sketch still runs the servos, and then I did some organizing and p … more →
Arduino Pin 13 as low-res serial monitor
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wrote 1 year ago: Now that I have data to send from the computer to the arduino, I’d like to verify that it has … more →
GIRC: Reviewing Output in the Processing Console
wrote 1 year ago: After I generate a path and convert the data into turn-and-move format, I want to send the data to t … more →
GIRC Distance Commands
wrote 1 year ago: In the above illustration, the first Command Element has a command code of 44, which tells us that i … more →
GIRC Turn Codes
wrote 1 year ago: Here we make a 76 degree right turn in GIRC, and this information has to be sent over the USB/Serial … more →
GIRC Path Data Conversion
wrote 1 year ago: The user inputs path data to GIRC by clicking points on the screen. Processing then draws segments b … more →
Five Stages of Programmer's Grief
wrote 1 year ago: I knew this, but I forgot it yesterday when I was working on GIRC. This convention of inverting the … more →
GIRC Path Calculations
wrote 1 year ago: The user guides the robot in GIRC by creating a path. The path is composed of segments which are cre … more →
GIRC data display with Processing
wrote 1 year ago: GIRC (Graphical Interface for Robotic Control) is a program (aka sketch) that is written in Processi … more →
Arduino and Photocell
wrote 1 year ago: This is an experiment out of the Getting Started with Arduino book. As you can see, an analog port i … more →
