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This tutorial explains how you can use a serial protocol to control the mBot educational robot. You can adapt the code to make it more suitable for your project (or for use in RoboCup Jr events for example). Robot teleoperation with an XBee chip offers 2 major advantages: How does our assembly work? The system[…]
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The Makey Makey kit allows you to transform objects into keyboards ! Modelling clay, sponge, pencil lead… All you need are objects that conduct electricity , a bit of imagination and a few programming blocks on the Scratch software, and children can realise various projects, such as the famous banana piano , a video gamepad[…]
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The DYNAMIXEL X series is a new range of inexpensive high performance servo motors. The XL series has the same mechanical structure as the XM430 and XH430 , and it’s compatible with the latter. These servo motors directly embark their network card which allows the communication with the other servos motors as well as with[…]
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This Arduino based project tutorial was created by an amateur and is mainly aimed at other amateurs, or anyone with a bit of curiosity for this type of electronic DIY projects. The author appeals in advance to the benevolence of the venerable experts whom would like to dig a little in the code or in[…]
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Inirobot is a sequence of educational activities which will allow pupils and teachers to become acquainted with robotics. The robotic platform chosen for the implementation of this project is the educational robot Thymio II. With its small size, light weight and colored leds, the Thymio II is the ideal learning tool for kids! The 3[…]
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Easy start-up with the Poppy Humanoid robot! Assembling the robot Start by checking that you received all parts (list for Poppy Humanoid and Poppy Torso). The boxes with only one Dynamixel servomotor contain a 20cm cable and a horn (HN07-N101 for MX-28 and HN05-N102 for MX-64), so what you received should match with the official[…]
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What are the differences between Ozobot Bit and Ozobot Evo? Bit and Evo are two small robots from Ozobot and they both are about the size of a walnut. At the beginning, we were a little sceptical – what could be possible with such a small robot? But they have convinced us very fast: small[…]
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A year came to an end, and a new one just began.. it will be filled with new challenges, exciting projects, and sometimes changes for you and us. It was a great year for Génération Robots, filled with new exchanges, travels, partnerships, new robots and cool products! We are starting this new year with a[…]
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Context: Robotics in a high-risk area One good example of when robots are needed to replace humans is when it comes to intervening in high-risk areas, for example at the bottom of the sea, in space or in extreme terrain conditions (climate, topography, radioactivity, etc.). Robots operating in extreme environments The CEA commissioned Génération Robots[…]
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Genesis of the Scratch + Sawyer project To celebrate the 2017 Scratch conference taking place in Bordeaux as we write these lines, Génération Robots has decided to mix for this one of a king demo, technologies from the factories of the future (Sawyer) with Scratch, a great tool to teach kids and beginners alike to[…]
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