The "Build Your Own Gadget" Club : AdMoVeo: Robotic Platform for Teaching

By Paul Escallier , published on February 8, 2010 at 8:20 PM
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Created by Sjriek Alers and Jun Hu

Designing intelligent products, systems, and related services require designers to be able to integrate different technologies into their designs. In the real world, larger-scale products generally have two teams working on them, one handling the programming, such as AI, and the other handling the hardware, such as circuits, motors, and sensors. Sjriek Alers and Jun Hu from the industrial design department at Eindhoven University of Technology, created AdMoVeo as a platform for design students to bypass the complexities of hardware and circuit design and to instead focus on the programming aspect. AdMoVeo itself is a small, versatile robot platform, capable of being programmed for functions like autonomous motion involving line following, wall detection, sound detection, and light detection. They can even be programmed to play small-scale, soccer-like games. You can find more information about AdMoVeo on the researchers’ official Webpage  and in their paper.

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back_by_demand 02/09/2010 1:26 PM
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Picture 7
RAILGUN FTW!!!

Anonymous 02/09/2010 5:41 PM
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Picture 18 bad link.

megamanx00 02/09/2010 6:23 PM
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The Best one has to be the Rail Gun, and then he's making an upgraded one at that. OMFG! Looking at the power it requires one wonders if a laser would be better, but I think there is just something about projectile weapons we seem to really like.

atomrend 02/09/2010 6:25 PM
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The link for the Faceman(#19) internet remote has a typo in it. I would like something like that to control electrical use in my place. Use the web to turn the water heater on or off. I do think something like this would be best using the electrical wiring throughout the home as the network. For something like this, it does not have to be very fast.

Anonymous 02/09/2010 6:39 PM
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Picture 8 of 33 has a space at the end of the link.
http://roteno.com/?q=node/78%20
Link should read:
http://roteno.com/?q=node/78

Tomsguiderachel 02/09/2010 8:28 PM
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Thanks for all the comments notifying us of the bad links. We experienced a strange bug on our URLs today but it should all be fixed now.

quantumrand 02/11/2010 4:29 AM
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My favorites are AeroQuad and Puzzlemation.

I'm tempted to try my hand at the whole Maker scene by making an AeroQuad-like system. I might start off with a cheap 3-axis accelerometer stabilization and remote flight. Then later I'll see about adding additional axis and GPS for flight automation, maybe solar cells for prolonged flights.

It would be pretty awesome to make it capable of navigating from one coast to the other, with a cellular GSM module for communication for status updates and recieving weather information.

elel 02/16/2010 1:19 AM
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If you like the rail gun, you should look at powerlabs.org!!!

anamaniac 02/16/2010 1:45 PM
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elel :
If you like the rail gun, you should look at powerlabs.org!!!


If you like the railgun, you should see what the American military are doing. =)

Physics is awesome. Lets go blow stuff up (in the name of science, of course).

bogcotton 02/16/2010 5:50 PM
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Number 16 is just asking to be modified by drug smugglers.

JohnnyLucky 02/17/2010 8:22 AM
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PHOOEY! I wanted the Sparkfun Electronics movie poster. I went to the Sparkfun web site and discovered it is a one of a kind poster made in house as a Christmas gift to the boss! :(