31 Jul

Assembling Functional Robot from Designed Roco Components and Electronics

William Shih

This week I focused on fine tuning my RoCo component designs to fit with the electronics and assemble my first fully functional cut and fold robot. I wanted to make sure that my method for production would be feasible before I continued designing more components for robots with more functionalities....

25 Jul

Customizing Modular Components in RoCo to Allow for Easier Electronics Assembly

William Shih

This week I spent a lot of time familiarizing myself with making cutouts in RoCo which was quite difficult compared to creating the components by connecting faces, edges, and tabs. Creating cutouts and knowing how to position them in RoCo is particularly important and relevant to my project because...

25 Jun

Dashboard requirements

Grace Kwak

Dash I worked with the team of undergrads to develop this initial list of requirements for the dashboard. It's based on the kinds of experiments we plan to run and what kinds of data will be relevant. Of course, this is a preliminary list only, but I've specified that we will use modular design so...

06 Aug

Robot car and SCF paper preparation

Chang Liu

Robot Car And Paper Preparation This week, I built two fully functional wheeled robot cars as a tool to demonstrate the functionality of the corrugated structure. Figures Introduction Wheeled robot car Demo Videos Robot car with flat-plane wheels Robot car with corrugated wheels R...

30 Nov

Driving with RoCo

Gopi Suresh

RoCo's graphical interface can now be used to drive the four wheeled car created by Jack. In order to do this, the user must drag a NodeMCU, 4 Driven Servos, and 4 Constant Blocks into the workspace, and click export to generate a builder file. Then, you plug in the PWM pins into the Driven Servos...

08 Nov

Ensuring Stability in Roco's Electrical/Code Interface

Gopi Suresh

Last week, I identified that the source of many problems for the composite component interface was the manual serilization of the Blockly workspace. In an effor to rectify this, I spent this week designing and implementing a JSON framework to handle the serialization and deserialization for us. A...

02 Nov

Serialization in the RoCo code interface

Gopi Suresh

Over the past week, I worked on getting RoCo's composite code interface working. To do this, I graphically constructed a component that would take input through a Serial port, convert that to a string, and output a signal to a motor based on the contents of that string. I would then try to export it...

26 Oct

Fixing ports in the RoCo Interface

Gopi Suresh

This past week, while trying to make composite components using the RoCo interface, I discovered some issues. Before the Summer, Jack had started to work on integrating RoCo with Android devices. This works through an Android App that communicates with the Arduino using Serial. To achieve this, he h...

19 Oct

A more integrated interface

Gopi Suresh

This past Friday, Christian Prathyush and I met with some of the newer members of our lab who are interested in working on RoCo. Before we completely move to a new project, we got together to discuss what RoCo's status would be by then. One of the topics discussed was the fairly fragmented nature of...

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