Tag: arduino
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STONE TFT LCD for weather station
The company recently needs to develop a project that focuses on real-time monitoring of the surrounding environment. I need to buy some components to do pre-project testing. Components: 1. Programmable screen 2. Microprocessor 3. Photo resistor sensor
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Interview with Ubuntu boss: A rich ecosystem for robotics and automation systems
Exclusive interview with Mike Bell from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu There’s a lot of talk about the Robot Operating System. Understandably so. But the most widely used operating system in robotics and automation systems development is actually Ubuntu. In fact, ROS is not actually an operating system at all – it’s a set of software…
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Startup launches desktop robot selling for less than $300
These days, it seems barely a week goes by without someone somewhere building a robotic arm of some description. Using components which can be bought from almost anywhere online, and chipsets such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, the “makers” of the world are launching more and more sophisticated pieces of equipment. While there are internationally agreed codes about what defines…
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Startup company claims it has developed ‘the world’s best’ all-in-one Arduino-based platform
A startup company has released an Arduino-based, open-source prototyping platform which can be used to build autonomous vehicles and robotic arms as well as home automation systems. Called Evive – and stylised as evive – the electronic prototyping platform has been raising funds on Indiegogo, reaching 75 per cent of the way to its goal of…