Thursday, February 24, 2011

Arduino Servo Control




In this Project, we want to control servo motor potitions from analog sensor ( potentiometer or flex sensor ).
The Hardware


Write from Arduino to LCD


 Scheme Description:
  • Connect the LCD RS pin to the Arduino pin 12
  • Connect the LCD enable pin to the Arduino pin 11 
  • Connect the LCD D4 to D7 pins into pin 5 to 2 Arduino
  • Connect the LCD +5 and ground to pin +5 V and ground Arduino
  • Connect the pin to a potentiometer LCD Vo. Use of this potentiometer is to adjust the LCD contrast

Temperature Sensor Using Arduino and LM35



LM35 is a temperature sensor from National Semiconductor that have a high accuracy. The output of analog voltage and has a measurement range of -55 º C to +150 º C with an accuracy of ± 0.5 º C. Output voltage is 10mV / º C. Output ports can be directly connected to Arduino, because Arduino has 6 ADC ports (analog input).

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Interfacing Arduino and PC using VB 6




One of the conveniences that exist on the Arduino is a serial communication function that has been bundled in the Arduino software. With the serial function, then the Arduino can communicate two ways with PC using a program created with Visual Basic 6.
In this project, we will combining the Digital Data and Analog Data. How to receive and transmit Digital and Analog Data  from Arduino to PC and vice versa.

Arduino Conditions:
  1. Digital Input Signal from Push Button
  2. Analog Digital Input Signal from LDR
  3. Digital Output Signal at LED (on-off)
  4. Analog Outpuy Signal at LED (brightness).

Arduino Uno





The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 replaced old version Arduino called Arduino Duemilanove. Arduino Uno will initially be named Arduino Uno Punto Zero (Italian) which means Arduino 1.0. However, that name is to long, so to be short and easily remembered by the world, finally selected the name Arduino Uno, orArduino version 1.0
Arduino Uno has significant changes compared with the change of board Diecimila to Duemilanove (2009).

Monday, February 21, 2011

"Ornithopter," The Nano-Hummingbird


"ornithopter," the Nano-Hummingbird, developed by the company AeroVironment Inc., the miniature spybot looks like a hummingbird complete with flapping wings, and is only slightly larger and heavier than most hummingbirds, but smaller than the largest species.

The ornithopter can fly into buildings under the control of an operator flying the spybot with the help of a feed from its tiny video camera. The prototype is capable of flying at speeds of up to 18 km/h (11 mph) and weighs 19 grams, which is about the same as an AA battery.

Super Robust Anthropomorphic Robot Hand


German researchers may have an anthropomorphic robot handthat a collision with hard objects, and even the strike, without breaking into pieces survive Hammer built.
In designing the new site, a researcher at the Institute of Roboticsand Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center, part of the (DLR),focused on resilience. You may only have built a robot hand of themost difficult yet.
DLR hand has articulated a shape and size of the human hand withfive fingers through a network of 38 tendons each with a singleengine supports the forearm.
The main features of the DLR from the hand of the other robot cancontrol it its rigidity. The engine can strain the tendon, which thehand can to absorb the shock of the violence. In one study, theresearcher's hand collided with a baseball bat the effects of the66th G Good hands.

Japanese researcher unveils 'hummingbird robot'

Japanese researchers have developed a robotic bird that can movefreely in the air with rapid wing movement. Robot bird has a sizesimilar to a real bird Hummingbird, equipped with micro motors and four wings that can flaps 30 times per second, said HiroshiLiu, a researcher at the University of Chiba east of Tokyo.
Professor Hiroshi Ryu of Japan's Chiba University displays his flying robot, which flaps its wings 30 times per second like a hummingbird, at his laboratory in Chiba city, suburban Tokyo, December 28.

This unique robot has a weight of 2.6 gram, can fly 8 times morestable than a helicopter with propeller. This bird robot is controlled by infrared sensors and can move up, down, right or left.
Hiroshi Liu plans to make it float to rest at one point in the air, andequip it with a micro camera in March 2011.
This robot development cost 200 million yen ($ 2.1 million), can be used to help rescue people trapped in damaged buildings, looking for criminals or even operate as a vehicle probe on Mars.



22mm BX4 Series Brushless DC Servomotor

The world's smallest brushless DC servomotor, the FAULHABER series 2232/2250 BX4 CSD/CCD from MICROMO, combines the advantages of the BX4 four-pole brushless technology with a single-axis motion controller.

MICROMO introduces an addition to its FAULHABER BX4 range of four-pole brushless DC servomotors with the introduction of the series 2232/2250 BX4 CSD/CCD, the world’s most compact drive with an integrated motion controller. This new series combines all the advantages of the BX4 four-pole brushless technology with a single-axis motion controller. High reliability, high torque, compact slotless design with no cogging torque, and robust construction without the use of adhesives make this new series ideal for complex application areas such as robotics, automation, medical and laboratory technology, specialty machinery, and aerospace/defense.