The Aurorans - Making robots a reality now

Making robots a reality now

Making robots as cheap, ubiquitous and available as mobile phones.

Latest Activity

Dan Bachmann is now a member of The Aurorans Feb 16, 2010

Welcome Them!

US Security Robot - Landshark-D

Dany/Dave, take a look at this at see what you think, there is also a fair amount of guff about it on the company's website…See More

Blog post by Paul Fitz-George Jan 19, 2010

0 Comments

9 more…

Photos posted by danny Staple Dec 27, 2009

Dean Moses left a comment for Paul Fitz-George

Hello Paul. My appologies for the lack of input lately, but I have been distracted by some heavy work commitments. I should have a lot more free time by the end of this week.

Dec 7, 2009

Dean Moses is now a member of The Aurorans Dec 7, 2009

Welcome Them!

Paul Fitz-George left a comment for Dave Snowdon

Hi Dave, the site's starting to look really good and it was good of Danny to set it up, I'll start trawling for articles to put up from magazines etc. as well as on the Meetup site. As I said Dave, this looks like a good place along with…

Dec 6, 2009

Dave Snowdon is now a member of The Aurorans Dec 2, 2009

Welcome Them!

Paul Fitz-George left a comment for danny Staple

I've mailed this to you DAnny but not sure if it went, anyway here it is again. You have author rights Danny, can you please put a link (if that's possible) on the Aurorans site and then we can think about what we want to put on this…

Nov 24, 2009

danny Staple left a comment for Paul Fitz-George

Yup - exactly that.

Nov 24, 2009

Paul Fitz-George left a comment for danny Staple

I like the look and feel of it Danny, I take it we run this in parallel to the Meetup site and point at files, pictures etc. from there? Cheers, Paul

Nov 23, 2009

danny Staple left a comment for Paul Fitz-George

Hopefully you have had an opportunity to explore this - any thoughts?

Nov 22, 2009

Danny just did a great job putting this new feature together...well done Danny!

Status posted by Paul Fitz-George Nov 16, 2009

Paul Fitz-George updated their profile Nov 16, 2009

Paul Fitz-George is now a member of The Aurorans Nov 16, 2009

Welcome Them!

What is a photovore?

A photovore is any robot attracted to light. They can built in a complex way using microcontrollers and programming, or a simple way using basic electronics. Normally a photocell, LDR or photosensitive transistor is used for these, but in some BEAM based robots, properties of simple LED's are exploited for this.The simplest program for a photovore is to take the difference between two sensors, one of the left and on on the right, and then distribute power to two wheel motors based on the…See More

Blog post by danny Staple Nov 10, 2009

0 Comments

Groups

Add a Group

Events

Add an Event

Blog Posts

US Security Robot - Landshark-D

Dany/Dave, take a look at this at see what you think, there is also a fair amount of guff about it on the company's website…

Continue

Posted by Paul Fitz-George on January 19, 2010 at 10:05pm

What is a photovore?

A photovore is any robot attracted to light. They can built in a complex way using microcontrollers and programming, or a simple way using basic electronics. Normally a photocell, LDR or photosensitive transistor is used for these, but in some BEAM based robots, properties of simple LED's are exploited for this.

The simplest program for a photovore is to take the difference between two sensors, one of the left and on on the right, and then distribute power to two wheel motors based… Continue

Posted by danny Staple on November 10, 2009 at 7:53am