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ROBOTICS
MARCH 2016
ISSUE 308
Motion-Control Systems
and
innovative robotic
applications
Q&A: Insights from a “Life Hacker”
Smartphone-Controlled
Data Center
Tracking Robot | DIY Wearable Beat Generator | Robot Firmware
Storage & Execution | Build a Sight-Reading System
PWM LEDs | Magnetism 101
Monitoring | MCU-Based Message Monitor | Analog Side of
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CIRCUIT CELLAR • MARCH 2016 #308
CREATIVE ENGINEERING
I’m excited to announce that this issue features articles about a few of the
most cutting-edge topics in engineering: robot design, wearable electronics,
3-D printing, and smartphone-controlled robotics. Once you’re done reading, I
encourage you to hit your workbench, design something innovative, and then
send us a writeup and photos!
3-D printing is enabling engineers to rapidly prototype designs that just a
few years ago would have taken weeks or months. On page 16, Richard Quan
and Shiva Rajagopal explain how they built an innovative wearable drumbeat
generator with a microcontroller, several sensors, and two 3-D printed sensor
boxes.
Kenichi Kato built a compact humanoid robot, Matanya. On page 26 he
presents his design and describes a method for enabling a robot’s functions by
triggering firmware.
Turn to page 34 to learn how Victor Fei, Olivia Gustafson, and José Villegas
designed and built a microcontroller-based, sight-reading assistant. The
innovative design displays scrolling sheet music on a monitor and compares the
notes to those played on a custom piano keyboard.
The demand for smartphone-controllable electronics is always increasing. On
page 42, Anthony Brill, Matthew Moorhead, & Jonghyun Bae present a smartphone-
controlled omnidirectional robot that can detect and track colored objects.
Interested in hackerspaces and the growth of supportive electronics
communities? Check out Wisse Hettinga’s interview (p. 48) with inventor and
Noisebridge founder Mitch Altman.
In “Seeing Into Data Centers,” Ayse Coskun describes the architecture for a
multilayer monitoring infrastructure for an open regional public cloud (p. 52). The
hope is to give technicians a better means to analyze the performance and power
consumption of a data center’s hardware and software.
As engineers, you have the skills and ingenuity to build many of the electronic
systems the average consumer must buy. George Novacek recently did just that
when he built a message monitor with a microcontroller and some basic circuitry
(p. 58).
Ed Nisley is one of the most interesting and intellectually curious engineers
our team has ever worked with. This month, in “The Analog Side of PWM LEDs,”
Ed explains how Neopixels work and examines the current pulses generated by
their PWM controllers (p. 62).
Each month Jeff Bachiochi delivers something informational and inspirational,
whether it is a new MCU-based project or a handy, immediately applicable
engineering tip. This month he tackles the basics of magnetism and a system to
electronically monitor analog pressure gauges (p. 68).
We end this issue with engineer Taylor Alexander’s essay on the future of
robotics (p. 80). Let us know what you think about his ideas regarding the possible
socioeconomic effects of the robotics revolution.
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