
Turbo: Orgins
Learn the history behind Digilent’s favorite robot!
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Learn the history behind Digilent’s favorite robot!
Read MoreDiscover your motivation style and how it can assist you in learning electronics!
Read MoreCheck out a sneak preview of what Digilent is bringing to the 2016 ASEE conference!
Read MoreIn celebration of this year’s Eyeo Festival, Quinn counts down her top five LabVIEW inspired projects.
Read MoreOur illustrious Zybot travels abroad! Kaitlyn provides details on the recent international activities of the globe-trotting robot.
Read MoreWhen it comes to homebrew robotics, buy the brain but build the brawn… with Jay’s cheap robot series!
Read MoreAs I am sure many hackers, hobbyists, and tinkerers can agree, writing a program and seeing the results can be a fun experience. What I find particularly fun, though, is …
Read MoreWe have creepy costumes AND devilish decor. With stepper motors.
Read MoreMaking a tangible difference with open source robotics.
Read MoreMaking a robot with a ZedBoard.
Read MoreHave you ever wanted to prove your superiority by embarrassing a friend in a race? Well, now you can with my racing robots project! Using the chipKIT WF32, a Leap Motion Controller, and LabVIEW, I was able to use the Leap Motion Controller to control the speed of a robot.
Read MoreJosh explains some good uses for the PmodCON3!
Read MoreFrom Flying Dart Boards to Self-Balancing Copters, Josh takes us through some of his favorite demos from this years NI Week.
Read MoreWe’ve been doing a lot with 3D printing around the office lately. Kaitlyn has been using Tinkercad primarily for making robot parts for the Digilent MRK and SRK, but she obviously didn’t start with a project on that level. To begin, she decided to make something simpler to get used to Tinkercad’s basic functionality. A cookie cutter seemed like a good place to start, so Turbo (our MakerSpace mascot) lent his likeness to it.
Read MoreOne of the teams in the Digilent Design Contest 2015 designed the “Keep Close to Me” robot. It was created to make life easier for seniors and other mobility-limited groups. It can fetch pills or carry a glass of water by moving within a specified environment. This innovative project is in its first iteration but shows a good deal of promise.
Read MoreIt’s been a gorgeous (and desperately hot) summer out here so far, and we can’t think of a better way to spend an oppressively hot day than to switch on fleet of oscillating fans, pile on some ice packs, and enjoy some of the latest events and projects that Digilent’s blog has to offer! We’ve also been harnessing the seemingly infinite energy of a few new interns to aid us in the prep for ASEE, so be sure to check back for updates on the conference later next week.
Read MoreIn keeping with our open-source initiative, the Digilent Marketing Team used open-source parts to build a robot. This is an altered version of the MRK Line Robot, which uses only open-source components.
Read MoreIf you’ve been around the Digilent Blog, you’ve probably seen a lot of robots. Remember Susan the Line-Following Pig? Well, I recently found a small, portable solar panel in the MakerSpace at Digilent and I was inspired to build a solar-powered robot. Similar to Susan, I will be using the chipKIT Pro MX4 and the Digilent Motor Robot Kit (MRK) for my solar-powered design. However, when I first came up with this idea, it was the middle of winter. That being said, sunlight was quite a bit more scarce, especially up here in Pullman, WA. I first had to ask an important question: will I have enough sun?
Read MoreWhat a (last) weekend! The MakerSpace at Digilent traveled all the way down to San Mateo for the Bay Area Maker Faire 2015, our first Maker Faire as a MakerSpace. This is the first post in a series recapping what we saw and did. We had an amazing turnout at our booth, which you’ll hear about in a later post. To start us off, we each wrote a bit about our first impressions of Maker Faire as a whole. I’ll keep my part short as this is going to be a long post already!
Read MoreDo Fridays ever have a whimsical feel? They do for us, so we thought we’d do a short retrospective on our fantastic mascot, Turbo.
Read MoreAleph 1.0 is a remote-controlled robotic manipulator for biological or chemical probes. Its purpose is to allow scientists to safely manipulate and analyze biohazardous or toxic substances, or to simply observe or interact with small probes and/or devices that must be contained in controlled environments. Instructables user kovari_andrei provides a tutorial for doing just that. It uses the chipKIT Pro MX7, and we’re thrilled to see our products being used in such cool ways.
Read MoreHere at Digilent, we believe that makers are learners! This means that we want people to take our stuff, and make something new from it. One great example is what this blog post is about– the line-following robots! One of our community members made an alternate, 3D-printable design for our base plate!
Read MoreTwo California hotels tested autonomous service robots over a six-month period. Reviews from their customers were overwhelmingly positive (except when aforementioned customers were intoxicated). They will be rolling out their next wave of autonomous service robots, called the Relay.
Read MoreWhat a week it’s been! Between the beginning of new month, Groundhog Day, and some big changes to the blog (we hope you’ve noticed that we are now publishing multiple times per day), it’s been a busy one. We’re also going to have this kind of post every Saturday that rounds up some of the fun stuff we’ve done at Digilent and other cool links from around the web that we like. Check them out!
Read MoreA few months ago, Norm designed a mascot/Robot for our new MakerSpace. It was a charming, jolly robot who lacked only one thing…a name! So we had an internal contest to …
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