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  • Build Your Own Hexapod Robot with FPGA

      Hello FPGA lovers! Today’s project is going to be a challenge on mainly 3 fronts. The Project at hand is to build a Hexapod Robot based on FPGA, and the 3 challenges are to get the Hexapod to work with FPGA, design and simulate it with CAD and to carve and glue the parts…

  • Build Your Own Vacuum Robot With Your FPGA!

    This is the first part of the series for building up your own robot, that is fully capable of swallowing up the dust of your room. The first thing you need to build is a fully functional robot that moves independently around your room and that can stop at every obstacle. Well, you have it.…

  • Here is How The Dark Side Got Started With Their Robot Army!

    Nowadays, you may be fed up of Star Wars jokes, baits and so on. I am sorry, I could not resist the temptation. Anyway, this time, at least, was not a joke nor a lie. Today´s article brings the real truth to you. If you want to build your own robot, as simple as you…

  • Status Update On Papilio-Based Robot Avatar Project

    Here’s a great follow-up on the progress of Duane Benson’s Papilio-based tele-presence avatar project which we covered here on the blog a little while back. Looks like he is moving forward with the overall implementation in strides. Referring to the photo above, Duane gives us the run-down from a hardware standpoint: Toward the lower-left, we…

  • Implementing SPI & I2C Interfaces On Papilio One

    Papilio user and tech blogger Duane Benson from All Programmable Planet has a new article on his ongoing quest to create his own robotic tele-presence avatar. This one is about implementing SPI and I2C interfaces on his Papilio One for the project. Duane’s avatar will need a series of motors and sensor controls for various…

  • RF-Controlled FPGA ‘Land Rover’ Project

    University student Naresh Singh Dobal created an FPGA-based, RF-controllable rover vehicle for his Digital Systems Design class, as his final project last year.  Naresh is using a Xilinx Spartan 3AN FPGA dev board for the brains of the system, and has done all the coding in VHDL.  The whole project was made and programmed pretty…

  • Remote controlled balancing robot !

    Hey everyone! Today we have an excellent open source project to show you, Wily made a very cool self-balancing robot controlled by a Wii Nunchuck! Before we continue talking about it please enjoy watching this video where he shows off his build while it’s chasing a cute pet: As you see in the video above…