Archive for the 'Misc' Category

Simple Conductivity sensor to detect metals

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Conductivity Test
In order to detect the presence of conductors,the simplest test is the Conductivity Test. Conductivity of a substance is defined as ‘the ability or power to conduct or transmit heat, electricity or sound’. Here what we use is the ability to transmit electricity. When an electrical potential difference is placed across a [...]

Bull in the Ring

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

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Work Done By- Pranav Ramkrishnan, Std.12th
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This is an extremely simplistic, yet interesting application using the i-Mach kit to make something that can do real and useful work. The basic aim of this task is to build and program an autonomous robot that can detect objects within its surrounding environment and having detected the object, [...]

Education means…

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

More over robotics and embedded systems, an aspect that obviously concerns all of us as citizens of a developing nation is the purpose of education. Do we as knowledge donors or seekers comprehend what education has to offer? More than an article, this is meant to be an open discussion to reaffirm the [...]

SOLAR ROLLER out of basic Electronic Components

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Work Done By-SANDEEP GILL
Wanna build your first simple solar roller using discrete and easily available electronic components(R,C,diodes etc.). Here is where you begin. Solar Roller is a beam-dragster robot that utilizes sunlight as a source of energy. Mostly in all solar competitions this being quite a popular event, wherein two solar bots [...]

Upgrading your i-MACH into A BULL DOZER

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Work done by-Krishna Kumar Rao, Std.X
How cool would it be if u could upgrade your i-MACH by adding basic mechano parts and some brains into complex robots! Here i would be teaching (or rather guiding) you to build one yourself.
Bull Dozer
Now, let’s take a step forward and build an autonomous Bull Dozer! Let me [...]

1381-based Solar Engines

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

This solar engine is configured around the popular volage trigger IC-1381.This by far the most efficient solar engine. The reason being while monitoring the storage capacitor, it draws currents of order of only microamperes (better than zener SE & FLED SE which require current in milliamperes).Also, it is least tolerant [...]

Bristle Bot – Simply Fun!

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Guy’s, this is too good to resist..
While developing the course content for one of our workshops for school kids, my colleagues came across a cool bot to make.. I can’t claim that it can be made from scrap parts, but it’s simplicity amazed me.. I thought I have to show it to anyone who cares…
So [...]

Upgrading your i-MACH into A BULL DOZER

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

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Work done by-Krishna Kumar Rao, Std.X
How cool would it be if u could upgrade your i-MACH by adding basic mechano parts and some brains into complex robots! Here i would be teaching (or rather guiding) you to build one yourself.
Bull Dozer
Now, let’s take a step forward and build an autonomous Bull Dozer! Let me [...]

SOLAR ENERGY powered ELECTRIC ENGINES

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Work Done By-SANDEEP GILL
Every day the sun showers Earth with several thousand times as much energy as we use. Even the small amount that strikes our roof is many times as much as all the energy that comes in through electric wires. With the sun straight overhead, a single acre of land receives [...]

1381-based Solar Engines

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

This solar engine is configured around the popular volage trigger IC-1381.This by far the most efficient solar engine. The reason being while monitoring the storage capacitor, it draws currents of order of only microamperes (better than zener SE & FLED SE which require current in milliamperes).Also, it is least tolerant [...]