Monthly Archives: July 2012

The Automatic Ball Launcher for Dogs… AKA, The Fetch-O-Matic!

It’s finally published! Make Magazine Vol.31 has my Automatic Ball Launcher on the cover and a full build article inside! I wrote the article around the first of the year and after much editing and emailing we put together an … Continue reading

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Emic 2 Talking Robot

It can talk! After a long session at the workbench this past Sunday, I managed to build the mechanism and the circuit to make my robot box talk with Emic 2 supplying the speech! I used a random function in … Continue reading

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Emic2 Sound To Motion Circuit

Last week I worked on getting familiar with the Emic2 text to speech module connected to and Arduino. This week I’m working on a way to get the mouth of my robot to move in sync with the words that … Continue reading

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Intro to the Emic2 Text To Speech Module from Joe Grand and Parallax Electronics.

I was fortunate enough to be a beta tester for the Emic2. I subsequently recieved a second production version of the module. Joe Grand of Grand Idea Studio did a great job designing this very elegant device. At 30mm x … Continue reading

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MicroRAX Robot Chassis

The iRobot Roomba is a great robotic device for hardware hackers and robot builders. They can be found on Ebay for as little as $20 with and without batteries. The battery pack seems to be the main reason they get … Continue reading

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