Author Archives: Dino

This weeks project is a retro look at a five string electric bass guitar I built in 1994. I documented the project in photos and put them into an album. I thought it would be interesting to make a Ken … Continue reading →

This week I decided it was time to do a project with the Parallax Propeller chip. I’d heard all kinds of good things about this MCU and since I have all these Roomba parts laying around my shop I figured … Continue reading →

I was fortunate enough to be selected as a beta tester for Joe Grand’s latest invention for Parallax, the Laser Range Finder Module. Below you will find a link to the Arduino code I used. The module consist of a … Continue reading →

Roombas! What a cool robot! They work quite well right up until the wheel encoder sensors get dirty, then they drive around in circles. Poor robot… then they get cast aside as being “glitched”. Well, they’re usually ok and just … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago I found a WALL-E toy robot at a yard sale for $1. I bought it thinking it would be cool to put a couple motors and a micro controller in it to create a cute little … Continue reading →