This project is being developed in collaboration with artists Ashley Pigford and Troy Richards. Inspired by a statement written on Woody Guthrie’s guitar, This Machine Kills Fascists (TMKF) is a guitar-playing robot that performs traditional American folk music on a
Continue readingDuring my senior year at CMU I participated in honors research in Dr. Yoky Matsuoka’s Neurobotics Lab. I worked with a graduate student of hers on a Portable Wearable Movement Tracking System designed to track limb movements accurately and continuously
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My lab at NYU-Poly was a subcontractor on a Phase 1 NASA SBIR grant awarded to my friend and former fellow Eyebeam resident Ted Southern of Final Frontier Design. The idea was to create a robotic hand capable of systematically
Continue readingWhere: Leon Root, MD Motion Analysis Laboratory at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City Who: Healthy subjects age 20-45 with no injuries in the past 6 months that affect walking. You must be able to walk independently
Continue readingI posted previously (here) about an Arduino speed test I did with the Uno board. The rate that it could print the time, a comma, and an analogRead value was about 1150 Hz. I just got my hands on a
Continue readingI’ve been whining about wanting to learn GitHub for a while now so after they just released a shiny new Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI), I figured it was time to jump on board. Everyone I know who uses Git
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I’ve been doing some pretty heavy reading and writing for the last few days, so I took some time “off” this afternoon to work on a mini project that I had been thinking of for awhile. I wanted to write
Continue readingAfter a conversation with JD Warren, one of authors of the excellent Arduino Robotics book, I decided to try the ACS712 hall effect current sensor. I soldered one to a surface mount to breadboard adapters and plugged it in with
Continue readingAfter a recent post on current sensing, I talked to a couple of friends at NYC Resistor (my usual sounding board) and got some great advice (as usual). One thing I didn’t remember was the difference between passive and active
Continue readingIn my last post, I talked about using an RC filter to get rid of some of the noise in the current signal I was getting from the Arduino. While this worked okay, I still wasn’t super happy with the
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