In a nice departure from a normal week day, I got to accompany the Makerbot team to the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday for their “3-D Scanning and Printing Hackathon” event. We used 123D Catch to grab scans of some
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High resolution Arduino map function
In my last post, I talked about sensing the current of the motors in a robotic arm, which was a necessary step in determining energy consumption for the robot. But in order to calculate the energy being used by each
Continue readingSignal vs. Noise for Arduino Robotics
So after some comments on my last post, some great comments on my Adafruit forum post about the actual robotic arm project I’m working on, some help from Twitter followers and some awesome fellow NYC Resistors, I realized there were
Continue readingArduino data logging and speed test
I’ve been working on a robotics project for a while* that requires me to log data from various analog sensors, and I’ve been doing it all with an Arduino so far. The objective is to basically use the Arduino as
Continue readingCoworking and shop space in NYC
I was at a talk at NYU-Poly this evening given by Fred Wilson entitled Why Sector Diversity Matters: Building energy and biotech startups in NYC. I pointed out that unlike the software startups that can be built just about anywhere,
Continue readingLocation Agnostic Research (with Backup): using Mozy, DropBox, LogMeIn, Adobe Pro, and Zotero
It’s been a long time since I posted here, so I want to quickly share some tips that have helped me this past semester. Before I started my PhD at NYU-Poly in August 2010, I was writing at book while
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