BeagleBoard @ Pramode Sir’s blog

Wow I was shocked seeing the post of pramode sir’s BeagleBoard Experiments.

Actually I was in search of the board. Soon i have to visit him to see the board.

Please follow the link to get more details

http://blog.fosstronics.com/2008/10/21/beagleboard-experiments/

My page on openCV tutorials

Please check out my new page on openCV tutorials.

openCv is used for image processing. First I tried to use MATLAB. But after research on the web I found an excellent tool named openCV. openCv is by INTEL. And it is open source. For GNU/Linux it lacks docs. So my help to openCV is my own page on openCV documents written by me.

My main idea is to use openCV in my robots.

Please check it out here https://jeffreyantony.wordpress.com/opencv-tutorials/

If you have any comments please post it.

Learn C++ through Real-World Applications

In my opinion you should understand and learn. Byhearting tons of equation doesn’t make a good professional. Especially in engineering subjects there are a large number of equations. Even conrolling a robot’s path uses a large number of equations.Byhearting these wont be of any use. Try to understand and then learn.

I am sure that if students are given knowledge about the practicle side, they will have more interst to learn and also the will perform well.

One of our best example is of teaching computer languages ( c++ ) in our higher secondary schools. A “HELLO WORLD” program wont make a student happy. Just seeing the “HELLO WORLD” on the screen will just make him bored. Imagine of blinking an LED program .This can be easily done through parallel port interface.Seeing those the student will be more happy and he will try to learn more about that. Even for loops, if else condition, functions, pointers can be taugth using this same technique.For example using for loops, a LED can be made to blink.

These educational methods are used in our country. Its high time to change those old teaching methods. We have to adopt the new method of learn while playing . Western countries have adopted this and has gained a great success. Even MIT has implemented this. See this link .

I was inspired to write this small scrap while I read the book Interfacing with C++ Programming Real-World Applications by Jayantha Katupitiya and Kim Bentley.

I have completed reading a part of the book. I found it so intresting that I havent learned C++ this well even in my higher secondary class. I think it should be used by teacher for teaching C++. Even The Object-Oriented Approach has been well described through real life problems.

If I were a teacher I will use this book.

See a similar post here How To Teach Computer Science – The MIT Way!

My First Robot

This was the day in my life I have an almost working robot.My mini project was a robot.but it was an utter faliure.So I decided to build one of my own.This robot does nothing. Its motors are just paralled with an LED and connected to the battery.I tought it will move straight forward.But a small circiling action is present.Any way for me it is success.I am trying to implement some kind of feedback so that both motors are at same speed and move straight forward.

My mini project was failure.I dont know why the robot took circular motion .Any way its not working.

Here are some shots of my first working robot

In Pramode Sirs Home

Yesterday I went to see Pramode Sir.Actually he had mailed me about my mini project.He was in search of such robots.He has asked me to built an robot for PyNeko.So that the robot can be controlled by Python.

He has asked me to built my robot sao as to control it using C( i am not an expert in Pyhton).

He also asked to add ZIGBEE support to it.

I will come with more about this robot……..

Biomorph (Presentation Ready)

This is a robot named Biomorph. And its my mini project.This uses a kind of RC neurons(first developed by nasa).If any one wants the papers please tell me.I will upload it.

Actually I got the idea from Dr.Prahlad Vadakkepat robot demonstration.You can also find some cool robots in his page. A tons of circuit is available.Search for BEAM robotics.

so I searched for these robots in the net. Atlast Ifound that these robots came under the beam robots category.

My robot is copied from this page

http://mobots.solarbotics.net/kida.html
http://mobots.solarbotics.net/head.html

You can finf more from here http://mobots.solarbotics.net/

Tomorrow is my mini project preentation.So I have made my presentation use OpenOffice.org 2.2.1

Here is the presentation in pdf biomorph