• Critter Controller Solution (See study group home page lesson 6)
• Understanding IR remote control of your walkers
• Arduino version sample programming code
• Human 4-bar linkage
• Getting to know the Parallax microcontroller board

Robotics Workshops for faculty sponsored by Vital Link & UCI.

SCC Robotics/STEM video (Nathan Hom)

• RobotC projects:
  • Workshop #1
    • Motors
      • Basic Moving
      • Up & Back
      • Synching motors
        • Documentation here
      Turning
      • Pivot and Spin turns
    • Arduino Demo
  • Workshop #2 
    • Custom Functions
      • 3-1 Simple functions  
      • 3-2 Functions & Parameters
      • 3-3 MotorState Demo
      • Multi-tasking Demo
    • Sensors
      • Touch
      • Sonar (Watch out!)
      • Obstacle Avoidance
      • Find Victims
      • Line Follower 1
      • Line Follower 2
      • Cal Trans Demo
  • Workshop #3
    • GPS Demo (requires common.h and dexterind-gps.h)
    • File IO  (requires common.h and dexterind-gps.h):
      • Data logging and Excel data
• Save to a file
• Read from a file
• Save GPS data to file
• Read GPS data from file
• Camera Vision
  • Find A Cone
  • Find A Cone + PING
• DESIGN REVIEW Tips & Tricks
  

• GROUND ROBOTS
  • MindsI Education (the one my team used)
  • Rover5 kit that UCI Project class uses
  • RobotShop
  • Raspberry Pi and other kits
• ARDUINO
  • Arduino Starter Kit for teaching/learning Arduino
  • Arduino UNO R3 (This is what I buy)
  • EVShield (control lego with Arduino)  video
• ELECTRONICS PARTS
  • AllElectronics is great)
• USB DEVICES
  • Micro SD card reader/writer. (I use this all the time)
  • SanDisk SD Cards
• GPS
  • Arduino GPS Shield (Dexterindustries)
  • Dexter Industries GPS for Lego (I showed you this one)
• CAMERAS
  • TTL Serial JPEG Camera (This looks nice. I never used it.)
  • PixyCam2 (I love this). Be careful to get the correct one for your platform!)
  • Mindsensor NXTCAM5 Works with several platforms and RobotC.
• LEGO SENSORS
  • Mindsensors NXTCam V5 and numerous other things. Make sure they work with Arduino or RobotC or what ever you are using.
  • Dexter Industries has a ton of stuff also. Check what platforms they support.
• LASER RANGE FINDER (LIDAR)  Arduino Ready
  • Lego: Garmin Lidar Lite V3 (Does not work in RobotC. Only works with Lego-G)
  • Cool video using Rasp. Pi
• OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
  • Small Basic© by Microsoft  & EV3 BASIC programming options. Very cool!

• ROBOTC home

• ROBOTC on MAC

• ROBOTC for Arduino

• Getting started

• ROBOTC Curriculum/videos for LEGO^® Mindstorms^®

• Training Videos (see bottom of their page)

• Robot Relay Race video

• PixyCam2

  • Cool Video shows object tracking!

• Dexter Industries GPS for Lego

• UCI SPECIFIC:

  • Rover 5 manual

• LEGO^® EV3 Education Core Set

• DESIGN REVIEW

  • Sheldon

  • Presentation Slides

  • Design Brief Packet

  • How to approach it