System Architecture Introduction: Yes I know, why automate a chicken coop? Well we just wanted to do a starter home automation project and one thing led to another and now I have the fanciest chicken coop around. Spoiled chickens lay good eggs… It also is because I am a little lazy and don’t want to get up every morning to let the chickens out and go out each night to close the coop. S...
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So we are hard at work doing testing. Soon we will have the refrigerated keg-a-droid… Check our our kickstarter campaign! Lots of momentum including a article from CNET. Join us for the party… #kegadroid #aviatorbrewing #kickstarter
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Lately we have been hard at work developing a new robotic beer servant named Keg-a-Droid; you can check out our Kickstarter campaign. Keg-a-droid is a remote controlled, mobile robot equipped with a keg and tap system and this week’s Tech Thursday will demonstrate some components of the beer dispensing control system. More specifically, this is the test setup we used to calibrate our flowmeter out...
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The Pitch! We have been building robots for a very long time and from every once in a while we will have a beer or three. So one evening, while we were at our local brewery (The Aviator Brewing Company), we asked ourselves a question: Why we are still getting up to get another round when we could just build a robot to do it for us? Wouldn’t it be cool if we could summon a robot to bring a be...
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SuperDroid Robots Inc., Fuquay Varina, NC has been designing, building and selling custom robots for first responder, industry, hobbyists, and universities for years. Designing a one of a kind first responder robot for a top big city fire department caught the eye of producers for the Science Channel and is featured in an upcoming episode of their new show ALL-AMERICAN MAKERS. During the show Amer...
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We have just completed our design of our BAT24. It uses a pair of wheel chair motors and a 4″ wide custom track and wheel system. So far we tested by driving Big Mike (290lbs) around including up a set of stairs. It is very impressive with abundance of power and torque. We will be offering this platform for our customers as a special order who want sorting bigger than our popular HD2 Tracked...
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PulsedLight’s LiDAR-Lite (TS-070-001) is a compact and high performance distance measurement sensor. The small size and light weight makes it an ideal positioning sensor in mobile robotic applications. The sensor also boasts an incredibly wide operating range. It can accurately measure from about 5cm all the way up to 40 meters! This makes the sensor great for both precision and distance mea...
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Home automation is a hot topic these days. In this week’s Tech Thursday I will show you how to deploy a simple motion sensor and use it to set the position of a servo. For motion detection I will be using our Mini PIR motion detector module (TE-232-805) as our detector, and an Arduino Uno and a Pololu Maestro6 for our controls. The Pololu Maestro provides a simple and easy way to control mul...
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Here at SuperDroid Robots we love to hear about how our robots and kits are being used. Whether it’s a tactical robot that’s keeping our men and women in uniform safe or a student project using one of our development platform kits. Tactical Robots One of our LT2 Bulldog Tactical Robots has been serving the Yolo County Police Department in California for over 3 years. Their robot featur...
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Pneumatics opens up a world of possibilities when it comes to robotics. You could write a book on applications of pneumatics but for now we will start with the basics. Knowing what you need is sometimes harder than knowing how it works. For this example we are going to control an air cylinder extend and return slowly. We will be using a switch to turn on a solenoid valve and exhaust valves to cont...
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