[Robonz] freebies

[Duncan Thomson]

Brody,

You forgot to link your video!

Cheers
Duncan


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Brody Radford <brody at brodyradford.com>wrote:

> Hi robot people
>
> I have some early Christmas prezzies for you all. I’ve been working on a
> nifty robot control board<http://www.mindkits.co.nz/store/kits/the-mindkits-brainboard>with Tim from MindKits, and after a few late nights pulling everything
> together and getting the production run done in time for Christmas we now
> have some up for grabs!
>
> We designed it to get you started building a robot or <insert project> in
> a few minutes without needing too much else, so if you can think of a good
> project idea to put it to use reply back to me with a short description
> (1-2 paragraphs) and we’ll pick the winners on Monday, then post you a
> board (post also free).
>
> In return winners just need to send us a 1-2 page project writeup (with
> photos, good for padding!) or 1-2 minute video that we can put on our site
> to show off your project + our board, within two weeks of receiving it. If
> you haven’t found time to do it in two weeks then you just post it back to
> us or buy it, so there’s no risk to you.
>
> Here’s a quick video showing a project I did in about an hour with
> BrainBoard + Android + Bluetooth to give you an idea where to start.
> I used the free Bluetooth RC Controller app from the Play store which
> reads the phone’s accelerometer / tilt sensor and sends commands over
> Bluetooth to the Bluetooth adapter and control board. Onboard motor drivers
> power the robot directly, so I just had to plug in the motors and program
> it.
>
>
>
>
> Brody
>
>
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