Category Archives: Software

OpenInterface for Arduino – create without a Create

Having spent a couple of weeks playing with ROS on and off and getting robot vision, speech and a couple of other robot basics working a basic thought struck me. Why don’t I look at the basic robots provided by … Continue reading

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Getting Sound to work on ROS

I was following the ROS.org wiki on trying to setup sound for it’s not immediately obvious to a n00b how to do this.

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First experiences using ROS

I’ve been doing a stock take of what robotics components I have available. I think now I should bite the bullet and go for the build of my Omnibot based robot. These are the steps I took to setup a … Continue reading

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Using Jenkins for PHP CI

After a while of being completely absorbed in my (paid) work for the last six months or so, I’ve decided to kick back and revisit some old projects. Before I get started I thought I ought to refresh my CI … Continue reading

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Junkbots

Recently I subscribed to MAKEzine and it has reinvigorated my interest if hardware hacking. Which is good, as I’m doing a talk at SkillsMatter in December on that very subject. Since I won an iPhone in a raffle last month … Continue reading

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