Other Mechatronics Things

Here are the posts I have made so far about other Mechatronics things:

Building Hexy the Hexapod

February 11, 2018

I Kickstarted Vorpal’s Hexapod as a great 3D printing project to get started into the world of hexapods, other servo-powered robots and ABS printing.

$20 Transisor Tester

April 15, 2017

In this post I built a transistor/capacitor tester kit I got from banggood.com and used it to test these transistors as I replaced them to fix some old Dell screens (in a future post).

Building a Pick-and-Place Robot using MyRIO and LabView

October 19, 2016

I made a pick-and-place robot as a project at university which was programmed using the LabView program running on a myRIO controller.

Programming an ABB Robot Arm

September 13, 2016

Here is a quick post on one of my projects I’m working on at uni programming an ABB branded robot arm using the Flexpendant controller.

Magbot Chassis build

April 15, 2016

I received the chassis for the MagBot and put it together.

I was given a great MagBook by Jonathan Parkyn called How to Build a Robot which although is a UK magazine, it’s still a great resource to get started in robotics and I thought I’d give it a try as I haven’t played with motors before.

Playing with Arduino LEDs

February 18, 2016

I have previously played with Arduino projects, today I decided to play around with some LEDs and re-familiarise myself with the platform.

Building GLaDOS - My New PC

March 12, 2015

I build my first PC from scratch, a small post to document the process.

Building Laser Skirmish Laser Tag Guns

November 26, 2014

I attended a workshop through university to help the Laser Skirmish guys solder up their new laser tag guns.