electrouser778
I am an author and electrical engineer.
8 Projects
Roamer, The Self Charging Companion Robot
Roamer is a self-charging, switch free, capacitor powered, wandering robot companion.
Croakers' Chronometer
Smile at the frogs and they will vibrate in a manner that can be translated into the current time.
Don't Touch Face
"Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth" after washing your hands or using hand sanitizer. This is easy to say, hard to do. When your arm rises in a "face touching direction," a tilt switch activates a buzzer to let you know that your hand is trying to get you into trouble.
Instructable Ghost Zoetrope
The Instructable Robot, dressed as a ghost, almost loses his head for Halloween!In real life, you don't see the black bars (they are the result of filming a strobe light). This is the same mechanism as "https://www.electromaker.io/project/view/zoetrope", using a different animation.
Zoetrope
This is a 3d zoetrope with a ghost/pumpkin animation.
Face Controlled Santa's Shop Window Display
Standing on the sidewalk, your smile or facial position control elements of a "behind the glass" animated window display.
Candy Tosser
This "talking, watching, listening" candy dispenser is triggered by the code word, "Alexa." When "Alexa" is heard, the Adafruit sound board requests, "If you want candy, smile NOW!" The Google AIY vision kit watches for a smile and flings candy toward the smiling target.
Mike's Robot Dog
Boston Dynamics' robot dog, Spot Mini is unavailable at any price. A Chinese copy is $30,000. Cut 99% of the cost and build one at home.