Maker Faire 2014 in Rome

MakerFaire

Just submitted the proposal for the partecipation of MyzharBot to Maker Faire 2014 in October in Rome. On July 6th we will know if the proposal will be accepted and if MyzharBot will be present with all the other robots presented by the team of Officine Robotiche 😀

Continue reading

An interview about MyzharBot by Radio Stonata

Radio Stonata

Yesterday evening at 9 pm (Italian time) on the Web Radio “Radio Stonata” I was interviewed by Elisabetta Casarin about MyzharBot project and its campaing on TakeOff Crowdfunding for the radio program “Crowdfunding”. You can listen to the interview (in italian language) clicking Play on the widget below. RadioStonata.Crowdfunding.14.05.2014.Myzhartbot(takeoffcrowdfunding)+SilosProduction(PdB) by…

Continue reading

Another “Brain” for MyzharBot

BeagleBone Black

Finally after a lot of waiting MyzharBot has got its own BeagleBone Black. The new “brain” will run the “Speech Module” based on Sphinx Toolkit by Carnegie Mellon University and in future will be the “main node” for ROS platform. A lot of news are ready to come… stay tuned with MyzharBot

Continue reading

MyzharBot at Officine Robotiche 2014 in Rome

The past Saturday, 12 and Sunday, 13 April in Rome there was the first edition of “Officine Robotiche”, a robotics event organized by a small group of people who love robots and do not work in robotics (with some exceptions). I was present at the event with MyzharBot and a…

Continue reading

MyzharBot v3 moves its first “steps”

Plastic MyzharBot v3.1

Only two words: MYZHARBOT WORKS finally the Pandaboard ES has a stable Ubuntu 12.04 operating system, with OpenCV 2.4.8 and Qt 5.2.1 fully working … at the moment I compiled both Qt and OpenCV onboard, I know it is a bit fool, but I wanted to see it to move…

Continue reading

MyzharBot has got an eye… RobotGUI has got video!

VideoServer Test

Finally RoboControllerSDK has got Webcam Server and Webcam Client modules… using the Qt/OpenCV OpenGL widget, fully described on my personal blog, now RobotGUI is capable of showing the videostream coming from a webcam assembled on MyzharBot. The images are sent after a JPEG compression, as described in another page on…

Continue reading

Work in progress on the new plastic chassis

Almost ready

The new chassis is almost ready… motors and mechanics of the tracks are still missing, but the impact of the black colour is really good.

Continue reading

I made it!!! Qt 5.2.1 is ready on the Pandaboard ES

Qt5

It’s been a long war… but finally I did it. My development PC with Xubuntu 13.10 is finally correctly configured and now it is cross-compiling Qt5.2.1 for the Pandaboard ES running Ubuntu Core 12.04… just one night of waiting. The whole procedure for the preparation of the operating system and…

Continue reading

New photo gallery: from Rendering to Reality

Side View

Added a new photo gallery about the new chassis of MyzharBot v3.1 ready to be fully assembled.

Continue reading

New client/server architecture under development

Communication Infrastructure

Until now I tested the SDK network communication between MyzharBot and the remote client using a single socket connection over TCP protocol. This can be enough if the messages exchanged are few, but when the system will be complete there will be a lot of messages to be exchanged: Control…

Continue reading