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Principles of Engineering (ENGR 2210)

What is PoE?

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POE is all about system integration on a budget.  The semester is split into two halves, with labs to get everyone to the same level of comfort with using sensors with microcontrollers and the second half is focused on a major team project.  The first couple of weeks focuses on learning how to program and integrate circuits with the arduino, culminating in a more complex mechanical system that integrates electronics with mechanical systems.  The final team project focuses on combining all of the skills across the team to make a successful electromechanical system that challenges each team member.  

Demonstration of Homemade Shaker in Action: POE Lab 2

1st half of the Semester: Labs

The labs are meant to introduce us to the concept of developing an integrated system with a microcontroller which in this case was the Arduino.  We progressed from learning about interrupts and blinking LEDs to scanning a room with a pan-tilt servo system and capturing the amount of ambient light in a room with a photoresistor.  The final lab involved constructing a homemade shaker (or reciprocating saw or sewing machine inspired mechanism) and adding some level of smarts to it to make it move.

Final Project: SwarmBots!

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Swarmbots!
Ever wanted to control a swarm of robots via twitter or facebook? Well now you can. Check out our live stream here: http://swarmbots.herokuapp.com/

Our final project focused on the integration and development of semi-autonomous robots controlled by a computer.  The robots talked to each other over 2.4 GHz radios and used an onboard arduino to process commands.  The goal was to develop a platform that would allow for sending multiple commands to multiple robots via computer and or social media (twitter and facebook).  My role was mainly developing the mechanical system and the electrical hardware onboard the robot.

Interested in our documentation? View our website here: http://swarmbots.github.io/

                                                                   Here's the instructable that one of my teammates, Slater Victoroff, wrote. 
                                                                   As of July 18th, 2013, we've had over 1200 views and have been entered into two competitions!

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Swarmbot with fully mounted electronics. We've got H bridges for motor control, an arduino as the brain, a NRF radio for communication, and an optical mouse for XY encoder direction
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Circuit diagram (made in Fritzing)
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The progression of chassis design over the last 6 weeks
Moment of truth: Will the robot drive if we tweet at it?
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  • Home
  • About Me
  • Post-Olin ('15-Present)
    • Argo AI
    • Carnegie Robotics, LLC (CRL)
    • WPI MS in RoboE >
      • Capstone
      • Robot Dynamics
      • Robot Controls
      • Concepts of SysE
      • Software System Design
      • Ethics
      • ETR 500: Travelers
    • Helping further STEM Education
    • Traveling through Southeast Asia
    • Ocean Alliance: Conservation Tech for Whales
  • Olin
    • WALL-E
    • Senior Year ('13-14) >
      • NREIP Internship at SSC Pacific Unmanned Systems Group
      • A Tetris-Playing Robot Arm
      • Senior Capstone Program in Engineering (SCOPE)
      • Controls
      • Design for Manufacture
      • Research at Olin Summer 2014
      • Computational Robotics
      • Jazz Theory
      • My Experience as a PoE Ninja
    • Junior Year ('12-13) >
      • C-2 Innovations, Inc (C-2i)
      • SnotBot
      • Mechanical Design
      • Archaeology (ANTH 60A)
      • Principles of Engineering
      • Robo 2
      • Making Food From Scratch: A Passionate Pursuit
    • Sophomore Year ('11-12) >
      • My semester at USC
      • SailBot
      • Voith-Schneider Propeller (VSP)
    • Freshman Year ('10-11) >
      • Modeling and Simulation
      • Design Nature
      • Materials Science
      • Real World Measurements
      • FBE
  • Publications
  • Art