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Staying Plugged-In to Technology

As it accelerates beyond our grasp

May 10, 2023

Staying Plugged-In to Technology

May 10, 2023

Robotics at Home with the DIY PicoBot

Since building my basic PicoBot last year, it has been a workhorse for me as I experimented with a bunch of different approaches for…

Jul 10

Robotics at Home with the DIY PicoBot

Jul 10

This is an excellent article, and I like the way you connect thriving economic growth with…

I think you are right in noticing the correlation between promoting education and the resulting innovation.

Nov 14, 2023

Nov 14, 2023

I have always been fascinated by astronomy and by our ability to use our powerful telescopes to…

Sep 21, 2023

Sep 21, 2023

Pico Bot

Having recently discovered the new Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller (see my recent article), I was curious to learn how much of a mobile…

Jun 21, 2023

Pico Bot

Jun 21, 2023

Introducing the Pico W Microcontroller

In June 2022, the DIY world took a giant leap forward with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller. This little gem is…

Jun 20, 2023

Introducing the Pico W Microcontroller

Jun 20, 2023

Hi Dan. This is a very nice project.

-Doug Blanding

Apr 11, 2023

Apr 11, 2023

Wow, Thank you for explaining all the difficulties you encountered in ROS2 compared with ROS1.

I recently built my first robot (See https://dougblanding.medium.com/my-first-medium-article-4ff3eab725ec) using ROS1 and have been…

Apr 4, 2022

Apr 4, 2022

Build your own DIY Robot

Using ROS to build an Autonomous Robot

Feb 25, 2022

Lego Robot

Feb 25, 2022

I have to say that I am pretty surprised to read what you said about using a Raspberry Pi as a…

I'm using Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB ram as my desktop and I'm certainly not frustrated with it. In fact, I'm actually delighted with it. I am…

Feb 11, 2022

Feb 11, 2022

Doug Blanding

Doug Blanding

Retired mechanical design engineer with an interest in Robots, CAD, Python, Linux, small computers, microControllers

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